__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/_/__/__/__/__/__/ TokyoProgressive's ChocoPaul News Issue #165 http://tokyoprogressive.org Mailing List Subscribe メーリングリストに参加する //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=tokyoprogressive _/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/_/__/__/__/ Latest stories all here: http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/index.php This week's stories: http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/topblog.php?id=D20030508 Past stories: http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/topblog.php?id=D20030101 このサイトのどの記事にもコメントできます / Feel free to comment on any story または/Or フォラム(BBS)/Discussion Forum http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/forum/forum.php?which=mainforum ---------------------------------------------------------- Expanded Self-Publishing Page/あなたがリポータ TokyoProgressive is happy to announce that visitors may now upload articles, poetry and song lyrics, plus sound and graphics files. Sound and graphics will be carried subject to certain size restrictions. http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/selfpublishing.html ---------------------------------------------------------- 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. http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/wakana.html Wakana's latest story is here: The Zeitgeists of Present America Read and comment 読む/コメントする http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/comments.php?id=P443_0_1_0 ---------------------------------------------------------- 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.... Read and comment 読む/コメントする http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P434_0_2_0_C ---------------------------------------------------------- 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. Read and comment 読む/コメントする http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P439_0_2_0_C ---------------------------------------------------------- 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. Read and comment 読む/コメントする http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P438_0_2_0_C ---------------------------------------------------------- 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. Read and comment 読む/コメントする http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P436_0_2_0_C ---------------------------------------------------------- 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). Read and comment 読む/コメントする http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P435_0_2_0_C 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. Read and comment 読む/コメントする http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P433_0_2_0_C ---------------------------------------------------------- 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. Read and comment 読む/コメントする http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P430_0_2_0_C *Original faked photo http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P330_0_2_0_C ---------------------------------------------------------- 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. Read and comment 読む/コメントする http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P429_0_2_0_C ---------------------------------------------------------- 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] Read and comment 読む/コメントする http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P432_0_2_0_C ---------------------------------------------------------- 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." Read and comment 読む/コメントする http://tokyoprogressive.org/news/tpnews_comments.php?id=P431_0_2_0_C ---------------------------------------------------------- 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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