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March
7, 2002
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Insurance
Scams:
Who Are the Scofflaws?
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/ St. Clair
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Crop: The Politics
of Afghan Opium
March
6, 2002
CounterPunch
Wire
A
Beautiful Mind:
Another Dangerous Lie?
Tom Turnipseed
War
Is Wrong
David
Vest
Billy
Graham and Nixon:
Tangled Up in Tape
Patrick
Cockburn
The
Bombings That
Made Putin a Hero
CounterPunch
Wire
Berezovsky
Fingers Putin
in Bombings
Edward
Said
Thoughts
About America
March
5, 2002
CounterPunch
Wire
Ann
Coulter At It Again:
Race-Baiting Norm Mineta
Bill Christison
A
Former CIA Officer
Explains Why the War
on Terror Won't Work
Delkhasteh and Wright
What
Should We be Fighting For? An Open Letter
to Pro-War Academics
Mariya
Tsvekova
Putin's
Georgian Gambit
March
4, 2002
Ralph
Nader
Dick
Cheney: A Dinosaur
in the Age of Mammals
Uri Avnery
How
Israel Will Torpedo
the Saudi Peace Plan
Southern
/ Kubrick
Stangelove
Scenario
for Shadow Govt. Bunker
David
Vest
Grammy's
of Constant Sorrow
March
3, 2002
Bernard
Weiner
War
on Terrorism for Dummies
Paul Cox
Boycott
Mel Gibson's
"We Were Soldiers"
Frederick
Hudson
Toward
a Nonviolent Africa:
Bill Sutherland's Quest
Eric Schaeffer
Dear
Christie Whitman:
Take This Job and Shove It
John Chuckman
Why
the Rest of Planet is Unnerved by America
March
2, 2002
Alexander
Cockburn
Sweat,
Sex, Feet and
the Working Class
March
1, 2002
Brendan
Sexton III
What's
Wrong With Black Hawk Down: an Actor Speaks Out
David
Krieger
Nuclear
Terrorism
and US Nuclear Policy
February
28, 2002
James
T. Phillips
Baghdad,
Spring 1992
Gideon
Samet
Sharon
Must Go
Rep. Ron
Paul
Before
We Bomb Iraq
M. Shahid
Alam
Samuel
Huntington:
Peddling Civilizational Wars
St. Clair
/ Cockburn
Rumble
from the Jungle:
Ecuadorian Farmers Fight
DynCorp's ChemWar
February
27, 2002
Eric Hobsbawm
The
Future of War and Peace
John Troyer
About
that WTC Memorial
Mokhiber
/ Weissman
Wired
for Democracy
or Business?
Alexander
Cockburn
Daniel
Pearl: Should His
Editors Have Sent Him There?
February
26, 2002
Jonathan
Steele
Kabul's
Loss
Vasily
Streltsov
The
Pentagon in
the Transcaucusas
CounterPunch
Wire
How
Corporations Use Shadowy "527" Groups to Influence
Politicians
Lt. Col.
Robert Bowman
ABM
Treaty: Alive or Dead?
Rep. Dennis
Kucinich
A
Prayer for America
February
25, 2002
John Clarke
Interrogated
at US Border
Blankfort,
Poirier, Zeltzer
ADL
Blinks, Settles Spying Case
Alex Lynch
Naked
from Sin:
The Ordeal of Nahla
and Sami Al-Arian
John Chuckman
Ashcroft
Speaks in Tongues
February
24, 2002
David
Vest
Skate
Date
February
23, 2002
Tom Turnipseed
Axis
of Evil and
Media Monopolies
Bahour/Dahan
Cracks
in the Occupation
February
22, 2002
Alexander
Cockburn
Axel
of Evil: Sex Crimes
and the Constitution
February
21, 2002
Gary Leupp
The
Philippines: Second Front in US's Global War
David
Vest
Reagan
Clone Project?
Mokhiber
and Weissman
Chicago
School and Corporate America: Rotten to the Core
February
20, 2002
Bernard
Weiner
The
Shallow Throat Document
Kay Lee
The
Prison Guard Who Never Owned Up to His Crimes
February
19, 2002
David
Orr
Waylon
Jennings, the Duke,
and the Navajo
John Chuckman
The
Devil and Georgie Bush
Prudence
Crowther
Giblet
Gravitas
Ramzi
Kysia
Caught
in the Iraq DMZ
February
18, 2002
Ron Jacobs
The
US and Iran
George
Lewandowski
Empire
in Declline
Lenni
Brenner
Life
and Death of a Folk Hero
February
17, 2002
Robert
Fisk
Lost
in a Pit of Desperation
February
16, 2002
Phillip
Cryan
Colombia
in War Time
February
15, 2002
C.G. Estabrook
From
New York to Porto Alegre
Robert
O'Brien
The
View from Porto Alegre
Mokhiber/Weissman
Resisting
the Assassins
February
14, 2002
Levy and
Easton
Ante
Pavelic
Real Butcher of the Balkans
Joan Claybrook
Dear
Jeb Bush,
About You and Enron
John Chuckman
Time
for a Woman Prez
Alexander
Cockburn
Banning
the Koran
February
13, 2002
Sen. Russ
Feingold
War
Powers and
the War on Terror
Tom Turnipseed
Bush's
Folly
George
Monbiot
American
Imperialism
February
12, 2002
Uri Avnery
The
Great Game:
Oil, Sharon and Iran
Tommy
Ates
Black
Land Loss
February
11, 2002
Walt Brasch
The
Synergizing of America
John Troyer
Enron's
Deep Throat?
