If you were to rely on the mainstream media, including so-called liberal news programs such as NPR, you probably wouldn't know that there's a real anti-war revolution taking place in the United States. This year, five poignant and increasingly radicalized national protests have taken place, dating back to January 27, 2007 when nearly half a million people took over Washington DC.
A November 11, 2007 report in the Washington Post stated that the United States has developed contingency plans to safeguard Pakistani nuclear weapons if they risk falling into the wrong hands. The newspaper quotes an unnamed former US official as saying "If an attempt were made by the US to seize the weapons to prevent their loss, it could be very messy." Even without US Special Forces tramping around Pakistan looking for nuclear weapons and long-range delivery systems, the situation can get very messy.Musharraf
The 18th annual Vigil to Close the SOA was one of the largest and most vibrant yet. While thousands commemorated the martyrs in a solemn funeral procession at the main gate, 10 SOA Watch activists entered the Fort Benning military base through a side entrance in an attempt to carry the protest to the site of the SOA/WHINSEC.
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A new trade deal with Peru that passed in the US Congress last week boasts non-binding concessions in terms of labor and environmental concessions, and promises more of the same damages to both countries.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which makes policy governing the Internet's Domain Name System, recently held its 30th International Public Meeting in Los Angeles. ICANN has stumbled into serious controversy as it threatens to establish policies for systematic censorship of generic top-level domains ("gTLDs" such as '.com' or '.org'), and it left these issues unresolved as it ended the week with a meeting of the Board of Directors on Friday, November 2nd.
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