Anarchy: a journal of desire armed. #39, Winter '94. ALTERNATIVE MEDIA REVIEW -includes anarchist press review, alternative press books, etc. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Anarchist press review Compiled by Jason McQuinn As always, we're happy to exchange with other periodicals (of 8 pages or more - or 4 pages if tabloid size). I try to list all the anarchist publications that we receive in a timely way, but please be aware that there are times when this is impossible due to time and space limitations. Also keep in mind that the Anarchy issue we send for exchanges will be the one your publication is reviewed in, so please be patient. Please note that we no longer exchange with non-English-language publications that are not anarchist in orientation. (And for those concerned about also getting exchange copies of Anarchy's sister magazine, Alternative Press Review, you need not send us two copies of your publication.) FIFTH ESTATE #343/Fall-Winter '93 (4632 Second Ave., Detroit, MI. 48201) is a 32-page anti-civilization, anti-tech, anarcho-primi- tivist tabloid, consistently publishing some of the most intelligent writing in the radical milieu. This issue features an important analysis of "The PLO/Israeli treaty: Another defeat for the Palestinians" by George Bradford & E.B. Maple, Rob Riled's "Bosnia: End of the state or state of the end?" (on the rise of "warlordism" during the break-up of mega-states) and a response by Eddie Sabot titled "Putting "fact" before poetry: a response." Also included is an update on the "McLibel 2" (being sued for spreading the truth about McDonalds), "U.S. gunmen to leave Somalia?" and coverage of the recent split in the Love & Rage network. FE is always highly recommended, and this issue is even livelier than many. Single copies are $1.50; subscriptions are quite cheap at $6.00/4 issues. HERE AND NOW #14/1993 (c/o Transmission Gallery, 28 King Street, Glasgow G1 5QP, Scotland; or POB 109 Leeds, West Yorkshire LS5 3AA, England) is at long last another impressive 64-page issue of this "Magazine of Radical Ideas," featuring a number of interesting and useful articles from Karl Baxter's "What future for the rave," and Arch Stanton's "The political economy of Ecstasy" (the drug, that is), to Tom Jennings' "The hidden injuries of theory," and Douglas Spencer's "Redefining the radical: PC as media scare and translation." This journal, with its emphasis on the critique of managerialism, professionalism and bureaucratic ideologies, is almost always a refreshing change from the heavy-handed, and usually anachronistic, analyses of the PC left including left-anarchists. It remains one of the more important magazines publishing in the radical milieu. Single copies are =9C1.20; subscriptions are =9C3/3 issues. NOT BORED #22/Aug.'93 (POB 3421 Wayland Square, Providence, RI. 02906) is a highly individual statement in the form of an 86-page, photocopied situationist-influenced zine=FEback after a year's absence. This issue includes the publisher's lengthy ruminations "On the trail of various and sundry legends of freedom" (searching for traces of the COBRA group in Copenhagen, visiting Marx's grave in London, d=82tourning posters in the Paris metro, experiencing the annual Fasnacht in Z=81rich, visiting the "Pynchon in Berlin" exhibit in a Berlin gallery, and impressions of St. Petersburg and Moscow), an analysis of German fascism under the title of "A Jew who chose to stay in Germany," a translation of a "Tract by Marcel Marin," and a review of "A year in music," followed by a piece titled "Ice-T & the gang cease-fire." Always an engaging, often entertaining, read. No price listed; I'd send a couple bucks for a copy. R,A,G,E! FOR CHOICE unnumbered/undated (c/o Emma Center, 3451 Bloomington Ave. S., Mpls, MN. 55407) is an unpaginated anarchist feminist zine produced "for the occasion of kicking Operation Rescue's butt outta Mpls." The title is an acronym for "Resist, Agitate, Gyrate, Educate." It includes "Population control is not choice!" Ms. Abinni's "A complicated tirade on Christianity," a reprint of Estrogen X's "Not just for the rich and white!" (from Madworld Survival Guide), and a reprint of Peggy Kornegger's classic essay "Anarchism: The feminist connection" (from the Quiet Rumours anthology). Copies are available for $2 + postage.=20 RAVEN #22/April & #23/July '93 (Freedom Press, 84b Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX, England) is a well-produced, 96-page quarterly journal published as a companion to Freedom: Anarchist Fortnightly listed below. The theme for issue #22 is "Crime" and includes Tony Gibson on "Delinquency then and now" (then referring to his article on the subject in 1963 published in the London journal Anarchy), John Pilgrim on "Crime, delinquency and the state," Colin Ward on "Penal reform: The great British failure," and John Myhill on "Children abusing adults - Rule 43" (a critical look at the child sexual-abuse hysteria which has now reached Britain). Issue #23 includes articles covering aspects of "Spain: Under Franco and after," as well as Donna Farmer's "Emma Goldman, A voice for women?" Subscriptions are =9C12/year. =20 ALSO RECEIVED: ALARM #7/Summer & #8/Autumn '93 (POB 804, Burlington, VT. 05402) is a 24-page zine subtitled "Voice of Revolutionary Ecology," and is no longer billed as "a voice of Northeast Earth First!" The Summer issue includes Orin Langelle's proposal for a sort of synthetic deep ecology/social ecology in "Defining practice from the field: Revolutionary ecology." The Autumn issue includes a lengthy interview of native Cree concerning "James Bay: The current situation." Subscriptions are $10/year. AUFHEBEN #2/Summer '93 (c/o Prior House, Tilbury Place, Brighton, E. Sussex, BN2 2GY, U.K.) is a promising new 52-page magazine of "Revolutionary Perspectives," featuring interesting essays on "Class decomposition in the New World Order: Yugoslavia unravelled," "Somalia and the `Islamic threat' to global capital," and "Decadence: The theory of decline or the decline of theory." Subscriptions are =9C8/3 issues (I.M.O.s only). BLACK FLAG #203/Autumn '93 (BM Hurricane, London WC1N 3XX, England) is back again after a two year absence=FEnow as a 32-page anarcho-syndicalist magazine, still subtitled "For Anarchist Resistance." This issue includes coverage on Nigeria, a "Security alert" concerning Gerry Gable of the English magazine Searchlight, and Albert Meltzer on "Ringing down the Iron Curtain." Cover price is =9C1, subscriptions are =9C8/4 issues. BLACK FIST #3/undated (15110 Bellaire, Box 317, Houston, TX. 77083) is a growing, 36-page "anarchist magazine of radical politics, culture and society." This issue includes "Peace? War!" (on Operation Rescue's defeat in Dallas), and a couple pieces of anarchist history - "Anarchism in Mexico 1860-1900" and "Anarchism in Spain 1860-1900," both by Malacoda X. Cover price is $3; subscriptions are $6/year (? issues).