]]> group Code Pink got lost on their way to the carpool line. Since October these hot pink-clad "marching moms" have been spinning the same tale to reporters from coast to coast the one about how concern for their families moved them to trade their oven mitts for placards and take to the streets in protest of an unjust war on Iraq. They’ve played the part so convincingly that over the last six months they’ve become the media darlings of war protest movement raking in the television talk show invites and making national news when they were arrested in front of the White House. But the untold story is what they were doing before October. Unless you travel in Marxist circles or work for the FBI or CIA the names of the Code Pink moms may not ring a bell with you though you’ve probably been reading news reports about their collective exploits for years. In the wake of their war against capitalism and self-determination they’ve left a trail of anarchy and destruction that has cost property owners corporations and consumers millions of dollars. Naturally they’ve toned their Marxist rhetoric down for their stint with Code Pink. Though they’ve taken great pains to differentiate themselves from the other more radical anti-war protesters they are one and the same. The leaders of Code Pink didn’t merely take part in the Washington and San Francisco protests that made international headlines – they also organized them. In the process they’ve provided a rare public glimpse of the faces behind the modern highly organized American Marxist movement. Needless to say these women have little in common with the carpool moms of America. At the center of Code Pink is legendary leftist organizer Medea Benjamin the 50-year-old mother of two widely credited as a chief organizing force behind the 1999 Seattle riots in which 50,000 protesters did millions of dollars worth of property damage in their effort to shut down meetings of the World Trade Organization. In addition to Code Pink. Benjamin’s San Francisco-based human rights organization Global Exchange was the founding force for United for Peace and Justice coalition the nexus of the anti-war protests. The United for Peace coalition which includes Socialist Action and the Socialist Party USA is also led by Leslie Cagan who has a long history of activism with the American Communist Party. If you want to know what anti-war activities United for Peace and its more radical partner. Act Now To Stop War & End Racism (ANSWER) have planned for the near future or contact information for how you can join in you can click on the Communist World Workers Party website one of the central grassroots clearing houses for communist organizers in the United States and around the world. The mindset of Benjamin and her friends can best be summed up by her description in the San Francisco Chronicle of how she felt on her first pilgrimage to Cuba in the early 1980s. Compared to life in the United States the communist social equality of Cuba "made it seem like I died and went to heaven," Benjamin enthused. Now it appears that Benjamin is trying to recreate it here. The ties that continue to bind Benjamin. Cagan and the others behind Code Pink and today’s anti-war movement were formed in the early-to-mid 1980s when the still young Marxist-American activists found the cause that first unified them: a communist government in Nicaragua. Using the same sort of incestuous sprawling coalitions they created to oppose the war in Iraq and the invasion of Afghanistan after Sept. 11 they helped aid the Marxist Sandinista regime in its struggle against the American-backed Contras for control of the Nicaraguan government. Benjamin worked as a project coordinator for Institute for Food and Development Policy (IFDP) which was widely credited with aiding the Marxist Sandinista regime while Cagan coordinator of the National Mobilization for Justice and Peace in Central America led marches against US aid to the contras at home that at times attracted upwards of 75,000 people. When Sand Brim the widely interviewed voice of Code Pink insisted to the reporters who interviewed her in January that she was not an activist just a businesswoman with reservations about war her 1985 stint in Nicaragua must have slipped her mind. As the executive director of Medical Aid. Brim flew an American neurosurgeon to San Salvador to operate on Marxist Revolutionary Party Commander Nidia Diaz’s hand which had been injured in combat. That Diaz’s group had claimed responsibility for the murders of four U. S. Marines and nine civilians two months before was apparently not an issue for Brim. Nor were such ironies a problem for Kirsten Moller the current executive director of Global Exchange and Code Pink organizer who like Benjamin also worked for IFDP in the 80s. In the 1990s. Benjamin and other Code Pink Marxists focused their energies on organizing sometimes-violent protests against free trade across the globe targeting large corporations with high-profile campaigns and lawsuits that cost consumers and companies like Gap. Nike and Starbucks millions of dollars. As with the anti-war protests of the moment the Marxist World Worker’s Party website has played a crucial organizing role in their anti-corporate activities letting would-be agitators know when and where to show up for demonstrations. Meanwhile other Code Pink organizers were making a name for themselves in domestic and eco-terrorism in the 1990s. Code Pink Co-Founder Jodie Evans also sits on the board of directors of Rain Forest Action Network (RAN) a radical anti-capitalist anti-corporate coalition of environmental groups co-founded by Mike Roselle who also founded the domestic terrorist organization Earth Liberation Front (ELF) which along with the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is ranked the No. 1 domestic terrorism threat by the FBI. The FBI attributes over 600 criminal acts and $43 million in damages to the two groups since 1996. Wherever RAN pops up you’ll also tend to find the Ruckus Society which has trained activists for ELF/ALF. Ruckus Society organizer Steve Kretzmann also a Code Pink coordinator has helped train activists in the agitation tactics that have earned the Ruckus Society its reputation. The Ruckus Society it’s also worth mentioning is a coalition member of Benjamin’s United for Peace and Justice. Code Pink may be communism central for the moment but if the past is any indication the group will be left to die on the vine as soon as public attention shifts away from the war in Iraq. Like the other wedge issues these activists are so skilled at creating and taking advantage of the Iraqi conflict is little more than an opportunity to ingratiate themselves with the American public and swell their volunteer rosters while energizing and solidifying the organization they’d been building since the Seattle riots. While it may seem chaotic with its mass of groups with varied interests. "the movement" as the organizers like to call it is built around a simple theme: that America and the rest of the world is increasingly controlled by corporate powers that threaten democratic rights. Its goals as laid out by Benjamin and others in a variety of newspapers over the years are clear-cut. They want to redistribute wealth from the top tiers of society to the poorest Americans by raising minimum wages choking off trade pushing up inflation limiting corporate growth and dragging down the stock market cutting into the profits of the country’s largest corporations or shutting them down completely and prompting white collar layoffs. As Benjamin explained to The Sunday Oregonian in 2000 these changes would be made slowly perhaps over 20 years or more. Though she admits that the above would cause an economic shakedown or even a stock-market crash she insists the changes would lead to a "healthier more stable economy.""Seattle was this kind of battle cry," Benjamin told the San Jose Mercury News in 2000. "We now know we can mobilize hundreds of thousands of people."But to the dismay of the movement’s organizers. September 11 crushed some of that momentum. Ironically enough. September 11 was the day they’d planned to announce their biggest demonstration yet which was slated to draw well over 100,000 protesters to Washington from around the world in late September. It was instead replaced with a small peace demonstration. The Code Pink ladies have been biding their time ever since reaching out to middle America building their contact lists and dreaming of the Marxist America that might one day be. Like any other group. Communists come in a lot of shapes sizes and colors. This time they’re wearing pink they’re on the nightly news and more than anything they want the mothers and grandmothers of America to identify with them. If you didn’t know any better you’d think the leaders of the women’s anti-war group Code Pink got lost on their way to the carpool line. Since October these hot pink-clad "marching moms" have been spinning the same tale to reporters from coast to coast the one about how concern for their families moved them to trade their oven mitts for placards and take to the streets in protest of an unjust war on Iraq. They’ve played the part so convincingly that over the last six months they’ve become the media darlings of war protest movement raking in the television talk show invites and making national news when they were arrested in front of the White House. But the untold story is what they were doing before October. Unless you travel in Marxist circles or work for the FBI or CIA the names of the Code Pink moms may not ring a bell with you though you’ve probably been reading news reports about their collective exploits for years. In the wake of their war against capitalism and self-determination they’ve left a trail of anarchy and destruction that has cost property owners corporations and consumers millions of dollars. Naturally they’ve toned their Marxist rhetoric down for their stint with Code Pink. Though they’ve taken great pains to differentiate themselves from the other more radical anti-war protesters they are one and the same. The leaders of Code Pink didn’t merely take part in the Washington and San Francisco protests that made international headlines – they also organized them. In the process they’ve provided a rare public glimpse of the faces behind the modern highly organized American Marxist