Anonymous Comrade writes

"Urgent Call from Cheyenne Mountain"

By John Chuckman

YellowTimes.ORG Columnist (Canada)

On the U.S. President's desk in the Oval
Office, a phone's red light urgently flashes. It's the signal for
an incoming call. Only calls from deep inside the vast
command-center redoubt known as Cheyenne Mountain come
in on this line. Constructed during the Cold War, this
hollowed-out mountain contains a virtual Pentagon
satellite-city built to survive a hundred years behind
million-ton blast-proof doors.

The president gleefully picks up the receiver. He just loves
getting important calls.

"Howdee!"

"Mr. President, this is a secure line, so we may speak freely."

"Dick, you old son of a gun, how's it goin' out there, livin'
under the mountain an' all? T'aint getting' to ya none?"

"I'm just fine, Mr. President, don't concern yourself. You know,
I spent a lot of time as a congressman with folks who live in
abandoned missile silos and mine shafts.

polo writes:

"Argentina, The 'Obedient' Victim"

An Interview with Uruguayan Writer Eduardo Galeano

Montevideo, Uruguay, 22nd of January, 2002

"The lesson for the world is, not to buy the IMF discourse, which leads to extermination." -- Galeano.

Interviewer: Argentina did everything the IMF ordered, and it's a broken country -- what's the lesson to learn for Mexico?

Eduardo Galeano: It's not only a lesson for Mexico but for the whole world, but in general I'd say that people just shouldn't believe the story: one has to be a bit more careful; the discourse of power doesn't reveal, but conceals or disguises the truth. The lesson from Argentina is not to follow this (neoliberal) discourse that leads to extermination! And not only has it lead to the destruction of national economies, but it also has horrifying consequences beyond economics. This neo-liberal IMF discourse doesn't only reflect in massive poverty but also produces an offensive concentration of wealth among the few. It is like a slap on the face, a daily insult -- this ostentatious power of the few in the midst of the helplessness of the many.

YellowTimes.ORG writes: "
By John Chuckman

YellowTimes.ORG Columnist (Canada)

(YellowTimes.ORG) – This morning, an angel - yes, that's right, an angel - appeared to a gathering of reporters at the National Press Club in Washington. The stunningly beautiful creature with satiny white wings and glowing pink skin announced that it was appearing on behalf of the Creator for a brief, informal press conference.

The Almighty wants people to understand that He is getting mighty tired of being asked ten million times a day to bless America. It is beginning to grate on His nerves. Twenty-four hours a day from truck stops, pool halls, jumbo television screens, and shag-carpeted basement rec-rooms, the noise just never lets up.

Shall We Leave It to the Experts?

Arundhati Roy

India lives in several centuries at the same time.
Somehow we manage to progress and regress
simultaneously. As a nation we age by pushing outwards
from the middle - adding a few centuries on to either end
of our extraordinary CV. We greaten like the maturing
head of a hammer-headed shark with eyes looking in
diametrically opposite directions. On the one hand, we
hear that European countries are considering changing
their immigration laws in order to import Indian
software engineers. On the other, that a Naga sadhu at
the Kumbh Mela towed the district collector's car with
his penis while the officer sat in it solemnly with his
wife and children.

Well, we dont have a category for stuff like this, but I thought it was slightly entertaining. -nomadlab

Anonymous Comrade writes: "February 3, 2047

U.S. Federal Government to Move Offshore

NASSAU--In a bid to cut costs and enhance security the House of
Representatives voted Tuesday to approve a Senate bill relocating both
Congressional bodies to an unnamed offshore banking and tax haven. "The
move is sure to result in immediate cost savings to the American people,"
notes Senator Janet Rent (D-Calif). "By moving to a tax haven we can cut
payroll costs dramatically because we can reduce salaries without reducing
take-home pay."

NOT BORED writes: Comments on "The Relevance of Antonio Negri to the Anti-Globalization Movement"

[Ed. "NOT BORED! is an anarchist, situationist-inspired, low-budget, irregularly published, photocopied journal http://www.notbored.org/index1.html]

We here at NOT BORED! received a large number of responses to our essay
"The Relevance of Antonio Negri to the Anti-Globalization Movement," in
part because it was re-printed by a popular anarchist website as well as
posted to a couple of sites associated with the Independent Media Center, for which the
essay was originally written. Most of these responses were highly critical.
The essay was taken to task for basing all of its positions on a handful of
old and obscure situationist pamphlets, for discouraging people from
reading Negri & Hardt's book Empire, and for conflating Negri's "communism"
with the "Communism" of the Italian Communist Party, among other things.

Discrete Fascism, American-Style

Nathan M. Gant

The longer Bush is allowed to control the government operations of
the country, the more dictatorial powers he will assume for himself.
The more dangerous the world will become.

His Attorney General, Ashcroft, made a genuine Freudian slip the
other day when he said that he wasn't going to release the names of
the +1000 suspects he has kept locked up for almost 90 days now. He
said to do that, to publically release their names, they would
be "blacklisted". He meant to make you think he was truly protecting
them. I think the word "blacklist", it had slipped out of his mouth
in a rather non-chalant way.

The Enigma of
Allies and
Enemies

by Mumia Abu-Jamal

What a difference a month makes!

As the United States continues to bombard the feudal
state of
Afghanistan, with the gleeful (yet anxious!)
connivance of a bevy of
assorted junior partners, the playlist of who's who
seems to get
rewritten by the hour. Unperturbed by the Churchillian
axiom that a
nation has no permanent friends, nor permanent
enemies, but only
permanent interests, the U.S. has cast a wide,
imperial net, to scoop
up a bucket-full of buddies.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

"Fireflies in the Night"

In a Corner of the Sky

The old

Star

Shuts her bleary eyes.

The new

Star

Wants to paint the night

Blue.

(in the fir trees on the mountain:

fireflies)

- Federico Garcia Lorca

This is a brief, but strategic look at our present crisis, the potentialities that are unfolding within it, and the terrains of struggle that are opening before us. And this is an attempt to go beyond the ideological limitations of anarchism in its present form.

The Forgotten Terrorists

By Mumia Abu-Jamal

For far too many Americans, the word 'terrorism' has acquired a whole
new meaning in the dusty aftermath of 11 September 2001. The word now
instantly refers to the mental imagery of the shattered twin towers of
the World Trade Center in downtown Manhattan, or the broken edifice of
the Pentagon building in Washington, or even the smouldering mound of
earth in southwestern Pennsylvania.

They refer to the thousands of people, from dozens of countries, who
lost their lives when the buildings were shattered, broken and leveled
into dust. But, if truth be told, they refer mostly to Americans.