February
9, 2002
John Blair
Criticize
Cheney, Go to Jail
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in an Afghan Refugee Camp
By Judith Mann
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March 7, 2002
Congressman McInnis Equates Enviro
and Animal Rights Groups
to al-Qaeda
CounterPunch
Wire
The activities of the Earth Liberation Front,
Animal Liberation Front and other activist organizations mimic
the operations of the al-Qaeda terrorist network, but public
opinion may be swaying against these groups because of the attacks
against the World Trade Center and Pentagon on Sept. 11, Rep.
Scott McInnis, R-Colo., said at a conference this morning in
Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
The number one terrorist threat in the
United States, according to the FBI, is eco-terrorism, McInnis
told the audience of about 40 people, including corporate and
government officials as well as members of the press. "They
run like the al-Qaeda runs," McInnis said. "The only
serious death threat I've had in my 20 years in public office
was from these people."
The ELF disavows violence against humans,
he noted, "but it's only a matter of time before someone
is hurt." The meeting was entitled "Stopping Eco-Extremism:
A Conference on Legislative, Legal and Communications Strategies
to Protect Free Enterprise, Private Property and American Business."
McInnis pointed to the events of Sept.
11 as a turning point in the corporate and governmental battle
against radical environmentalists and animal rights activists.
"There's no question Sept. 11 helped us a lot," he
said. "It has opened people's eyes."
Also speaking at the conference, Nick
Nichols, chairman and CEO of Nichols/Dezenhall, a "crisis
management" firm based in Washington, noted that the public
had been "apathetic [about ELF and ALF activities] until
9/11." Nichols referred to these activists as members of
the so-called "Crisis Creation Industry," which he
says is dominated by anarchists, Marxists, Luddites and the
chronically aggrieved.
Serving his fifth term in Congress, McInnis'
has made cracking down on radical environmentalists and animal
rights activists one of his top priorities. The Republican chairs
the House Resources Committee's Subcommittee on Forests and
Forest Health, which held a hearing on Feb. 12 into the activities
of the ELF. The subcommittee subpoenaed Craig Rosebraugh, the
former ALF spokesman, but Rosebraugh invoked his Fifth Amendment
right against self-incrimination more than 40 times during the
hearing.
McInnis said the Fifth Amendment protection
isn't universal and that Rosebraugh refused to answer some questions
that are not protected by the constitutional right. Those questions
will be submitted to him in writing, and if he refuses to answer
again, McInnis said he would ask the subcommittee to charge
Rosebraugh with contempt of Congress. "We'll follow up
on some contempt charges against that individual," McInnis
said this morning, adding that Rosebraugh's roommate has now
taken over as spokesman for ALF.
In addition to ELF and ALF, it appears
the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has found its
way into the crosshairs of the radical right since Sept. 11.
McInnis is asking PETA to explain why it allegedly donated funds
to ELF. PETA is tax-exempt and has a responsibility to the
country not to support the ELF in any way, according to McInnis.
PETA reportedly contributed $1,500 during
the 2000 fiscal year to ELF for education and habitat protection.
Ingrid Newkirk, founder and president of the Norfolk, Va.-based
animal rights group, has said, "We don't fund anything
illegal, and we certainly don't fund the destruction of people's
property."
The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise
said in a complaint March 4 to Internal Revenue Service Commissioner
Charles Rossotti that "publicly available information
strongly suggests that PETA induces or encourages the commission
of unlawful acts."
PETA has "been linked to the breaking
of the law. Its own people have extensive arrest records,"
said Ron Arnold, executive vice president of the Bellevue, Wash.-based
center. "Any kind of law-breaking to us does not deserve
tax-exempt status."
McInnis said that, while it's difficult
to track the individuals involved in radical action, "it's
not tough to go after their finances. PETA, in my opinion, knew
exactly where their money was going. We're going after the financial
network."
Nichols joined in the criticism of PETA
for its funding of so-called "terrorist" organizations.
"I'm concerned about PETA," Nichols said. "I
think they have been a funding group for terrorist groups."
Corporate America, Nichols said, needs to do a better job of
gathering intelligence about their foes in the activist world.
He recommends become more proactive in the gathering of intelligence
about environmental and animal rights groups. He also called
for the creation of a national federal clearinghouse on eco-terrorism.
McInnis is urging the public to serve
as snoops against activist groups. "Please provide information
if you have it available," he said. "This is a weed
that has come into the lawn and if you don't cut it out, it
will spread."
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