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There are a lot of places to getyour information these days nowseemingly more than ever. But with onlysix companies controlling virtually all ofthe mainstream media we ingest, itshard for us to discern fiction from fact!That said, GNN is proud to bring you theGuerrilla Deprogrammer a monthlydistillation of news and informationmined by the Guerrilla News Network.The Deprogrammer can be downloadedfrom www.gnn.tv and is designed to letyou have something to print out anddistribute to anyone you want to enroll inthe information war.

In January the Center for PublicIntegrity obtained a secret draft of a billwritten by the staff of Attorney GeneralJohn Ashcroft. Unknown even tolawmakers, the proposed bill wasentitled the Domestic Security EnhancementAct of 2003, and it greatly expanded thegovernment's power to arrest, spy on anddeport those they deem enemies of thestate. It quickly became known as thePatriot Act II.

If passed, the bill would give theU.S. government the power,among otherthings, to:

* tap your phone or read your emailwithout court order for 15 days following acongressional authorization of use offorce or an attack on the United States. * deport any alien, including green-cardholders, convicted of drug possession oran aggravated felony. * access a citizen's credit reports withouta subpoena. * ease restrictions on the use of secretevidence.

* abolish federal limits on policesurveillance of non-criminal organizationsand public events (like antiwar activists).* collect DNA from suspected terrorists orany individual whose DNA might assistterror investigations, and add it to anational DNA database. * extend authorization periods for secretwiretaps and Internet surveillance.* secretly detain citizens.

Thanks to the original USA PatriotAct, passed in October 2001, thegovernment already has the right to:

* use torture on "suspected terrorists."* execute "suspected terrorists" withouttrial.* arrest and hold without trial hundreds ofsuspected terrorists while denying themaccess to legal counsel or even publicnotification that they have been arrested.* inspect the records of bookstores andpublic libraries to determine whatAmericans are reading.* break into homes and tap phones ofU.S. citizens without warrants.

Source: Center for Public Integritywww.publicintegrity.org

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March 3, 2003:This week's startling resignation

by career diplomat John Brady Kiesling,who has served in United Statesembassies from Tel Aviv to Casablancato Yerevan, would have been back pagenews if not for the eloquent andshattering language used in his letter.

Addressed to Colin Powell, it isone of the more surgically damagingattacks levelled against the Bushadministration's use of terrorism as "adomestic political tool". All the more sobecause it comes from an insider. Readon...

Dear Mr. Secretary: I am writing you to submit my resignationfrom the Foreign Service of the United Statesand from my position as Political Counselor inU.S. Embassy, Athens, effective March 7. I doso with a heavy heart. The baggage of myupbringing included a felt obligation to givesomething back to my country. Service as aU.S. diplomat was a dream job. I was paid tounderstand foreign languages and cultures,to seek out diplomats, politicians, scholarsand journalists, and to persuade them thatU.S. interests and theirs fundamentallycoincided. My faith in my country and itsvalues was the most powerful weapon in mydiplomatic arsenal.

It is inevitable that during twentyyears with the State Department I wouldbecome more sophisticated and cynicalabout the narrow and selfish bureaucraticmotives that sometimes shaped our policies.Human nature is what it is, and I wasrewarded and promoted for understandinghuman nature. But until this Administration ithad been possible to believe that byupholding the policies of my president I wasalso upholding the interests of the Americanpeople and the world. I believe it no longer.

The policies we are now asked toadvance are incompatible not only with

American values but also with Americaninterests. Our fervent pursuit of war with Iraqis driving us to squander the internationallegitimacy that has been America's mostpotent weapon of both offense and defensesince the days of Woodrow Wilson. We havebegun to dismantle the largest and mosteffective web of international relationships theworld has ever known. Our current coursewill bring instability and danger, not security.

