Eyrie of the Arch-Anarch
columnist: Dan Clore

Topic: Media
The Most Underreported News of 2008 (Up to Now)

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News underreported by the mass media: Iraq Freedom Congress; Somalia quagmire; Poppies for Heroin instead of painkillers; attempts to "build tlhe structure of the new society in the shell of the old"; Noam Chomsky; etc.

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by Dan Clore
(libertarian)
Wednesday, November 5, 2008

The Most Underreported News of 2008 (Up to Now)

by Dan Clore

This is a selection of underreported news taken from my Smygo list.

I encourage readers to suggest other underreported news stories. (Not necessarily from
Smygo.)

The Iraq Freedom Congress is a libertarian, secular, non-violent,
democratic, and progressive group that opposes Ba'athism, Islamism, and
nationalism -- as well as the US invasion/occupation. The IFC has
organized Safety Forces that patrol neighborhoods in Baghdad and other
cities (population c. 5,000). They have reduced sectarian violence in
these neighborhoods to zero. Far from supporting the IFC, the American
occupiers have repeatedly raided their offices and have assassinated the
head of their Safety Forces. Mainstream mass media have entirely failed
to report on the existence of the IFC, and alternative media have been
almost as bad.

Iraq's Civil Resistance and Secular Left Opposition
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Moving Against Maliki
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US Forces Again Raid the Iraq Freedom Congress
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The IFC Arrests the Assassins of Sana TV Director
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GFWCUI and IFC Lead Workers Demonstrations in Alexandia
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Somalia Quagmire Continues to Worsen

When Ethiopia invaded Somalia as a US-proxy in December 2006, they
intended to stay for three months. They're still stuck there with no end
in sight. Up to 10,000 have been killed. Mainstream mass media keep
ignoring and misreporting the story.

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Poppies for Medicine

While poppy-growing soars, it goes to make black-market heroin that
supports the Taliban or be destroyed by law-enforcement, and patients
with chronic pain face a shortage of painkillers.

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Better Dead than High

Drug Warriors deliberately pursue policies that maximize, rather than
minimize, the harm done by illicit drugs.

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While some still claim that There Is No Alternative (TINA) to
state-corporate capitalism (the "free market"), others attempt
to "build the structure of the new society in the shell of the
old." (I wish I had more in this section.)

Create Your Own Workplace
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Brazil's movement of occupied factories
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"Capitalism", CPI(M) Style
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A ParEcon Workplace Is Possible
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The mass media act as little more than conduits for government
propaganda

"Military Analyst" Now Officially Means "Pentagon Propagandist"
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Mainstream Media Used Pentagon Propagandists as "Military Analysts"
4,500+ Times
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Why Listen to Colin Powell or Brokaw?
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Apaches Defend Their Homeland from "Homeland Security"
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Homeland "Security" Won't Explain--
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Chinese Farmers Rise in Opposition to Land Policy
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Corporations Given "Human Rights", Humans Denied Them
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FBI Wants Moles for RNC Protests
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Brazil's movement of occupied factories
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Rush Limbaugh Explains Anarchism
(Included for the humor value, of course.)
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Starhawk Deported from Israel
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"We Agree" -- Statement of Third Party Unity
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Denver Cops Get Shirts Saying "We Get Up Early,
To Beat the Crowds"
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Noam Chomsky

Chomsky's views are always illuminating.

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And for reminders:

Most underreported news of 2007
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Most underreported news of 2006
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