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Sunday 3/13/2005
Bush orders policy to ‘contain’ Chávez 3/13/2005 Financial Times
Time to fix riot's wrongs 3/13/2005 NY Daily News: "If the high court agrees to take on the Tulsa case, laid out in a petition filed last week by lawyers - led by Harvard's Charles Ogletree - the justices might see that Tulsa is a whole different matter.
The 1921 Tulsa race riot began when police arrested a black youth for allegedly assaulting a white woman, a charge later dismissed. A crowd of whites gathered outside the courthouse where the youth was jailed, and there was a rumor that he would be lynched.
According to the state's 2001 report, men from Greenwood armed themselves and went to the courthouse to defend the youth. A gunfight erupted, and the outnumbered blacks retreated to Greenwood. A white mob followed them and burned the neighborhood."
Thursday 3/10/2005
Eradicating Bacon's Rebellion from Popular Memory 3/10/2005 Black Commentator: "Nathaniel Bacon was a member of the colony council and a militant opponent of Virginia land policy. He had prepared the revolt a few years earlier by organizing an armed mutiny of angry taxpayers at Lawnes Creek Parish, and, in November of 1676, proclaimed freedom to all bond-laborers, in anticipation they would join his cause against the big tobacco bourgeoisie. He was right. Thousands of bond-laborers – six thousand European Americans and two thousand African Americans – took up arms against the numerically tiny Anglo-American slave-owning planter class. Seizing the day, dramatically, they drove Governor Berkeley back to England, hat in hand, and shut down all tobacco production for fourteen straight months… Most significant about Bacon’s Rebellion is the fact that the bond-labor rebels took up arms together without the slightest regard for each other’s complexion. A month into the successful rebel takeover of the Virginia colony, the British crown sent one Thomas Grantham, a Navy captain, to bribe the rebel leaders. The rebel leaders weren’t having it, and, according to Grantham himself in the official report he penned weeks later, recommended “cutting me in peeces.” Grantham described the rebel leaders as “foure hundred English and Negroes in Armes.” This is no small point, as the historical record of Virginia verifies.
The British would eventually crush Bacon’s Rebellion through a relentless bombing campaign of the Chesapeake… “The solution,” he writes, “was to establish a new birthright not only for Anglos but for every European-American, the ‘white’ identity that ‘set them at a distance,’ to use Sir Francis’s phrase [Francis Bacon], from the laboring-class African-Americans, and enlisted them as active, or at least passive, supporters of lifetime bondage of African Americans” (vol. 2, p. 248). From this point forward, the pattern was set: “the appeal to ‘white race’ solidarity would remain the country’s most general form of class-collaborationism” (Allen, vol. 2, p. 253)."
Millions still can't vote 3/10/2005 Black Commentator: "Today, nearly 5 million Americans are literally locked out of the political process by state felon disfranchisement laws that disqualify people with felony convictions from voting.
The historical record reveals that to prevent newly freed Blacks from voting after the Civil War, many state legislatures in the North and South tailored their felon disfranchisement laws to require the loss of voting rights only for those offenses committed mostly by Blacks."
"Armageddon" Bolton disembarks at the UN 3/10/2005 Granma
It is not democracy that's on the march in the Middle East 3/10/2005 Guardian: "Managed elections are the latest device to prop up pro-western regimes"
Wednesday 3/9/2005
 Iraq shooting: Differing accounts 3/9/2005 BBC: "Italian secret agent Nicola Calipari was killed when US troops opened fire as he escorted freed journalist Giuliana Sgrena to Baghdad airport. He had just helped to secure her release after more than a month held hostage in Iraq. The US, the Italian government and Ms Sgrena have differing accounts of what happened."
The New York Times, a Massacre, and Bush's Deputy National Security Adviser 3/9/2005 David Corn
I'D RATHER NOT SAY GOOD-BYE, DAN 3/9/2005 Greg Palast: "In 2003, BBC Television questioned George Bush's career as Viet Nam era Top Gun fighter pilot. In the British broadcast, I held up a confidential letter from Justice Department files stating that Poppy Bush had put in the fix to get Junior Bush out of 'Nam and into the Texas Air Guard. George could spend the war protecting Houston from Viet Cong attack. A year after the BBC broadcast, the I'm-going-to-be-a-real-journalist-now Rather decided to run the same story on 60 Minutes. And just as he predicted, the press-police at the network and in the White House seized him and lit the tire around his neck. What was Dan's mistake? Yes, yes, he shouldn't have embellished the story with a document he couldn't fully source. But that memo (not the one in the BBC report) was about a side issue, not the key accusation, that Senior Bush got Junior out of the draft. Despite not a jot of evidence that the main story of draft-dodgin' George was wrong (BBC never withdrew it), CBS cited Rather's insistence on the veracity of that report as grounds to crush his career and his reputation. Rather was convicted by a corporate kangaroo court. Dickie Thornburgh, who had been Poppy Bush's Attorney General and owed his big salaries and career to the Bush family, ran an "independent" investigation which concluded -- surprise! -- the Bushes had done no wrong. It was Dan that committed the evil. That whacky conclusion went along just fine with the diktat of Sumner Redstone, CEO of Viacom, CBS' owner, that a "Republican administration is better for media companies." "
Second longest-serving House member says he fears for the American democracy 3/9/2005 Raw Story: "In an interview with RAW STORY Tuesday, Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) detailed concerns on a broad array of issues, including discredited White House reporter Jeff Gannon, remarks by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and voting reform.
In summary, Rep. Conyers expressed concern at what he perceives to be a systematic erosion of due process throughout government. He asserted this departure from the “protection that the government provides people” should be a “wake up call” to those who cherish democracy in the United States."
‘That’s me, a marine, a murderer of civilians’ - Italian reporter shot by US military writes for newspaper that tells raw truth about US role in Iraq 3/9/2005 SF Bay View
Sunday 3/6/2005
Religion kept US married to Vietman conflict 3/6/2005 Taipei Times: "In order to support this analysis, which goes against the Marxist view that the motives for almost everything are economic, Jacobs looks at the diplomatic exchanges between top American statesmen of the 1950s and their representatives in southeast Asia. He also looks at some key books that succeeded in shaping American public opinion about the region in that distant era. All these sources emphasized the religious nature of the struggle.
This might be of merely academic interest were it not for the quite extraordinary parallels with the situation today. In 2005, we see once again a heavy American presence in a distant land with strong religious reasons given for that involvement. Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are all reported to hold apocalyptic views about the cosmic battle in which they are involved."
Wednesday 3/2/2005
Voted "Yes" on the Iraq War Resolution (49 towns): 3/2/2005 IraqResolution.org
Tuesday 3/1/2005
The Coming End of the American Superpower By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS 3/1/2005 Counterpunch
OHIO’S ODD NUMBERS 3/1/2005 Vanity Fair: by CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Monday 2/28/2005
The Mighty Texas Strike Force 2/28/2005 Columbus Free Press: "If Mr. Branscome's report is accurate, the caller violated the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and the Voting Rights Act of 1968. If convicted, the caller could be sentenced to one year in jail.
Mr. Branscome has said he believes the caller was a member of a group staying at the hotel to work on the election calling itself the Mighty Texas Strike Force (MTSF). The organization has connections reaching into the White House."
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is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and
security to all, but especially to Democracies as against despots:
suspicion." -- Demosthenes
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