[APR-news] Alternative Press Review - August 2, 2004

[Thomas Wheeler]

Alternative Press Review - Your Guide Beyond the Mainstream
www.altpr.org
Monday - August 2, 2004

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=243&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Tossing Iraqis from Bridges: Murder Not So Foul?
By Dave Lindorff, CounterPunch

With the Democrats having nominated an admitted war criminal for
president, and with our president and commander-in-chief having
perpetrated, encouraged and overseen war crimes of historic
scale, perhaps it's no surprise that down on the ground, the
little crimes of American servicemen and women are getting
airbrushed away.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=244&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
'Can't Blair see that this country is about to explode? Can't
Bush?'
By Robert Fisk, robert-fisk.com

The Prime Minister has accused some journalists of almost wanting
a disaster to happen in Iraq. Robert Fisk, who has spent the past
five weeks reporting from the deteriorating and devastated
country, says the disaster has already happened, over and over
again.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=242&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Cuba and the Myth of the 'Independent Libraries'
by Lamrani Salim J, ZNet

According to its strategy of destabilization of Cuban society,
the United States, in addition to financing and directing
"independent journalists", and "human rights members" has created
"independent libraries."

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Other articles of interest

http://kurtnimmo.com/blog/index.php?p=258
Bush or Kerry: Forever War is the Only Choice
Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire

For those of you who mistakenly believe a Kerry administration
will be kinder, gentler, and less irrational, consider the
following quote by Rand Beers, the national security adviser to
the Kerry campaign and former Bushite: "In many ways, the goals
of the two administrations are in fact not all that different."

http://www.rawstory.com/exclusives/softley/mtv_rock_vote_useless_801.htm
MTV's Rock the Vote: Beyond useless
By Jeff Softley, Raw

Rock the Vote (RtV), the MTV-themed campaign to channel youthful
energy into electoral politics through the power of celebrity and
the cachet of cool has proven over its nearly fifteen years of
existence to be useless.

http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/19421/
Hello, Big Brother
By Ian Williams, AlterNet

According to Robert Kane Pappas's new documentary, 'Orwell Rolls
in His Grave,' it's 1984 all over again.

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NewsWire

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CRG408A.html
Is the Bush Administration Planning a Red Code Alert?

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/19398/
Establishment whore Ted Koppel defends Iraq coverage

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=22241
How hate media incited the coup d'etat against Venezuela's
President

http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=759
NY police officer on trial after refusing to arrest a homeless
man

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=23542
Marine's 'Fahrenheit 9/11' comments investigated

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0802-03.htm
Military spokesman silenced after candid comments in a movie on
Al Jazeera and Iraq war

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/08/01/aclu.donations/
ACLU quits federal donation program

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3282431
Kuwait bans Fahrenheit 9/11

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/080104Y.shtml
Afghan Rebels Widen Attacks

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=2264
Iraq has grown more dangerous and violent

http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/philly3.html
Situation in Iraq worse than being reported

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6604.htm
U.S.-Trained Forces Hit by Defections

http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2004-07/28/article02.shtml
Cancer spreads like wildfire in Iraq

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4949.shtml
Injured Troops all too Often Denied Disability Pay

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1270902,00.html
Soldiers wired up on drugs supplied by govt

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4954.shtml
Drugs used to torture prisoners at Gitmo

http://www.sundayherald.com/43796
More than 100 Iraqi children detained, abused, beaten, tortured,
raped in jails such as Abu Ghraib

http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=758
'Serious' water crisis looming in Basra, UN warns

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5570015/site/newsweek
Secret Pentagon memo advocated attacking South America for 9/11

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/tech/2004/aug/01/080106944.html
Pentagon looks to directed-energy weapons

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2004/2004-08-02-10.asp
Power Grid Still Vulnerable to Blackouts

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/073004_opec_capacity.shtml
Suspicions confirmed: OPEC has little spare capacity

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2712794
Airlines Collapse: Bailout feared in airline pension crisis,
similarities seen with costly savings and loan collapse

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=668&ncid=749&e=6&u=/ap/20040801/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/economy
U.S. Economy Slows Drastically in Spring

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/news/story/0,12976,1273087,00.html
Apple a day may poison children