Dear CJ,
I sent an announcement of the cyberjournal list out to the NEW-LIST list
(which has about 15,000 subscribers). As a result we got over 100 new
subscribers to CJ overnight. I imagine these new folks are dipping their
toes in the water to see if cyberjournal has something to offer them.
In order to give them an "instant take" on the flavor of the list, I've put
together a "cyberlib-TOC": a Table of Contents and brief summary of each of
the articles stored in cyberlib.
Please don't think you need to agree with these ideas in order to
participate in CJ -- the point is to discuss these issues and educate each
other as to the true situation and what we can do about it.
Welcome to CJ,
Richard
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CYBER-LIB TOC - 30 December 1995
o About-CyberLib
Informational file about cyberlib and the cyber-rights and cyberjournal
lists.
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o Articles-by-RKM/
Folder containing articles I've written.
o Common-Sense-&NWO -- "Common Sense and The New World Order"
A perspective on the global situation focusing on the NWO: the
campaign by the global corporate elite to turn the clock back on
political history -- the undermining of national sovereignty, the
establishment of a new age of feudalism, and a rollback on the
progress humanity has made toward democracy since 1776. The NWO is
analyzed in terms of its military, political, economic, social,
ideological, and propaganda agendas. This article appeared in
the Fall '95 issue of New Dawn magazine.
o Cyber-Robber-Barons -- "Cyberspace Inc and the Robber Baron Age,
an analysis of PFF's 'Magna Carta'"
A detailed analysis of the Progress and Freedom Foundation's "Magna
Carta". The covert funding of Newt Gingrich by telco/media
conglomerates is described, with PFF acting as a money-laundering
middleman. The propaganda techniques used in the MC are analyzed,
and the proposed legislative agenda is exposed as a scheme to destroy
the open Internet culture and replace it by a corporate owned,
democratically sterile, marketing & propaganda medium (like TV.)
o Doublespeak-&NWO -- "Doublespeak and The New World Order"
A review of modern "vocabulary propaganda" in the NWO -- the
deliberate abuse of words like "reform", "democracy", and "free"
in order to channel people's thinking in a way that makes global
corporate hegemony seem both desirable and inevitable. Orwell was
right on target.
o Human-Rights-&NWO -- "Human Rights and The New World Order"
A review of the savaging of human rights by the various agendas
of the NWO. Besides specific examples of humans rights abuses,
four reasons are given why a corporate-dominated world must
inevitably be detrimental to human rights. The article is
scheduled to appear in the Jan-Feb '96 issue of New Dawn.
o International-Fascism -- "Notes on International Fascism"
A brief overview of the systematic establishment of fascist
regimes in the Third World, as a means of external corporate
domination.
o New-Right-&Fascism -- "New Conservatism & Fascism"
A brief perspective on the the American trend toward fascism --
the dismantling of democratic institutions and constitutional
protections, under the protective umbrella of the media's "big lies".
o U.S-&Nazism -- "Nazism, Militias, and the Abuse of History"
Striking parallels are identified between the rise of Hitler, and
America's own path toward fascism -- the ridiculing of
liberalism, the establishment of a police state, an appeal to a
mythologized version of "traditional values", the denigration of
democratic institutions, etc.
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o CyberLib-TOC
This file.
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o Recommended-Reading
A list of books offering useful perspectives and information, including
works by Buckminster Fuller, William Greider, William Manchester, H. G.
Wells, Howard Zinn, and others.
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o reposted-Articles/
Folder holding articles people have forwarded which provide important
perspectives.
o GATT&NWO -- Kim Moody: "TRANSNATIONALS taking over world?"
Moody looks at the real purposes behind GATT. The introductory
paragraph:
"If someone told you that the leaders of 125 nations had
agreed to let 1000 or so transnational corporations take over the
world and legitimize forced child labour, industrial home work,
sweat shops and maybe even the `foreign regulation of America',
you'd probably think they were some kind of conspiracy freak, or at
the very least Ross Perot."
o Govt-role-re-Corps -- D Shniad: "WITHOUT STRONG GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION
WE FACE A BLEAK FUTURE"
Shniad focuses on "market economy" mythology, exposing the
shallowness of the arguments supporting that notion, and the harmful
consequences resulting from its implementation. An excerpt:
"So it's no wonder that we now hear endless
propaganda from professors, columnists and
announcers, all repeating the view that government
should renounce any attempt to regulate the
private sector; that because of globalization and
free trade, economic activity is no longer
susceptible to social control; and that government
cannot play an active role in influencing economic
outcomes even it wants to."
o Guatemala-US-Coverup -- Greg Rosenberg: "Washington aims to cover
Guatemala link"
Rosenberg begins:
"The White House, Congress, and U.S. secret police
apparatus are circling the wagons to prevent further
disclosures of Washington's collaboration with the Guatemalan
regime. A bipartisan effort is underway to halt recent
revelations from cascading into a broader review of the U.S.
government's decades-long backing of the Guatemalan military,
which has slaughtered some 110,000 people since 1978."
o Nader-on-Corp-Welfare -- a letter from Ralph Nader to Bob Dole
Nader enumerates ten instances of government giveaways to corporations,
amounting to many billions of dollars. He concludes his letter:
"Unfortunately, many members of Congress are unwilling to look
beyond social programs to the corporate welfare programs when
evaluating possible budget cuts. I hope you will expand your
horizons in this holiday season and consider budget cuts for the
not-so-needy corporations."
o Norman&Quin-CIA&Drugs -- James Norman: radio interview with Jim Quinn.
