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Palestin: Peace Not Apartheid

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An important book, by a thoughtful statesman, about a tough conflict. As the oppressor's mask falls and the horendous occupation and illegal, colonial settlement of Palestinian lands continues, US complicity in this imperialistic interprise is increasingly difficult to ignore. Perhaps Rachel Corrie, and many thousands of others who died in this sorry conflict will not die vain.

Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization

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Is the Internet a vast arena of unrestricted communication and freely exchanged information or a regulated, highly structured virtual bureaucracy? In Protocol, Alexander Galloway argues that the founding principle of the Net is control, not freedom, and that the controlling power lies in the technical protocols that make network connections (and disconnections) possible. He does this by treating the computer as a textual medium that is based on a technological language, code.

A Hacker Manifesto

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A Hacker Manifesto deftly defines the fraught territory between the ever more strident demands by drug and media companies for protection of their patents and copyrights and the pervasive popular culture of file sharing and pirating.

The War Prayer

by Mark Twain

Jobless Hit With Bank Fees on Benefits

Unemployed workers outraged over charges to inquire on benefits.
First, Arthur Santa-Maria called Bank of America to ask how to check the balance of his new unemployment benefits debit card. The bank charged him 50 cents.
He chose not to complain. That would have cost another 50 cents.
So he took out some of the money and then decided to pull out the rest. But that made two withdrawals on the same day, and that was $1.50.

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