[smygo] Most Underreported Stories of 2007 (So Far)
 
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:41:08 -0500 (CDT)


News & Views for Anarchists & Activists:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo

Just a few of the stories that should have received more and better 
coverage in the media. I encourage readers to add other examples.

US forces raid Iraq Freedom Congress offices -- again.

You might think the US government would like a secular, democratic,
libertarian, progressive, non-violent, anti-Ba'athist, anti-Islamist,
and anti-nationalist, group like the Iraq Freedom Congress. You might
think that, but you'd be wrong.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/9327
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/8381

Every serious analysis supports Ron Paul's opinion on the causes of 9/11

The 9/11 Commission, CIA analysts, Middle East experts, etc., all agree 
that harmful US government interventions in countries like Iraq, 
Israel/Palestine, and Somalia created the motivation of Islamist 
terrorists. Nonetheless, the mass media reduce coverage of the issue to 
soundbites, so that those who make serious analyses do not have time to 
explain them, and so (in Noam Chomsky's words), sound like they came 
from Neptune. The media's wingnuts further pounce on Paul on others to 
misrepresent them as saying that they believe 9/11 was justified, that 
the civilians victims deserved it, etc.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/9262
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/9190
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/9091
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/9149
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/9158
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/9160

The growth of worker owned and controlled businesses.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/9255
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/9181
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/9094
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/8901
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/8669

Kansas Mutual Aid shunned from disaster relief.

Anarchist group Common Ground Collective did an excellent job providing 
disaster relief after Katrina, far better than the government. The 
government isn't going to let that happen again.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/9199

Terrorist arson attack against Sedition Books

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/8850
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/8836

*Who* hates our freedoms?

Pro-war counter-protestors attack peaceful anti-war protestors.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/8863
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/8865

State infiltration of activist groups in New Zealand

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/9201

Bombs over Cambodia

The US carpet bombing of Cambodia, already known to have targeted this 
small country with one of the most enormous bombing campaigns, turns out 
(based on records released by Bill Clinton) to have been even more 
enormous. American planes dropped more than 2,756,941 tons of bombs on 
the country in the "secret" bombing, more than the US dropped in all of 
WWII.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/9133

Wal-Mart, corporate-welfare queen

Though often cited as an example of the free market in action, Wal-Mart 
has actually received more than a billion dollars in state subsidies.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/8921

-- 
Dan Clore

My collected fiction: _The Unspeakable and Others_
http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/1587154838/ref=nosim/thedanclorenecro
Lord Werdgliffe & Necronomicon Page:
http://www.geocities.com/clorebeast/
News & Views for Anarchists & Activists:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo

"Don't just question authority,
Don't forget to question me."
-- Jello Biafra