medications. 99%, if not more, of this so-called unreported news
is pure crap. Anybody who believes it is in need of psychiatric
treatment. The reason this crap did not receive better treatment
bullshit prevaricating propaganda.
> 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. (Drawn
> from the archives of the Smygo list I run.)
> *****
> 2007
> US forces raid Iraq Freedom Congress -- again and 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. US forces have repeatedly attacked the
> IFC, and have assassinated the head of their Safety Forces, whose
> patrols in Baghdad neighborhoods (population 5,000) have reduced
> sectarian killings there to zero.
> The mainstream media has entirely failed to cover the IFC, and most
> alternative media has done just as badly.
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/8381http://groups.yahoo.c...
> More IFC News
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/10295http://groups.yahoo....
> Iraq's Civil Resistance
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/10550
> Bans on Feeding the Homeless
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/10118http://groups.yahoo....
> Christian Terrorists
> But they never get referred to as terrorists in the mass media or
> charged with terrorism-related offenses.
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/9484http://groups.yahoo.c...
> Neo-Nazi Terrorists Murder Protestor at Eco-Camp
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/9554
> 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 for 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 civilian victims deserved it, etc.
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/9091http://groups.yahoo.c...
> The growth of worker-owned-and-controlled businesses.
> Supposedly There Is No Alternative (TINA) to corporate capitalism, but
> some are determined to build the structure of the new society in the
> shell of the old:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/8669http://groups.yahoo.c...
> Ethiopian invasion of Somalia results in quagmire
> The US-backed Ethiopian invasion of Somalia has resulted in a
> Vietnam/Iraq-style quagmire. The Ethiopian occupiers have now been in
> Somalia more than four times as long as planned (three months), with no
> end in sight. They have also used WMDs against civilians.
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/8894http://groups.yahoo.c...
> 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/9199http://groups.yahoo.c...
> Terrorist arson attack against Sedition Books
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/8850http://groups.yahoo.c...
> *Who* hates our freedoms?
> Pro-war counter-protestors attack peaceful anti-war protestors.
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/8863http://groups.yahoo.c...
> Inside the CIA's Notorious "Black Sites"
> The CIA routinely tortures individuals allegedly suspected of terrorism
> or links to terrorists in secret sites around the world.
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/message/10574
> 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 in
> history, 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
> *****
> Note:
> Apart from the Smygo list, some of the best sources for underreported
> news include the following:
> http://antiwar.com/http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/http://ne...
> --
> Dan Clore
> My collected fiction, _The Unspeakable and Others_:http://tinyurl.com/3akhhr
> Lord We˙rdgliffe & Necronomicon Page:http://tinyurl.com/292yz9
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> Strange pleasures are known to him who flaunts the
> immarcescible purple of poetry before the color-blind.
> -- Clark Ashton Smith, "Epigrams and Apothegms"