movement. Needless to say these women have little in common with the carpool moms of America. At the center of Code Pink is legendary leftist organizer Medea Benjamin the 50-year-old mother of two widely credited as a chief organizing force behind the 1999 Seattle riots in which 50,000 protesters did millions of dollars worth of property damage in their effort to shut down meetings of the World Trade Organization. In addition to Code Pink. Benjamin’s San Francisco-based human rights organization Global Exchange was the founding force for United for Peace and Justice coalition the nexus of the anti-war protests. The United for Peace coalition which includes Socialist Action and the Socialist Party USA is also led by Leslie Cagan who has a long history of activism with the American Communist Party. If you want to know what anti-war activities United for Peace and its more radical partner. Act Now To Stop War & End Racism (ANSWER) have planned for the near future or contact information for how you can join in you can click on the Communist World Workers Party website one of the central grassroots clearing houses for communist organizers in the United States and around the world. The mindset of Benjamin and her friends can best be summed up by her description in the San Francisco Chronicle of how she felt on her first pilgrimage to Cuba in the early 1980s. Compared to life in the United States the communist social equality of Cuba "made it seem like I died and went to heaven," Benjamin enthused. Now it appears that Benjamin is trying to recreate it here. The ties that continue to bind Benjamin. Cagan and the others behind Code Pink and today’s anti-war movement were formed in the early-to-mid 1980s when the still young Marxist-American activists found the cause that first unified them: a communist government in Nicaragua. Using the same sort of incestuous sprawling coalitions they created to oppose the war in Iraq and the invasion of Afghanistan after Sept. 11 they helped aid the Marxist Sandinista regime in its struggle against the American-backed Contras for control of the Nicaraguan government. Benjamin worked as a project coordinator for Institute for Food and Development Policy (IFDP) which was widely credited with aiding the Marxist Sandinista regime while Cagan coordinator of the National Mobilization for Justice and Peace in Central America led marches against US aid to the contras at home that at times attracted upwards of 75,000 people. When Sand Brim the widely interviewed voice of Code Pink insisted to the reporters who interviewed her in January that she was not an activist just a businesswoman with reservations about war her 1985 stint in Nicaragua must have slipped her mind. As the executive director of Medical Aid. Brim flew an American neurosurgeon to San Salvador to operate on Marxist Revolutionary Party Commander Nidia Diaz’s hand which had been injured in combat. That Diaz’s group had claimed responsibility for the murders of four U. S. Marines and nine civilians two months before was apparently not an issue for Brim. Nor were such ironies a problem for Kirsten Moller the current executive director of Global Exchange and Code Pink organizer who like Benjamin also worked for IFDP in the 80s. In the 1990s. Benjamin and other Code Pink Marxists focused their energies on organizing sometimes-violent protests against free trade across the globe targeting large corporations with high-profile campaigns and lawsuits that cost consumers and companies like Gap. Nike and Starbucks millions of dollars. As with the anti-war protests of the moment the Marxist World Worker’s Party website has played a crucial organizing role in their anti-corporate activities letting would-be agitators know when and where to show up for demonstrations. Meanwhile other Code Pink organizers were making a name for themselves in domestic and eco-terrorism in the 1990s. Code Pink Co-Founder Jodie Evans also sits on the board of directors of Rain Forest Action Network (RAN) a radical anti-capitalist anti-corporate coalition of environmental groups co-founded by Mike Roselle who also founded the domestic terrorist organization Earth Liberation Front (ELF) which along with the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is ranked the No. 1 domestic terrorism threat by the FBI. The FBI attributes over 600 criminal acts and $43 million in damages to the two groups since 1996. Wherever RAN pops up you’ll also tend to find the Ruckus Society which has trained activists for ELF/ALF. Ruckus Society organizer Steve Kretzmann also a Code Pink coordinator has helped train activists in the agitation tactics that have earned the Ruckus Society its reputation. The Ruckus Society it’s also worth mentioning is a coalition member of Benjamin’s United for Peace and Justice. Code Pink may be communism central for the moment but if the past is any indication the group will be left to die on the vine as soon as public attention shifts away from the war in Iraq. Like the other wedge issues these activists are so skilled at creating and taking advantage of the Iraqi conflict is little more than an opportunity to ingratiate themselves with the American public and swell their volunteer rosters while energizing and solidifying the organization they’d been building since the Seattle riots. While it may seem chaotic with its mass of groups with varied interests. "the movement" as the organizers like to call it is built around a simple theme: that America and the rest of the world is increasingly controlled by corporate powers that threaten democratic rights. Its goals as laid out by Benjamin and others in a variety of newspapers over the years are clear-cut. They want to redistribute wealth from the top tiers of society to the poorest Americans by raising minimum wages choking off trade pushing up inflation limiting corporate growth and dragging down the stock market cutting into the profits of the country’s largest corporations or shutting them down completely and prompting white collar layoffs. As Benjamin explained to The Sunday Oregonian in 2000 these changes would be made slowly perhaps over 20 years or more. Though she admits that the above would cause an economic shakedown or even a stock-market crash she insists the changes would lead to a "healthier more stable economy.""Seattle was this kind of battle cry," Benjamin told the San Jose Mercury News in 2000. "We now know we can mobilize hundreds of thousands of people."But to the dismay of the movement’s organizers. September 11 crushed some of that momentum. Ironically enough. September 11 was the day they’d planned to announce their biggest demonstration yet which was slated to draw well over 100,000 protesters to Washington from around the world in late September. It was instead replaced with a small peace demonstration. The Code Pink ladies have been biding their time ever since reaching out to middle America building their contact lists and dreaming of the Marxist America that might one day be. Like any other group. Communists come in a lot of shapes sizes and colors. This time they’re wearing pink they’re on the nightly news and more than anything they want the mothers and grandmothers of America to identify with them. If you didn’t know any better you’d think the leaders of the women’s anti-war group Code Pink got lost on their way to the carpool line. Since October these hot pink-clad "marching moms" have been spinning the same tale to reporters from coast to coast the one about how concern for their families moved them to trade their oven mitts for placards and take to the streets in protest of an unjust war on Iraq. They’ve played the part so convincingly that over the last six months they’ve become the media darlings of war protest movement raking in the television talk show invites and making national news when they were arrested in front of the White House. But the untold story is what they were doing before October. Unless you travel in Marxist circles or work for the FBI or CIA the names of the Code Pink moms may not ring a bell with you though you’ve probably been reading news reports about their collective exploits for years. In the wake of their war against capitalism and self-determination they’ve left a trail of anarchy and destruction that has cost property owners corporations and consumers millions of dollars. Naturally they’ve toned their Marxist rhetoric down for their stint with Code Pink. Though they’ve taken great pains to differentiate themselves from the other more radical anti-war protesters they are one and the same. The leaders of Code Pink didn’t merely take part in the Washington and San Francisco protests that made international headlines – they also organized them. In the process they’ve provided a rare public glimpse of the faces behind the modern highly organized American Marxist movement. Needless to say these women have little in common with the carpool moms of America. At the center of Code Pink is legendary leftist organizer Medea Benjamin the 50-year-old mother of two widely credited as a chief organizing force behind the 1999 Seattle riots in which 50,000 protesters did millions of dollars worth of property damage in their effort to shut down meetings of the World Trade Organization. In addition to Code Pink. Benjamin’s San Francisco-based human rights organization Global Exchange was the founding force for United for Peace and Justice coalition the nexus of the anti-war protests. The United for Peace coalition which includes Socialist Action and the Socialist Party USA is also led by Leslie Cagan who has a long history of activism with the American Communist Party. If you want to know what anti-war activities United for Peace and its more radical partner. Act Now To Stop War & End Racism (ANSWER) have planned for the near future or contact information for how you can join in you can click on the Communist World Workers Party website one of the central grassroots clearing houses for communist organizers in the United States and around the world. The mindset of Benjamin and her friends can best be summed up by her description in the San Francisco Chronicle of how she felt on her first pilgrimage to Cuba in the early 1980s. Compared to life in the United States the communist social equality of Cuba "made it seem like I died and went to heaven," Benjamin enthused. Now it appears that Benjamin is trying to