=20 EASTERN ORTHODOX THREAT #5/undated & Face the Threat #6/undated (3018 J St.#140, Sacramento, CA. 95816) is the playful 16-page tabloid successor to Alphabet Threat, Bicycle Threat, Castration Threat and Deep Threat. Contributions to issue #5 include entertaining pieces like "Giggle at the state: An absurdist womanifesto," a humorous centerspread map of "Sacramento: Your guide to our treasures," and "The summer of grunge." Issue #6 features a piece on "How to fuck shit up for the underground press: Eight lessons from the late '60s and early '70s for the aspiring government agent." Send a couple stamps or a donation for a sample copy. FREEDOM; ANARCHIST FORTNIGHTLY Vol.54,#16/7 Aug. thru #21/30 Oct.'93 (84b Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX, England) is a long-running 8-page tabloid of news and comment. These issues includes pieces on everything from antifascism, anarchist organization, and cults, to strike news from Nepal and India, and an interview with Noam Chomsky. Subscriptions are =9C18.00/year (24 issues). KICK IT OVER #32/Fall '93 (POB 5811, Stn. A, Toronto, Ontario M5W 1P2, Canada) is the second issue of this 48-page magazine published by a new editorial collective. This issue, focussing on a theme of "Living in the City," includes an account of the (New Jersey) "North Camden Squats: Using squatting to build community" by Tom Knoche, an excerpt from Murray Bookchin's important The Limits of the City on "Libertarian municipalism," a fairly dismal account of the reformist political party "Ecology Montr=82al: Green city politics" by Phillip Chee, and a relentlessly reformist call for "Human ecology & community politics" by the London (England) Values and Vision group. Sample copies are $3; subscriptions are $9/year (4 issues). LOVE AND RAGE/AMOR Y RABIA Vol.4,#3/June-July '93 (Box 3, Prince St. Station, New York, NY. 10012) is a 20-page left anarchist news-bimonthly published in English & Spanish. This issue includes lots of short news pieces in sections titled "Notes of Revolt," "Anarchist Black Cross," "International News and Notes," and "Klan on the run," along with Richard Van Savage's "Squatters and the roots of Mau Mau: A history of squatting in Kenya," and a centerspread of reprints on the theme of "Strategy Moving towards Revolution." Subscriptions are $9.00/year. PRACTICAL ANARCHY #8/Nov.'93 (Chuck Munson, POB 173, Madison, WI. 53701-0173) is a 26-page zine now focussing on anarchist news, reviews and resources. This issue includes a section on "North American Anarchist News," including coverage of this year's gatherings, and a reprint of Boog Highberger's "What is money?" (from an old issue of The Gentle Anarchist). Send $2 for a sample copy; subscriptions are $7/4 issues. SIC #1/undated (c/o Folder 19, 30 Silver Street, Reading RG1, England) is a brand new "zine that intends to look at the everyday with a mind to change it." This first, promising issue includes articles on "Fast food: When you're hungry for fun!" "Thoughts on television," and "Giving the status quo." The cover price is 90 pence. SLINGSHOT #49/Summer & #50/Fall '93 (700 Eshleman Hall, Berkeley, CA. 94720) is a 16-page anti-imperialist, anti-war, anti-authoritarian student tabloid for the UC-Berkeley area community. The Summer issue features cover stories on "Transgender rage against the psychiatric establishment" by Transgender Nation, and "SLAPP suits: Questions for the movement" by Michael Lee. The Fall issue includes cover stories on the San Francisco "Crackdown!" on Food Not Bombs and the homeless, and many short news pieces, mostly focussed on the S.F. Bay area. Send $2 for a sample copy. WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF INSURANCE! unnumbered/undated (POB 5184, Bethlehem, PA. 18015) is a hilarious 50-page one-shot zine, subtitled "Welcome to Corporate Hell," produced by an insurance industry temp worker bent on exposing the business, in this case the Firemen's Fund Insurance Company. This type of business disorientation manual should be mass-distributed by radicals in every industry! Send $3 cash for a copy. =20 OTHER PERIODICALS RECEIVED: A INFOS #12/May-Aug.'93 (c/o Int. Secr. LAS, POB 61523, 2506 am Den Haag, Netherlands) is a 6-page photocopied information bulletin (in tiny print) covering recent events in the Netherlands. Send a contribution for a sample copy. ANARCHIST AGE MONTHLY REVIEW #35/Nov.'93 (Mutual Aid, POB 20, Parkville 3052, Melbourne, Australia) is a 40-page newsletter consisting of photocopied reprints from other sources, along with reprints of the Anarchist Age Weekly Review. This issue, undoubtedly the best yet published, includes lots of information from Russia on Yeltsin's October coup in Moscow. Subscriptions are $18/6 issues. @ NEWS #3/June-Oct.'93 (POB 30557, 10033 Athens, Greece) is a 4-page "Informative Bulletin" published in concert with the Greek-language Anarchic Intervention. This issue documents a long string of molotov attacks against (mostly) political party offices in Athens. Send a contribution for a sample. ANIM@DVERSE #9/July-Aug.'93 (POB 57464, Jackson Stn., Hamilton, Ontario L8P 4X3, Canada) is a 16-page anarchist/autonomist zine covering "issues of oppression and struggles towards the liberation and self-determination of all beings." Single copies are $1; subscriptions are $8/6 issues (cash only) or trade. BLACK AND RED #7/Sept.-Oct. & #8/Nov.-Dec.'93 (c/o Hill, 160 Lefferts Ave., Brooklyn, NY. 11225) is an 18-page "Newsletter of the @narchist Caucus" which is "committed to building an anarchist presence within" the Committees of Corre- spondence. Issue #7 is notable for its misleading (whitewashing?) description of the recent Love & Rage split, and Mary Shelley's account of the "Phillie Anarchist Gathering." No price listed; send an SASE for a copy. BULLETIN OF ACTION unnumbered/July '93 (c/o Piotr Rymarczyk, ul. Grzybowska 30/914, 00-863 Warszawa, Poland) is a new 2-page info-bulletin of "Anarchist news from Poland." Send a contribution for a copy.