[tokyoprogressive] CPN 121 Japan Issues: Jyomin-hyo, Iranian death in Custody, CPN Radio, Anti-War, Iraq, Colombia

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                               Issue #121
          Japan Issues: Jyomin-hyo, Iranian death in Custody,=20
       Lawsuit Against Racism by Kumamoto Prefectural University

                   Also, CPN Radio, Anti-War, Humor,
                     Media, Iraq Colombia, Drug War


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Welcome to issue # 121 of the newsletter. As mentioned last time,
you can send us information on events, articles, etc easily
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               SUMMARY OF ARTICLES (see below for links)
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(1) Japan Issues
--Tokyo Court, "Iranian's death - own fault"
--Shukan Kinyobi "Kazoku no naka no soto no hito"
--Discrimination Suit-Prefectural University of Kumamto=20
--CPN Radio

(2) Anti-War News
 -San Francisco Demonstration
-April 20 Mobilization
-Essay: The Others, by Howard Zinn
-Essay: The Politics of University Teaching
-Rawa

(3) Humor: Website-Welcome to the Whitehouse

(4) Media
-Interview: Michael Albert
-Pentagon Propaganda (Institute for Public Accuracy, FAIR)

(5) Israel-Palestine=20
-War Resisters League
-Essay on ending the occupation by Robert Jensen

(6) Attacking Iraq: Q and A with Noam Chomsky

(7) Alternatives to Globalization: Essay-Vandana Shiva: Alternatives

(8) Warin Columbia: Essay-The Preprogrammed War Has Started by
 Liz Atherton (see also Item 10)

(9) Italian Fascism: Essay- Old Italy, new facism by Ignacio Ramonet

(10) America's Other War-The War on Drugs

(11) Other Alternative Media


                         (1) Japan News/Issues

These stories come from the Issho mailing list:

--Tokyo Court, "Iranian's death - own fault"
--Shukan Kinyobi "Kazoku no naka no soto no hito"
(The Juminhyo Issue)
--Prefectural University of Kumamoto Lawsuit
--Discrimination Against Faculty who Don't "Look Japanese"

   READ IT HERE:
   http://www.arenson.org/2002_02_24_tokyoprog_archive.html#10210623

--CPN Radio =20
Current Program: Japanese NGO
Coming Program:  Chris Hunt, Niigata-based
teacher: non competitive games, Robert Fisk on his
own brush with death and the death of journalist David Pearl
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Check main page for latest information, or...
   READ IT HERE:
   http://www.arenson.org/audiolinkettes.html

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                         (2) Anti-War
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 (02-23) 16:08 PST SAN FRANCISCO (AP) --

Nearly 1,000 anti-war protesters marched Saturday in San Francisco,
chanting that the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan and campaign
against terrorism are inhumane and an excuse to erode civil liberties.
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The march was organized by the Bay Area Antiwar Coalition, which
organizers said represents 60 activist groups in Northern California.
"We should solve the problems of this country instead of bombing
innocent people around the world," said one organizer, Carol Seligman.
Protesters carried placards that read "War is Terror," "Books not
Bombs" and "Schools Not Jails."


Stop the War! March on Washington DC April 20th

   READ IT HERE:
   http://www.arenson.org/2002_02_17_tokyoprog_archive.html#10025633=20
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The Others, by Howard Zinn


True, there are those in Washington and around the country who would
not be moved, who are eager--like their counterparts elsewhere in the
world--to kill for some cause. But most Americans would begin to
understand that we have been waging a war on ordinary men, women and
children. And that these human beings have died because they happened
to live in Afghan villages in the vicinity of vaguely defined "military
targets," and that the bombing that destroyed their lives is in no way
 a war on terrorism, because it has no chance of ending terrorism and
is itself a form of terrorism.=20

   READ IT HERE:
   http://www.arenson.org/2002_02_24_tokyoprog_archive.html#10138389


September 11 and the politics of university teaching
by Robert Jensen

   READ IT HERE:
   http://www.arenson.org/2002_02_17_tokyoprog_archive.html#9956768

RAWA is a political/social organization of Afghan women struggling for
peace, freedom, democracy and women's rights in fundamentalism-blighted
Afghanistan.Being anti-Taliban does not mean one is pro-the Northern
Alliance,

   READ IT HERE:
   http://www.arenson.org/2002_02_17_tokyoprog_archive.html#9956748

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                                (3) Humor

Welcome to the White House - WWW.WHITEHOUSE.ORG
This is NOT the real White House. Or maybe it is!=20

   READ IT HERE:
   http://www.arenson.org/2002_02_24_tokyoprog_archive.html#10173156



                                (4) Media=20

Mashhood Rizvi Queries Michael Albert on the Mainstream media

Information and entertainment is a means to the end of profit
via the sale of people with disposable income to corporations=20
who are also trying to profit. Truth, aesthetics, news, wisdom
- these are all secondary matters, at most -- and this is
so even when information is the actual product that is sold, as well.

   READ IT HERE:
   http://www.arenson.org/2002_02_24_tokyoprog_archive.html#10173063


 Pentagon and Propaganda: From the Institute for Public Accuracy:

U.S. psywar and covert operations against American citizens and
allied countries are expanding more rapidly today than at any
other time in U.S. history.....


