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Expatriate Different

November 11, 2002 – 12:00 am

The ‘Switch’ campaign continues to be a robust meme, continuing to exploit new niches.
Oh, but that guy’s going to get such hate-mail from the Rightists. [ QuickTime ]

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Archive of Red Rock Eater WTC/Pentagon Attack Links

September 27, 2001 – 12:00 am

Phil Agre collected hundreds of URLs related to the WTC/Pentagon attacks. All the URLs are now archived in one place.

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Letters to Trudeau from Abroad

October 5, 2000 – 12:00 am

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has a page devoted to condolences and remembrances from people abroad for the late PM Pierre Trudeau. A Canadian living in the States says her American friends cannot beleive “A politician can be one of your heroes?” Another Canadian living in LA wrote: ” Los Angelinos had a hard time understanding [...]

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CIA Implicated on Chile’s Murder of Horman

October 9, 1999 – 12:00 am

The American Department of State has released classified documents implicating the US Government in the murder, by the Chilean military, of James Horman, an American citizen living in Chile during Pinochet’s coup. Horman’s death was the subject of Costa Gravas’ film “Missing,” all but accused the US goverment of its complicity in Pinochet’s 1973 auto-da-fe.

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Pinochet Health Warning

August 11, 1999 – 12:00 am

Hook the bastard up to a machine if you have to, but keep him alive long enough to be held accountable for his crimes.

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Canada Debates Scrapping Currency

March 18, 1999 – 12:00 am

To get a sense of the transformations going on in the world at large, consider that the Canadian Parliment debated scrapping their own currency and switching to a common currency with the US and Mexico. The measure failed. This article, from the World Socialist Web Site, posits that the reasons for this may be the [...]

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The Chiapas Uprising as “Social NetWar” [ via RRE ]

February 18, 1999 – 12:00 am

This is a Rand Corporation study (in PDF format) discussing the Zapatista rebellion in terms of “Social Network Warfare.” Rand thinks this is a new type of conflict in which combatants attempt to build coalitions using super-govermental entities such as the Internet, media outlets, and Non-Governmental Organizations.
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It’s Only Cigars [ via Newspeak ]

February 15, 1999 – 12:00 am

A judge’s opinion on the forfeture of $100 worth of Cuban cigars confiscated from an American traveler. Read to find the Catch 22. A US Government publication says it is okay to bring back small amounts of items purchased as gifts while in Cuba. If you are traveling to Cuba, you must have a foreign [...]

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Mexico says ’si’ to Open Source

December 7, 1998 – 12:00 am

This article is mainly another briefing on the Open Source meme, but is worthwhile for this piece of information:
The Mexican government, for example, last month announced that it will install Linux in 140,000 computer labs in Mexican elementary and secondary schools. Government officials estimated that Windows licenses for all these labs would cost them close [...]

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Amnesty International Briefing on Pinochet’s Crimes against Humanity

December 1, 1998 – 12:00 am

Essentialy, what Pinochet did can be prosecuted by any nation-state as a crime against Humanity.
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Honduras This Week Online

November 7, 1998 – 12:00 am

Lists of disaster relief supplies needed for areas hit by Hurricane Mitch, also Real Video footage of the disaster.
What’s going on with Nicaragua? I’m reading reports that the government is witholding aid to areas of the country that supported the Sandinistas during the 1980’s. You should send your disaster relief donations through NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations.)
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