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<https://www.facebook.com/login.php?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fgroups%2F461619557192964%2F> http://clearingthefogradio.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *THE PUSH FOR WAR AGAINST SYRIA IGNORES IMPORTANT FACTS * ** *On /NPR/ this morning, Renee Montagne informed us that the White House says there's very little doubt the Syrian government used poison gas against its own people. Later in a piece about what's happening in Syria she proclaimed "It seems the moment has arrived that there is no other option but to act," showing Montagne's devotion to bombing Muslims, now a tradition at /NPR/, which pushed the lies of the Bush regime to gain support for the attack on Iraq. Montagne doesn't need to wait for the UN report from weapons inspectors, she knows who deserves to be bombed. * *And make no mistake, as the entire mainstream media is running pictures of dead children allegedly killed by poison gas, no photos will be displayed of children killed from any ensuing cruise missile strike by the USA and UK. This is basic propaganda 101. * *Republican Senator Corker, who's on the Foreign Relations Committee, and has inside information, said on /FOX News/ yesterday that he believes the White House will take military action against Syria <http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/middle-east-north-africa/318645-corker-predicts-obama-will-take-military-action-against-syria>. Not allowing the Republican to beat Democrats to war, Democratic Congressman Engel immediately responded "I certainly would do cruise missile strikes." * */The Guardian/ reports <http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/26/syria-uk-us-intervention> this morning "The UK foreign secretary said Britain and its allies could intervene without the authority of the United Nations," indicating we have another Iraq-like scenario in which the British Prime Minister and American president conspired to ignore international law, fabricating weapons of mass destruction even though UN inspectors had not found the phantom weapons. * *Democracy be damned, polling out this morning <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/25/reuters-ipsos-syria-poll_n_3812792.html> shows the American people are against military action against Syria, 60% to 9%. * *In fact, the US has actually supported the use of chemical weapons in the past, reports /Foreign Policy/ <http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/08/25/secret_cia_files_prove_america_helped_saddam_as_he_gassed_iran> this morning. "In 1988, during the waning days of Iraq's war with Iran, the United States learned through satellite imagery that Iran was about to gain a major strategic advantage by exploiting a hole in Iraqi defenses. U.S. intelligence officials conveyed the location of the Iranian troops to Iraq, fully aware that Hussein's military would attack with chemical weapons, including sarin, a lethal nerve agent." This was in support of then ally, Saddam Hussein. * *Here's a well-documented piece by Australian Norm Dixon <http://www.counterpunch.org/2004/06/17/how-reagan-armed-saddam-with-chemical-weapons/> going into backing by the USA of Saddam Hussein even after he gassed his own people. The hypocrisy of our government is endless, but would not work without the slavish support of mainstream media.* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *THE LATEST ON SPYGATE: WORSE THAN YOU THOUGHT * ** */Al Jazeera/ reports <http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/8/25/nsa-bugged-u-n-headquarters.html> this morning "In a development that could further strain relations between Washington and its allies, German magazine /Der Spiegel/ said secret documents obtained by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden outlined how the NSA systematically spied on other states and institutions," including the United Nations. * *Much of the spying is now privatized <http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/08/aclu-reveals-fbi-hacking-contractors/>, with hackers being hired by the FBI to spy on us and find ways to get around encryption to read our emails and other messages. Agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration are using hackers to spy on their scientists who may be whistleblowers. It wouldn't do to have the American people find out about the usual cover up of tainted food and medicine on behalf of the heads of that agency, who are former executives of the companies they are supposed to be regulating, in our hopelessly corrupt government.* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **In the early 1960's I was involved in the civil rights movement, and I am proud of the small part I played in it. I was too afraid to do more than I did, and probably would have been killed if I did all that I thought was needed. I was thrown out of places for crimes like having a cup of coffee with a black person, but I was never beaten for that, as were so many, or thrown in jail. ** **Young people cannot understand the hatred and fear of that time. Years ago at a Martin Luther King's birthday function I overheard a black teen say King was an Uncle Tom, and I blew up. I shouted at him, "Uncle Toms don't get thrown in jail, beaten or murdered." ** **Trayvon Martin showed us that America's dirty secret is still alive, racism is no longer as overt, but still deadly at times. ** **But there is hope in knowing there are others, a great many others, including /LUV News/ members, fighting to make a better world for the children of tomorrow --Jack Balkwill** On the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, a New Civil Rights Movement Emerges <http://www.thenation.com/blog/175889/50th-anniversary-march-washington-new-civil-rights-movement-emerges#axzz2d0C70FiV> *by **Ari Berman <http://www.commondreams.org/author/ari-berman>* *There were marquee names like Eric Holder <http://video.msnbc.msn.com/msnbc/52835296#52835296> and great speeches by civil rights icons like Congressman John Lewis <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYasqMFCJao&list=PLgawtcOBBjr8aZEKEzVWlqT7BZtcBvPCR> at the Lincoln Memorial. But the most important people at the rally and march commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington <http://www.thenation.com/article/175757/time-march-washington-again> spoke earlier in the day, with little fanfare, when many had yet to arrive.