[tokyoprogressive] CPN# 165 (TokyoProgressive) News you won't find in the mainstream media

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The first contributor to the new self-publishing page is
Wakana Yokota, who  has written an article on how a climate of fear was
nurtured by the government, about the dehumanization of the victims of
American terrorism by the media, and her feeeling of connectedness to
those around her who refuse to buy the lies sold by the media and the
government. She also has a painting of my cat, Chibi.

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Wakana's latest story is here:

The Zeitgeists of Present America
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An Introduction to ZNet

So much good material comes out of Znet, and a lot of it finds its way
to TokyoProgressive. here are just SOME of the wonderful features: War
and Terror Pages, Globalization Section, Asia Watch (includes Korea and
 Japan watch, Japan Focus, most of Asia), Translations (for example,
ZNet Japan), Instructionals, ZNet Interactive (user posted reports,
analyses, reviews, photos,lyrics, links, quotes, cartoons, and the
highly searchable, user friendly display areas, pen pals facility....

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Take Action (U.S.) Save our Schools from Budget Disaster George Bush and
 friends are not only war crimonals; they are firing teachers and
cutting school budgets. U.S. residents can take action to stop it by
visiting a web site and signing a petition to Congress.

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Do We Really Have Free Speech? (written by a 13-year old

When schools tell students what to think, and when the community joins
forces with the schools to deny students their right to think and
express themselves, how different is that from the fascism that many
Americans think their nation fought against in World War II? For Japan
the question is also a relevant one as ideologues in the Ministry of
Education keep trying to force their notion of patriotism upon school
children. Also good resources for students and young people at the end
of the article from WireTap magazine and Alternet.

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Howard Zinn on Patriotism (My Country: the World)

In this article, history professor Howard Zinn (A people's History of
the United States) asks why "love of country" is distorted to mean
"love of government"? He says that"it is the country that is primary --
 the people, the ideals of the sanctity of human life and the promotion
 of liberty. War is almost always a breaking of those promises
(although one might find rare instances of true self defense). It does
not enable the pursuit of happiness, but brings despair and grief." In
reflecting on the words of Thomas Paine, he says that Tom Paine "used
the word 'patriot' to describe the rebels resisting imperial rule. He
also enlarged the idea of patriotism when he said: 'My country is the
world. My countrymen are mankind'.

Here in Japan, Koizumi and his LDP/reactionary friends push patriotism
in schools and call for the Japanese people to be willing to defend
their nation with their bodies if necessary. They seek derail democracy
 by cutting the heart out of the Constitution (Article 9) and returning
 Japan to the pre-war Imperialist model, while suggesting that those of
 us who march for peace are unpatriotic. If being unpatriotic means
opposing wars for profit and glory, demanding that the the government
respect its own constituition and create a society where all people are
 treated with respect, then maybe it is ok to be unpatriotic.

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U.S. Weapons of Mass Destruction Out of Sight in American Media

There have been NO reports in the American press on cluster bombs since
the start of the war on Iraq. Yet many human rights organizations and
health experts have commeneted on both their possible illegality as well
as on the death and despair caused by these weapons. Likewise, Depleted
Uranium (DU) is a radioactive substance which remains so for long beyond
anyone's lifetime, and it exists in places like Iraq in the form of
ceramic dust, which is already suspected of causing horrible illnesses.
tey it too has been ignored by the media. This is a call to action by
the watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR).

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A second article on the issue from Chalmers Johnson also talks about DU,
 and shows that many of the victims are themselves unsuspecting U.S.
soldiers whose welfare is not of very much concern to their bosses in
the Pentagon. In fact, a U.S. military officer was himself fired when
he criticized the Pentagon's lack of haste in cleaning up after the
Kosovo bombardment.

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Fake Photos of Iraqis Welcoming Bush and Blair

Remember the *faked photo making it appear that thousands of Iraqis,
welcoming the U.S. occupation foreces, were pulling down a statue? In
reality it was several U.S. tanks and a pre-selected group of
pro-American Iraqis flown in for the occasion (in all liklihood). Well,
here is another picture, this time very easily determined to be a fake.
if one takes the time to examine it. The trouble is, most people
probably do not suspect that the media is deliberately lying to them.

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*Original faked photo
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The End of Arms Control

Two studies showing how the new order in Washington and London are
devastating the arms control regime and making permanent war something
normal.

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South Korea and Human Rights in North Korea

On April 16, the U.N. Commission of Human Rights adopted a censure
against North Korea by a vote of 28 to 10, with 14 abstentions. Among
the 14 absentees was South Korea. The government's official explanation
 was that the South does not want to further alienate the North from
the international community. While they don't want to line up with the
EU and the US, which lambasted the North over human rights at the U.N.
session while letting Russia and China slip on the issue, much of South
 Korean civil society is increasingly frustrated with the lack of a
comfortable position regarding the poor human rights situation in the
northern half of the peninsula. In a carefully worded article, Kwon
Hyok-chol insists that the time has come for Korean civil society to
take a stand. 

By Kap Su Seol kapseol@xxxxxxxxx]

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Cigarette Companies: Licensed to Kill

 A new type of company has been incorporated, calling attention to the
hypocrisy of allowing companies to be in the busines of murder: "We're
not like other tobacco companies that try to obscure what their
business is about," says the company's short introduction, published on
 its website ."If you market cigarettes, you market death. It's that
simple. In a country which effectively allows corporations to be formed
 without regard to their purpose, corporations are allowed to kill
people to make money. Addiction to cigarettes may be lethal, but
profiting from spreading death is perfectly legal."

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Free Our High School from Occupation

Parents of a Catholic School in Iraq write: 1750 students attend this
school from grade 7 to grade 12. The American Army has occupied the
school and converted it to a military camp with tanks inside the school,
and refused to allow students to attend classes. The U.S. army, while
occupying the school, destroyed the school’s library and the school's
laboratories and classrooms.

We as parents have asked the Americans to vacate the school so that our
kids can go back to school-so far unsuccessfully. Those of us who were
permitted to visit inside our school were shocked at the destruction
inflicted.

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Genetically Modified Food:

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Selected Stories from the Past
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Japanese Education,Japanese Media,Japanese  Health and End Environment
Japanese Police and Immigration,Japanese Militarism,Japanese Other
Balkans,East Timor,Environment,Food,Globalization,Kosovo
Law and Human Rights/Justice,Labor,Language Learning,Latin America
Media,Paul's Essays,Peace and War,Third World

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