[APR-news] Alternative Press Review - August 3, 2004

[Thomas Wheeler]

Alternative Press Review - Your Guide Beyond the Mainstream
www.altpr.org
Tuesday - August 3, 2004

http://www.lifeaftercapitalism.org/
Life After Capitalism - NYC 20-22 Aug, 2004

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=245&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Pilger's Preferences and a Zinn Zinger: Calling for Liberators,
Not Librarians
By O'Xman (Richard Oxman), Press Action

We are all daily subjected to too many pieces that do not
contribute to The Movement, do not-in the parlance of dramatic
literature-advance The Plot. And the problem is two-fold. Readers
rehash reams of regurgitated material-congratulating themselves
on being "right"-as writers waste heartbeats that would be better
put into some form of Direct Action.

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Other articles of interest

http://page15.com/2004/07/evidence-of-pentagon-psychological.html
Evidence of Pentagon Psychological Warfare Operations Against
U.S. Citizens Surfaces in Want Ads
By Justin Rood, CQ Staff

The U.S. military's domestic operations command says it is not
planning or conducting a secret psychological warfare campaign to
manipulate the opinions of American citizens, despite a U.S. Air
Force document suggesting such activities might be taking place.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1091311809719&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968350060724
Energy crisis ahead
By Haroon Siddiqui, Toronto Star

Whether or not Iraq was invaded for oil - it surely wasn't for
dates or even democracy - the mess America has made of the
occupation has sent oil corporations rushing off to Libya. Just
as Saddam Hussein was the darling of Washington before being
deemed a demon, Moammar Gadhafi, yesterday's bette noir, is
today's hero. American businessmen, mostly from George W. Bush's
native Texas, are in Tripoli eyeing oil concessions. Halliburton,
the company Dick Cheney worked for, is there. So is Petro-Canada.
This black gold rush, however, does not represent a new hope so
much as another desperate bid to stave off the coming crisis in
renewable resources. The crisis is coming sooner than predicted
by the experts quoted in a four-part series in the Star this past
week. It's coming this decade, according to a contrarian who has
been prescient on the subject.

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/manhattan/nyc-prot0803,0,5025726.story?coll=nyc-topheadlines-left
City, protesters squabble
By Daryl Khan, New York Newsday

Bickering between the city and protesters over rally points and
metal pens has dominated the discussion of the coming wave of
anti-Republican National Convention protests, but
other protests are planned that are well beyond the reach of
permits, designated routes, schedules and spokesmen. A group of
anarchists working as a loose collective has been
organizing a freewheeling day of civil disobedience and guerrilla
street tactics to disrupt the convention. The anarchists said
they need to use direct action -- not staid, staged protests -- 
to spread their message that government is bad because people
know what is better for them then anyone else.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29204-2004Jul30.html
The Kerry Doctrine
By Robert Kagan, Washington Post

Only American diplomatic historians may have contemplated suicide
as they reflected on their failure to have the smallest influence
on Americans' understanding of their own nation's history. And
perhaps foreign audiences tuning in may have paused in their
exultation over a possible Kerry victory in November to reflect
with wonder on the incurable self-righteousness and nationalist
innocence the Democratic candidate displayed. Who but an American
politician, they might ask, could look back across the past 200
years and insist that the United States had never gone to war
except when it "had to"?

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NewsWire

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4964.shtml
Another bogus terror alert: Based on years-old info

http://www.cleveland.com/living/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/living/1091356217134680.xml
Big farms, big problems? Manure from large-scale dairies creates
environmental issues

http://news.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?story=546129&host=3&dir=58
A giant ecosystem that has functioned for millions of years has
begun to break down

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=546761
Seas turn to acid as they absorb global pollution

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=3&article_id=6816
Soaring oil prices set to have long-term global impact

http://www.petroleumnews.com/pnads/238338932.shtml
Leading energy analyst believes Saudi Arabia's crude oil supply
near peak; calls for greater global reserve transparency to
anticipate 'cataclysm'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3529976.stm
Opec 'unable to pump more oil'

http://radiofreeusa.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3486&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Unnoticed by the world, the longest dry period for decades has
brought much of Cuba to its knees

http://biz.yahoo.com/ft/040730/1087374097940_1.html
On Wall Street: A crash around the corner?

http://networks.silicon.com/lans/0,39024663,39122811,00.htm
44,000 prison inmates to be RFID-chipped

http://www.daveblackonline.com/hundreds_of_cities_outlaw_the_pa.htm
Hundreds of cities outlaw the Patriot Act

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/25B2BED2-620D-4C37-ADD1-BF36D5654C6A.htm
US forces arrest leading Iraqi editor

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5844506
U.S. Set to Shift 3,600 Troops to Iraq from S.Korea

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1273982,00.html
Oil will be the driving factor for military intervention in Sudan

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/459243.html
Activists, Palestinians break through fence near Tul Karm