26 March 2007
Grenoble, France

Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,

Where were you in 2007? What did you do?

These are the kinds of questions that arise again and again in history. It was asked of the "Good Germans" after the defeat of fascism. It was ask of the "Good Frenchmen" after the Algerian War of Independence. It was asked of the "Good Argentineans" after their Dirty War. It was asked of the "Good Americans" after the Vietnam War. And so on and so forth. . . .  Such questions are inescapable, and it will be mind-numbing to have to answer them in the public court of history, standing before the next generation of citizens. Will it be as if you didn't exist, so seamless was your collaboration with the crimes against humanity, so complacent was your mind when under the influence of official propaganda, so frightened were you not to conform to the low expectations of your masters, for whom your entire body served as a host?

These are historic questions of our time, when once again we see our guardians becoming our prison guards, and threatening to become our executioners.

The 4 articles below, recently received by CEIMSA, offer readers a clear picture of where we are and what can be seen from here :


Item A. is a short 2-minute pod cast, sent to us by Information Clearing House, showing U.S. soldiers engaging in terrorist activities that further destabilize Iraqi society.
Item B. is news from the democratic movement in the U.S. against the The School of the Americas / Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation in Georgia, heroic people who risk their lives and their security to protest the militarization of American society and its imperialist activities both at home and abroad.
Item C. is a short 4-minute pod cast, from the New York Times, by Nicholas Kristof, on the exemplary story of a democratic movement led by progressive Muslim women in Pakistan, who are looking for good answers to hard questions in order to save the lives of the men they love.
And finally, item D. is an article by Professor Edward Herman on the cynicism of indispensable collaborators, whose bodies, also, are hosting the masters' voice in an unauthentic monologue justifying death and destruction for capital gains and for their own careers.


Sincerely,
Francis McCollum Feeley
Professor of American Studies/
Director of Research
Universit Stendhal-Grenoble III
http://dimension.ucsd.edu/CEIMSA-IN-EXILE/


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A.
from Information Clearing House :
25 March 2006
Subject: U.S. Soldiers Murdering Iraqi Civilians, a 2 Minute Video
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/


Francis,
Yesterday I posted a video showing the indiscriminate killing of Iraqi civilians by U.S. occupation forces. It is apparent that the actions of these soldiers is a war crime and should not go unpunished. I ask readers to view the video and to pass it to others in the hope that mainstream media will do it's job and bring it to the attention of a larger audience.
Please contact your government representatives and demand that they call for an investigation in to this brutal murder.
Peace & Joy - Tom