=20 COMMUNIQU=90 AFTER DARK #0/undated (Inspiracy Press, POB 81392, Cleveland, OH. 44181-0392) is a 32-page zine incorporating reprints from its own earlier issues, including Bob Black on "The latest from Loompanics," Black and Gerry Reith on Mike Gunderloy's Factsheet Five, and editor Rodney Griffith's "Beyond the fringe" critique of the marginals milieu. Copies are $3 postpaid. THE CONNECTION #192/undated (Box 3343F, Fairfax, VA 22038) is a 56-page apa, formerly titled The Libertarian Connection, featuring page upon page of tiny-print discussions, all originating from reader-participants. Sample copies are $2.50; subscriptions are $20/8 issues (checks to E. Strauss). CONSUME OR DIE #1/undated (c/o So. Or. ARA, POB 3405, Ashland, OR. 97520) is a new, unpaginated zine of "equality and anarchy, period." This issue includes prisoner support news along with a short piece on "Children and revolutionary babysitting." Sample copies are $1 ppd. or trade. CONTRA FLOW #7/Sept.'93 (56a Info Shop, 56 Crampton St., London SE17, U.K.) is a 22-page info-zine formerly titled 56a Info Shop Bulletin. It carries radical news "the general media doesn't touch" compiled "from radical journals and leaflets," including updates on the Twyford Down struggle and the legal action taken by McDonalds against the anti-McDonalds campaign by the anarchist London Greenpeace. Send a donation for a sample. DISCUSSION BULLETIN #61/Sept-Oct.'93 (POB 1564, Grand Rapids, MI. 49501) is an occasionally interesting 32-page assortment of letters and reprinted articles primarily from the anti-market, non-statist radical milieu. Subscriptions are $3/year (6 issues). EXPOSING MIRAGE #1/Sept.'93 (22 Standard Ave., West Warwick, RI. 02893) is a brand new unpaginated zine billed as the editor Jason McGill's "self-therapy" in his search for "personal liberation." This very readable issue includes news on anarcho-syndicalist Jon Bekken's threat to sue Autonomedia (over a book-jacket quote on Bob Black's new Friendly Fire), a quick self-critique titled "Punk...just the beginning," "Pieces of me," and an account of "The 1993 Mid-Atlantic Anarchist Gathering." Copies are $1 + 2 stamps. FATAL DEPRESSION #1/undated (Pall, 7904 Poplar Rd., Severn, MD. 21144) is a new 24-page zine containing reader submissions along with reprints from the Anarchist Youth Federation and ACID Inc. Sample copies are $1.75.=20 FAU INTERNATIONAL NEWS FLASH #4/Sept.'93 (International Secretariat, Freie Arbeiterinnen Union Geko, c/o Buchladen Le Sabot, Breite Strasse 76, D-53111 Bonn, Germany) is a 6-page English-language summary of the German-language anarchist-syndicalist tabloid Direkte Aktion. Send a contribution for a sample copy. FLOWER POWER #2/Aug.'93 (POB 78068, RPO Grandview, 2606 Commercial Dr., Vancouver, B.C. V5N 5W1, Canada) is a thick, unpaginated new zine, which includes lots of hand-written letters, comments, etc., along with a "Tour diary," and an info on the "Portland riots" (in response to a police attack on the anarchist gathering there). Sample copies are $3. GREEN REVOLUTION unnumbered/undated (POB 845, Bristol BS99 4QE, England) is a 4-page news sheet, this issue a "MOVE Special" on John Africa and the Philadelphia police attacks on MOVE. Single copies are 20 pence. THE INFINITE ONION #7/May '93 (POB 263, Colorado Springs, CO. 80901) is a lively, 32-page anarcho-punk zine featuring an interviews with the publishers of Artflux zine, and with members of the Ch=82 Caf=82 collective, along with lots of other short articles. Unfortunately, the extra-small print makes it hard to read in places. Sample copies are now $1.50 postpaid. LESBIAN & GAY FREEDOM MOVEMENT #8/Winter '93 (BM Box 207, London, WC1N 3XX, England) is an excellent little 12-page zine campaigning for sexual liberation without the usual blind spots. This issue includes a cover article titled "Sadomasochism is a part of sexual liberation." Single copies are 70p (cash only) postpaid. These folks also have produced an Child-Adult Loving Update #1/Autumn '93) "resource-list of positive and/or useful sources, and other information." No price listed. LITTLE FREE PRESS #91 & #92/both dated Oct.'93 (714 Third St. SE, Little Falls, MN. 56345-3510), a long-running 4-page newsletter of ideas for living freely in a "priceless economic system," is surprisingly back again after publisher Earnest Mann announced its end last year. Subscriptions are now $2 (subscription length as yet undetermined). THE MEANDER QUARTERLY Vol.5, #3/Nov.'93 (c/o Ed Stamm,POB 1402, Lawrence, KS. 66044) is a 20-page "Newsletter of evolutionary anarchists" consisting of letters from contributors, now in the hands of a new (and also the original) coordinator. Send a contribution for a sample copy. MEDIA BLITZ #4/1994 (POB 20420, London Terrace Station, New York, NY. 10011) is a 24-page zine featuring interviews with Black Rain and The Haters. Send $2 for a sample copy. MUSELETTER #19/July thru #24/Dec.'93 (Richard Heinberg, 1433 Olivet Rd., Santa Rosa, CA. 95401) is a very readable 4-page monthly comment zine. Each issue includes one essay or review. Issue #19 sensibly argues "Don't enshrine the New Physics just yet," while issue #24 covers the publisher's search for "Paradise and the return to the wild." Subscriptions are $15/year. NEWS & VIEWS FROM [THE FORMER] SOVIETSKY SOYUZ #2/Aug.'93 (Mikhail Tsovma, 21- 62 Volzhsky Blvd., Moscow 109462, Russia/CIS) is a very readable new 12-page bulletin of anarchist and labor news from the former USSR. This issue includes information on the new "anarcho-capitalist" "Libertarian Workers Union" in Moscow, Vlad Tupikin's report on "The Donbass strike" (by miners), Evaldas Balchunas on "Privatization in Lithuania, and Mikhail Tsovma on "The mistakes and misfortunes of Russian `Labourism'." This is well worth checking out. Send a contribution for a sample copy. NEWS FROM POLAND #A/1993 (FA, c/o An Arch=82, Uniwersytet =FEl=FEski, Bankowa 12, 40-007 Katowice, Poland) is the third issue of this interesting 8-page, English-language "World Bulletin of Federacja Anarchistyczna," containing the latest news on struggles involving the Polish anarchist movement, along with an extensive list of Polish anarchist contact addresses. Send a contribution for a copy. NIHILIST GLEE CLUB #4-#6/undated (24 Tuckett St., Hamilton, Ontario L8P 2A7, Canada) is a 16-page comics zine. Send $1 for a sample. NO NATION BULLETIN #15/Autumn '93 (People to People Friendship Ass., c/o S=94ren Groth, =FEdalen, Salt=86 Arb. Skola, 15 300 J=84rna, Sweden) is a photocopied 16-page exchange of short letters and announcements from people living on different continents. This issue includes a piece by Steve Lund titled "Boycott the U.S.A." (calling for a tourist boycott to protest the drug war and skyrocketing prisoner populations). Subscriptions are U.S.$5/year (4 issues). RSVP #13/Sept. & #14/Oct.'93 (Tad Davies, 821 Highview Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA. 90266) is a 52-page "co-op publication of writers and a publisher concerned about freedom issues of many different views," with a fair number of anarchists and anti-authoritarians involved. Issue #13 includes Bob Black on Factsheet Five, and a reprinted report on the Randy Weaver trial in Idaho (following the attack on his cabin by the feds). Issue #14 includes Lee Bonnifield's "Whole in one, @ =3D doubt it, or schizophrenics unite!" Both issues include special sections of reprinted articles on the theme of "Kops as Killers." Subscriptions are $16/year (8 issues + occasional bonus issues). THE SHADOW #30/Oct.