Quinn describes the scope of the CIA's involvement in the drug
trade, and how that relates to the arms trade. He also talks about
the Inslaw case, and the CIA's ability to monitor worldwide financial
transactions by means of a trapdoor embedded in a widely
used piece of banking software. He explains how the Whitewater
investigation is being carefully limited, so as to not expose the
major perps, Clinton being only a small fry in all this.
Being an interview, this piece does not include substantiation of its
claims, but does have the flavor of someone talking about events they
are intimately familiar with. Judge for yourself.
o OIL-Behind-Balkans-Strife -- Victor Perlo: "Imperialism - spell it O-I-L"
Perlo examines the oil angle in the big powers adventures in
Yugoslavia. Excerpts:
"In what may prove to have been his final political action,
Boris Yeltsin, in a four-hour meeting with President
Clinton, agreed, in essence, to a path that subjects Russia
to colonial rule by the United States."
"The immediate target is the oil under and around the Caspian
Sea, in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, which have weak, pliable
governments. For hundreds of years the Caspian Sea was
primarily a Russian lake, except for a small southern border
on Iran. But now Clinton's aim is to abolish all Russian
influence from the Caspian, claiming the United States'
'vital interest' to be the dominant power there."
o PFF-Magna-Carta -- PFF: "Cyberspace and the American Dream:
A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age"
The text of PFF's Magna Carta, which is reviewed in the article
"Cyber-Robber-Barons", above. A seemingly rambling report, the MC
is actually a piece of artfully crafted propaganda. What is primarily
a manifesto praising corporate monopolies _seems_ to be a libertarian
rallying cry for individual freedom. Unfortunately, the agenda
propsed by the MC is precisely what is being implemented in
Washington.
o The-Corporate-Machines -- Jay Hanson: "The Corporate Machines"
Hanson suggests the perspective that corporations are robots
(machines) that have escaped control of their human masters.
He traces some interesting history of the corporate form.
Excerpts:
"Early Americans feared corporations as a threat to democracy
and freedom. They feared that the owners (shareholders) would
amass great wealth, control jobs and production, buy the
newspapers, dominate the courts and control elections.
(one-dollar-one-vote)"
"...Congress had written the 14th Amendment to protect the rights
of freed slaves, but in 1886 this was expanded when the courts
declared that no state shall deprive a corporation '. . . of life,
liberty or property without due process of law.'"
"There was no history, logic or reason given to support that
view," U. S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas was to
write 60 years later. But it was done anyway. By applying
the 14th Amendment to corporations, the court struck down
hundreds of local, state and federal laws that were enacted to
protect people from corporate harm.
o USA&War-on-Kurds -- Ali Azad: "PENTAGON'S HIDDEN HAND IN WAR ON KURDS"
Azad offers a historical perspective on the Kurds, Turkey, Iran,
Iraq, and the U.S. An excerpt:
"In 1945-46, the Kurdish people established their first modern and
democratically elected government in Mahabad, Iran. Ghazi
Mohammad was elected the president of the republic.
"After Mohammad had been in office not even a year, the shah's
army unleashed a murderous attack against the Kurdish region and
occupied Mahabad. Ghazi Mohammad was hanged.
"The shah's army was trained and supervised by U.S. Gen. Norman
Schwarzkopf Sr. In 1953 Schwarzkopf helped the CIA carry out a
coup against the government of Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh in Iran.
"His son, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., commanded the coalition
forces in the 1991 Gulf war."
o USA-supported-Hitler -- Bill Doares: "THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II,
PART I: CORPORATE AMERICA AND THE RISE OF HITLER"
Doares traces how Hitler's rise was planned and financed by
Germany's wealthiest capitalists, and how other Western powers
actively supported and funded him as well. Anti-fascism didn't
become U.S. policy until Germany became a threat from a real-politik
perspective. An excerpt:
"Germany and Italy weren't the only countries where big
corporations financed fascist and racist movements during the
Depression. In the United States half a dozen corporate magnates
sat on the board of the pro-Hitler America First Committee.
"The Du Pont dynasty that controlled General Motors and U.S.
Rubber subsidized the fascist American Liberty League. It also
funded the black-hooded, Klan-like Black Legion, which bombed
union halls and murdered dozens of Black people, immigrants and
pro-union auto workers in the Midwest."
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