The sacrifice of global interests todomestic politics and to bureaucratic self-interest is nothing new, and it is certainly nota uniquely American problem. Still, we havenot seen such systematic distortion ofintelligence, such systematic manipulation ofAmerican opinion, since the war in Vietnam.The September 11 tragedy left us strongerthan before, rallying around us a vastinternational coalition to cooperate for the firsttime in a systematic way against the threat ofterrorism. But rather than take credit for thosesuccesses and build on them, thisAdministration has chosen to make terrorisma domestic political tool, enlisting a scatteredand largely defeated Al Qaeda as itsbureaucratic ally. We spreaddisproportionate terror and confusion in thepublic mind, arbitrarily linking the unrelatedproblems of terrorism and Iraq. The result,and perhaps the motive, is to justify a vastmisallocation of shrinking public wealth to themilitary and to weaken the safeguards thatprotect American citizens from the heavyhand of government. September 11 did notdo as much damage to the fabric ofAmerican society as we seem determined toso to ourselves. Is the Russia of the lateRomanovs really our model, a selfish,superstitious empire thrashing toward self-destruction in the name of a doomed statusquo?

We should ask ourselves why wehave failed to persuade more of the worldthat a war with Iraq is necessary. We haveover the past two years done too much toassert to our world partners that narrow andmercenary U.S. interests override thecherished values of our partners. Even whereour aims were not in question, ourconsistency is at issue. The model ofAfghanistan is little comfort to allieswondering on what basis we plan to rebuildthe Middle East, and in whose image andinterests. Have we indeed become blind, asRussia is blind in Chechnya, as Israel is blindin the Occupied Territories, to our own advice,that overwhelming military power is not theanswer to terrorism? After the shambles ofpost-war Iraq joins the shambles in Groznyand Ramallah, it will be a brave foreignerwho forms ranks with Micronesia to followwhere we lead.

We have a coalition still, a good

one. The loyalty of many of our friends isimpressive, a tribute to American moralcapital built up over a century. But our closestallies are persuaded less that war is justifiedthan that it would be perilous to allow the U.S.to drift into complete solipsism. Loyalty shouldbe reciprocal. Why does our Presidentcondone the swaggering and contemptuousapproach to our friends and allies thisAdministration is fostering, including amongits most senior officials. Has "oderint dummetuant" really become our motto? ["Oderintdum metuant" -- "Let them hate so long asthey fear." A favorite saying of Caligula.]

I urge you to listen to America'sfriends around the world. Even here inGreece, purported hotbed of European anti-Americanism, we have more and closerfriends than the American newspaper readercan possibly imagine. Even when theycomplain about American arrogance,Greeks know that the world is a difficult anddangerous place, and they want a stronginternational system, with the U.S. and EU inclose partnership. When our friends areafraid of us rather than for us, it is time toworry. And now they are afraid. Who will tellthem convincingly that the United States is asit was, a beacon of liberty, security, and justicefor the planet?

Mr. Secretary, I have enormousrespect for your character and ability. Youhave preserved more international credibilityfor us than our policy deserves, and salvagedsomething positive from the excesses of anideological and self-serving Administration.But your loyalty to the President goes too far.We are straining beyond its limits aninternational system we built with such toiland treasure, a web of laws, treaties,organizations, and shared values that setslimits on our foes far more effectively than itever constrained America's ability to defendits interests.

I am resigning because I have triedand failed to reconcile my conscience withmy ability to represent the current U.S.Administration. I have confidence that ourdemocratic process is ultimately self-correcting, and hope that in a small way I cancontribute from outside to shaping policiesthat better serve the security and prosperity ofthe American people and the world weshare. -- John Brady Kiesling

GuerrillaOfTheMonth:John Brady Kiesling

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Greg Palast, GNN's Guerrilla ofthe Year for 2001, is back with a new,revised, updated and expanded editionof his best-selling "The Best DemocracyMoney Can Buy: The Truth AboutCorporate Cons, Globalization, and HighFinance Fraudsters."

The book is an essential primerfor anyone who wants to understandhow the global economy works in the21st Century. As Palast writes, Thespiky-haired protestors in the streets ofSeattle believe theres some kind ofgrand conspiracy between the corporatepowers, the IMF, the World Bank and analphabet soup of agencies that work tosuck the blood of Bolivians and steal thegold of Tanzania. But the tree huggersare wrong; the details are far morestomach-churning than they evenimagine.

