from the London Guardian:

"In Life as in Fiction, Greene's Taunts Left Americans in a Quiet Fury:

US Compiled Secret Reports on Novelist for Years, FBI Files Show"

Rob Evans and David Hencke

The Guardian, Monday December 2, 2002

Graham Greene's classic tale "The Quiet American," released this week in
cinemas starring Michael Caine in a potentially Oscar-winning role, is still
stirring up controversy over its apparent anti-Americanism.

A press release from Darragh Sheehan (516-429-7549):

Students and Faculty Protest
Role of Bob Kerrey,

President of New School University,

in the Right-wing "Committee

for the Liberation of Iraq"

Kerry Agrees to Forum
after Students Sit-In at his Office

and Demand
Public Accounting for his Pro-War Stance

When: Wednesday, December 4th 1-3pm;

PressConference at 12:30 pm

Where: Tishman Auditorium, New School, 66 West 12th Street (near 6th
Avenue)

Bob Kerrey, New School University‚s controversial President and former
Senator from Nebraska, has once again created a storm of protest, this
time around his decision to join the Committee for the Liberation of
Iraq. The Committee is "a small group of well-placed right-wing
activists with close ties to the offices of Pentagon chief Donald
Rumsfeld and Vice-President Dick Cheney and soon Senate Majority Leader
Trent Lott" according to a November 2002 report by Foreign Policy in
Focus (fpif).

Anarchist Platform writes:

"Istanbul: Anarchists in anti-war rally

Anarchist Platform participated massively in the rally against the war on Iraq on D1 in Istanbul with all its enthusiasm. Anarchist Platform has been an effective group in the rally with its banners “Özgür Hayat” (name of the bi-weekly newspaper published by the Platform) and “Capitalism Kills In War and Peace”, breads symbolizing poverty, “For Bread, Justice and Freedom: Anarchy” placards, and black, black-red, black-green flags. There were over 200 anarchists in the beginning of the rally, and afterwards the number of the people in the Anarchist Platform group rose to 300 (which is an important number for the anarchist movement here). During the rally the slogans of the anarchists were “Capitalism Kills In War and Peace”, “No Justice No Peace!”, “No Bread No Peace!”, “For Bread, For Justice, For Freedom, Action! Revolution! Anarchy!”, “Wallet or Conscience: Don’t Be a Soldier! Don’t Obey!”, “Capitalism’s War: Gun, Bomb, and Tear! Capitalism’s Peace: Blood, Violence, and Tear”, and “Earth Commune Freedom!”. The slogans accompanied by drums were yelled by the other individuals and groups in the rally. The autonoms and the organizations forming Anarchist Platform carried their own banners. Moreover, individuals from different social backgrounds besides the students and intellectuals (anarchism before jammed into these groups of people here) participated in the Anarchist Platform. This is an important situation for the anarchist struggle here.

A press release from the Republique Democratique du Congo

Rassemblent Congolais pour la Democratie

RCD/Kisangani --- Organisation Politique

Assassination of Joseph Eneko,

Governor of Ituri Province

On Thursday November 21, 2002 (some reports have mentioned Friday), Joseph Eneko, his body guards and several Congolese who were traveling with him, were assassinated, near the town of Mahagi (In the Northeastern Province of Ituri in the DRCongo). As of this writing we do not have all the details regarding this barbarous act which has stripped Ituri and the entire country of a true jewel in the ethical struggle for sustained peace, integrity, reconciliation with truth, for the total and complete end of all forms of violence which daily keep our compatriots in a quasi permanent state of mourning.

nolympics writes

"The London Observer has printed a translation of what claims to be a letter to America from Osama bin Laden http://www.observer.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581, 845725,00.html"

A very interesting and disturbing read, but well worth taking a look at. -U.F.

Anonymous Comrade apf writes:

The main anarchist's protest against NATO summit in Prague was
attended by around 4 000 people at the strongest moment. People
gathered on Namesti Miru square and then marched to the working class
area of Nusle under the Congress center where actual NATO summit take
place. March was joined also by a smaller one of the Eastern Europe
anarchists which started on another place.

Mikael Altemark altemark writes:

Approx. 50 anarchists from all over Sweden gathered for the first national
meeting of Swedish Anarchist Federation (SAF) on September 22-23. The idea
behind this federation is to unite the anarchist forces in Sweden. SAF
will organise existing groups as well as individuals and everyone who
wants to start a new SAF local is very welcome. SAF has also got a mailing
list in which you can participate.

This story is pilfered from the British-based technology web-site, The Register. In related news see the new Know_Dump site. Time to Napsterise everything boys and girls....

File swap nets will win, DRM and lawyers lose, say MS researchers

Anonymous Comrade writes"

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1/ WHAT IS THE KN0W_DUMP?

The KN0W_DUMP is a list of usernames and passwords for proprietary
knowledge databases, currently inclduding Lexis-Nexis, ProQuest and
Arden Shakespeare. It is an anonymous, secure resource residing on the
Freenet . The KN0W_DUMP provides proxied,
anonymised access to otherwise 'enclosed' sources of information.

The KN0W_DUMP is: information liberation; distributed disobedience.

SSK@moiqmdTgWN21JLN8sXhdM1P3PJEPAgM/KNOW_DUMP//

SCP-New York writes "surveillance cameras in
Manhattan's Lower East Side

Our maps of the locations of surveillance cameras installed in public places in Manhattan were originally designed to find out and then show how many cameras are in operation, and to hazard educated guesses as to the owners of these cameras. But, if these maps are up-dated periodically, they can also be used to document the rates at which new cameras are being installed. And so we have begun to "re-map" certain areas from scratch. We started with Times Square and have now moved on to the Lower East Side.