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1. Library "radicals" targeted in latest copyright battles, By Lisa Bowman, Special to CNET News.com, July 12, 2001, 4:00 a.m. PT

2. The Case Against Torture by Alisa Solomon Village Voice Writer, November 30, 2001

   "If you turn the dignity of the human body and soul to rubbish when you are on duty," says Marton, "you can't help but bring that attitude home. You can't compartmentalize the violence. So Israeli men kill each other over a parking place. Or ”as we've seen this year as the violence of putting down the new intifada has intensified” the number of rapes and domestic violence cases rises sharply."

3. Liberty and Security: Ashcroft Seeking to Free F.B.I. to Spy on Groups By David Johnson and Don van Natta, Jr. , New York Times, December 1, 2001

   "Attorney General John Ashcroft is considering a plan to relax restrictions on the F.B.I.'s spying on religious and political organizations in the United States, senior government officials said today."

4. TBN Televangelists Buy $5,000,000 Home, Los Angeles Times, Nov.4,2001
5. Christian evangelists with a touch of Taleban, Gavin Esler, The Scotsman, 30th November 2001

6. Man Wanted in Abortion Anthrax Hoaxes Arrested, Reuters, December 5, 2001

7. Bush Skipping Pearl Harbor Anniversary, AP, Dec. 6, 2001

8. Tripp May Lose Home to Foreclosure, AP, Dec. 5, 2001

   Now we know how the RR rewards traitors.

9. Saudi women get ID cards by Ward Pincus, Salon.Com, Dec. 5, 2001
10. Joint Worship Rattles Conservatives By Rachel Zoll, AP, Dec. 1, 2001
11. ENRON debacle - Do you still think "privitizing Social Security" is a good idea?
              Enron Execs Got $55 Million Just Before Bankruptcy by Neil Weinberg and Lynn Cook, Forbes.com, Dec. 05, 2001
              Incest And Corruption, Texas Style by Gene Lyons, BartCop, December 5, 2001
12. Anthrax Update
              Investigation into Responsibility for Recent Anthrax Incidents, Dr. Stephen P. Dresch, Forensic Intelligence International, Dec. 10, 2001
              A Compilation of Evidence and Comments on the Source of the Mailed Anthrax, Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Federation of American Scientists, revised December 10, 2001, Rosenberg states, "Weaponization of dry anthrax after 1972, when the Biological Weapons Convention was signed, could be construed as a violation of the Convention."
              Treaties in the Time of Anthrax: The United States Should Strengthen the Ban on Bio-Weapons, by Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Foreign Policy in Focus, November 20, 2001
              Ex-anthrax makers want FBI to talk with them: Retired Army veterans offer unique experience,eagerness to help effort, by Scott Shane, SunSpot.Net, December 9, 2001
              US Scuttles Germ Warfare Conference, Mike Allen and Steven Mufson, Washington Post, Dec. 8, 2001
              BWC Review Conferences and the Verification Protocol, lack of support for developing any enforcement protocol for the BWC by the Bush Administration may doom worldwide efforts to develop any Verification Process for compliance with the Biological Weapons Convention at all. Why does the Bush Administration object to formulating a Verification Protocol for the BWC? "The U.S. has argued two points: first, that the compliance agreement is insufficiently intrusive to make rogue states reveal their secrets, but is too intrusive for the United States to tolerate." quote from Rogue Nations accessed Sept. 27, 2001
13. Infant rape crisis jolts South Africa, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, CNN, December 11, 2001
14. Coping With Traumas, Public and Private, By Abigail Trafford, Washington Post, December 11, 2001
15. Female Newsmakers and the Women of Afghanistan
              Look Who's Not Talking: Women By Jennifer L. Pozner, Chicago Tribune, December 12, 2001
              Unveiling Afghanistan: The Bush Administration cares about women's rights (as long as there aren't any pesky women around), by Sara Pursley, WorkingForChange, Dec. 14, 2001
              Beyond the burqa: The rights women need in Afghanistan are basic human rights, Laura Flanders, WorkingForChange, Dec. 12, 2001

              The beauty secrets of Asian women, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, The Independent (UK), 26 November 2001

    'Behind that moving shroud, Afghan women still felt the need to adorn themselves, even if it might lead to a torture chamber'

              Will we sell out Afghan women? By Margaret Wente, The Toronto Globe and Mail, November 24, 2001
              After the Taliban, Will Afghanistan's Women Really Be Free by Judith Lewis, LA Weekly, Nov. 23-29, 2001
16. “No Freedom for US Women on Saudi Soil.” Ellen Goodman, The Boston Globe, c. Dec. 14, 2001
17. AVIVA Africa News
18. Friendly Fire: U.S. Military Drafted Plans to Terrorize U.S. Cities to Provoke War With Cuba By David Ruppe, abc news, May 1, 2001

19. The right sort, Eric Alterman, Guardian, December 15, 2001

    George W Bush scraped to victory in the 2000 presidential election thanks largely to an array of hugely influential rightwing lobbyists and power-brokers. He knows what he owes them - and since September 11 their grip has grown yet tighter. Eric Alterman analyses the individuals and organisations that are calling the shots in the United States

20. Words really are important, Mr Blunkett by Will Hutton, The Guardian Observer (London), December 16, 2001

    The American Right has sneered at liberal ideas and ideals as silly shows of Political Correctness. We are wrong to copy them

21. She defends freedoms she can't exercise, Joan Ryan, San Francisco Chronicle, December 18, 2001
22. AVIVA Africa News
23. AVIVA Austrialia-Asia News
24. The Struggle for the Soul of the 21st Century, President Bill Clinton, The Guardian (UK), 14 December 2001
25. Two wise men: Bill Clinton and Tony Blair are now singing from the same song sheet. And absolutely nobody is listening by Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian (UK), December 19, 2001

26. Land Mines More Dangerous Than Al-Qaida, Millions Of Mines Remain Buried All Around The World, Denver Channel, December 18, 2001

    Season's Greetings
    Why not spread Christmas good-tidings the year around by supportting efforts to rid the world of existing land mines and banning the use of new ones?
    Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, 18th of September, 1997
    U.S. should join Mine Ban Treaty by Lt. Gen. Robert Gard (retired), Progressive Media Project, September 12, 2000

27. Critical Hope Radical Citizenship in Reactionary Times by Robert Jensen, Common Dreams, December 17, 2001

28. Executive Obstruction by Bruce Shapiro, The Nation, accessed Dec. 21, 2001

    "This is not a monarchy.... We've got a dictatorial President and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved....Your guy's acting like he's king." Republican Congressman Dan Burton on pResident Bush

29. AVIVA Europe News
30. AVIVA Middle East News

31. A Farewell Wish: That Women will Be Heard, Judy Mann, Washington Post, Dec. 28, 2001

    Happy New Year!

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