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1. Introducing COLDTYPE/2 – our new e-magazine
Check our new 20-page e-magazine, which contains six superb articles dealing with US spies in Italy; film censorship in
Ireland; wrestling in Iraq; America’s use of napalm; bombings in London; and the failings of the international media.

2. NOAM CHOMSKY – Resort To Fear
The resort to fear by systems of power to discipline the domestic population has left a long, terrible trail of bloodshed and suffering, which we ignore at our peril, says Noam Chomsky. Recent history provides shocking illustrations, many of which are excluded from war trials and expunged from history.

3. TARIQ ALI – Letter To A Young Muslim
In this excerpt from his book, The Clash Of Fundamentalisms, Tariq Ali explains his aversion to religion, especially the manner in which it is used self-righteously to further short-term political aims that are often directed against the people whom they claim to represent.

4. JIM LOBE – Cheney’s Nuclear Drumbeat
Since the release of the Downing Street Memo, there has been much talk about how the Bush gang “fixed” its intelligence to create a war fever in the U.S. before the invasion of Iraq. What still remains to be fully grasped, says Jim Lobe, is the Role of Vice President Dick Cheney in the rush to war.

5. EDWARD TEAGUE – Mein Kampf, by George W. Bush & Tony Blair
A major shift in the language of conflict has commenced on both sides of the Atlantic. It is a shift we should note with concern, because it helps to mask another rasp on the ratcheting up of control over our freedoms of speech, thoughts and ideas, says Edward Teague, in a hard-hitting essay from England

5. DAILY IRELAND – The IRA ends its war with Britain, a 16-page tabloid supplement

6. NORMAN SOLOMON – “This War Will Not End In Any Of Our Lifetimes”

7. TOM ENGELHARDT – Making The World Unsafe For Democracy; Boy President In A Failed World?

Plus: the latest columns from George Monbiot, Danny Schechter, Michael I. Niman, Norman Solomon and Uri Avnery.

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