-Dec.'93 (POB 20298, New York, NY. 10009) is a 24-page tabloid covering alternative scenes on the Lower East Side in New York, including updates on the Tompkins Square Park struggle, and the squatting scene. This paper is a model of the kind of "cop watching" coverage every city should have. Subscriptions are $10/year (? issues).=20 UNDERGROUND #2/undated (POB 3285, London SW2 3NW, England) is a visually impressive, 4-page, newspaper-sized subversive equivalent to the National Enquirer. Lots of short articles, along with bizarre pseudo-advertisements mixed in with a few of the real thing. Worth getting if you could use a few laughs. Send a contribution. =20 NON-ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PERIODICALS RECEIVED: A INFOS #35/Juin '93 (Humeurs Noires [F.A.], BP 79, 59370 Mons en Baroeul, France) is the 8-page French edition of the A-Infos international "Bulletins d'information" meant for spreading news for publication in anarchist periodicals. Send a contribution for a sample copy; subscriptions are $16/year (IMO payable to ALDIR). A-KONTRA #46-48/April, #49-53/July & #54-57/Dec.'93 (POB 552, 17000 Praha 7, Czech Republic) is a 32 to 60-page "anarchist zine, published by people from -.A.S. (Czechoslovak Anarchist Union)" which includes an English-language summary up front. Send a contribution for a sample. ANARCHIC INTERVENTION #8/Spring(?) '93 (POB 30557, 10033 Athens, Greece) is an 12-page tabloid published in collaboration with Angels Mutiny. Send a contribution for a sample. THE ANARCHIST #73/Mah '93 (Y.Kastanaras, Argiroupoleos 27, Athens 11471, Greece) is a 12-page Greek-language zine from Athens featuring anarchist news. Send a contribution for a sample. ANARES INFO #40/undated (Postfach 229, CH-3000 Bern 8, Switzerland) is the 24-page German-language newsletter of this archive and library. Write for more information. ASPIRIN WON'T HELP #1/undated & #2/May '93 (Mikhail Tsovma, 21-62 Volzhsky Blvd., Moscow 109462, Russia/CIS) is a brand new unpaginated Russian-language zine "which strives to deal with the ideological hunger from which Russian radical circles suffer." The first issue features a translation of George Bradford's "The triumph of capital" (from Fifth Estate), and a brief overview of the Situationist International. Issue #2 features a lengthy analysis of the fall of Soviet totalitarianism, and a translation of Max Anger's "We all hate the cops" on the L.A. riots (from Anarchy). Send a contribution for a copy. BRAND #55/Maj & #56/Juni '93 (Box 150 15, S-104 65 Stockholm, Sweden) is a lively, 32-page Swedish-language magazine, with consistently good photography and a fairly activist slant. Issue #55 includes an interview with Matt Black of Love & Rage. Issue #56 includes an English-language summary at the back. Cover price is 20KR. BUITEN DE ORDE Vol.4,#1 & #3/undated (Vrije Bond, Postbus 1338, 3500 BH Utrecht, Netherlands) is a 28 to 36-page Dutch-language magazine of local and international anarchist news and reviews. Subscriptions are 10 guilders/year. CNT #152/Agosto, #153/Sept. & #154/Oct.'93 (CNT-Peri=A2dico,=20 Apartado de Correos 2.271, 18.080 Granada, Spain) is the 24-page, Spanish-language newspaper of the anarcho-syndicalist Confederaci=A2n Nacional del Trabajo (National Confederation of Workers union). Subscriptions are 2,500ptas./year (12 issues). =20 COMUNITAS #1/1992 & #2-3/1993 (c/o ZAPO, Tkalci=FEeva 38, 41000 Zagreb, Croatia) is a new zine published by ZAPO (Zagreb Anarcho-Pacifist Organization), whose first (unpaginated) issue includes short pieces on "Anarchism," "Pacifism," "Nazism" and "Racism," and whose second (32-page) issue includes a piece describing ZAPO. Send a contribution for a sample. CORRE@ #24/Oct.'93 (N. M=82ndez, Casilla 25, Fac. Ingenier=A1a, UCV, Ciudad Universitaria, Caracas 1040, Venezuela) is a 20-page, Spanish-language libertarian socialist quarterly"the only libertarian publication in Venezuela," founded in 1987. Also available from the same address is the 6-page, Spanish-language La Gazet@, subtitled "Organo de Difusion de las Ideas Anarquistas." Send a contribution for a sample copy. DIREKTE AKTION Vol.5,#1/Spring & #2/Sommer '93 (A.S.O., Postboks 303, 1502 Kobenhavn V., Denmark) was a tabloid of the now-defunct Anarcho-Syndicalist Organization (A.S.O.), and is now a more general 12 to 16-page, Danish-language anarchist-syndicalist quarterly, including a one-page English-language news supplement. Subscriptions are 30Kr/year (4 issues). EKINTZA ZUZENA: REVISTA LIBERTARIA #13/Oto=A4o '93 (Ediciones EZ Argitaraldiak, Apdo. 235, Postakutxa, 48080 Bilbo, Bizkaia, Spain) is a slick, 64-page Spanish-language "libertarian review" from the Basque country. This issue includes pieces on "El fraude del movimiento ecologista vaso," and "Prostituci=A2n y feminismo," along with a great cover collage. Subscriptions are $15/4 issues). EXEGERSI #12/Nov.'92 & #13-14/Feb.'93 (Anarchist Coil, POB 30658, Athens 10033, Greece) is a 16 to 20-page, Greek-language newspaper whose title translates as `Riot' or `Revolt'. Issue #12 includes "State syndicalism: The enemy is the same," and "Laws and decrees get abolished on the barricades" (on the controntational transportation workers struggle in Athens). Cover price is 250 drachmas. LE FRONDEUR #1/Juil.-Sept.'90 (B.P. 105, 94402 Vitry Cedex, France) is apparently an 8-page, French-language pro-situationist bulletin. Single copies are 5 francs.=20 HORS D'ORDRE #3/Juin '93 (Collectif Hors d'Ordre, 64, rue de Maisonneuve, app.4, Qu=82bec, Qu=82bec G1R 2C3, Canada) is a French-language publication, subtitled "Bulletin de Reflexions Libertaires." This issue features "Le cr=82puscule de la modernit=82" by Nicolas Calv=82, Mark Fortier & =90ric Pineault. Send $2 for a sample copy. DOTT. LEETE #0/Autunno '93 (c/o G.C.A. Pinelli, via Roma 48, 87019 Spezzano Albanese [CS], Italy) is a brand new 40-page, Italian-language journal of "Ideazioni Anarchiche Del Dritto & Rovescio," published as a supplement to Umanita' Nova. This first issue includes reprints from Noam Chomsky and Mary Wollstonecraft, along with an interview with Ernst Bloch titled "Marx, Bakunin e lo stato." Included with subscriptions to the weekly Umanita' Nova at US $55.00/- year. LIBERA VOLO #51/Junio thru #53/Sept.'93 (A.R.P., PO Box 57, Sakyo Yubinkyoku, J-606 Kyoto, Japan) is the 6-page Japanese-language newsletter of the Federacio Anarkiista of Japan. Send a contribution for a sample copy. LE LIBERTAIRE; REVUE DE SYNTHESE ANARCHISTE #137/Juin, #138/Juillet & #139/Sept.'93 (25 rue Dum=82 d'Aplemont, 76600 Le Havre, France) is a 4-page, monthly, French-language "review of synthetic