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[Paul Etxeberri]

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>Subject: December Newsletter - New Features
>Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 18:33:59 -0500
>From: Newtopia Magazine <newsletter at newtopiamagazine.net>
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>NEWTOPIA MAGAZINE - "Exploring Common Sense Politics"
>
>Monthly Newsletter - December, 2004
>
>http://www.newtopiamagazine.net
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>
>Supplemental Features to Issue #19:
>
>UNEMBEDDED, INDEPENDENT
>An exclusive, in-depth interview with journalist 
>Dahr Jamail on what is really going on in Iraq.
>by Charles Shaw
>
>"Myself and most Arab and western independent 
>journalists here show the costs of war. Report 
>the massacres, the slaughter, the dead and 
>wounded kids, disaster that this occupation 
>truly is for the Iraqi people. Report on the low 
>morale of most soldiers here, report on how 
>doctors now state openly that due to lack of 
>funds and help from the US-backed Ministry of 
>Health, they feel it is worse now than during 
>the sanctions."
>http://www.newtopiamagazine.net/content/issue19/features/DahrJamail.php
>
>
>STALEMATE ON THE GRAND CHESSBOARD - THE UKRAINE ELECTIONS
>An election in peril, a people in revolt.
>Blog and photos by Veronica Khokhlova
>http://www.newtopiamagazine.net/content/issue19/features/ukraine.php
>
>
>THE MISSING LINK
>John Perkins’s new book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
>by Thomas Kiely
>
>For those who have always wondered why, after so 
>many decades of foreign aid, poverty still is so 
>pervasive in the developing world, insider John 
>Perkins comes forward and offers an explanation. 
>Perkins claims to have been recruited in the 
>1960’s through the National Security Agency to 
>work at an American firm responsible for 
>creating plans used to justify billions in 
>economic development loans to developing 
>countries (DCs). 
>http://www.newtopiamagazine.net/content/issue19/features/hitman.php
>
>
>VOTE 2004: INCOMPETENT POLLSTERS AND VENGEFUL DIXIECRATS?
>An analysis of the voting fiasco in Florida, and other glaring irregularities.
>by Colin Shea
>
>The tiny Dixiecrat counties in northern Florida 
>and the Panhandle are a red herring. Galbraith 
>does have a point in that we should look at 
>historical county votes. But any search for 
>large-scale fraud must by definition focus on 
>the medium and large-sized counties. In these 
>counties fraud would be on the one hand harder 
>to detect, and on the other would potentially 
>generate enough votes to tip the election. 
>http://www.newtopiamagazine.net/content/issue19/features/dixiecrats.php
>
>
>ALL ROADS LEAD TO FALLUJAH: BUILDING A HOUSE OF 
>VISION FROM THE ELECTION'S RUBBLE
>Rethinking the Current Progressive Movement.
>by Robert Bohm
>
>Bush defeated Kerry not because Bush possessed a 
>political vision better suited to the U.S. 
>public than Kerry, but because Bush grasped 
>better than Kerry that in order to sell what is 
>essentially uninteresting (i.e., either of the 
>candidates) it's not political awareness that's 
>necessary but the shrewd use of advertising 
>psychology. In such a context, a candidate's 
>beliefs are less about what the candidate 
>believes than they are about adopting poses 
>meant to make the candidate saleable as a savior 
>figure through whom people can vicariously 
>experience what is missing from their own lives: 
>a sense of completion. 
>http://www.newtopiamagazine.net/content/issue19/features/Fallujah.php
>
>
>THE COLLAPSE OF THE PETROLEUM DELUSION AND THE RISE OF THE DIY MOVEMENT
>Post-Election Ruminations on the State of the Nation.
>by Jan Lundberg
>
>The grand nightmare, or whatever you want to 
>call it, has been building steadily, with 
>power-grabs, oppression, wars, poverty, social 
>upheaval, environment degradation, species 
>extinction, climate distortion, and -- as a 
>consequence of this massive dose of reality -- 
>an awakening in consciousness and resistance to 
>be followed by social reconstruction. As to both 
>the negative and positive aspects of this 
>pivotal period of history, we have barely seen 
>anything yet. 