recreate it here. The ties that continue to bind Benjamin. Cagan and the others behind Code Pink and today’s anti-war movement were formed in the early-to-mid 1980s when the still young Marxist-American activists found the cause that first unified them: a communist government in Nicaragua. Using the same sort of incestuous sprawling coalitions they created to oppose the war in Iraq and the invasion of Afghanistan after Sept. 11 they helped aid the Marxist Sandinista regime in its struggle against the American-backed Contras for control of the Nicaraguan government. Benjamin worked as a project coordinator for Institute for Food and Development Policy (IFDP) which was widely credited with aiding the Marxist Sandinista regime while Cagan coordinator of the National Mobilization for Justice and Peace in Central America led marches against US aid to the contras at home that at times attracted upwards of 75,000 people. When Sand Brim the widely interviewed voice of Code Pink insisted to the reporters who interviewed her in January that she was not an activist just a businesswoman with reservations about war her 1985 stint in Nicaragua must have slipped her mind. As the executive director of Medical Aid. Brim flew an American neurosurgeon to San Salvador to operate on Marxist Revolutionary Party Commander Nidia Diaz’s hand which had been injured in combat. That Diaz’s group had claimed responsibility for the murders of four U. S. Marines and nine civilians two months before was apparently not an issue for Brim. Nor were such ironies a problem for Kirsten Moller the current executive director of Global Exchange and Code Pink organizer who like Benjamin also worked for IFDP in the 80s. In the 1990s. Benjamin and other Code Pink Marxists focused their energies on organizing sometimes-violent protests against free trade across the globe targeting large corporations with high-profile campaigns and lawsuits that cost consumers and companies like Gap. Nike and Starbucks millions of dollars. As with the anti-war protests of the moment the Marxist World Worker’s Party website has played a crucial organizing role in their anti-corporate activities letting would-be agitators know when and where to show up for demonstrations. Meanwhile other Code Pink organizers were making a name for themselves in domestic and eco-terrorism in the 1990s. Code Pink Co-Founder Jodie Evans also sits on the board of directors of Rain Forest Action Network (RAN) a radical anti-capitalist anti-corporate coalition of environmental groups co-founded by Mike Roselle who also founded the domestic terrorist organization Earth Liberation Front (ELF) which along with the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is ranked the No. 1 domestic terrorism threat by the FBI. The FBI attributes over 600 criminal acts and $43 million in damages to the two groups since 1996. Wherever RAN pops up you’ll also tend to find the Ruckus Society which has trained activists for ELF/ALF. Ruckus Society organizer Steve Kretzmann also a Code Pink coordinator has helped train activists in the agitation tactics that have earned the Ruckus Society its reputation. The Ruckus Society it’s also worth mentioning is a coalition member of Benjamin’s United for Peace and Justice. Code Pink may be communism central for the moment but if the past is any indication the group will be left to die on the vine as soon as public attention shifts away from the war in Iraq. Like the other wedge issues these activists are so skilled at creating and taking advantage of the Iraqi conflict is little more than an opportunity to ingratiate themselves with the American public and swell their volunteer rosters while energizing and solidifying the organization they’d been building since the Seattle riots. While it may seem chaotic with its mass of groups with varied interests. "the movement" as the organizers like to call it is built around a simple theme: that America and the rest of the world is increasingly controlled by corporate powers that threaten democratic rights. Its goals as laid out by Benjamin and others in a variety of newspapers over the years are clear-cut. They want to redistribute wealth from the top tiers of society to the poorest Americans by raising minimum wages choking off trade pushing up inflation limiting corporate growth and dragging down the stock market cutting into the profits of the country’s largest corporations or shutting them down completely and prompting white collar layoffs. As Benjamin explained to The Sunday Oregonian in 2000 these changes would be made slowly perhaps over 20 years or more. Though she admits that the above would cause an economic shakedown or even a stock-market crash she insists the changes would lead to a "healthier more stable economy.""Seattle was this kind of battle cry," Benjamin told the San Jose Mercury News in 2000. "We now know we can mobilize hundreds of thousands of people."But to the dismay of the movement’s organizers. September 11 crushed some of that momentum. Ironically enough. September 11 was the day they’d planned to announce their biggest demonstration yet which was slated to draw well over 100,000 protesters to Washington from around the world in late September. It was instead replaced with a small peace demonstration. The Code Pink ladies have been biding their time ever since reaching out to middle America building their contact lists and dreaming of the Marxist America that might one day be. Like any other group. Communists come in a lot of shapes sizes and colors. This time they’re wearing pink they’re on the nightly news and more than anything they want the mothers and grandmothers of America to identify with them. If you didn’t know any better you’d think the leaders of the women’s anti-war group Code Pink got lost on their way to the carpool line. Since October these hot pink-clad "marching moms" have been spinning the same tale to reporters from coast to coast the one about how concern for their families moved them to trade their oven mitts for placards and take to the streets in protest of an unjust war on Iraq. They’ve played the part so convincingly that over the last six months they’ve become the media darlings of war protest movement raking in the television talk show invites and making national news when they were arrested in front of the White House. But the untold story is what they were doing before October. Unless you travel in Marxist circles or work for the FBI or CIA the names of the Code Pink moms may not ring a bell with you though you’ve probably been reading news reports about their collective exploits for years. In the wake of their war against capitalism and self-determination they’ve left a trail of anarchy and destruction that has cost property owners corporations and consumers millions of dollars. Naturally they’ve toned their Marxist rhetoric down for their stint with Code Pink. Though they’ve taken great pains to differentiate themselves from the other more radical anti-war protesters they are one and the same. The leaders of Code Pink didn’t merely take part in the Washington and San Francisco protests that made international headlines – they also organized them. In the process they’ve provided a rare public glimpse of the faces behind the modern highly organized American Marxist movement. Needless to say these women have little in common with the carpool moms of America. At the center of Code Pink is legendary leftist organizer Medea Benjamin the 50-year-old mother of two widely credited as a chief organizing force behind the 1999 Seattle riots in which 50,000 protesters did millions of dollars worth of property damage in their effort to shut down meetings of the World Trade Organization. In addition to Code Pink. Benjamin’s San Francisco-based human rights organization Global Exchange was the founding force for United for Peace and Justice coalition the nexus of the anti-war protests. The United for Peace coalition which includes Socialist Action and the Socialist Party USA is also led by Leslie Cagan who has a long history of activism with the American Communist Party. If you want to know what anti-war activities United for Peace and its more radical partner. Act Now To Stop War & End Racism (ANSWER) have planned for the near future or contact information for how you can join in you can click on the Communist World Workers Party website one of the central grassroots clearing houses for communist organizers in the United States and around the world. The mindset of Benjamin and her friends can best be summed up by her description in the San Francisco Chronicle of how she felt on her first pilgrimage to Cuba in the early 1980s. Compared to life in the United States the communist social equality of Cuba "made it seem like I died and went to heaven," Benjamin enthused. Now it appears that Benjamin is trying to recreate it here. The ties that continue to bind Benjamin. Cagan and the others behind Code Pink and today’s anti-war movement were formed in the early-to-mid 1980s when the still young Marxist-American activists found the cause that first unified them: a communist government in Nicaragua. Using the same sort of incestuous sprawling coalitions they created to oppose the war in Iraq and the invasion of Afghanistan after Sept. 11 they helped aid the Marxist Sandinista regime in its struggle against the American-backed Contras for control of the Nicaraguan government. Benjamin worked as a project coordinator for Institute for Food and Development Policy (IFDP) which was widely credited with aiding the Marxist Sandinista regime while Cagan coordinator of the National Mobilization for Justice and Peace in Central America led marches against US aid to the contras at home that at times attracted upwards of 75,000 people. When Sand Brim the widely interviewed voice of Code Pink insisted to the reporters who interviewed her in January that she was not an activist just a businesswoman with reservations about war her 1985 stint in Nicaragua must have slipped her mind. As the executive director of Medical Aid. Brim flew an American neurosurgeon to San Salvador to operate on Marxist Revolutionary Party Commander Nidia Diaz’s hand which had been injured in combat. That Diaz’s group had claimed responsibility for the murders of four U. S. Marines and nine civilians two months before was apparently not an issue for Brim. Nor were such ironies a