| edmar on Thu, 1 May 2003 12:00:04 +0200 (CEST) |
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| <nettime> FW: War Digest 2.2 |
Headlines from the weekend of April 27.... Many from the Guardian. ///////////////// Big Clean-Up in Iraq They are treating Iraq as if it were a banana republic. The Empire doles out rewards to its corporate partners in crime, setting up military bases to secure their spolis. // American to oversee Iraqi oil industry The US is preparing to install an American chairman on a planned management team of the Iraqi oil industry, providing further ammunition to critics who have questioned the Bush administration's agenda in the Middle East.. http://www.guardian.co.uk/oil/story/0,11319,943952,00.html // Fury At Iraq Ag Post Oxfam last night launched a scathing attack on the man the US has put in charge of agricultural reconstruction in Iraq. Dan Amstutz is a former senior executive of Cargill, the biggest grain exporter in the world, and served in the Reagan administration as a trade negotiator in the Uruguay round of world trade talks. Oxfam is concerned that his involvement is an example of the potentially damaging commercialisation of the reconstruction effort in Iraq, which it would prefer to see conducted under the auspices of the United Nations. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,944746,00.html // US Military Bases - The Spoils And Deceptions Of War http://www.rense.com/general37/decep.htm // Iraq 'may have to quit Opec.. Surprised? http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,944126,00.html // One of the few to tell Bush and his Oil gang to fuck off. Venezuela's Chavez Says Foreign Powers Should Keep Hands off Iraqi Oil http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAUXBNRYED.html // Other LOSERS: British Gulf troops face tests for cancer Soldiers returning from the Gulf will be offered tests to check levels of depleted uranium in their bodies to assess whether they are in danger of suffering kidney damage and lung cancer as a result of exposure, the Ministry of Defence said last night. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uranium/story/0,7369,943266,00.html // The info war: BBC attacks American media networks for 'gung-ho' coverage of Gulf conflict Greg Dyke, director general of the BBC, attacked American television and radio networks for their "shocking" and "gung-ho" coverage of the Iraq conflict yesterday. He also issued a warning against US companies being allowed greater ownership of British media. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=400113 // When you choose not to be an embedded pentagon Journalist you may get killed by US troops. Pwell thinks that is ok. Because he can justify it. Powell Defends Shelling of Journalists' Hotel http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/25/international/worldspecial/25SPAI.html?ex= 1051934400&en=a10f21ca610c3c83&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE // Those WMD.. Ex-CIA Professionals: Weapons of Mass Distraction: Where? Find? Plant? http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0425-11.htm // Many on this list were outraged at the news that maybe those images of iraqui statues tumbling down were Staged... More evidence and anlysis.. Of Lies, Trickery & Deception // The War at Home: Librarians Bristle At Patriot Act http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/26/eveningnews/main551224.shtml Akamai but not Yours: The Censorship of Al-Jazeera http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/04/1604471.php Local officials defy the Patriot Act http://www.msnbc.com/news/902977.asp And http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64173-2003Apr20.html // And some good news: Argentina's Luddite Rulers Workers in the occupied factories have a different vision: Smash the logic, not the machines by Naomi Klein http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0424-03.htm // The latest infowar action.. A contest and festival.. Meme_fest 2003 http://memefest.org/en/ // Psychogeographers: http://www.glowlab.com/ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net