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Volume1- Issue 5-Late Spring
2003
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words above are from an open book titled "Peace Words"
located in the Indiana University Fine Arts Library.
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United
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Not
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NO War Without Limits
NO Detentions & Round-ups
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http://www.VoteNoWar.org
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War Resisters League
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MOVEON.ORG
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Bloomington
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"You can look at
war as a massing of arms and matérial and troops, but
you can also see it as something else--as a delicate web of
interwoven choices made by human beings, made out of a certain
consciousness. The decision to order an attack, the choice
to obey or disobey an order, to fire or not to fire a weapon.
Armies and, indeed, any culture that supports them must convince
the people that all the decisions are made already, and they
have no choice. But that is never true." The Fifth
Sacred Thing" by Starhawk
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Current Nuclear News
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IERE
The IN Environmental Report
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NORML
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| UUC Government
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Habitat for
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links to
alternative news sources featuring local, national and global
news and Native American publications
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Alternet
is an independent news
coverage site of world events.
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Peace,
in the sense of the absence of war is of little value to someone
who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain
of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not
comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused
by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can
only last where human rights are respected, where the people
are fed and where individuals and nations are free -
The Dalai Lama
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Fire This Time - Deconstructing the Gulf War - a permanent record
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E'tokmit
e'k, rangimarie, hedd, pace, tutquin, shanti, vrede, paquilisli,
MNP, Onai rahu, amani, kev sib haum xeeb,salam, shalom, shaantiM,
hedd, gutpela taim, lalyi, pesca, damai, raha, fred, eirni,
pax, mir, peace, heiwa, amn, nabad, rauha, paz, frid, paco,
shAnti, paqe, danh tu, ittimokla, rahu, paix, beke, shalom,
mnonestotse, kapayapaan
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"The choice is not
between violence and nonviolence, but between nonviolence
and nonexistence." Martin Luther
King
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Grace
News
By
Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
The U.S. government this week launched its Arabic language
satellite TV news station for Muslim Iraq.
It is being produced in a studio -- Grace Digital Media
-- controlled by
fundamentalist Christians who are rabidly pro-Israel.
That's Grace as in "by the Grace of God."
Grace Digital Media is controlled by a fundamentalist
Christian
millionaire, Cheryl Reagan, who last year wrested control
of Federal News Service, a transcription news service,
from its former owner, Cortes Randell.
Randell says he met Reagan at a prayer meeting, brought
her in as an
investor in Federal News Service, and then she forced
him out of his own company.
race Digital Media and Federal News Service are housed
in a downtown Washington, D.C. office building, along
with Grace News Network.
When you call the number for Grace News Network, you
get a person
answering "Grace Digital Media/Federal News Service."
According to its web site, Grace News Network is "dedicated
to
transmitting the evidence of God's presence in the world
today."
"Grace News Network will be reporting the current
secular news, along with aggressive proclamations that
will 'change the news' to reflect the Kingdom of God
and its purposes," GNN proclaims.
The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the U.S.
government agency producing the television news broadcasts
for Iraq, likes to say it is the BBC of the USA.
BBG runs Radio Free Europe, Voice of America, and Radio
Sawa -- Arabic language radio for the Middle East.
"Our mission is clear," BBG's Joan Mower told
us. "To broadcast accurate and objective news about
the United States and the world. We don't do propaganda,
leafleting -- we are like the BBC in that respect."
Well, then why hook up with Grace?
BBG's Joan Mower said that Grace Digital Media is a
mainstream production house used by all kinds of mainstream
news organizations.
"Grace will have nothing to do with the editorial
side of the news
broadcast," she said. "They are renting us
equipment, space, studio. The Grace personnel we use
include technicians, production people but no editorial
people."
But Mower said she couldn't get us a copy of the contract
between BBG and Grace Digital media. Nor could she say
how Grace Digital was chosen as the production studio.
Grace News Network proclaims that it will be a "unique
tool in the Lord's
ministry plan for the world."
"Grace News Network provides networking links and
portals to various
ministries and news services that will be of benefit
to every Christian
believer and seeker of truth," according to the
company's mission
statement.
The CEO of Grace News Network is Thorne Auchter.
The same Thorne Auchter who began the dismantling of
the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) under Presidents
Reagan and George
Bush I.
Auchter did not return our calls seeking comment for
this story.
While it's unclear whether Grace News Network actually
produces any news,
it has produced a documentary movie titled "Israel:
Divine Destiny" which
it showed at the National Press Club in September 2002.
The film is about "Israel's destiny and the United
States' role in that
destiny," according to Grace News Network.
Grace News said that it could not make a copy of the
film available to us
at this time, since it is now undergoing post-production
editing. Nor
could it provide a transcript.
The mainstream media has documented strong and growing
ties between
right-wing Republican Christian fundamentalists and
right-wing Sharonist Israeli expansionists.
This alliance is personified in Ralph Reed's Stand Up
for Israel, a group
formed to "mobilize Christians and other people
of faith to support the
State of Israel."
President Bush has very strong ties to fundamentalist
Christians, most
notably Franklin Graham, the son of Rev. Billy Graham.
Last week, Franklin Graham delivered a Good Friday message
at the
Pentagon, despite an uproar over his previous slander
of Islam as "a very
evil and wicked religion."
Don Wagner, a professor of religion and director of
the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at North Park
University, an evangelical Christian college in Chicago,
has written extensively about what he calls Christian
Zionism, whose leaders he identifies as, among others,
Ralph Reed, Jerry Falwell,
Pat Robertson, Gary Bauer, and Franklin Graham.
"Christian Zionists have historically pointed to
Genesis 12:3 - I will
bless those who bless you. And the one who curses you,
I will curse," Dr. Wagner said. "They have
interpreted this to mean that individuals and nations
who support the state of Israel will be blessed by God.
It has come to mean political, economic, and moral support,
often uncritically rendered to the state of Israel."
Grace News Network seems to fit the mold. Joan Mower
says that BBG is currently producing and transmitting
six hours of news into Iraq including a dubbed version
of the daily evening news from ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and
PBS, plus three hours of original news programming from
BBG. BBG says it sees no problem in having Grace produce
the evening news broadcast for Iraq.
Given the brewing anti-American revolt through all sectors
of Iraqi
society, maybe it should reconsider.
We called Grace Digital Media to speak with Cheryl Reagan.
Her secretary told us that she has been away in extended
vacation for more than a month -- in Israel.
When will she back? we asked.
No one knows, the secretary said.
Russell Mokhiber is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based
Corporate Crime Reporter. Robert Weissman is editor
of the Washington, D.C.-based
Multinational Monitor, http://www.multinationalmonitor.org.
They are
co-authors of Corporate Predators: The Hunt for MegaProfits
and the Attack on Democracy (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage
Press;
http://www.corporatepredators.org).
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