problem for Kirsten Moller the current executive director of Global Exchange and Code Pink organizer who like Benjamin also worked for IFDP in the 80s. In the 1990s. Benjamin and other Code Pink Marxists focused their energies on organizing sometimes-violent protests against free trade across the globe targeting large corporations with high-profile campaigns and lawsuits that cost consumers and companies like Gap. Nike and Starbucks millions of dollars. As with the anti-war protests of the moment the Marxist World Worker’s Party website has played a crucial organizing role in their anti-corporate activities letting would-be agitators know when and where to show up for demonstrations. Meanwhile other Code Pink organizers were making a name for themselves in domestic and eco-terrorism in the 1990s. Code Pink Co-Founder Jodie Evans also sits on the board of directors of Rain Forest Action Network (RAN) a radical anti-capitalist anti-corporate coalition of environmental groups co-founded by Mike Roselle who also founded the domestic terrorist organization Earth Liberation Front (ELF) which along with the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is ranked the No. 1 domestic terrorism threat by the FBI. The FBI attributes over 600 criminal acts and $43 million in damages to the two groups since 1996. Wherever RAN pops up you’ll also tend to find the Ruckus Society which has trained activists for ELF/ALF. Ruckus Society organizer Steve Kretzmann also a Code Pink coordinator has helped train activists in the agitation tactics that have earned the Ruckus Society its reputation. The Ruckus Society it’s also worth mentioning is a coalition member of Benjamin’s United for Peace and Justice. Code Pink may be communism central for the moment but if the past is any indication the group will be left to die on the vine as soon as public attention shifts away from the war in Iraq. Like the other wedge issues these activists are so skilled at creating and taking advantage of the Iraqi conflict is little more than an opportunity to ingratiate themselves with the American public and swell their volunteer rosters while energizing and solidifying the organization they’d been building since the Seattle riots. While it may seem chaotic with its mass of groups with varied interests. "the movement" as the organizers like to call it is built around a simple theme: that America and the rest of the world is increasingly controlled by corporate powers that threaten democratic rights. Its goals as laid out by Benjamin and others in a variety of newspapers over the years are clear-cut. They want to redistribute wealth from the top tiers of society to the poorest Americans by raising minimum wages choking off trade pushing up inflation limiting corporate growth and dragging down the stock market cutting into the profits of the country’s largest corporations or shutting them down completely and prompting white collar layoffs. As Benjamin explained to The Sunday Oregonian in 2000 these changes would be made slowly perhaps over 20 years or more. Though she admits that the above would cause an economic shakedown or even a stock-market crash she insists the changes would lead to a "healthier more stable economy.""Seattle was this kind of battle cry," Benjamin told the San Jose Mercury News in 2000. "We now know we can mobilize hundreds of thousands of people."But to the dismay of the movement’s organizers. September 11 crushed some of that momentum. Ironically enough. September 11 was the day they’d planned to announce their biggest demonstration yet which was slated to draw well over 100,000 protesters to Washington from around the world in late September. It was instead replaced with a small peace demonstration. The Code Pink ladies have been biding their time ever since reaching out to middle America building their contact lists and dreaming of the Marxist America that might one day be. Like any other group. Communists come in a lot of shapes sizes and colors. This time they’re wearing pink they’re on the nightly news and more than anything they want the mothers and grandmothers of America to identify with them. If you didn’t know any better you’d think the leaders of the women’s anti-war group Code Pink got lost on their way to the carpool line. Since October these hot pink-clad "marching moms" have been spinning the same tale to reporters from coast to coast the one about how concern for their families moved them to trade their oven mitts for placards and take to the streets in protest of an unjust war on Iraq. They’ve played the part so convincingly that over the last six months they’ve become the media darlings of war protest movement raking in the television talk show invites and making national news when they were arrested in front of the White House. But the untold story is what they were doing before October. Unless you travel in Marxist circles or work for the FBI or CIA the names of the Code Pink moms may not ring a bell with you though you’ve probably been reading news reports about their collective exploits for years. In the wake of their war against capitalism and self-determination they’ve left a trail of anarchy and destruction that has cost property owners corporations and consumers millions of dollars. Naturally they’ve toned their Marxist rhetoric down for their stint with Code Pink. Though they’ve taken great pains to differentiate themselves from the other more radical anti-war protesters they are one and the same. The leaders of Code Pink didn’t merely take part in the Washington and San Francisco protests that made international headlines – they also organized them. In the process they’ve provided a rare public glimpse of the faces behind the modern highly organized American Marxist movement. Needless to say these women have little in common with the carpool moms of America. At the center of Code Pink is legendary leftist organizer Medea Benjamin the 50-year-old mother of two widely credited as a chief organizing force behind the 1999 Seattle riots in which 50,000 protesters did millions of dollars worth of property damage in their effort to shut down meetings of the World Trade Organization. In addition to Code Pink. Benjamin’s San Francisco-based human rights organization Global Exchange was the founding force for United for Peace and Justice coalition the nexus of the anti-war protests. The United for Peace coalition which includes Socialist Action and the Socialist Party USA is also led by Leslie Cagan who has a long history of activism with the American Communist Party. If you want to know what anti-war activities United for Peace and its more radical partner. Act Now To Stop War & End Racism (ANSWER) have planned for the near future or contact information for how you can join in you can click on the Communist World Workers Party website one of the central grassroots clearing houses for communist organizers in the United States and around the world. The mindset of Benjamin and her friends can best be summed up by her description in the San Francisco Chronicle of how she felt on her first pilgrimage to Cuba in the early 1980s. Compared to life in the United States the communist social equality of Cuba "made it seem like I died and went to heaven," Benjamin enthused. Now it appears that Benjamin is trying to recreate it here. The ties that continue to bind Benjamin. Cagan and the others behind Code Pink and today’s anti-war movement were formed in the early-to-mid 1980s when the still young Marxist-American activists found the cause that first unified them: a communist government in Nicaragua. Using the same sort of incestuous sprawling coalitions they created to oppose the war in Iraq and the invasion of Afghanistan after Sept. 11 they helped aid the Marxist Sandinista regime in its struggle against the American-backed Contras for control of the Nicaraguan government. Benjamin worked as a project coordinator for Institute for Food and Development Policy (IFDP) which was widely credited with aiding the Marxist Sandinista regime while Cagan coordinator of the National Mobilization for Justice and Peace in Central America led marches against US aid to the contras at home that at times attracted upwards of 75,000 people. When Sand Brim the widely interviewed voice of Code Pink insisted to the reporters who interviewed her in January that she was not an activist just a businesswoman with reservations about war her 1985 stint in Nicaragua must have slipped her mind. As the executive director of Medical Aid. Brim flew an American neurosurgeon to San Salvador to operate on Marxist Revolutionary Party Commander Nidia Diaz’s hand which had been injured in combat. That Diaz’s group had claimed responsibility for the murders of four U. S. Marines and nine civilians two months before was apparently not an issue for Brim. Nor were such ironies a problem for Kirsten Moller the current executive director of Global Exchange and Code Pink organizer who like Benjamin also worked for IFDP in the 80s. In the 1990s. Benjamin and other Code Pink Marxists focused their energies on organizing sometimes-violent protests against free trade across the globe targeting large corporations with high-profile campaigns and lawsuits that cost consumers and companies like Gap. Nike and Starbucks millions of dollars. As with the anti-war protests of the moment the Marxist World Worker’s Party website has played a crucial organizing role in their anti-corporate activities letting would-be agitators know when and where to show up for demonstrations. Meanwhile other Code Pink organizers were making a name for themselves in domestic and eco-terrorism in the 1990s. Code Pink Co-Founder Jodie Evans also sits on the board of directors of Rain Forest Action Network (RAN) a radical anti-capitalist anti-corporate coalition of environmental groups co-founded by Mike Roselle who also founded the domestic terrorist organization Earth Liberation Front (ELF) which along with the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is ranked the No. 1 domestic terrorism threat by the FBI. The FBI attributes over 600 criminal acts and $43 million in damages to the two groups since 1996. Wherever RAN pops up you’ll also tend to find the Ruckus Society which has trained activists for ELF/ALF. Ruckus Society organizer Steve Kretzmann also a Code Pink coordinator has helped train activists in the agitation tactics that