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Note: This actually a paper I wrote last Spring (and I reserve my copyright so don't plagiarize), I thought people may find it interesting (although honestly I wrote this in one night 8-hour marathon at the last minute). Increased Government Surveillance and the Effect on Civil Liberties in the United States during Wartime Introduction Since the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001, the federal government of the United States has had a greater focus on national security. History has shown that, in times where the United States is at war or there is a threat (real or perceived) to our national

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The Need for Change... Our world is dying. And has been for some time. The industrial revolution brought with it hope; of development, opportunity, and prosperity for all. This noble ideal has been replaced by brutal reality: mass exploitation, poverty, and untold ecological destruction. Rampant Capitalism has caused much suffering - and will destroy us unless action is taken soon. The issue of sustainability is of utmost importance - to our generation more than any other. And whilst some effort has been made, (witness the slight progress on worldwide emissions control) it is undeniable that the continuation of our current way of life will result in disaster. A working definition of "sustainability" demonstrates this certainty. A society must adhere to four guidelines if it to be considered sustainable: > Prudent use of resources,

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How has globalization affected Cuba’s economy? Well to understand this better we have to know what set the stage for the current state of Cuba. We have to ask questions like. Before 1959 who controlled the Cuban economy? After 59 how did Cuba outlast (outlasting) the embargo? What is the Cuban way of heath and education? After 89 how did Cuba deal with the loss of assistance from the soviet bloc? When we know all this then we can ask ourselves, how has globalization affected Cuba in current times? What did the September 11 attacks mean for Cuba? What is the Cubans economy geared towards? And what does overseas investment mean to Cuba? Before Castro come to power in 1959 Cuba was owned by the U.S.A 60% of the country including the rail network, telecommunication and also 51% of the sugar cane owned by the united fruit company and the Rockefeller family. There was also a great amount of tourism 300,000 a year from the U.S.A meaning that the economic gap between Havana and the surrounding areas was great. Cuba was known has “the whore of the western world.” After 1959...

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A 'Police Plot' to Discredit Anarchism and Create a European-Wide Anti-Anarchist Force? By Dimitrov Kyriakov Italy's Interior Ministry on the 5th of January announced the creation of a European task force to combat 'anarchist insurrection' over a letter bomb campaign over the last few weeks against European Union leaders, apparently launched from Italy. The force will gather data for two months on the 'phenomenon of anarchist insurrection' -- the term Italy has used to describe those behind the letter bombs. Italy will coordinate the task force, which is to help future 'anti-terror' operations. A group calling itself the 'Informal Anarchist Federation' ('FAI') has claimed responsibility in a letter printed in an Italian newspaper. Although no known Italian anarchist groups have ever heard of this association, the acronym matches exactly that of another above-ground, revolutionary organisation in Bologna: the Italian Anarchist Federation (FAI). They have been quick to denounce the bombing campaign, claiming no...

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Send it plz to me.

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The Spanish Civil War: From Syndicalism to Fascism by Morpheus On July 19th, 1936 the CNT, an anarcho-syndicalist union, and the UGT, a union affiliated with the Spanish Socialist party, called a general strike in response to a Fascist coup led by General Francisco Franco. The left-wing socialists tried to get the government to release arms to the workers so they could put down the coup, but the government refused. So the workers broke into the barracks and took the weapons themselves. After the workers had put down the coup the government decided to release arms to them. Franco's coup was defeated in two-thirds of Spain. A civil war was waged between the Fascists and the anti-Fascists for the next three years, which the Fascists eventually won. In the aftermath of the defeat of Franco's coup the non-Fascist parts of Spain underwent an anarchist social revolution, which was later suppressed by a counter-revolution led by the Spanish Communist party. This revolution shows an alternative to capitalism (and Stalinist tyranny) and that anarchy is possible, it...

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What Is The Way Forward For the Australian Anarchist Movement? It is no secret that the Australian anarchist movement is in a terrible mess. Not only are we dormant, but we hardly make up any numbers as well. This is in contrast to the European and American anarchist movements, who are at the forefront of class struggle worldwide. It almost seems that we in Australia are content with the way the world is at the moment, and that there is no rush to change it. Of course, it isn't true that we do not care. I am sure that we are all participating in class struggle in some way; either through the way we live, what we eat and wear, and the protests and pickets we attend, etc. We do genuinely care about the capitalistic word we live in. We think it terrible, and we want to make it better. That is why we are anarchists. But we're not doing enough, especially in relation to the class struggle in our country, and in trying to spread our ideas -- reaching out to people. In such a highly technological age, it is quite terrible how the Australian anarchist movement has fallen...

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In a place long forgotten, war and political repression still continues, and freedom assaulted, despite the promise of a new era of 'freedom', and the official end of war in December 2001. This country is Afghanistan, which was supposedly removed from dictatorship. On October 15 2003, the Afghan government shut down a state-run newspaper, apparently after it ran a series of articles critical of President Hamid Karzai and his administration. This was the latest crackdown on an increasingly independent-minded press after years of censorship, which seem to have not ended. Mirhaidar Motahar, chief editor of Armon Mali -- or Public's Desire -- said the newspaper was told on Saturday to stop publishing immediately. The government did not give a formal reason for cancelling the paper's licence, which left 15 journalists and 17 others unemployed. However, Motahar said he believed it was because political leaders were fed up with articles that highlighted the public's frustrations with the US-backed coalition government. "People tell us they are not...

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Iraq: Dissent Outlawed? Aljazeera and al-Arabiya on September 24th 2003, has been banned for two weeks from covering the US-installed Iraqi Governing Council’s activities -- for allegedly inciting violence against US occupation forces and its supporters. This move seems to be the start of a muzzling of the corporate media in the Middle East. "The Governing Council has decided to ban Aljazeera and al-Arabiya from covering council activities and official press conferences, and to deny their correspondents access to ministries and council buildings for two weeks," the council said in a statement. Aljazeera officials condemned the move saying it violates basic rights of democracy and journalistic freedom. Other media organisations were also served notices that action would be taken without warning against any future infractions. In an interview broadcast on al-Jazeera, Iraqi Governing Council spokesman Intifad Qanbar said the ban was on Aljazeera's and al-Arabiya's "official and government activities. Aljazeera and al-Arabiya have regrettably...

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Why do we have two words to describe "the same thing"? Or why do we think they "mean" the same thing? The answers are historical, of course. There were a number of people who called themselves "socialists" at the mid-point of the 19th century; Marx and Engels wished to adopt a more radical perspective--entitling their world-shaking document The Communist Manifesto. The socialists of that era--and our own--have a different outlook on things than communists do. Socialists are "biased" towards peaceful and incremental changes; communists promote proletarian revolution. Socialists are in favor of a strong and centralized state apparatus that owns and manages the economy; communists are opposed to any state apparatus at all. This is all clear enough...or would be if it were not for one of those vexatious "accidents of history". The October "Revolution" was made by a group that called itself the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party (Bolsheviks). This party was actually a member of the Second...