News & Views for Anarchists & Activists:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo

http://tinyurl.com/4b4slk
Iraqi contradictions regarding religious freedom
Rather than face death, Christians and other minorities are fleeing
Iraq. While supposedly tolerant of all faiths, the Iraqi constitution
establishes that no law may contradict Islam.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
by Martin BarillasI

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom released a report
on May 2, 2008 that listed 11 "countries of particular concern" which
have allowed or participated in violations of the right to freedom of
religion or belief.

Even while Iraq did not make the list this time, despite the recent
murder of an archbishop, the report said the commission "remains
seriously concerned about religious freedom conditions in Iraq." Iraq
was included on its 2007 watch list, however. It has since announced
that commission members will the country later in May, make
observations, and later issue a report and recommendations.

News & Views for Anarchists & Activists:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo

http://tinyurl.com/445suh
United States of Insecurity
Perils and Alternatives in the Post 9-11 World
May 24, 2008 By Noam Chomsky
and Gabriel Matthew Schivone
Source: Monthly Review

Based on an interview with Noam Chomsky conducted by Gabriel Matthew
Schivone via telephone and e-mail at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, November 27, 2007 through February 11, 2008. Parts of the
text have been expanded by the author.

A State of Insecurity in the Post-9/11 World

News & Views for Anarchists & Activists:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo

http://tinyurl.com/3oczzd
When the Left Was Right
The radicals of the ’60s had another side: decentralist,
anti-interventionist, and almost Kirkian.
by Bill Kauffman

The ghosts of 1968 are haunting Barack Obama, which is tremendously
unfair, I say as his coeval, given that our cohort spent the Chicago
Democratic Convention sticking baseball cards in our bicycle spokes
rather than pelting Mayor Daley’s finest with porcine epithets. But
guilt by association is ironclad in these days when American political
discourse is controlled by hall monitors and tattletales. Obama’s
friendship—acquaintance? -- with Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn is
about to get extended play as the Republicans contrast Obama’s
Weatherfriends with their nominee’s stint in the Hanoi Hilton.