have earned the Ruckus Society its reputation. The Ruckus Society it’s also worth mentioning is a coalition member of Benjamin’s United for Peace and Justice. Code Pink may be communism central for the moment but if the past is any indication the group will be left to die on the vine as soon as public attention shifts away from the war in Iraq. Like the other wedge issues these activists are so skilled at creating and taking advantage of the Iraqi conflict is little more than an opportunity to ingratiate themselves with the American public and swell their volunteer rosters while energizing and solidifying the organization they’d been building since the Seattle riots. While it may seem chaotic with its mass of groups with varied interests. "the movement" as the organizers like to call it is built around a simple theme: that America and the rest of the world is increasingly controlled by corporate powers that threaten democratic rights. Its goals as laid out by Benjamin and others in a variety of newspapers over the years are clear-cut. They want to redistribute wealth from the top tiers of society to the poorest Americans by raising minimum wages choking off trade pushing up inflation limiting corporate growth and dragging down the stock market cutting into the profits of the country’s largest corporations or shutting them down completely and prompting white collar layoffs. As Benjamin explained to The Sunday Oregonian in 2000 these changes would be made slowly perhaps over 20 years or more. Though she admits that the above would cause an economic shakedown or even a stock-market crash she insists the changes would lead to a "healthier more stable economy.""Seattle was this kind of battle cry," Benjamin told the San Jose Mercury News in 2000. "We now know we can mobilize hundreds of thousands of people."But to the dismay of the movement’s organizers. September 11 crushed some of that momentum. Ironically enough. September 11 was the day they’d planned to announce their biggest demonstration yet which was slated to draw well over 100,000 protesters to Washington from around the world in late September. It was instead replaced with a small peace demonstration. The Code Pink ladies have been biding their time ever since reaching out to middle America building their contact lists and dreaming of the Marxist America that might one day be. Like any other group. Communists come in a lot of shapes sizes and colors. This time they’re wearing pink they’re on the nightly news and more than anything they want the mothers and grandmothers of America to identify with them. If you didn’t know any better you’d think the leaders of the women’s anti-war group Code Pink got lost on their way to the carpool line. Since October these hot pink-clad "marching moms" have been spinning the same tale to reporters from coast to coast the one about how concern for their families moved them to trade their oven mitts for placards and take to the streets in protest of an unjust war on Iraq. They’ve played the part so convincingly that over the last six months they’ve become the media darlings of war protest movement raking in the television talk show invites and making national news when they were arrested in front of the White House. But the untold story is what they were doing before October. Unless you travel in Marxist circles or work for the FBI or CIA the names of the Code Pink moms may not ring a bell with you though you’ve probably been reading news reports about their collective exploits for years. In the wake of their war against capitalism and self-determination they’ve left a trail of anarchy and destruction that has cost property owners corporations and consumers millions of dollars. Naturally they’ve toned their Marxist rhetoric down for their stint with Code Pink. Though they’ve taken great pains to differentiate themselves from the other more radical anti-war protesters they are one and the same. The leaders of Code Pink didn’t merely take part in the Washington and San Francisco protests that made international headlines – they also organized them. In the process they’ve provided a rare public glimpse of the faces behind the modern highly organized American Marxist movement. Needless to say these women have little in common with the carpool moms of America. At the center of Code Pink is legendary leftist organizer Medea Benjamin the 50-year-old mother of two widely credited as a chief organizing force behind the 1999 Seattle riots in which 50,000 protesters did millions of dollars worth of property damage in their effort to shut down meetings of the World Trade Organization. In addition to Code Pink. Benjamin’s San Francisco-based human rights organization Global Exchange was the founding force for United for Peace and Justice coalition the nexus of the anti-war protests. The United for Peace coalition which includes Socialist Action and the Socialist Party USA is also led by Leslie Cagan who has a long history of activism with the American Communist Party. If you want to know what anti-war activities United for Peace and its more radical partner. Act Now To Stop War & End Racism (ANSWER) have planned for the near future or contact information for how you can join in you can click on the Communist World Workers Party website one of the central grassroots clearing houses for communist organizers in the United States and around the world. The mindset of Benjamin and her friends can best be summed up by her description in the San Francisco Chronicle of how she felt on her first pilgrimage to Cuba in the early 1980s. Compared to life in the United States the communist social equality of Cuba "made it seem like I died and went to heaven," Benjamin enthused. Now it appears that Benjamin is trying to recreate it here. The ties that continue to bind Benjamin. Cagan and the others behind Code Pink and today’s anti-war movement were formed in the early-to-mid 1980s when the still young Marxist-American activists found the cause that first unified them: a communist government in Nicaragua. Using the same sort of incestuous sprawling coalitions they created to oppose the war in Iraq and the invasion of Afghanistan after Sept. 11 they helped aid the Marxist Sandinista regime in its struggle against the American-backed Contras for control of the Nicaraguan government. Benjamin worked as a project coordinator for Institute for Food and Development Policy (IFDP) which was widely credited with aiding the Marxist Sandinista regime while Cagan coordinator of the National Mobilization for Justice and Peace in Central America led marches against US aid to the contras at home that at times attracted upwards of 75,000 people. When Sand Brim the widely interviewed voice of Code Pink insisted to the reporters who interviewed her in January that she was not an activist just a businesswoman with reservations about war her 1985 stint in Nicaragua must have slipped her mind. As the executive director of Medical Aid. Brim flew an American neurosurgeon to San Salvador to operate on Marxist Revolutionary Party Commander Nidia Diaz’s hand which had been injured in combat. That Diaz’s group had claimed responsibility for the murders of four U. S. Marines and nine civilians two months before was apparently not an issue for Brim. Nor were such ironies a problem for Kirsten Moller the current executive director of Global Exchange and Code Pink organizer who like Benjamin also worked for IFDP in the 80s. In the 1990s. Benjamin and other Code Pink Marxists focused their energies on organizing sometimes-violent protests against free trade across the globe targeting large corporations with high-profile campaigns and lawsuits that cost consumers and companies like Gap. Nike and Starbucks millions of dollars. As with the anti-war protests of the moment the Marxist World Worker’s Party website has played a crucial organizing role in their anti-corporate activities letting would-be agitators know when and where to show up for demonstrations. Meanwhile other Code Pink organizers were making a name for themselves in domestic and eco-terrorism in the 1990s. Code Pink Co-Founder Jodie Evans also sits on the board of directors of Rain Forest Action Network (RAN) a radical anti-capitalist anti-corporate coalition of environmental groups co-founded by Mike Roselle who also founded the domestic terrorist organization Earth Liberation Front (ELF) which along with the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is ranked the No. 1 domestic terrorism threat by the FBI. The FBI attributes over 600 criminal acts and $43 million in damages to the two groups since 1996. Wherever RAN pops up you’ll also tend to find the Ruckus Society which has trained activists for ELF/ALF. Ruckus Society organizer Steve Kretzmann also a Code Pink coordinator has helped train activists in the agitation tactics that have earned the Ruckus Society its reputation. The Ruckus Society it’s also worth mentioning is a coalition member of Benjamin’s United for Peace and Justice. Code Pink may be communism central for the moment but if the past is any indication the group will be left to die on the vine as soon as public attention shifts away from the war in Iraq. Like the other wedge issues these activists are so skilled at creating and taking advantage of the Iraqi conflict is little more than an opportunity to ingratiate themselves with the American public and swell their volunteer rosters while energizing and solidifying the organization they’d been building since the Seattle riots. While it may seem chaotic with its mass of groups with varied interests. "the movement" as the organizers like to call it is built around a simple theme: that America and the rest of the world is increasingly controlled by corporate powers that threaten democratic rights. Its goals as laid out by Benjamin and others in a variety of newspapers over the years are clear-cut. They want to redistribute wealth from the top tiers of society to the poorest Americans by raising minimum wages choking off trade pushing up inflation limiting corporate growth and dragging down the stock market cutting into the profits of the country’s largest corporations or shutting them down completely and prompting white collar layoffs. As Benjamin explained to The Sunday Oregonian in 2000 these changes would be made slowly perhaps over 20 years or more. Though she admits that the above would