* *They included the likes of Rev. William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP and leader of the state's Moral Monday <http://www.thenation.com/article/175328/north-carolinas-moral-mondays> movement, and Philip Agnew, executive director of the Dream Defenders <http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/08/24/on-the-road-with-the-dream-defenders/>. These two groups, in particular, represent the new face of a twenty-first-century civil rights movement, one that is desperately needed to fight new battles in defense of issues like voting rights and racial justice. Barber represents the latest iteration of the Martin Luther King--inspired prophetic tradition; Agnew embodies the new activism of the hip-hop generation.* *"We are the forgotten generation," said Agnew, 28, early in the morning at the Lincoln Memorial, wearing the group's trademark "Power" cap. "We are the illegals. We are the apathetic. We are the thugs. We are the generation that you locked in the basement while movement conversations were going on upstairs."* *Following the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin on July 13, Agnew and other young Floridians held an impromptu sit-in at the Florida capital to protest the state's Stand Your Ground law. It lasted thirty-one days and captured national attention <http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/07/26/harry-belafonte-backs-the-dream-defenders-asks-jay-z-and-beyonce-for-a-meeting/>, with visits from civil rights veterans like Jesse Jackson, Julian Bond and Harry Belafonte. Now the Dream Defenders have launched a new campaign to register 61,500 voters <http://flcourier.com/2013/08/22/dream-defenders-end-sit-in/>---the margin of victory for Florida Governor Rick Scott in 2010.* *Fifty-five Dream Defenders took a twenty-five-hour bus ride from Miami to attend the March on Washington anniversary. "This march is important to draw the bridge from young people to generations before us," Agnew told me. "I do see a resurgence of civil rights activism and a willingness to engage in nonviolent conflict." Added Steven Pargett, the group's communications director, "This is a very exciting time for young people to come together."* *In North Carolina, Barber's Moral Monday coalition has sparked a multiracial, multi-issue political movement unseen since the 1960s, when the state became the birthplace of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins. Moral Monday activists have led the fight against the slew of radical policies <http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/07/26/harry-belafonte-backs-the-dream-defenders-asks-jay-z-and-beyonce-for-a-meeting/> passed by the state's GOP legislature this year, including the country's worst voter suppression law <http://www.thenation.com/blog/175441/north-carolina-passes-countrys-worst-voter-suppression-law>. "The greed, the meanness and the extremism of the far right has created a space for us to come together," Barber told me. "This evil is producing a good." For example, as a result of the GOP's outrageous attacks on student voting <http://www.thenation.com/blog/175837/north-carolina-republicans-escalate-attack-student-voting#axzz2cjvdILCh>, "we're going to be able to organize these college campuses like never before," Barber says.* *Barber's friend, Bob Zellner, a former field secretary of SNCC, attended the 1963 March on Washington when he was 24. "The most important thing about today is that grassroots organizing still works and that millions of people around the country are interested in it," he told me. He called the march "an example of the new upsurge in the civil rights movement." But Zellner was also upset that Barber was only invited to give a prayer early in the morning, rather than speak later in the day when more were paying attention.* *In his "I Have a Dream <http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm>" speech, King called on civil rights activists to "go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed." Barber says those concerned about civil rights must now do the same, at a time when state fights in places like North Carolina have once again become national battles. "We have to have state strategies to change the nation," Barber says.* ** http://www.thenation.com/blog/175889/50th-anniversary-march-washington-new-civil-rights-movement-emerges#axzz2d0C70FiV ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *If you wish to be removed from this list, please let us know* ** *To join the Liberty Underground news service go here: http://luvnews.info/Join.htm* ** *You may also join our talk group athttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/libertyundergroundtalk/ <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/libertyundergroundtalk/>if you would like to participate * **or join our Facebook group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/461619557192964/ * email: [email protected]* ** *Tell your friends about /LUV News/ because some people just don't get it* [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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