Anonymous Comrade writes:

"This leaflet was handed out on yesterday's demo in London by the group "No War But The Class War."

War is good for forging national unity. War helps to both create new
nation states and submerge class and other conflicts in an existing
nation-state. Nationalism always tries to make the dispossesed and
exploited, who make up most of the population, identify with their
exploiters and so perpetuates this miserable society.

War is good for
national liberation rackets who can use a war situation as a way of
bargaining with world powers in conflict with the local ruling powers
and each other.

War is good for polarising arbitrary groups of human
beings into enemy camps, which allows various gangs of rulers to
exploit them more effectively. War is thus a boon for nationalist,
islamist, democratic, fascist, "communist" governments and would-be
governments.

nolympics writes

"Tomorrow thousands of people will take to the streets of London to
protest against an attack on Iraq. Here, the distinguished Indian
writer Arundhati Roy argues that it is the demands of global
capitalism that are driving us to war

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,800015 ,00.html"

Greetings from the welcome committee, a group that has
been formed for the mobilizations in Quito this
October. We are a group of both Ecuadorians and
foreigners that has come together to help find and
pass on information for those foreigners who have
plans to travel to Quito this October to participate
in the events during the days of the ministerial
summit.

We have created two lists (one in English and
one in Spanish) as well as an email address,
bienvenidoquito by which you can write
us any questions you may have. Anyone with plans to
come down who needs more information or wants updates
can subscribe to the English listserve by writing to
subscribe, and
to the Spanish listserve at
subscribe.

WASHINGTON -- (AP) The nation's capital is bracing for thousands of
protesters planning to descend on this week's meeting of the World Bank
and International Monetary Fund.

Organizers say they expect thousands of demonstrators for days of
protests, culminating Saturday in a march and rally.

Doing as the Romans Did

Bush's War on Terror is a Sick Joke

Tariq Ali counterpunch



The consequences of 11 September remain visible on several fronts. Psychologically, the American empire has constructed a new enemy: Islamic terrorism. Its practitioners were evil, the threat was global and, for that reason, bombs had to be dropped unilaterally and wherever necessary. The leaders of the United States wish to be judged by their choice of enemies rather than the actual state of the world, leave alone the concrete results of the 'war against terrorism'. Politically, the United States decided to use the tragedy and re-map the world. Its military bases now cover every continent. The largest of these is situated in one of the tiniest states: Qatar in the Persian Gulf. There are 189 member states of the United Nations. There is a US military presence in 120 countries. Domestically, the Bush administration sought and obtained extensive new powers to curb dissent and to detain and deport suspects at will. On the East Coast alone, over a thousand immigrant workers of South Asian origin were arrested and deported to their countries of origin, without any outcry in the mainstream media.

Goodbye to All That

By Rep. Cynthia McKinney

[This is a transcript of Rep. McKinney's remarks on September
14 at the reception for the Congressional Black Caucus. McKinney, a Georgia Democrat, was recently defeated for re-election.]



This is an important week for all of us, although it is a
particularly important week for me. This week we had three
very successful Braintrusts: Afro-Latinos and their rising
tide of political empowerment all over Latin America; Hip Hop
Power and the importance of Hip Hop as a communications medium
in the absence of a real communications industry other than
Radio One now, inside our community, owned by our community
spreading the good news about our community;



And finally, COINTELPRO II: The Murder of Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. where we learned that there really are linkages
between the murders of JFK, MLK, and RFK. And that the
COINTELPRO process was"to neutralize" the black
leader--in the words of the CIA--assassinate, and then replace
that leader with someone whose skin color was black, but whose
loyalty was to their plan and not us. Yesterday, Judge Joe
Brown told us unequivocally that the so-called murder rifle
was NOT the weapon that killed Dr. King.

Letter From Italy to the EZLN

Luca Casarini, La Jornada, Tuesday, September 17, 2002

Translated by irlandesa

Dear Brothers and Sisters of the EZLN:

The oppressive winds which have been blowing of late from your continent
to ours, that wind which, since September 11, has been bringing bad omens,
of death and destruction, of misery and war, brought us the news about the
decision by the so-called Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.

Bush Planned Iraq 'Regime Change' Before Becoming President
By Neil Mackay, Sunday Herald (UK)

A SECRET blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure 'regime change' even before he took power in January 2001.

The blueprint, uncovered by the Sunday Herald, for the creation of a 'global Pax Americana' was drawn up for Dick Cheney (now vice- president), Donald Rumsfeld (defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld's deputy), George W Bush's younger brother Jeb and Lewis Libby (Cheney's chief of staff). The document, entitled Rebuilding America's Defences: Strategies, Forces And Resources For A New Century, was written in September 2000 by the neo-conservative think-tank Project for the New American Century (PNAC).

Full story: bush

ProletarianNews writes:

SALZBURG -- Thousands of anti-globalization protesters marched
peacefully down the streets of this historic Austrian city on Sunday, a
day ahead of an economic summit set to bring together hundreds of
business leaders and politicians from the region.

With police in riot gear deployed throughout the city to prevent
possible violence, the activists -- a mix of environmentalists,
socialists, hippies and self-styled anarchists -- marched to protest
what they say is globalization's destructive impact on the poor and the environment.

Chile Coup Anniversary Protest Turns Violent

SANTIAGO -- Protesters hurling Molotov cocktails clashed with police in
the center of the Chilean capital on Sunday at an anniversary
commemoration for leftists killed after Gen. Augusto Pinochet took power
in a 1973 coup.

Witnesses said police fired tear gas and water cannons at protesters,
some of whom were hooded, on a march to a monument in Santiago's General
Cemetery.

Violence is common at the annual protest, which marks the death of an
estimated 3,000 people killed by the armed forces after Pinochet
overthrew leftist President Salvador Allende on Sept. 11, 1973.