[Media-watch] More from ColdType

[Tony Sutton]

COLDTYPE.NET  - August UPDATE
Another INSIGHTFUL ­ AND HUMOUROUS ­  ESSAY FROM JOE BAGEANT
IS THE PRESIDENT NUTS? AND, IF SO, DOES IT MATTER?
Supposedly, if you put live frogs in a kettle of cold water on the stove,
then raise the temperature very slowly, the frogs will eventually boil to
death without trying to escape. I don¹t know if that is true, but it does
seem the perfect, if sometimes overused, analogy for what we see going on
around us in America. My guess is that we frogs are about medium done for.
Having neither cooked frogs nor lived in a fascist state, I am not a
practiced judge of these things, but I¹m quite sure the end result of either
is in no way desirable for frogs or human beings.
I do notice, however, that some frogs are turning quite red. Here in the
States there is now a trend of wearing red on Fridays in silent protest of
the Bush junta. Reportedly, this is modeled after a 1940 practice by
citizens of Nazi-occupied Norway, though it is hard to imagine why oppressed
Norwegians would do anything that might make them stand out to their
oppressors. Still, urban legend or not, it¹s all over the Internet and one
would suppose quite a few people on the ³left-coast² are sporting red. By
now, it¹s probably old hat out there. Not so here in the Washington D.C.
area.
Find IS THE PRESIDENT NUTS? at http://www.coldtype.net
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PLUS ­ Lots more comment and Opinion from around the world in our
OtherVoices section. And don't miss the latest updates from ColdType's
columnists, John Pilger, Norman Solomon, Michael I. Niman, Uri Avnery and
George Monbiot.
Find OTHERVOICES and ColdType COLUMNISTS at http://www.coldtype.net
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Also on ColdType.net this month
Death in Africa
How a revolutionary leader plotted to kill his deputy and his family. And
how I tried to stop him
Fred Bridgland, then a young Reuters correspondent, won his 15 minutes of
fame in 1975 when he exclusively revealed the secret South African military
invasion of Angola, backed by the CIA, MI6, the French Secret Service and
Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda. Bridgland subsequently wrote a highly
controversial biography of Jonas Savimbi, leader of an Angolan liberation
movement and a friend of Che Guevara. Savimbi¹s brilliant young deputy, Tito
Chingunji, helped Bridgland research the book and became his closest African
friend. But, after the book was published, Savimbi executed Chingunji, his
wife and children, parents and his entire extended family. He also
threatened Bridgland with death. ColdType¹s 50-page essay is a treatment
Bridgland has completed as a proposal for new book on his friend Chingunji¹s
murder and telling the true story of the madness that gripped Savimbi and
his  guerrilla movement.
Find DEATH IN AFRICA at http://www.coldtype.net
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Plus Another HILARIOUS ESSAY FROM JOE BAGEANT
JOHN ASHCROFT: KEEP YOUR MOUTH OFF MY WIFE
¹I'd be the first to admit that sitting here in this garden shed drinking
Jim Beam and feeding pork rinds to my dog Bingo (a black mutt of the type we
call a ³piss hound² around here) may not be the best vantage point from
which to examine national security affairs. However, it must be said that
when the nebulous tendrils of U.S. security policy begin to reach down this
far into everyday life, far enough to rattle a 57-year-old pee dribbler such
as myself, it sure as hell can be called pervasive, at the very least. Not
only pervasive, but also downright personal too. John Ashcroft publically
insulted my wife. I kid you not.
Find JOE BAGEANT at http://www.coldtype.net
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