cause an economic shakedown or even a stock-market crash she insists the changes would lead to a "healthier more stable economy.""Seattle was this kind of battle cry," Benjamin told the San Jose Mercury News in 2000. "We now know we can mobilize hundreds of thousands of people."But to the dismay of the movement’s organizers. September 11 crushed some of that momentum. Ironically enough. September 11 was the day they’d planned to announce their biggest demonstration yet which was slated to draw well over 100,000 protesters to Washington from around the world in late September. It was instead replaced with a small peace demonstration. The Code Pink ladies have been biding their time ever since reaching out to middle America building their contact lists and dreaming of the Marxist America that might one day be. Like any other group. Communists come in a lot of shapes sizes and colors. This time they’re wearing pink they’re on the nightly news and more than anything they want the mothers and grandmothers of America to identify with them. If you didn’t know any better you’d think the leaders of the women’s anti-war group Code Pink got lost on their way to the carpool line. Since October these hot pink-clad "marching moms" have been spinning the same tale to reporters from coast to coast the one about how concern for their families moved them to trade their oven mitts for placards and take to the streets in protest of an unjust war on Iraq. They’ve played the part so convincingly that over the last six months they’ve become the media darlings of war protest movement raking in the television talk show invites and making national news when they were arrested in front of the White House. But the untold story is what they were doing before October. Unless you travel in Marxist circles or work for the FBI or CIA the names of the Code Pink moms may not ring a bell with you though you’ve probably been reading news reports about their collective exploits for years. In the wake of their war against capitalism and self-determination they’ve left a trail of anarchy and destruction that has cost property owners corporations and consumers millions of dollars. Naturally they’ve toned their Marxist rhetoric down for their stint with Code Pink. Though they’ve taken great pains to differentiate themselves from the other more radical anti-war protesters they are one and the same. The leaders of Code Pink didn’t merely take part in the Washington and San Francisco protests that made international headlines – they also organized them. In the process they’ve provided a rare public glimpse of the faces behind the modern highly organized American Marxist movement. Needless to say these women have little in common with the carpool moms of America. At the center of Code Pink is legendary leftist organizer Medea Benjamin the 50-year-old mother of two widely credited as a chief organizing force behind the 1999 Seattle riots in which 50,000 protesters did millions of dollars worth of property damage in their effort to shut down meetings of the World Trade Organization. In addition to Code Pink. Benjamin’s San Francisco-based human rights organization Global Exchange was the founding force for United for Peace and Justice coalition the nexus of the anti-war protests. The United for Peace coalition which includes Socialist Action and the Socialist Party USA is also led by Leslie Cagan who has a long history of activism with the American Communist Party. If you want to know what anti-war activities United for Peace and its more radical partner. Act Now To Stop War & End Racism (ANSWER) have planned for the near future or contact information for how you can join in you can click on the Communist World Workers Party website one of the central grassroots clearing houses for communist organizers in the United States and around the world. The mindset of Benjamin and her friends can best be summed up by her description in the San Francisco Chronicle of how she felt on her first pilgrimage to Cuba in the early 1980s. Compared to life in the United States the communist social equality of Cuba "made it seem like I died and went to heaven," Benjamin enthused. Now it appears that Benjamin is trying to recreate it here. The ties that continue to bind Benjamin. Cagan and the others behind Code Pink and today’s anti-war movement were formed in the early-to-mid 1980s when the still young Marxist-American activists found the cause that first unified them: a communist government in Nicaragua. Using the same sort of incestuous sprawling coalitions they created to oppose the war in Iraq and the invasion of Afghanistan after Sept. 11 they helped aid the Marxist Sandinista regime in its struggle against the American-backed Contras for control of the Nicaraguan government. Benjamin worked as a project coordinator for Institute for Food and Development Policy (IFDP) which was widely credited with aiding the Marxist Sandinista regime while Cagan coordinator of the National Mobilization for Justice and Peace in Central America led marches against US aid to the contras at home that at times attracted upwards of 75,000 people. When Sand Brim the widely interviewed voice of Code Pink insisted to the reporters who interviewed her in January that she was not an activist just a businesswoman with reservations about war her 1985 stint in Nicaragua must have slipped her mind. As the executive director of Medical Aid. Brim flew an American neurosurgeon to San Salvador to operate on Marxist Revolutionary Party Commander Nidia Diaz’s hand which had been injured in combat. That Diaz’s group had claimed responsibility for the murders of four U. S. Marines and nine civilians two months before was apparently not an issue for Brim. Nor were such ironies a problem for Kirsten Moller the current executive director of Global Exchange and Code Pink organizer who like Benjamin also worked for IFDP in the 80s. In the 1990s. Benjamin and other Code Pink Marxists focused their energies on organizing sometimes-violent protests against free trade across the globe targeting large corporations with high-profile campaigns and lawsuits that cost consumers and companies like Gap. Nike and Starbucks millions of dollars. As with the anti-war protests of the moment the Marxist World Worker’s Party website has played a crucial organizing role in their anti-corporate activities letting would-be agitators know when and where to show up for demonstrations. Meanwhile other Code Pink organizers were making a name for themselves in domestic and eco-terrorism in the 1990s. Code Pink Co-Founder Jodie Evans also sits on the board of directors of Rain Forest Action Network (RAN) a radical anti-capitalist anti-corporate coalition of environmental groups co-founded by Mike Roselle who also founded the domestic terrorist organization Earth Liberation Front (ELF) which along with the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is ranked the No. 1 domestic terrorism threat by the FBI. The FBI attributes over 600 criminal acts and $43 million in damages to the two groups since 1996. Wherever RAN pops up you’ll also tend to find the Ruckus Society which has trained activists for ELF/ALF. Ruckus Society organizer Steve Kretzmann also a Code Pink coordinator has helped train activists in the agitation tactics that have earned the Ruckus Society its reputation. The Ruckus Society it’s also worth mentioning is a coalition member of Benjamin’s United for Peace and Justice. Code Pink may be communism central for the moment but if the past is any indication the group will be left to die on the vine as soon as public attention shifts away from the war in Iraq. Like the other wedge issues these activists are so skilled at creating and taking advantage of the Iraqi conflict is little more than an opportunity to ingratiate themselves with the American public and swell their volunteer rosters while energizing and solidifying the organization they’d been building since the Seattle riots. While it may seem chaotic with its mass of groups with varied interests. "the movement" as the organizers like to call it is built around a simple theme: that America and the rest of the world is increasingly controlled by corporate powers that threaten democratic rights. Its goals as laid out by Benjamin and others in a variety of newspapers over the years are clear-cut. They want to redistribute wealth from the top tiers of society to the poorest Americans by raising minimum wages choking off trade pushing up inflation limiting corporate growth and dragging down the stock market cutting into the profits of the country’s largest corporations or shutting them down completely and prompting white collar layoffs. As Benjamin explained to The Sunday Oregonian in 2000 these changes would be made slowly perhaps over 20 years or more. Though she admits that the above would cause an economic shakedown or even a stock-market crash she insists the changes would lead to a "healthier more stable economy.""Seattle was this kind of battle cry," Benjamin told the San Jose Mercury News in 2000. "We now know we can mobilize hundreds of thousands of people."But to the dismay of the movement’s organizers. September 11 crushed some of that momentum. Ironically enough. September 11 was the day they’d planned to announce their biggest demonstration yet which was slated to draw well over 100,000 protesters to Washington from around the world in late September. It was instead replaced with a small peace demonstration. The Code Pink ladies have been biding their time ever since reaching out to middle America building their contact lists and dreaming of the Marxist America that might one day be. Like any other group. Communists come in a lot of shapes sizes and colors. This time they’re wearing pink they’re on the nightly news and more than anything they want the mothers and grandmothers of America to identify with them. If you didn’t know any better you’d think the leaders of the women’s anti-war group Code Pink got lost on their way to the carpool line. Since October these hot pink-clad "marching moms" have been spinning the same tale to reporters from coast to coast the one about how concern for their families moved them to trade their oven mitts for placards and take to the streets in protest of an unjust war on Iraq. They’ve played the part so convincingly that over the last six months they’ve become the media