>http://www.newtopiamagazine.net/content/issue19/features/collapse.php
>
>
>THE EVOLUTION OF CURRENCY
>How Money i$ Created, Disappear$, and Work$, and 
>the Value$ Involved in the Proce$$.
>by Paul Krumm
>
>The extremely large number of money exchanges 
>that occurs each day all over the earth form a 
>highly complex web that is very resistant to 
>analysis. However it must be understood that the 
>basic rules of money creation that govern these 
>exchanges are quite simple, and can be readily 
>understood by the average layman. How money 
>works is not complex, even though the web of 
>financial exchanges can become very complex 
>indeed. 
>http://www.newtopiamagazine.net/content/issue19/features/money.php
>
>
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>
>
>BLOGSVILLE - NEWTOPIA'S BLOG COMMUNITY
>
>
>COMMON SENSE POLITICS DAILY
>by Charles Shaw, Newtopia's Publisher & Chief Editor. 
>A Blog of News and Views.
>Everything you need to know to keep apace of 
>what's really going on in the world, posted 
>every day.
>http://www.newtopiamagazine.net/blog/CSPD.php
>
>
>THE 911 TRUTH MOVEMENT
>A Blog by Bill Douglas, Co-Founder of the 
>National 9/11 Visibility Project, and Charles 
>Shaw, Board of Directors, 911 Truth, 
>Editor-in-Chief, Newtopia.
>
>"9-11 has posed a profound crisis for Americans 
>and the world. It has created almost instantly a 
>militaristically driven approach to all world 
>problems, and put human rights in the back seat 
>of national and international thought. It has 
>also put economic and environmental concerns in 
>the back seat. We are guaranteed to see 
>endlessly bloating military budgets worldwide 
>for as far as the eye can see as "9-11" is used 
>like a hammer by politicians funded by military 
>weapons producers to forge a culture of 
>militarism and fear."
>http://www.newtopiamagazine.net/blog/911truth.php
>
>911 TRUTH NEWS: 911 TRUTH FILES LAWSUIT WITH NY 
>ATTORNEY GENERAL ELLIOT SPITZER
>
>100 prominent US leaders including three 
>national presidential candidates, Nader (Indp.), 
>Cobb (Greens), Badnarik (Libertarian) Parties, 
>and actor Ed Asner, singers Michelle Shocked and 
>Richie Havens, etc. have signed a 911 Truth 
>Statement, along with 40 9/11 victim's family 
>members, in support of an official complaint 
>delivered to New York Attorney General, Elliot 
>Spitzer's, office demanding a criminal 
>investigation into the events of Sept. 11th, 
>2001.
>
>The Statement supports an August 31st Zogby poll 
>that found nearly 50% of New Yorkers believe the 
>government had foreknowledge and "consciously 
>failed to act," with 66% wanting a new 9/11 
>investigation; and a recent online CNN Poll of 
>11/11/2004 that showed 90% of respondents 
>believe there is a US government cover up of the 
>events of 9/11/2001; and now on the heels of the 
>stunning CNN poll comes a whistleblower, an 
>executive at Underwriter Laboratories (who 
>tested the WTC steel beams), who's informed 
>911Truth.org that the official story of the WTC 
>buildings collapsing because of burning jet fuel 
>is a false one.
>
>Focusing on twelve questions, the Statement 
>highlights areas of incriminating evidence that 
>were either inadequately explored or ignored by 
>the Kean Commission, ranging from insider 
>trading and hijacker funding to foreign 
>government forewarnings and inactive defenses 
>around the Pentagon. The Statement asks for four 
>actions: an immediate investigation by New York 
>Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, Congressional 
>hearings, media analysis, and the formation of a 
>truly independent citizens-based inquiry.
>
>SIGN PETITION:  http://www.justicefor911.org/index.php
>
>VIEW EXISTING SIGNATORIES AT: http://www.justicefor911.org/signatures.php
>
>
>POLITICAL IMAGINATION
>by Tom Tresser, Fellow in Arts & Creativity at 
>DePaul University. Sponsored by Creative America 
>(http://www.creativeamerica.us)
>A Blog of the Connections between Creativity and Social Change. 
>http://www.newtopiamagazine.net/blog/Polimagination.php
>
>
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>
>COMING SOON!
>
>THE RESOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED
>by Charles Shaw and Guests
>
>Newtopia's blog of peace and conflict resolution.
