[APR-news] Alternative Press Review - August 10, 2004

[Thomas Wheeler]

Alternative Press Review - Your Guide Beyond the Mainstream
www.altpr.org
Tuesday - August 10, 2004

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=258&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Bush wants to test every American for mental illness--including
you! And guess who will create the tests?
By Jordanne Graham, Intervention Magazine

Next month, President Bush plans to unveil a broad new mental
health plan called the "New Freedom Initiative." Never mind that
it couldn't have less to do with freedom; if you're a thinking
American, this initiative should scare the hell out of you.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=259&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Iraqi Gov't Shuts Down Aljazeera; Former Spy Heads New Media
Board
by Chris Shumway, The New Standard

International media watchdogs say Iraq's US-installed interim
government is seriously undermining the prospects for press
freedom in the war-torn country. Citing both the shut down of
Aljazeera's Baghdad office last weekend and a series of recent
policies enacted by Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, critics fear that
Iraq's media environment is in danger of becoming as stifling as
it was under former dictator Saddam Hussein.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=257&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
DHS Sweeps: Bush's War on Latino Workers
By Joel Wendland

Various reports from local media and human rights activists show
that immigration sweeps have occurred in Latino communities from
Maine, to Chicago, Washington State, the Southwest, and Southern
California. The upsurge in sweeps in Latino communities comes in
the larger context of raids and surveillance aimed at immigrant
Asian and African communities suspected of harboring terrorists.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=260&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
PLANTATION TO PENITENTIARY PAIN: ON A SKELETAL PLAN TO LIBERATE
THOSE AT "SKELETON BAYS"
by O'Xman (Richard Oxman)

"Slavery in the United States did not end after the Civil War; it
merely changed forms."

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Other articles of interest

http://www.antiwar.com/paul/?articleid=3274
Police State USA
by Rep. Ron Paul, Antiwar.com

Many Americans support the new security measures because they
claim to feel safer when the government issues terror alerts and
fills the streets with militarized police forces. As one tourist
interviewed this week said, "It makes me feel comfortable to know
that everything is being checked." It is ironic that tourists
coming to Washington to celebrate the freedoms embodied in the
Declaration of Independence are so eager to give up those
freedoms with no questions asked.

http://www.strike-the-root.com/4/bovard/bovard2.html
Terrorism and Tyranny
by James Bovard, Strike the Root

The war on terrorism is the first political growth industry of
the new millennium. After the September 11 attacks on the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon, President George W. Bush promised
to lead a "crusade" to "rid the world of evil-doers."
Unfortunately, the political fallout from the 9/11 attacks could
fatally blight both individual liberty and public safety.

http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2004/08/10/high_noon
Worried about oil running out? Don't look now, but natural gas is
next on the endangered hydrocarbons list.
By Jeff Nachtigal, salon.com

The primary thrust of "High Noon for Natural Gas" is that, unless
we unplug as much as we can from our energy-dependent ways, we're
headed off a cliff, and the crash at the bottom won't be pretty.

http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2004/08/10/goodbye-kind-world-/
Goodbye, Kind World
George Monbiot, Monbiot.com

We've never had it so good, and we never will again.

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NewsWire

http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=40
Quietly, Bush Administration Moves to Implement Patriot II

http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,64492,00.html
Big Business Becoming Big Brother

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.zone06aug06,1,1876628.story?coll=bal-oped-headlines
Protests pre-empted

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=549822
International monitors to observe US election for first time

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/2001998668_realchange09.html
Homeless Newspapers: news, dignity

http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040809/APN/408090921
Longtime editor of street newspaper dies

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101040816-678645-1,00.html
Why the West Is Burning: Five-year drought has parched soils,
lowered reservoirs and weakened forests -- dry spell could go on
for decades

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=5&u=/bw/20040809/bs_bw/nf20040861412db039
Oil Prices Could Get Even Worse

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,10398916%255E401,00.html
Basra oil terminal shut down

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1856&ncid=723&e=5&u=/cpress/20040809/ca_pr_on_wo/nigeria_oil_violence
Violence has Nigerian oil industry reeling

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=22356
CIA executives gathered in Santiago de Chile revealed in
contingency plot to overthrow Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez
Frias

http://www.enn.com/news/2004-08-10/s_26443.asp
Rush for natural resources still fuels war in Congo

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/aug2004/moss-a10.shtml
New Zealand imposes diplomatic sanctions on Israel over Mossad
operation

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,10405550%255E401,00.html
Civilians urged to leave Najaf raising speculation of an imminent
full-scale offensive

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0810-03.htm
October surprise? Diplomacy Sidelined as US Targets Iran

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1278196,00.html
Number of bankruptcies explode in Britain

http://news.independent.co.uk/business/comment/story.jsp?story=549398
Illusion of sustained recovery fading fast