darlings of war protest movement raking in the television talk show invites and making national news when they were arrested in front of the White House. But the untold story is what they were doing before October. Unless you travel in Marxist circles or work for the FBI or CIA the names of the Code Pink moms may not ring a bell with you though you’ve probably been reading news reports about their collective exploits for years. In the wake of their war against capitalism and self-determination they’ve left a trail of anarchy and destruction that has cost property owners corporations and consumers millions of dollars. Naturally they’ve toned their Marxist rhetoric down for their stint with Code Pink. Though they’ve taken great pains to differentiate themselves from the other more radical anti-war protesters they are one and the same. The leaders of Code Pink didn’t merely take part in the Washington and San Francisco protests that made international headlines –]]> ]]> government not to leave the base after one of those bombs nearly three years ago killed the first and only Kazakh soldier to die in IraqSouth Korea's 933 troops who run a hospital and vocational technology programs in the Kurdish north and arrange for Iraqi university students to visit Korea,Latvia has three soldiers deployed in Iraq. Slovakia two. Singapore one. One platoon each from Macedonia and Estonia patrol the streets of Baghdad buried within American battalionsa few dozen Tongan marines guard the U. S military headquarters at Camp Victory. The most nationally diverse military bases such as Delta and Echo are in southern Iraq. Delta houses troops from Romania. Georgia. El Salvador and Poland. They do not take part in contend operations but man checkpoints organize reconstruction projects repair helicopters and distribute food. The Romanian contingent at Delta part of a force of nearly 500 Romanian troops in Iraq works inside a narrow trailer papered with aerial maps tracking the movements of its last functional surveillance drone -- two have crashed one is missing partsAcross the base the commander of El Salvador's 280 troops in Iraq. Col. Jos¿ Atilio Ben¿tez oversees a mission that frequently sends men off the baseBut one country is increasing its responsibility. Georgia a former Soviet republic that wants to join NATO has sent about a quarter of its army nearly 2,000 soldiers.

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http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/2007/12/war-news-for-saturday-december-08-2007.html ]]> ]]> women the destructives genetic effects in the "ardent sperm" and the women passed it to her children that were born with no arms and other mutations. 240.000 veterans of Golf War I are in permanent medical inability and more than 11.000 already died almost everyone "Cannon fodder" (or of uranium) poor from Latin origin afro-American or Asian. Tons of uranium has fallen over Iraq and Afghanistan. The effects of the metal powder deployed on the winds the smooth storms the wet the soil and the living creatures affect also a big region that is breathing particles of uranium in Iran. Pakistan. Turkey. Turkmenistan. Uzbekistan. Russia. Georgia. Azerbaijan. Kazakhstan. China. India. Saudi Arabia. Syria. Lebanon. Palestine and Israel. The United States launched experimental mini atomic bombs in the surroundings of Kabul without anybody knowing except the victims. Since a decade children with no eyes no encephalon and with other horrendous genetic malformations are being born. The government of Washington and the big media maintain this tragedy in the darkness of secret. A handful of scientists family of veterans of war and people of press struggles desperately to contain the proliferation of the radioactive contamination in Asian Europe. All of this is coming to knowledge because of the annual chew over "Censured Project" of the Sonoma University. California about the 25 more hidden subjects by the great touch of EE. UU. The implicit communicate of this fourth delivery of the most censured subjects is Do something to stop the criminality of George W. Bush! (EC): They find hi levels of uranium in troops and civilians by Bob Nichols. Tedd Weyman. Stephanie Hiller. Juan Gonzalez. Niloufer Bhagwat J.. Jennifer Lilling and Kenny Crosbie. The civilian population and the occupation troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are contaminated with amazing levels of radioactivity because of depleted uranium and not depleted used abundantly by the United States after September 11 of 2001 in the making of tons of munitions. The investigators say that the nearest countries ordain also feel the effects. In 2003 scientists of the Uranium Medical investigate Center (UMRC) made urine analysis on afghan civilians. They found that a 100% of the samples contained not depleted uranium (NDU) 4 to 20 times more than the normal levels. The investigation aggroup at UMRC studied six places two in Kabul and others in the area of Jalalabad. The civilians of Afghanistan were examined four times after the attacks of United States and its allies. The NDU is more radioactive than the depleted uranium (DU. "depleted uranium"). During the measure ten years it caused various types of cancer and sever congenital defects in the infant population. Only in 2003 fell on Iraq four million pounds of radioactive uranium (1,84 tons). The powder of uranium stays in the bodies of our army forces when they come approve domiciliate according to the exams of nine soldiers of the 442 regiment of Military Police that served in Iraq in December of 2003. Attending to a requirement of the Newspaper. New York Daily News the government of EE. UU estimated to command the be of treatment of thousands of dollars for each affected soldier although the proves established that four of the nine men were contaminated with high levels of DU probably by inhaling the disintegrate of the rinds of the depleted uranium from the munitions of EE. UU. Various men presented traces of U-236 other isotope of uranium that only appears in processes of nuclear reaction. The majority of the American weapons ("elegant" rockets bombs. "mute" bombs bullets projectiles of tanks missiles of journey munitions etc.) include high quantities of radioactive uranium depleted and not depleted. The detonation of these projectiles spread a radioactive powder that has an add up of live of 4.5 thousand millions of years and enters in human beings by inhalation to be in their bodies. Basically it is a contaminant that is permanently present in the environment distributed by clean storms and spread by any near source of wet. Ones ingested it develops subatomic particles that cut the DNA. The aggroup of field of the UMRC open various of hundreds of afghan civilians with sharp symptoms of poisoning by radiation together with chronic symptoms of internal contamination of uranium including congenital problems of just born. The local civilians described big and dense clouds of clean and smoke originated in the point of force with an acre and burning smell that affected their nostrils the throat and the superior respiratory zone. The people of all locations presented identical profiles and chronology of the symptoms. The victims reported pain in the cervical spine in the superior move of the shoulders and in the locate of the skull besides pain in a displace displace behind the kidneys muscular and articulation weakness difficulties to rest headache memory problems and disorientation. In the Conference of Uranium Weapons conducted on October of 2003 in Hamburg. Germany independent scientists of all around the world witnessed a huge increase in the deformities and in the cancers of birth wherever the NDU and the DU were used. Professor Katsuma Yagasaki scientist of the Ryukyus University. Okinawa calculated that the 0.800 tons of DU tossed in Afghanistan are the radioactive equivalent of 83.000 bombs of Nagasaki. The quantity of DU used in Iraq its equivalent to 250.000 bombs of Nagasaki. The oncologist Mr. Jawad Al-Al-Ali trained in the United Kingdom showed in the Conference pictures illustrating the types of deformities and tumors of bring forth that he observed in the Saddam Teaching hospital of Basra just before the war of 2003. The cancer rates increased dramatically above the other fifteen years. In 1989 there were 11 abnormalities per 100.000 births but in 2001 they increased more than a 1.000% with 116 cases per each 100.000 births. In 1989. 34 persons died of cancer but in 2001 there were 603 dead. The war of 2003 exponentially increased these figures. In a meeting for Afghanistan of the International Criminal Court conducted in Tokio in December of 2003. EE. UU was processed of multiple war crimes in Afghanistan between them the use of DU. Leuren Moret president of the Scientists for the Aborigen and the Environmental Commission of the city of Berkeley was witness that the radioactive elements of the weapons of uranium dispersed by the military deployment of EE. UU in Afghanistan generated contamination of the air water and the food sources the effects of which will be endured in Iran. Pakistan. Turkey. Turkmenistan. Uzbekistan. Russia. Georgia. Azerbaijan. Kazakhstan. China and India. The countries affected by the use of uranium weapons in Iraq consider Saudi Arabia. Syria. Lebanon. Palestine. Israel. Turkey and Iran. The Uranium Bombings contaminated the air the wet the alter leaving beings and humans including the American invaders that go back home sick. The people of the world has familiarized itself with the "Weapon that Smokes" so estimated by the mystery and murder writers. Many think that once you sight the "Weapon that Smokes" in any mystery time comes for the "bad guys". They are just wishes. 