[APR-news] Alternative Press Review - August 12, 2004

[Thomas Wheeler]

Alternative Press Review - Your Guide Beyond the Mainstream
www.altpr.org
Thursday - August 12, 2004

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=261&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
New York lockdown
By Michelle Goldberg, The Guardian

While anti-Bush activists in New York are adopting new techniques
to try and disrupt the Republican party convention later this
month, the police have got some new strategies of their own.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=263&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Keystone Cops at the RNC: Street Theater in the Midst of Protest
By Kirsten Anderberg

Through the use of humor and creative street performance, it is
possible to shift the power to the people, and away from the
police, during political protests. This has been shown an
effective tactic throughout history. Abbie Hoffman and the
Yippies were legendary for their talents in this area. Riot
police count on chaos and fear as a large part of their power
over people. Without the fear and chaos, Robocops just look like
violent idiots.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=262&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Big Business and Labor Working Hand In Hand: Little-known
Activities of the AFL-CIO and the "National Endowment for
Democracy" Abroad
by Jon Quaccia

Few taxpayers are familiar with the National Endowment for
Democracy, a publicly funded, yet privately owned organization
operating in at least forty countries. Its mission? To help the
U.S. set up capitalist economies around the world, backed by
regimes that are friendly to U.S. big business. With no
interference from the public or congress, the NED is free to
accomplish its goals by manipulating and buying elections,
starting political as well as economic turmoil, funding
counter-insurgency material to right-wing groups, and using other
tactics that would be considered illegal in the U.S.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=1674
The Wild, Wild Wars in the West
By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch.com

In July, the Feds handed down to Nevada its bitterest defeat and
sweetest victory in ages; the former, a termination of thousands
of years of Western Shoshone history; the latter, a reprieve from
an apocalyptic future as the world's biggest -- and maybe
dumbest -- nuclear waste dump. In one three-day period, Nevada's
past got cancelled while its future was salvaged. But this Indian
war and these nuclear politics are just part of a panoply of
glaringly weird things going on in the state; there's a gold
rush, a water war, and vast military operations, just for
starters, and all of them are ecological bad news.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1281233,00.html
The withdrawal of foreign troops is the only solution
Tariq Ali, The Guardian

Most legends contain a small grain of truth, but none is to be
found in the fraudulent images being presented each day by the
BBC (and the US networks). The print media is not much better.
Official propaganda is constantly repeated in sentences such as:
"On June 28 the United States and its coalition partners
transferred sovereign control of Iraq to an interim government
headed by prime minister Ayad Allawi.

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/other_stories/multipage/documents/04052845.asp
Free radicals: How the Bl(A)ck Tea Society breathed new life into
anarchism
By Camille Dodero, Boston Phoenix

Over two hundred years ago, the people of Boston sparked a war. A
war of resistance against tyranny. A revolution. A conflict
against the oppression of a foreign master and the domination of
corporate power.... We intend to finish the American Revolution.
We intend to carry this torch. The ringing of revolution was
sparked in Boston before; we will do it again.

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NewsWire

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000604105
Conservative Web-based group has targeted cartoonist Ted Rall

http://electroniciraq.net/news/1597.shtml
IFJ Accuses Iraq of "Unacceptable and Illogical Censorship" Over
Ban on Al-Jazeera

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58127-2004Aug11.html
Washington Post hid stories debunking WMD claims

http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=16224&c=207
The Surveillance-Industrial Complex

http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/09/1091903494672.html?oneclick=true
Technology causing 'frantic life syndrome'

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/081204K.shtml
Mapuche Indians in Chile Struggle to Take Back Forests

http://www.newportnewstimes.com/articles/2004/08/11/news/news01.txt
Another oceanic 'dead zone' forms off Oregon coast

http://www.enn.com/news/2004-08-11/s_26440.asp
Millions in United States face mega-wave from island collapse

http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=800
U.S. Government, Media Silent on Torture of Detained Iraqi Kids

http://www.iht.com/articles/533600.html
GIs in Iraq are asking: Why are we here?

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/040811/1/3mct3.html
Shiite uprising spreads as Iraq oil exports halved

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/FC96F264-4A45-43B0-B90D-B265192BA98C.htm
Iraqi south threatens secession

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=550443
US military expansion plans at Okinawa provokes furious
resistance

http://www.prudentbear.com/archive_comm_article.asp?category=International+Perspective&content_idx=34985
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