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<FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><H1>NEW AT COLDTYPE.NET - April 15<BR>
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</H1></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000080"><H2><U>MEDIABEAT / Norman Solomon<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><FONT SIZE="5">Mark Twain speaks: ³Iım an anti-imperialist²</FONT></FONT></B> <BR>
ith U.S. troops occupying Iraq and the Bush administration making bellicose noises about Syria, let's consider some rarely mentioned words from the most revered writer in American history.Mark Twain was painfully aware of many people's inclinations to go along with prevailing evils. When slavery was lawful, he recalled, abolitionists were "despised and ostracized, and insulted" by "patriots." As far as Twain was concerned, "Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul."<BR>
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</B><FONT COLOR="#000080"><H2><U>GETTING A GRIP / Michael I. Niman <BR>
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Toppling reality image warfare in Iraq<BR>
</FONT></H2>The American media is awash in images of cheering Iraqis welcoming their American ³liberators.² Our visual lexicon will forever contain toppling Saddam statues along with images of a falling Berlin wall, crumbling Twin Towers, Iwo Jima flag raising and a naked Vietnamese girl running from a napalm attack. Network anchors are obsessively telling us weıre witnessing history. And we are. Itıs just not the history theyıre telling us weıre watching. What we are seeing is the ultimate triumph of the image with the pivotal battles of war playing out in the theater of informatics. Welcome to the post-modern media war.<BR>
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Read <B>Michael I. Niman </B>at <FONT COLOR="#0000FF">http://www.coldtype.net/Grip.html<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000080"><H2><U>WORDS AGAINST WAR / John Pilger <BR>
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</B><FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><H2>This is a crime against humanity<BR>
</H2></FONT>A BBC television producer, moments before he was wounded by an American fighter aircraft that killed 18 people with ³friendly fire², spoke to his mother on a satellite phone. Holding the phone over his head so that she could hear the sound of the American planes overhead, he said: ³Listen, thatıs the sound of freedom.² Did I read this scene in Catch-22? Surely, the BBC man was being ferociously ironic. I doubt it, just as I doubt that whoever designed the Observerıs page three last Sunday had Joseph Heller in mind when he wrote the weasel headline: ³The moment young Omar discovered the price of war². <BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE="5"><B><U>DEADLINE BAGHDAD / Robert Fisk</U></B></FONT></FONT><FONT SIZE="5"><B><FONT COLOR="#FF0000"> <BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><FONT SIZE="5">Airbrushed from the city that bore his name </FONT></FONT></B><FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><FONT SIZE="5"> <BR>
</FONT></FONT>he fresh black paint is everywhere. ³Sadr City², it says, where once the name was ³Saddam City². Outside the Aleppo Intermediate School for Girls, I actually come across a graffiti artist in action, painting over ³Saddam² and again inserting ³Sadr². The Imam Bakr Sadr of Najaf was one of the first of Saddamıs priestly victims. The governor of Najaf, I recall, leant towards me with special eagerness when I visited his city well over two decades ago. ³Yes, we hanged him,² he said with a smile. ³And his sister.² Legend has it all too real, I fear that they burnt off his beard with a cigarette lighter and hammered a nail into his eye before they hanged him.<BR>
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Read<B> Robert Fisk</B>'s daily reports for London's Independent at <FONT COLOR="#0000FF">http://www.coldtype.net/baghdad.html<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000080"><H2><U>CRITICAL MASS / Antonia Zerbisias<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#FF0000"><FONT SIZE="5">Chaos or just a vase theyıre going through?</FONT></FONT></B> <BR>
Okay, so the Anglo-American coalition ignored the United Nations and invaded Iraq because Iraq ignored the United Nations. I got that. I think. I think I also get the motivation how the hunt for weapons of mass destruction morphed into payback for 9/11, which, in turn, became regime change, which then became Operation Iraqi Freedom. Whatever slogan plays in order to wage war to achieve peace. <BR>
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Read <B>Antonia Zerbisias</B>'s reports on the media at war at <FONT COLOR="#0000FF">http://www.coldtype.net/azerb.html<BR>
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