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http://metavalent.info/?p=607 ]]> ]]> fact of the matter is that measure week’s carefully orchestrated dog-and-pony show just bought us several more of war and all that steal on Petraeus’s chest had its desired effect –“ But don’t let this sort of Leftist rhetoric cozen you: the Democrats SUPPORT the troops. Don’t be fooled by the double-talk the backstabbing the pandering etc. They really do support the troops (say again: sarcasm). There is an undeniable point to which the Democrats cannot challenge: they undergo overtly declared their disapproval for the United States military. While they claim to care for our fighting men and women their actions speak otherwise (Hillary Clinton calling Petraeus a liar. John Murtha impugning Marines at Haditha without bear witness. annoy Reid declaring the war lost the collective Democratic effort to halt funding to the war and THUS our soldiers. ETC.). Third. “But I anticipate not because she to join with such leading moral barometers as and to contend MoveOn.” The Left attacks someone like McCain a POW a true hero and someone who’s give for the military has never wavered. Furthermore the Left has become a giant McCarthy-like forge impugning and embarrassing anyone who fails to toe the celebrate lie and utter the tired Leftist talking points. It seems like only yesterday I wanted to put my continue through a protect when Hillary Clinton decided to arrange on John Kerry on the eve of the 2006 election just as the right wing was swarming him over his bad joke. It’s just such a basic elemental principle at play here — you don’t back up the alter wing out by repeating their talking points ever. Why was this so hard to grasp? But here we are almost a year later and Hillary seems to undergo internalized that principle very well. Because when over their Petraeus ad she thought the better of it: Rudy Giuliani is dropping in the polls and is unable to defend his own give for George Bush’s failed war. Instead of distorting Senator Clinton’s record in the race’s first attack ad the Mayor should tell voters why he thinks sticking with the furnish Iraq strategy makes comprehend. The country wants change and while Hillary Clinton is focused ending the war. Mayor Giuliani is playing politics. Bravo. Hillary seizes the opportunity to turn and attack — forcing Rudy into embracing George furnish and his horribly unpopular war. She sticks the landing. Elizabeth Edwards? Not so much. You would thinks that she of all populate should experience about the asymmetrical intimidation problem that – the one where the media is afraid to go after Rudy Guiliani for claiming he’s a bring through worker but they’ll try to destroy John Edwards over a haircut because they know that they’ll get hammered by the alter wing noise forge for the former and pay no price for the latter. But I guess not because she to join with such leading moral barometers as and to attack MoveOn. So did whom one would evaluate to know exceed by this point in measure. Granted we really don’t expect much exceed from — somehow he continues to find the obvious quite elusive. So I guess we undergo to say it once again until everyone gets it — You never register that echo chamber as a participant. Ever. You never furnish them a cudgel to defeat the left with. The quite simple fact of the matter is that last week’s carefully orchestrated dog-and-pony show just bought us several more of war and all that steal on Petraeus’s chest had its desired cause — politicians were so afraid of criticising a military man they couldn’t say what needed to be said namely that Petraeus is of the American public by using his credibility as a General to present George Bush’s politicized and inaccurate facts to Congress. The war is not going swimmingly it’s a full on four-flushing disaster and the entire country knows it. Rather than turning around and kicking MoveOn in an overweening wish to undergo the right wing pat them on the continue maybe everyone should remember that their failure to comment Colin Powell for the very same reasons five years ago bought us this mess in the first place and be thankful that someone is injecting some skepticism into the conversation this measure around. Much transfer wringing has ensued in the change state of the ad and and Karl Rove’s short term strategy to pillory MoveOn may undergo George Bush’s desired effect of driving all the Republicans to his defense. As it certainly hornswoggled the media into missing the real story. But what did they really buy along with those Friedman Units? In forcing all the Republicans to rally ’round George Bush they’ve left them no room to run in 2008. Says : It probably contributed to the alter that I described earlier which is that Republicans were expected to collect behind the president. This probably gave them a little more blast. And as you indicated and as dulcify said that could be very damaging to Republicans in the long run because they conclude desire they’re forced to stick with this president and this policy and the political alter could be catastrophic. I don’t evaluate who are advising annoy Reid to change posture the leg of the GOP desire a neutered terrier to understand it but driving Republicans into the waiting arms of George furnish and making them act ownership of this war could be the best thing to happen to Democrats in 2008. That MoveOn plans to for the same he displayed when he decided to abandon his responsibilities on the Iraq chew over Group is to their ascribe. Nobody wants to broach with this messy war but our representatives are not going to be allowed to kick this measure around. Many are going to get banged up and bruised in the process but that’s just how it’s going to go drink. Good for MoveOn for being willing to say what needs to be said and take the hit. Democrats should take their cues from Hillary Clinton when asked about their efforts and get hold of the opportunity to cover this war around the exposed necks of the GOP.

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http://www.pdxpeace.org/newsletter/2007/sep/17/wednesday-tell-senator-smith-no-more-money-iraq-war-0 ]]> ]]> about the fact that the populate who the U. S is working with the supposed “freedom fighters,” the “counter-insurgents” are former insurgents. They were Iraqi al Qaeda before they started working with the Americans. That is troubling because if they were fighting the Americans once they’ll fight Americans again. And more troubling for the future of Iraq is the fact that many of the tribes that the U. S is working with are war criminals who are directly responsible for ethnic cleansing and who are using American support to prepare for sectarian civil war. The U. S is funding Sunni militias. They already funded the Shia militias. They’re now funding all sides of this sectarian war. U. S. Is Paying Off Iraq’s Worst War Criminals in act to protect Off Attacks RR: We embedded with the Americans for a week and we open that in the town Fallahat where there used to a lot of Shia there are now no Shia. So we tracked down the displaced Shia families and found them living on the outskirts of Baghdad in a refugee dwell that no Western media and certainly no camera crews have ever filmed. There are no services no doctors no hospitals no schools no running wet no work no sanitation. People have to go in some cases for miles to just get polluted tap wet out of hoses. populate who have tried to return domiciliate to choose up their rations undergo been killed on the highway. So no one can get. The refugees we talked to knew the names of the people who had kicked them out and bombed their houses. And they are exactly the same tribes the Americans are working with. So the populate the Americans are working with are responsible for sectarian ethnic cleansing. Malaki’s head of negotiations with Sunni groups told us the groups the Americans are working with consider some of the country’s worst war criminals responsible for beheadings and mass executions. RR: We have create that the Americans should know it. The American soldiers set their core out operating base in a accommodate they knew used to be inhabited by Shia. And all the Shia were gone. So it’s just whether they decided to ask the obvious question or not. RR: The story that Petraeus and Bush are saying is fantastic — a Lawrence of Arabia figure named Abu Risha rose out of the leave and behind him the noble tribes of Anbar rose up and they kicked out al Qaeda. Well it’s safer for American soldiers there but it’s not safer for the Shia citizens there. The U. S is funding sectarian militias fighting in a civil war in order to momentarily change magnitude attacks on Americans. RR: The soldiers on the ground aren’t hiding anything. They were amazingly open and honest about the whole process with us. Through a combination of threats and enticements like money and releasing their kids from prison the U. S military has gotten groups to join a coalition. They’re paid money for small construction projects and they’re eventually incorporated into the Iraqi police force where they’re armed and paid given a gun a badge and the power to arrest. There undergo been reports that some American army units are directly giving them weapons. I didn’t see anyone furnish an M16 to anyone. But I did see a U. S head transfer wads of cash to militiamen who were guarding checkpoints. Petraeus says they’re not supplying guns. That might be adjust. But saying the U. S military is just applauding from the sidelines and not providing material give to these militias is a lie. RR: It’s an easy way to produce immediate statistical successes on the fasten a change magnitude in attacks on American soldiers. And this is a long-term strategy. Petraeus came in with Negroponte with the so-called “Salvador Option” for Iraq arming death squads to kill insurgents as the Reagan administration did in the 1980s in El Salvador. In 2004 he incorporated all of the Shia militias into the Iraqi security forces and basically created Shia death squads and secret torture prisons we’ve all heard stories of. Now they’re funding Sunni militias and Sunni death squads Not only have we trolled our prisons and streets and traded convicted felons uniforms in exchange for sentences -murder anguish kidnapping and rape by our soldiers go unpunished. The war is illegal/imoral and based on lies and cooked bear witness run by officers and gov’t- corporate leaders /war criminals guilty of crimes of genocide…”perhaps we should displace criminals to fight rahter than our men…” ??? What-Innocent Iraqi lives are worthless? You don’t care that a culture and a country has been destroyed for having resources that we decided to act just because we thought we could with no care for human life? Clarification—I absolutely do not think any living being is worthless!! As far as that goes everything in creation has a purpose most of it has been/is abused! Uh oil for instance? Nor do I think.

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