He's been called, "the greatestinvestigative reporter of our time," byBritain's Tribune magazine, but inAmerica, this U.S.-born journalist for BBCTelevision and the Guardian papers is allbut banned from the U.S. airwaves andmainstream press. So Palast is takingthe truth straight to the people with awhirlwind North American book tour.

Palast took a break from hishectic tour, which it should be noted isalso raising money for independentmedia outlets like Democracy Now!, togive GNN this exclusive interview:

GNN: A new edition of your book "TheBest Democracy Money Can Buy" iscoming out in the U.S. next week, why isit relevant now? PALAST: I've MADE it relevant by rewritingthe beast top to bottom - my wife thoughtI'd lost my tiny mind by doing it: it's nowclose to 400 pages of my latestinvestigations, up from 200. And it's in

paperback so it will be easier carrying itaround occupied Baghdad.

There's the whole new sectionon who's cashing in on the war on terror.And there's more on Bush's hindering theinvestigation, prior to September 11, of themoney behind Al Qaeda. That's a storythat I put at the top of BBC television newsworldwide - but in the U.S. the broadcastwas blacked-out. For example, here'ssomething you're not allowed to see onU.S. television: details of a meeting inJune 1996 in Paris in which Saudibillionaires agreed to pay off Al Qaeda toget out of Saudi Arabia. Who was in thatmeeting makes for interesting reading.

There's info written in just weeks

ago on Iraq and the Bomb. How doesBush know so much about Saddam'sbomb? Well, according to documentsfrom a defecting Gulf states diplomat,Saudi Arabia slipped $7 billion toSaddam for his nuclear Tinker Toys -which was just okey-dokey with theReagan-Bush administration, because atthe time Saddam was given the loot, hewas Bush's favorite dictator. Don't forgetthat before the Axis of Evil there was theUnicycle of Evil, Iran. As long as Saddamonly slaughtered Iranians, he was Bush'sbuddy. In other words, we know Saddamhas bomb fixings because, via theSaudis, WE GAVE IT TO HIM.

There's a new chapter onVenezuela: Venezuela's the second,hidden front in the war on Iraq. The BushAdministration has been doing it'sdamned best to overthrow the electedgovernment of Hugo Chavez - whom Iinterview at length for the book - becauseChavez dared to raise royalties on Exxon-Mobil. You simply can't understand Bushgeopolitics and the showdown with Iraqunless you look at his oil-poisoned policyin Venezuela.

The opening chapter, on howKatherine Harris stole Florida for theBushes, is more important than ever -updated with the newest info on how theBush team is "Floridizing" the nation'svoting systems in preparation for 2004.

I should warn you that KatherineHarris complained to my editors at

Harper's Magazine that I am "twistedand maniacal." But she didn't say I wasWRONG. In my original report for BBCand the Guardian, I discovered thatHarris and Jeb Bush had ordered theremoval of 57,000 voters from voter rollsbecause these people were convictedcriminals. It was a crock: 97% - 97%! -had NO criminal record - but they wereguilty of voting while Black. At BBC wefigure Gore lost 20,000 through thisethnic cleansing of the voter rolls. Ireported that on page one of theGuardian in London, but because it wasall but ignored in the USA, Jeb Bush ofFlorida is continuing with new purges ...and the Republicans are taking theirFlorida purge operation on the road,spreading it to other states. The 2004race may already be decided - and thevote's just a formality.

There is a bunch of newmaterial on the IMF and World Bank -more documents marked "confidential"from the file cabinets of the masters ofthe New World Order. Again, I couldshow these documents on the nightlynews in Britain, but in the U.S. -fageddabouddit!

I also have the stories which Icould not print in Britain without riskingjail time - including the story of PoppyBush and his gold mining company.Bush's company sued my paper forreporting this story - and they threatenedseveral other reporters and papers tryingto follow up on my investigation. Hereyou can read what Bush benefactorsspent a fortune attempting to suppress.

By the way: I don't let theDemocrats off the hook, either. Thisweek's threat comes from Mario Cuomo.You remember Mario -- once our liberalhope, now a trivia question.

GNN: In your book you writeabout the real winners of Gulf War I, whowere they? And who stands to gain themost from this war?