anarchism" published by the Union des anarchistes. International subscriptions are 80F/year (10 issues). EL LIBERT@RIO #25/Mayo-Junio & #26/Agosto '93 (Brasil 1551, 1154 Buenos Aires, Argentina) is the 4-page, Spanish-language newspaper of the Federacion Libertaria Argentina. The lead story for issue #25 is "1993: Crisis y demagogia electoralista." Send a contribution for a sample copy. MAC PARIADKA #12/June '93 (PO Box 67, 81-806 Sopot 6, Poland) is a 64-page Polish-language journal, including articles on education, pornography and the Polish scene. Send a contribution for a sample copy. MAVRO RODO #3/Io=A3vio=FE 1993 (PO Box 10005, 54110 Thessaloniki, Greece) is an impressive 100-page Greek-language "libertarian-anarchist review for humans and their culture," whose title translates as "Black Rose." This issue includes an account of the attitudes of 19th century Greek anarchists and socialists toward the Balkan Federation, along with translations, fiction and news. Cover price is 800 drachmas, or send a contribution or trade for a sample. MORDICUS #10/=90t=82 '93 (BP 11, 75622 Paris Cedex 13, France) is an 18-page issue of this French-language tabloid, featuring a cover spoof (and including an interview with and other articles) on the spectacular schoolkid hostage-taking episode in France, which gained an immense amount of media coverage. The cover price is 20F; subscriptions are 100F/? issues.=20 MUCO #1/undated (Parasite Conspiracy, c/o Oliva, C.P 1739 Succ.5, 06100 Perugia, Italy) is a new unpaginated, Italian-language zine that "works on decoding the most underhanded elements of the system (advertising, information, media, spectacle society)." No price listed; send a contribution. DE NAR #80/Mei, #81/Juni, #82/Juli, #83/Aug. & #85/Okt.'93 (V.Z.W. De Nar, Postbus 104, B-1210, Brussels 21, Belgium)=FEwhich translates as "The Fool" is a 4 to 8-page Dutch-language "monthly anti-authoritarian newspaper." Send a contribution for a sample copy. PERSPECTIEF #32/undated (Libertaire Studiegroep, Dracenastraat 21, 9000 Gent, Belgium) is a 64-page Dutch-language journal of libertarian perspectives. This issue focusses on nationalism and the extreme right. Subscriptions are 300 Belgian fr or 20 Dutch fl/year (4 issues). LE PO=A8NT D'INTERROGATIONS unnumbered/1993 (H=8Ame c/o I.S., B.P. 243, 75564 Paris Cedex 12, France [don't mention the publication name in the address]) is an 18-page, French-language, radical anti-tech journal. This issue includes a review of the first issue of Lantern Waste, and a long "Lettre de Guyane." No price listed; send a contribution. ROJO Y NEGRO #43/Marzo, #45/Mayo, #46/Junio, #47/Julio & #48/Sept.'93 (Sagunto 15, pral., 28010 Madrid, Spain) is the 16-page, Spanish-language newspaper of the reformist anarcho-syndicalist C.G.T. (Confederacion General del Trabajo=FEa split from the anarcho-syndicalist C.N.T. in Spain). Subscriptions are 1,000ptas/ year (12 issues). SCHWARZER FADEN #46/April '93 (Postfach 1159, 7043 Grafenau-1, Germany) is a well-produced 72-page, German-language magazine, subtitled "Vierteljahresschrift F=81r Lust und Freiheit." This issue includes Peter Bierl on "Feindbild Mensch: =99kofaschismus und New Age," and an account of "Libert=84re Tage: Kritik und Gegenkritik ein Mosaik unterschiedlichster Sichtweisen." Subscriptions are 50.- DM/8 issues. SOCIAL HARMONY #7/July(?) & #8/Oct.'93 (POB 76148, Nea Smirni T.K. 17110, Athens, Greece) is an 8-page, Greek-language anarcho-communist/communalist bi-monthly. Send a contribution for a sample copy. SOLIDARIDAD OBRERA #240/Agosto & #241/Sept.'93 (Ronda de San Antonio, 13 pral 08001-Barcelona, Spain) is the 8-page Spanish-language regional newspaper of the anarcho-syndicalist C.N.T. in Catalonia. The front-page stories headlined in the September issue is "Contra la crisis anarcosindicalismo," and announcements of the Sept.-Oct. anarchosyndicalist "Exposici=A2 Internacional" in Barcelona. Sample copies are 100ptas plus 20ptas postage. TELEGRAPH Vol.4,#4/April thru #10/Oct.'93 (Schliemannstr. 22, Berlin O-1058, Germany) is a 48 to 64-page German-language publication from East Berlin covering the current situation in Germany. Subscriptions are 34DM/ year. UMANITA' Nova Vol 73,#14/25 Aprile thru #33/24 Ottobre '93 (c/o G.C.A. Pinelli, via Roma 48, 87019 Spezzano Albanese [CS], Italy) is the 4 to 8-page, Italian-language weekly newspaper of the Federazione Anarchica Italiana. Subscriptions are US $55.00/year. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ DROPPING OUT OF THE `ME GENERATION' Review by Sean Donahue Under the Bridge: Notes from a ME Generation Dropout by Randy Viscio (Cowpasture Production, Lawrence, MA. 1993) $10.95 paper. "What's left when the locks have all been broken, young children of authority?" -The Indigo Girls Like our parents before us, and theirs before them, those of us who grew up during the Reagan/Bush years were taught a simple formula for success: sit down, shut up, work hard, and pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. For following this dictum, for believing the dream force-fed to us by Madison Avenue, we were labeled the ``Me Generation'' by the very same people who taught us we could measure our worth by our material gain. Yet, despite Hollywood, New York, and Washington's efforts to portray us as a herd of greedy, apathetic sheep, there were and are among us those who rejected the suburban myth and those of us who never believed it in the first place. Twenty-Five year- old Randy Viscio's first book, Under the Bridge is the story of one man who grew up outside the herd, moving from conformity to resistance, from resistance to revolution. Leading us through his life, Viscio takes us to the parts of the United Stateswhich the TV and movie cameras dare not show. Seeing the America in which hegrew up through his eyes, we come to realize that behind the smiling face of thebenevolent ``Authority'' is a frightening, snarling beast determined to maintainthe status quo, preserving the power of the corporations and the governmentover people. Those who can't be lured to conformity with promises of suburbanmilk and honey feel the force of the authority's machinery pressing down uponthem. The idea that our government and industry is determined to silence dissentdespite its promises of free speech and free thought isn't a new one. Ournation's history is full of concrete examples of the government's fear of ``sedi-tion'': from the riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention to thegovernment's response to last year's riots in Los Angeles. Yet, Viscio takes hisanalysis of the relationship between authority and dissent a step further. Infollowing the story of his life, we see how our society sets out to silence notonly the political radical, but all of those who