>
>
>THE RADICAL DIARY
>An Open Blog of Movements, Activism, and Organizing.
>
>(If you would like a User account for Radical 
>Diary please contact Charles Shaw at 
>charles at newtopiamagazine.net)
>
>
>Interested in having your own blog in Newtopia's 
>Blogsville? Contact us with your idea. 
>(charles at newtopiamagazine.net)
>
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>
>CALL FOR FEATURE & OP/ED SUBMISSIONS
>
>Vol. IV, Issue 20 - Feb/Mar 2005  - "LAW & ORDER"
>
>In this so-called "post-911" world, all peoples 
>are becoming increasingly concerned with 
>security. Yet as history has shown us, increased 
>security always comes at the expense of our 
>civil liberties. But is it all about security?
>
>Like Russia and China before it, America is 
>rapidly transforming into a gulag state, as a 
>full 3 million citizens currently languish 
>behind bars. Rather than fund schools and 
>hospitals, this nation builds prisons. This 
>contrasts sharply with the greatly reduced crime 
>rates in Europe and Japan, where social needs 
>are provided for citizens on a much more 
>substantial scale.
>
>In this issue we will examine some of the wide 
>ranging concepts of Law & Order including, crime 
>and punishment, the American "litigation 
>society", the global push for a unified system 
>of law, the drug war and the prison-industrial 
>complex, and the abrogation of civil liberties 
>that come with increased security.
>
>SUBMISSION DEADLINE: DEC 15, 2004
>
>Send features to 
>submissions at newtopiamagazine.net. Please include 
>a brief bio (and photo if you wish).
>
>
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>
>NOTE BENE
>
>From Issue 15:
>
>WHY THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT FAILED (OP/ED)
>by Anis Shivani
>
>Ever since formal combat in Iraq came to a 
>predictably quick end, the anti-war movement has 
>been struggling to come to terms with itself. 
>The movement is in denial. Disingenuousness 
>substitutes for real self-criticism.
>http://www.newtopiamagazine.net/content/issue15/features/failure.php
>
>####
>
>NOTA FINA
>
>The Ukraine - "It's now or never for Washington"
>Mark Almond, From the Wilderness
>Originally published in The New Statesman
>Monday 6th December 2004
>
>America's real aim in Ukraine and other former 
>Soviet republics is to seize control of vital 
>resources before China and India can challenge 
>US dominance. By Mark Almond
>
>Are we on the brink of a new cold war? On both 
>sides of the Atlantic, media commentators see 
>the crisis in Ukraine as comparable to the 
>Berlin crises, involving the US and the Soviet 
>Union, which kept the world on tenterhooks for 
>decades. In this supposed drama, a resurgent 
>Kremlin under an ex-KGB colonel is suppressing 
>freedom at home and encroaching on ex-Soviet 
>republics around his country's vast rim.
>
>This terror of shadows has a track record of 
>success. In the 1970s and early 1980s, the 
>ailing world of Leonid Brezhnev was portrayed as 
>a sinister superpower with its tentacles almost 
>around Uncle Sam's throat. The US and the 
>majority of western European nations combined 
>behind a programme of arms build-up and covert 
>sponsorship of anti-communist dissidents.
>
>The coincidence of dates is not often noted, but 
>the Pentagon was inaugurated on 11 September 
>1941, exactly 60 years before it took its first 
>direct hit. In my view, its role was positive 
>for many years: few would regret the fall of 
>Hitler or the deterrence of Stalin. But 
>America's bloodless victory in the cold war did 
>not lead her to rest on her laurels. As early as 
>1992, Pentagon insiders led by Paul Wolfowitz 
>and sponsored by the then defence secretary, 
>Dick Cheney (under President Bush I), had drawn 
>up a doctrine designed to prevent any power 
>getting the "capacity" to challenge the US in 
>the future. Not only potential foes but friends 
>were to be kept subordinate.
>
>There was no peace dividend. Instead, US defence 
>spending rose. Now the Pentagon spends more than 
>the European Union, Russia, China and India 
>combined. As one Pentagon friend said to me 
>recently: "The new arms race is between the US 
>army today and the US army which might fight it 
>tomorrow!"
>
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Paul Etxeberri

"Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow"   ---Chateaubriand