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"The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear," a three-hour historical film by Adam Curtis recently aired by the British Broadcasting Corp., argues coherently that much of what we have been told about the threat of international terrorism "is a fantasy that has been exaggerated and distorted by politicians. It is a dark illusion that has spread unquestioned through governments around the world, the security services and the international media."...

I thought you would be interested in the following statement....

Never before has a case of Unlawful and Unconstitutional Been Exposed in Canada like this. Please go to www.thewrongguy.ca '21 years' of incarceration. Letter from 'The Law Society of Upper Canada': http://www.thewrongguy.ca/part07/Package07_Page_040.pdf The Starting of the Re-Instated 'Habeas Corpus Act': http://www.thewrongguy.ca/part07/Package07_Page_040.pdf...

THE NAKED HEGEMON...

Now that Electronic Jim-Crow has officially stolen the 2004 presidential and congressional elections it can be officially declared that the South has finally won the civil war. It took a 150 years for the proslavery, segregationist, white supremacist movement in America to accomplish the task but they finally did it....

This is the first step on a necessary road toward making sure that everyone is allowed to vote and that every vote is counted (something we did not see in 2000 or 2004) so the next time around ALL of us can be confident, when the election results come in, that they reflect the will of the people, not the whim of mechanical error and human obstruction....

Alberto Gonzales' role in paving the legal groundwork that led to the torture of detainees in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay was the central focus of a Senate hearing yesterday, which is considering his nomination to succeed John Ashcroft as attorney general. Gonzales delivered more than seven hours of testimony, most of it responding to questions from Committee members on his role in setting the stage for the abuse of detainees. We hear excerpts of the hearing and speak with journalist Mark D...

The following is the first part of a book I am working on I thought about this in Prison alot, you think about the State alot in prison so have started to write the book. Here is the Abstract: In this work I will be addressing the issue of the question of the State in political philosophy. Defining the sociological and anthropological definition of the State. How the concept of the State has developed in political philosophy beginning with the Enlightenment. I examine three politi...

This morning's hearing is online at kpfa.org and on pacifica stations and affiliates nationwide...

The Free City Movement we'll be hosting an artmaking party this Saturday @ noon, in the lower haight. We'll be marching a Free City of San Francisco, SF Independence, contingent in the January 20th March at 5PM....