PALAST: Poppy Bush told us wewere sending our soldiers into the desertto save Kuwait for democracy -remember? I'm still waiting for theelection returns.

So who won? After Bush 1 wasbooted from office, he wrote a letter tothe Kuwaiti dictatorship - "royalty" is abullshit term - and asked them to giveChevron Oil a drilling concession. Howcould the Kuwaiti oligarchs refuse arequest from the President who savetheir Rolls Royces? So it looks like thewinner of the Gulf War was Chevron Oil -and the Bush family. After Bush did hislittle lobbying fix for the Chevron, thecompany put over half a million dollarsinto the Republican Party campaign kittyin time for Bush Junior's run. So you couldsay that Dubya and Chevron won thewar...

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Dreaming War: Bloodfor Oil and theCheney-Bush Junta,Gore Vidal (ThunderMouth Press, NationBooks)

A new paperbackcompilation by

Americas most eloquent enemy of theEmpire, and defender of the Republic.Vidal dissects the secret history of the20th Century, from Trumans installation ofthe National Security State to Bushs coupdetat to the War on Terrors Greatest Lies.Much of it will be familiar territory for Vidalfans, but for newbies it is as good anintroduction as any to the ideas of one ofAmericas most potent polemicists.

Kingdom of Fear:Loathsome Secretsof a Star-CrossedChild in the FinalDays of the AmericanCentury, Hunter S.Thompson (Simon& Schuster)

Similar themes tothe above, but with chapter-heads like,Jesus Hated Bad Pussy. The Godfatherof Gonzo is back with a rambling diary ofhis current battles, most of which seem tobe with the Aspen Sheriff. If only the manwho wrote one of the greatest books onAmerican politics ever (Fear andLoathing on the Campaign Trail 72)could focus a little more attention on thedecline of the country he loves, and a littleless on his traffic violations, maybe aGNN hero would once again be on thevanguard of a burgeoning counter-culture. Still worth a trip through the mindof a drug-addled, but surprisingly sharpiconoclast.

Confronting Fear: AHistory of Terrorism,Isaac Crown (ThundersMouth)

Dont let the self-helpbook title fool you. This isa priceless text for any

info-warrior interested in the real historyof the technique of fighting known asterrorism. Its chock full of primarysources, including selections from JosephConrad, Franz Fanon, the WeatherUnderground, the Hamas web site, anda famous female Palestinian terrorist. Bewarned, you wont find many U.S.-sponsored terrorists. Get over it, theunfiltered info here is invaluable. Dontmiss the selection from the banned,founding text of urban insurrection, theMinimanual of the Urban Guerrilla, byassassinated Brazilian rebel GianfrancoSanguinetti.

Iraq Under Siege:The Deadly Impact ofSanctions and War,Edited by AnthonyArnove (South EndPress) Think the second GulfWar is about to start?Wrong, the first onenever ended. For the

last decade the people of Iraq havesuffered one of the longest and mostbrutal assaults in modern history. A warof attrition, conducted by a virtualblockade of international goods, andnear bi-weekly bombing raids, havedecimated that once proud country. Yeah,we know Saddam is an asshole, but justhand this expertly researched and utterlydepressing account of life in Iraq underU.S. and UN sanctions to your friendswhen they try to argue America is out tohelp the Iraqi people.

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Weapons of Mass Amnesia Here's a story that hasn't gotten

covered in the U.S. press: As the USAprepares for a war against Iraq, it is beingsued by Iran for its previous closerelationship to Saddam Hussein. At theUN's International Court of Justice (ICJ),Teheran is accusing the United States ofdelivering dangerous chemicals anddeadly viruses to Baghdad during the1980s. Reports on the case have appearedin countries including Germany, England,Pakistan and Malaysia. In the UnitedStates, Associated Press writer AnthonyDeutsch filed a report on the case, but itdoes not seem to have been picked up byany U.S. newspapers. However, the

National Security Archive, a nonprofitresearch institute on international affairs,has published a series of declassified U.S.documents detailing the U.S. embrace ofSaddam Hussein in the early 1980s,including a photo of Donald Rumsfeldpersonally shaking Hussein's hand.

See National Security Archive documents at:www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/press.htm

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