ICH: The Art of War, Democracy and Public Relations 
 
Resent-Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:03:04 -0500 (CDT)


The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our
thinking, so that we come to distrust others and look to the state
for protection! But the roots of our individualism remind us that
what we are is inseparable from the source from which all others
derive; that coercive practices that threaten our neighbor also
threaten us.: -Butler Shaffer

= I am done with great things and big things, great institutions
and big success, and I am for those tiny invisible molecular moral
forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through
the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary
oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the
hardest monuments of man's pride: William James

= "My father was a slave and my people died to build this country,
and I'm going to stay right here and have a part of it, just like
you. And no fascist-minded people like you will drive me from it.
Is that clear?" : Paul Robeson (1898-1976) - from testimony before
the House Un-American Activities Committee, June 12, 1956

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=== Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq 1,015,327
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html

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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged)
In America'sWar On Iraq 3707 http://icasualties.org/oif/

Cost of U.S. War and Occupation of Iraq $453,699,189,962

See the cost in your community
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

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The Iraq War As We See It

By Buddhika Jayamaha

Counterinsurgency is, by definition, a competition between insurgents
and counterinsurgents for the control and support of a population.
To believe that Americans, with an occupying force that long ago
outlived its reluctant welcome, can win over a recalcitrant local
population and win this counterinsurgency is far-fetched.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18212.htm

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The Empire And The Independent Island

By Fidel Castro

The history of Cuba during the last 140 years is one of struggle
to preserve national identity and independence, and the history of
the evolution of the American

empire, its constant craving to appropriate Cuba and of the horrendous
methods that it uses today to hold on to world domination.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18216.htm

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Marxism in the 21st Century

Chavez, Latin Cultural Unity & The Amassing Proletariat

By Jessica Long

Marxism is still regarded as the ultimate "anti-freedom," positing
it in direct opposition to the capitalist agenda. For many, the end
of the Cold War proved that Marxism was both unreliable and
illegitimate in the context of the times. However, the "era of
globalization" that defines post Cold War society forces us to look
at

Marxism in a whole new light:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18220.htm

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Padilla Jury Opens Pandora's Box

Paul Craig Roberts

Jose Padilla's conviction on terrorism charges on August 16 was a
victory, not for justice, but for the US Justice (sic) Department's
theory that a US citizen can be convicted, not because he committed
a terrorist act but for allegedly harboring aspirations to commit
such an act. By agreeing with the Justice (sic) Department's theory,
the incompetent Padilla Jury delivered a deadly blow to the rule
of law and opened Pandora's Box.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18215.htm

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"Anna Beats Bush"

Iraq, Iran, & the Vanishing Context in American News

By Anthony DiMaggio

It's no coincidence that the American corporate media is the
wealthiest communication systems in the world, yet also one of the
worst in terms of educating its citizens. Extraordinary riches
require extraordinary efforts to divert public attention from extreme
inequality and the democratic deficit under which Americans suffer.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18217.htm

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Managing Consent

The Art of War, Democracy and Public Relations

By Ramzy Baroud

It is Edward Bernays who fine-tuned the art of public relations in
the 20th century. Using many of the psychoanalytic theories put
forward by his uncle Sigmund Freud, he developed a mastery of public
manipulation, suggesting that such manipulation was essential to
democracy itself.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18221.htm

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The Century of the Self

How politicians and business learned to create and manipulate
mass-consumer society.

This Is A Must Watch Documentary

The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial
story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the
United States. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and
in whose interests? Freud provided useful tools for understanding
the secret desires of the masses.

Unwittingly, his work served as the precursor to a world full of
political spin doctors, marketing moguls, and society's belief that
the pursuit of satisfaction and happiness is man's ultimate goal.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12642.htm

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Want to See Change in the Country? Don't Vote!

By James Rothenberg

Well, it looks like the 2008 election campaign is in full swing,
or is it?

Does anyone know who the Greens are running? Or the Socialists? Or
the Progressives or opulists or Workers World? Nah, I guess we don't
need them to get started. They can fill in the chorus parts at the
end of the play. All we need is Big Politics. Come and get it. One
party for the price of two!