choose to follow a path whichdeviates from the mainstream. We see how as a student who possessed the abilityto succeed but who didn't learn in the same way as other students did and whorefused to conform to the expectations of his teachers, Viscio was labeled a lostcause by the establishment and discarded. We see how the juvenile ``justice''system and the myriad of ``youth service'' agencies serve to push those on theborderline further off into the streets rather than bringing them in from thecold. And, we watch the subtle economic war Reagan waged on America's poor. Yet Under the Bridge isn't merely an angry indictment of a system that hasfailed. It's also a story of hope and triumph of the human spirit. Against all oddsviscio not only survived, but developed the strength, the courage, and thecompassion to fight against injustices which he and so many others havesuffered. And, along the way, he found pockets of human kindness amid all thecynicism and greed: the welfare mother who helped him learn how to survive onthe street, the restaurant owner who took a chance and gave him a good job andhelped him find a place to stay, the woman who convinced him to go to college,the caring community which grew up around the Grateful Dead, the list goes on.We are shown that though the world can be a cold and frightening place, itdoesn't have to be and there are a lot of people out there who are working tochange it whether directly, through political action or indirectly, through theway they live their lives. At times the transition between narrative and commentary is a bit awkward, butthe insights Viscio offers are well worth any break in the book's otherwisesmooth rhythm. His analysis is thorough and perceptive, yet retains the humandimension so often lacking in the dry, academic analysis of the Reagan/Bushyears which we have become accustomed to. In Under the Bridge, Viscio sets out to define himself within the context of hisgeneration in his and their own terms, and not only does he succeed, but in sodoing paints a vivid picture of the state of our society and the role theindividual must play in healing its wounds. Shattering our illusions aboutauthority, he leaves us empowered to take action to redefine our lives and takethe first steps toward building a new society. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ STONEWALL BESMIRCHED Review by Jack Nichols Stonewall by Martin Duberman (Dutton, New York, NY., 1993) $23.00. "The historian,'' quipped Walt Whitman, ``if not a liar himself, is largely at the mercy of liars.'' This is nowhere more truly reflected than in Professor Duberman's latest tome about gay activism in the sixties, activism which preceded the Stonewall uprising in Greenwich Village where bar patrons were assaulted,during a routine raid, by the police, an event which launched media hype about the modern gay rights movement. Martin Duberman's credentials are impressive. He is Distinguished Professor of History at Lehman Collage and the CUNY Graduate Center. During the sixties he was holed up, he admits, in a psychiatrist's office attempting to purge his homosexual inclinations. Even two years after the 1969 uprising he described a Stonewall parade in his diary as ``cripples on yet another march to a faith healing shrine.'' But now, he thinks, his awareness has been reformed. He embarks in ``Stonewall'' on a mission to ``ground'' it in ``empirical reality,'' bragging ad nauseam that he will not slight or compromise historical accuracy nor be guilty of slovenly scholarship. Unfortunately for lesbians, gay men and others who are curious about Stonewall and the times, Professor Dubberman's book is riddled with errors. ``Better an absence of light,'' says Bakunin, ``than a false and feeble light kindled only to mislead.'' Duberman takes pride in calling himself a playwright as well as a historian. But even the New York Times (June 27, 1993)book reviewer yawns at his choice of ``a cast.'' Instead of seeing gay pioneers as multi-dimensional, he embraces silly rumors and vicious gossip, belittling many with stupid fictions. In his see-saw overview of the sixties, Duberman calls pioneers by wrong names, affixing those names to their photographs, giving a plethora of incorrect dates for significant events, attributing written materials to the wrong authors,ignoring principals, and allowing malicious rumors about them to circulate without double-checking his facts. One he mistakenly fears may have been a government plant, another a thief. He has ignored the works of other gay historians like John D'Emillio, Donn Teal, and Kay Tobin, thus compounding his errors. In one case, it is possible to show that Duberman engaged in a deliberate campaign of literary revenge. If it were not for this, it might be possible to say that his book simply reflects a revisionist historian's hurried Manhattan schedule, too laden with deadlines and book contracts, too short on careful scholarship. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Alternative press books Short reviews by R. Curtis, M. Eduard, P. Frank,=20 J. McQuinn & T. Otter THE BOMBING OF IRAQ On the Mass Bombing of Iraq and Kuwait by Tom Leonard (AK Press, 22 LuttonPlace, Edinburgh EH8 9PE, Scotland, 1991) 22pp. =9C1.95/$5.00 pamphlet (ppd. from publisher). More and more facts have emerged in recent months that show how the American mainstream media and public opinion were caught up in jingoistic hysteria and largely betrayed any critical spirit during the Persian Gulf War. This pamphlet documents the story of a very similar phenomenon in England. The opposition Labour Party under Neal Kinnock was thoroughly docile. The newspapers downplayed friendly fire casualties and so-called "collateral damage." They refused to report at all on United Nations warnings of a cholera epidemic in Iraq caused by allied bombing. Even in Scotland, where 70 percent of the population reported opposing the war before it began, the Scottish National Party "hadn'ta clue what to say about the `war' other than to make pathetic mutterings about the percentages of Jocks versus Sassenachs at the front." Clearly, the UK as in the USA, we have been the victims of manufactured consent. Leonard reels offthe facts, and concludes that the war amounted to "political mass murder" of large segments of the Iraqi population. He is a bit sniffy about the rescued aristocracies of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, "who," he says, "seem to spend one half of their lives breeding children of the same surname and the other half breeding horses or sitting at gaming tables." But for most sensitive people there is no quarreling with his conclusion about the orgy of destruction wrought in the region: "To let one's mind continue in turmoil over present enormities is to reduce