   READ IT HERE:
   http://www.arenson.org/2002_02_24_tokyoprog_archive.html#10164664


Pentagon Propaganda Plan Is Undemocratic, Possibly Illegal=20

Tarnished credibility may be the least of the problems created by the
OSI's new plan to manipulate media-- the plan may compromise the free
flow of information that democracy relies on. The government is barred
by law from propagandizing within the U.S., but the OSI's new plan will
likely lead to disinformation planted in a foreign news report being
picked up by U.S. news outlets. The war in Afghanistan has shown that
the 24-hour news cycle, combined with cuts in the foreign news budgets
across the U.S., make overseas outlets like Al-Jazeera and Reuters key
resources for U.S. reporters.=20


   READ IT HERE:
   http://www.arenson.org/2002_02_24_tokyoprog_archive.html#10138459

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                          (5) Israel-Palestine


 First of the signatories of the 'Letters of the Officers'=20
sentenced for refusing to serve.

Last week we reported on resistance within the Israeli military to
the occupation. Now they are being targeted for "treasonous"=20
activity.

   READ IT HERE:
   http://www.arenson.org/2002_02_24_tokyoprog_archive.html#10172788


Israel Must End the Occupation By Robert Jensen
Posted Tuesday, February 26, 2002 by paul arenson=20

Why has the number of Israeli settlers
living in the West Bank and Gaza almost doubled since the Oslo peace
process began nearly a decade ago? Given that those settlements are one
of the most serious obstacles to a peaceful solution, why would the
Israeli government -- during a so-called peace process -- expand
settlements in territory it illegally occupies?

   READ IT HERE:
   http://www.arenson.org/2002_02_24_tokyoprog_archive.html#10138560

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                              (6) Iraq

Attacking Iraq-By What Right?

Noam Chomsky answers the question: "Does the United States have any
legal authority to attack Iraq? I

   READ IT HERE:
   http://www.arenson.org/2002_02_24_tokyoprog_archive.html#10166591

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   (7) Alternatives to the bankruptcy of Corporate Globalization=20

by Vandana Shiva World Social Forum, 2002=20

Deregulated commerce and corporate rule was offered as the alternative
to the centralised bureaucratic control under communist regimes and
state dominated economies. Markets were offered as an alternative to
states for regulating our lives, not just our economies. As the
globalisation project has unfolded, it has exposed its bankruptcy at
the philosophical, political, ecological and economic levels.

The bankruptcy of the dominant world order is leading to social,
ecological, political and economic non-sustainability, with societies,
ecosystems, and economies disintegrating and breaking down...

   READ IT HERE:
   http://www.arenson.org/2002_02_24_tokyoprog_archive.html#10138634

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                         (8) Colombia

Columbia (Another Vietnam?): The Preprogrammed War Has
Started by Liz Atherton

   READ IT HERE:
   http://www.arenson.org/2002_02_24_tokyoprog_archive.html#10138608

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                          (9) Fascism in Italy

Old Italy, new facism by IGNACIO RAMONET

Silvio Berlusconi, already allied to the post-fascists of the National
Alliance and the xenophobes of the Northern League, emerged to win his
first elections, becoming prime minister from May to December 1994. His
first premiership came to an abrupt end, but that did not discourage
him. Although he too was accused of financial irregularities, dubious
dealings and graft, factors combined to enable his comeback in May 2001.

   READ IT HERE:=20
   http://www.arenson.org/2002_02_24_tokyoprog_archive.html#10138526

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                    (10) The War on Drugs

AMERICA'S OTHER WAR: THE WAR ON DRUGS
=66rom 9-11peace.org including  War on Drugs =3D War on Terror?,
Afghanistan, Colombia,Bolivia,America: The Home Front

   READ IT HERE:
   http://www.arenson.org/2002_02_24_tokyoprog_archive.html#10207464

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                  (11) Other Alternative Media
So much here to read and listen to from the likes of Between the Lines
radio, MediaChannel, Tom Paine.com and others, such as:

(a) ) White House Drive for New War with Iraq
Faces International Opposition
Interview by Scott Harris.=20

Denis Halliday, former United Nations Under-Secretary General in charge=20
of Iraq's oil for food program, resigned his post in protest of economic=20
sanctions in 1998. Halliday examines Washington's war plans and the=20
potential threat that Iraq poses to its neighbors and the U.S.=20

Also...starvation in Afghanistan, school vouchers in Cleavland,=20
Columbia Journalism review critique of U.S. journalism, Serbian=20
media and the Milosevic trial, Burma, John Pilger on Murdoch's monopolies,
the impact of David Pearl's death, Indian Government censorship,=20
Chomsky's publisher on trial in Turkey (exhonerated), Enron,=20
Pentagon caught with pants down says it won't open propaganda office
(in first example of disinformation no doubt!), Zinn on Elusive Enemy
and Endless War, Democracy Now, CounterSpin.....

   READ IT ALL HERE:
   http://www.arenson.org/2002_02_24_tokyoprog_archive.html#10212999
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