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18219.htm

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Starving Gaza

By Chris Hedges

The ham-fisted attempt to make Hamas go away by meting out draconian
punishments on the Palestinians in Gaza will radicalize more
Palestinians and see the civil war spill into the West Bank. Despite
all the aid Abbas gets, he may soon be battling Hamas militants in
Ramallah.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18213.htm

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At least 36 killed as bloody U.S. occupation continues:

At least five people were killed and 20 wounded when a parked car
bomb exploded in the Shi'ite Sadr City district of northeastern
Baghdad, police said.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L20702849.htm

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Roadside bomb kills Iraqi governor:

A roadside bomb killed the governor of Muthana province today, the
second provincial leader to be slain in little more than a week.
The attack was suspected to be the work of a rival Shiite Muslim
faction.

http://tinyurl.com/2uovbk

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Iraqis hold anti-occupation rally :

Tens of thousands of Iraqis held a massive demonstration against
the American forces' savage raids on the peaceful parts ofBaghdad
Monday morning.

http://www.iribnews.ir/Full_en.asp?news_id=242733&n=36

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U.S. foreign policy experts oppose Bush's surge:

More than half of top U.S. foreign policy experts oppose President
George W.

Bush's troop increase as a strategy for stabilizing Baghdad, saying
the plan has harmed U.S. national security, according to a new
survey.

http://tinyurl.com/yt4k7p

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U.S. Army running out of troops:

The Army's 38 available combat units are deployed, just returning
home or already tapped to go to Iraq, Afghanistan or elsewhere,
leaving no fresh troops to replace five extra brigades that President
Bush sent to Baghdad this year, according to interviews and military
documents reviewed by The Associated Press.

http://www.pjstar.com/stories/082007/NAT_BE4FCM78.052.php

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Mercenaries in Iraq Have Become U.S. Crutch:

The expanded contractor use has evoked new attention to a 1995
criticism of the practice. According to the study, a Defense
Department Commission on Roles and Missions found then that depending
on contractors was detrimental and that it kept the Pentagon "from
building and maintaining capacity needed for strategic or other
important missions."

http://tinyurl.com/2vjayn

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British general hints at Iraq pull-out :

Comments by the head of the British army, General Sir Richard
Dannatt, that his forces are stretched in Afghanistan and cannot
deploy any more soldiers will only increase pressure on the British
government to hasten its withdrawal from Iraq.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6954802.stm

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Muqtada al-Sadr: The British are retreating from Basra :

The British Army has been defeated in Iraq and left with no option
but to retreat from the country, claims radical Shia cleric Muqtada
al-Sadr http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2878776.ece

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White House: Iraq progress report could be Sept 11:

U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and the top U.S. commander in
Iraq, Gen.

David Petraeus, will likely testify to Congress about progress in
the war on Sept. 11 or Sept. 12, the White House said on Monday.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N20291179.htm

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U.S. media curtail Iraq "war" coverage: stud:

Attention to the war dropped in all five media sectors surveyed.
Network evening news, the sector that gave the war the greatest
share of attention in the first quarter, scaled back more than 40
percent, from 33 percent in the first quarter to 19 percent in the
second, the study showed.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070820/pl_nm/usa_iraq_media_dc

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Kurds flee homes as Iran shells villages in Iraq:

Iraqi Kurdish officials expressed deepening concern yesterday at
an upsurge in fierce clashes between Kurdish guerrillas and Iranian
forces in the remote border area of north-east Iraq, where Tehran
has recently deployed thousands of Revolutionary Guards.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2152324,00.html

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Ahmadinejad may visit Iraq: report:

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accepted an invitation
to visit neighboring Iraq, Iran's foreign minister said on Sunday,
a move that would be unlikely to be welcomed by the United States.

http://tinyurl.com/2g7bxz

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Presstitute and war pimp alert:

Special Report: We Can Win In Iraq By Hitting Iran:

The media campaign to play down some anticipated good military news
from Iraq is heating up.

http://www.postchronicle.com/commentary/article_21298512.shtml

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10 Taliban said killed in base attack :

Dozens of Taliban fighters attacked an Afghan military base in
restive southern Afghanistan but pulled out after losing 10 of their
fighters, an official said Monday.

http://www.afghannews.net/index.php?action=show&type=news&id=2284

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Roadside bomb kills Canadian occupation force soldier in Afghanistan:

A Canadian soldier from the Montreal area was killed early Sunday
when the convoy he was travelling in hit a roadside bomb in occupied
Afghanistan, military officials said.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/08/19/soldier-killed.html

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UK: 'Cover-up' over casualties in Afghanistan:

The Government was accused of hiding the true casualty rate of
troops in Afghanistan yesterday as it emerged thatnearly one in two
soldiers fighting on the front line had been wounded.

http://tinyurl.com/3bfpam

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Omar urges Afghans to unite against occupation troops:

The Taliban's reclusive leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, in a rare
message on Saturday called on Afghans to shun their differences and
join the militant Islamic movement's campaign to drive Western
troops from Afghanistan.

http://tinyurl.com/2yp7e5

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Allies refuse to send more troops to occupied Afghanistan as death
toll rises:

BRITAIN'S European allies have flatly ruled out providing extra
military help for the increasingly deadly battle against 'insurgents"
in Afghanistan.

http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=1034&id=1311882007

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Five killed, 18 injured in suicide attack in Pakistan:

A suicide bomber rammed a car laden with explosives into a military
checkpoint in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) on
Monday, killing himself and four more people and injuring 18, police
said.

http://tinyurl.com/yoccjz

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Israel occupation forces kill 6 Hamas resistance fighters:

The Israeli occupation army confirmed it fired at a vehicle carrying
"militants" near the al-Bureij refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/israel+kills+hamas+militants/7010
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West Bank 'could soon fall to Hamas' :

The lawlessness that led the moderate Fatah faction to lose control
of Gaza is repeating itself in the West Bank, a senior Palestinian
official has claimed.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/20/wmid120.xml

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Gaza residents in dark after EU power snub:

Hundreds of thousands of Gaza residents were forced to make do
without electricity tonight as the coastal strip's power supply
became the latest victim of feuding between Gaza's Hamas rulers and
their rivals from Fatah.

http://www.eecho.ie/news/bstory.asp?j=229012280&p=zz9xyz986&n=229013040

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U.S.-backed campaign against Hamas expands to charities :

A U.S.-backed campaign against Hamas is being expanded to include
Islamic charities that helped propel it to power, Palestinian,
Israeli and Western officials said.

http://tinyurl.com/27tlde

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Israeli squatters cut Palestinian water supply to fill swimming
pool :

Residents of the "settlement" of Elon Moreh in the West Bank have
cut a pipe carrying drinking water to a nearby Palestinian village,
and are using it to fill a small swimming pool located at a picnic
site, which was itself built on land owned by the village.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3439192,00.html

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Two Lebanese soldiers killed in clashes with Fatah Al-Islam :

Two Lebanese soldiers were killed in ongoing clashes with Fatah
Al-Islam militants in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr Al-Bared
in Northern Lebanon, the Lebanese army said Monday.

http://tinyurl.com/ysg8xy

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US experts see more dangerous world for Americans:

A majority of top U.S. foreign policy experts say the world is a
more dangerous place for Americans today than just six months ago,
thanks largely to the war in Iraq and a failing U.S. war on terrorism,
a new survey shows.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N08396596.htm

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The Russians Are Coming: Mosaic Intelligence Report: Video:

When Condoleezza Rice unveiled plans to funnel a staggering quantity
of US military aid to several countries in the Middle East, it made
headlines all over the world. Now it seems that Russia is moving
its fleet to the Mediterranean. How will this affect Syria, Israel
and Iran?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18214.htm

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Antiwar Radio:

Scott Horton Interviews Rep. Ron Paul
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/08/17/rep-ron-paul-3/

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Bolivian ex President to be Extradited:

Bolivia's Supreme Court of Justice paved the way to extradite from
the US and sue ex President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, charged with
genocide and corruption.

http://tinyurl.com/2z33k8

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Senator Upset With the Response to Subpoena :

The White House did not fully comply today with a subpoena seeking
material on the Bush administration's eavesdropping program, and a
leading Democratic senator reacted with anger, if not surprise.

http://tinyurl.com/29u6w7

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Attorney General Hatch in the wings? Rumors fly:

Rumors persist that Sen. Orrin Hatch will be nominated to take over
as U.S.

attorney general should the scandal- embroiled Alberto Gonzales
resign.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_6661550

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Merkel Says Credit Crisis Warrants Probe Into Rating Companies :

German Chancellor Angela Merkel backed a probe into Moody's Investor
Service, Standard & Poor's and other rating companies, saying the
rout in credit markets proves the need for greater market transparency.

http://tinyurl.com/yo7r4n

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After Foreclosure, a Big Tax Bill From the I.R.S. :

Two years ago, William Stout lost his home in Allentown, Pa., to
foreclosure when he could no longer make the payments on his $106,000
mortgage. Wells Fargo offered the two-bedroom house for sale on the
courthouse steps. No bidders came forward. So Wells Fargo bought
it for $1, county records show.

http://tinyurl.com/yqw35j

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Seven-year-old terrorist?

Seven-year-old Muslim boy stopped in US three times on suspicion
of being a terrorist http://tinyurl.com/32bff8

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U.S. diplomat accused of anti-Arab comments retires:

A U.S. diplomat accused of having said "the only good Arab is a
dead Arab" in a voice mail left with an Arab -American group has
retired from the government, the State Department said on Thursday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/usa_diplomat_arabs_dc

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Let Us Work Towards Peace & Joy Tom Feeley