A Modest proposal for the Empire

Peter K. peterk at enteract.com
Sat Dec 29 12:42:33 PST 2001



>Add to these considerations the domestic consequences of 911
inside
>the United States: the expansion of the National Security State,
the
>granting of carte blanche to the executive branch in conducting
>counter-terrorism operations--whether intelligence-gathering or
>military--the erosion of domestic civil liberties as the
security
>screws are tightened, and so forth, and it seems very clear that
U.S.
>global politico-military hegemony has been substantially
strengthened
>by 911.
>
>
>Brad DeLong

The European Union published a list of groups it considers terrorists in its Official Journal on Friday. (List provided by Reuters.) It includes:

Continuity Irish Republican Army.

Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (Basque Homeland and Freedom). The following groups are part of E.T.A.: K.a.s. , Xaki, EKIN, Jarrai-Haika-Segi and Gestoras pro-amnistia.

Grupos de Resistencia Antifascista Primero de Octubre (Antifascist Resistance Groups First of October, or Grapo).

Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades (a wing of Hamas).

Loyalist Volunteer Force.

Orange Volunteers.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Real I.R.A.

Red Hand Defenders.

Revolutionary Nuclei/ Epanastatiki Pirines.

Revolutionary Organization 17 November/Dekati Evdomi Noemvri.

Revolutionary Popular Struggle

Epanastatikos Laikos Agonas.

Ulster Defense Association.

Ulster Freedom Fighters.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/29/international/europe/29EURO.htm l

Peter



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