oneself effectively to the status of a Francis Bacon scream." P.F. SUBSPACE ZINE SHOW Subspace International Zine Show edited by Stephen Perkins (Plagiarist Press,1816 E. College St., Iowa City, IA. 52245, 1992) 52pp. $6.00 pamphlet. Subspace International Zine Show incorporated over 300 zines exhibited in a garage in Iowa City. This catalog documenting the show consists of a short introduction, followed by reproductions of the exhibited zine covers, accompanied in some cases by short statements from their publishers. The statements generally answer the zine show organizer's request for "...a short personal statement on your thoughts/views, and experiences of zines and networking, "though, for the most part, they aren't very deeply illuminating. As another partial perspective on the world of zine publishing, this catalog is a welcome addition to Seth Friedman's Factsheet Five, Mike Gunderloy and Cari Goldberg-Janice's The World of Zines, and all the other publications which have made a major commitment to documenting and promoting the scene. -J.M. RAGING GRANNIE SONGS The Raging Grannie Songbook edited by Jean McLaren & Heide Brown (NewSociety Publishers, 4527 Springfield Ave., Philadelphia, PA. 19143) $14.95 Dressed in outrageous, flowery hats and shawls, the Raging Grannies are groups of activist older women who sing humorous, satirical songs and perform jovial skits at demonstrations, naval bases and politicians' offices. With incredible success, enjoyment and media attention, Raging Grannie groups have sprung up all over Canada addressing issues from free trade to safe sex and racism to pollution. Consciously exploiting the Grannie stereotype, Grannies have held teaparties on naval vessels, organized "knit-ins" for peace, have signed up for military recruitment and have even been arrested while singing on a naval base! The Grannies have a lot of fun singing song lyrics they've cleverly written to classic folk tunes. The Raging Grannies Songbook contains their most entertaining songs such as "Take me out to the clearcut," "Give me a home where the river don't foam," and "Safe sex" (sung to "Hey ho! Hey ho! It's off to work we go!"). The songbook emphasizes songs on forestry, pollution, anti-war and anti-war-toy, general political, and women's issues. Also included are spirited stories of their triumphs and how to get started as a Raging Grannie. I encourage Grandmothers, Earth First!ers and others interested in fun songs for the naval base or campfire to get a copy of this book. -M.E. RAGGEDY ANNARCHY Raggedy Annarchy's Guide to Vegan Baking and the Universe by RaggedyAnnarchy (c/o 4942 Kurz Circle, Carmichael, CA. 95608) unpaginated $3.00 (plustwo stamps). Raggedy Annarchy is a vegan cookbook and source of honest personal stories and information. Whether Kai, the author, relates the excitement of a homebirth, her intense sadness about the Persian Gulf War or the humor of a flopped "puke-in," she describes the passion of the moment in all its pure emotion and powerful feeling. She also includes tips on making menstrual pads, safe sabotage and a Larry Law Spectacular Times reprint. I was enthusiastic about the vegan recipes, especially the eggless cakes. I had yummy success making the fruit muffins, oatmeal spice cake and plum coffeecake. They turned out tasty, light and fluffy. I've always had a problem getting whole wheat cakes to rise, however these recipes work! Slicing up fresh Missouri peaches, I loved the peaches'n'"cream" (tofu) pie recipe. As Kai encourages, I changed some of her recipes; I used some whole wheat flour and honey and less sugar. I look forward to more adventures in the kitchen with this cookbook. I've already given lots of my friends copies! -M.E. THE MASTER RACE Fantasies of the Master Race: Literature, Cinema, and the Colonization of AmericanIndians by Ward Churchill (Common Courage Press, Box 702, Monroe, ME. 04951,1992) 304pp. $14.95 paper If you saw the movie Dances with Wolves, or ever read the works of Carlos Castaneda or Tony Hillerman and wondered what a scholarly Native American might have to say about these and other literary or cinematic endeavors dealing with American Indians, you may wish to examine this book. Have you ever read The Memoirs of Chief Red Fox, Hanto Yo: An American Saga, Seven Arrows, or Sacajawea? If so, you'll probably appreciate Churchill's critical perspectives. Some other books upon which Churchill comments include: Dee Brown's Creek Mary's Blood, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz's Indians of the Americas, Raymond H.Abbott's That Day in Gordon, Michael Castro's Interpreting the American Indian, Werner Sollor's Beyond Ethnicity, James A. Clifton's The Invented Indian, and Sam Gill's Mother Earth: An American Story. In the chapter "Spiritual Hucksterism: The Rise and Fall of the Plastic Medicine Men," (and elsewhere in the book) Churchill offers a critique of Jamake Highwater, author of The Primal Mind, and also of Ruth Beebe Hill, Lynn Andrews, Alonzo Blacksmith, Hyemeyohsts Storm, Sun Bear, Wallace Black Elk, Osheana FastWolf, Rolling Thunder and others. Churchill and editor M. Annette Jaimes deliver a trenchant analysis of the literary and cinematic portrayal of American Indians in Fantasies of the MasterRace, and a general critique of how colonization and racism are perpetuated via academe and the arts in a capitalist culture.-T.O. STRUGGLE FOR THE LAND Struggle for the Land: Indigenous Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide andExpropriation in Contemporary North America by Ward Churchill (Common CouragePress, POB 702, Monroe, ME. 04951, 1993) 472pp. $17.95 paper. Chapters in this volume by Ward Churchill include "American Indian Lands: The Native Amid Resource Development" and "Perversions of Justice: Examining the Doctrine of U.S. Rights to Occupancy in North America." Churchill also looks carefully at Iroquois land claims in upstate New York, Lakota efforts to protect the Black Hills, the genocide of traditional Navajo-Hopi in Arizona, the Western Shoshone battle for their homeland in Nevada and the struggle of the Lubicon Lake Band (Cree) in Alberta, Canada, for their ancestral land and against extinction. Churchill also reflects on such topics as "Radioactive Colonization" and "The Water Plot: Hydrological Rape in Northern Canada." In the final sections of the book, Churchill discusses the possibility of a "Buffalo Commons," that is, the idea that parts of the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Washington state, Idaho, Nevada and Texas, could once again be autonomous Indian territory. Author Ward Churchill, sometimes working with Jim Vander Wall, has also written Marxism and Native America (1983), Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement (1988), The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States (1990), Fantasies of the Master Race: Literature, Cinema and the Colonization of American Indians (1992), and Cages of Steel: The Politics of Imprisonment in the United States (1992). Churchill is Creek/Cherokee M=82tis, and a coordinator of the Colorado chapter of AIM (American Indian Movement). By the way, the Spring 1993 issue of Fifth Estate has a review by Kathleen Rashid headlined "Grounds for Decolonizing" which discusses a book edited by M Annette Jaimes entitled The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization and Resistance (1992, South End Press). If Struggle for the Land is of interest to you, so may be Jaimes' collection, which includes articles by Jimmie Durham, Jaimes, Winona LaDuke, Glenn T. Morris, Russell Means, and Ward Churchill. -T.O. FOOD NOT BOMBS Food Not Bombs: How to Feed the Hungry and Build Community by C. T. Lawrence and Keith McHenry (New Society Publishers, 4527 Springfield Ave., Philadelphia, PA. 19143, 1992) 101pp. $8.95 paper. This book is an extremely helpful guide for starting new Food Not Bombs groups. Included in the guide are chapters on general principles, FNB politics, logistics on starting a group, recipes, and a collection of activist stories from various FNB members. The book gives great advice on how to organize a large, effective FNB group. However, the authors might have pointed out that a FNB group, like the one I've been working with in St. Louis, can still function even though it is small, inefficient and disorganized, because there are a lot of produce vendors and bakeries that want to get rid of food before it goes bad, and a whole lot of people who want free food. One question I have is whether or not the book is a description of their own group or a set of rules for other groups. For example, the authors write that "Food Not Bombs encourages vegetarianism" (p.3), and list some of the great advantages of a vegetarian diet. However, a little later down the page, the authors insist that "all of the food we prepare is strictly from vegetable sources, that is, no meat, dairy or eggs" (p.3). This statement sounds a bit like ideology to me=FEif someone wants to donate cheese for hungry people, I'm not about to throw it out. Also, I'm not sure who the "we" refers to in the quotation: Butler and McHenry's groups, or all other FNB groups? All in all, though, I thought the book very helpful and an inspiration to help make the St. Louis group more politically active. Read the book and start a FNB group in your town, or join an existing group. -R.C. SECRET & SUPPRESSED Secret and Suppressed: Banned Ideas & Hidden History edited by Jim Keith (Feral House, POB 3466, Portland, OR. 97208, 1993) 309pp. $12.95 paper. Conspiracy freaks will love this one. Swedish hospitals are implanting electronic mind control devices in people's brains, and by directing low-frequency microwaves at them, their thoughts and emotions can be controlled. Our government has been heavily influenced by Masonic Sorcery since its inception. Lee Harvey Oswald is buried in Arlington, Texas, and JFK is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. "Arlington" is a word of significance in Masonic sorcery, and it has a hidden meaning that has to do with necrolatry." There are subliminal messages in Oliver Stone's movie on the Kennedy assassination. Jim Morrison of The Doors was really several different people, some of them intelligence agents. Reporter Danny Casolaro died in mysterious circumstances while investigating the activities of a "power cabal" called the Octopus, "which had its tentacles in a variety of notorious contemporary events," including Jimmy Carter's loss to Rea- gan in 1980. Hoo Boy. In among the flimsy, the imaginative, and the impossible-to-document plots and counterplots in this book are some very important items that have much firmer grounding in so-called reality, and have also been badly underreported in the media. There is a good investigative piece on the early background of Jim Jones of Jonestown, Guyana fame. Transcripts of Ambassador April Glaspie's meetings with Saddam Hussein a week before the invasion of Kuwait dramatically illustrate U.S. Government complicity in that invasion. An interview with an IRA member shows that "terrorist" group from the inside. Editor Jim Keith, who has done this sort of book before (The Gemstone File), has a point. Our news is selected, analyzed, prioritized, packaged, and sold by media interests who treat it as a commodity. This book is meant to counteract that trend by offering a selection of stories chosen for their "quotient of unacceptability in the reality tunnels of the mainstream." Keith does not even profess to believe all that he is presenting here, and he urges us in his foreword to read critically, a skill which Time/Life/Newsweek subscribers have long since lost. So yes, this book contains both treasures and trash. It's an adventure. I have only one cavil to offer. The vast majority of events discussed herein took place many years ago. I hope that speculations about conspiracies and unprovable hypotheses in the past do not blind us to what is happening right now in plain sight. Reading even the mainstream New York Times with sensitivity will reveal plainly that members of our government are doing hypocritical, useless, dishonest, oppressive, narrow-minded, and brutal acts every week. -P.F. OTHER TITLES RECEIVED Petersbourg by Michel Donnegan (c/o Actualit=82s, 38 rue Dauphine, 75006 Paris, France, 1993) 18pp. pamphlet, no price listed. Tales from the Cass Corridor by S. Colman (Dawn Press, POB 02936, Detroit, WI. 48202, 1991) 248pp. $19.95 8=ABx11 photocopied. AIDS (Or Other Ills): Recovery, Prevention, the Natural No-Drug Way by S. Colman (Dawn Press, POB 02936, Detroit, WI. 48202, 1986) 152pp. $19.95 8=ABx11 photocopied.=20 Free Love: 38 Essays in Libido Liberation by S. Colman (Dawn Press, POB 02936, Detroit, WI. 48202, 1987) 245pp. $19.95 8=ABx11 photocopied. The Trial of Gilles de Rais by George Bataille (Amok Books, POB 861867 Terminal Annex, Los Angeles, CA. 90086-1867, 1991) 279pp. $12.95 paper.=20 L'Unique et sa Propri=82t=82 by Max Stirner (=90dition du Libertaire, 25 rue Dum=82 d'Aplemont, 76600 Le Havre, France, 1993) 38pp. pamphlet, no price listed.=20 Ex Jugoslavia: Terrorismo di Stato by Gruppo Anarchico Germinal di Trieste (Edizioni BFS, Biblioteca Franco Serantini, CP 247, 56100 Pisa, Italy, 1993) 60pp. 5,000 Lire pamphlet. The Scorpion's Dark Dance by Alfredo de Palchi, translated by Sonia Raiziss (Xenos Books, Box 52152, Riverside, CA 92517, 1993) 130pp. $9.95 paper. L'Ennemi, C'est l'Homme by Bertrand Louart (Bertrand Louart, 6 place Jean de la n Taille, 45300 Pithiviers, France, 1993) 24pp. pamphlet, no price listed.