[APR-news] Alternative Press Review - August 24, 2004

Tue Aug 24 15:02:56 EDT 2004

Alternative Press Review - Your Guide Beyond the Mainstream
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Tuesday - August 24, 2004

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Indiscreet Street Googling: Arundhati Roy for President
by O'Xman (Richard Oxman)

In short, her "Public Power in the Age of Empire" speech gave the
Green Light to armed revolution in this country. And - mark my
words - it will play no small part in the upcoming RNC violent
confrontations (whether or not weapons are employed by
activists).

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=281&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Abu Ghraib: its legacy for military medicine
by Steven H. Miles, The Lancet Medical Journal

We bring to the attention of our readers this important study by
Dr. Steven Miles, published in the British Medical Journal The
Lancet. Dr. Miles shows how military doctors quite deliberately
"collaborated with designing and implementing psychologically and
physically coercive interrogations" at the Abu Ghraib prison in
Baghdad. While Dr. Miles' Report has been summarized by several
media including the New York Times, and the Washington Post, the
depth and detail of his findings have barely been acknowledged.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=282&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Six Grim Consequences of the Anybody But Bush Plague
by M. Junaid Alam

For a left which has placed its neck in the noose of the
Democratic Party the implication is obvious: the priority is to
elect Kerry, not oppose the war. A major segment of the
leadership and the rank-and-file they influence in the anti-war
movement are currently scurrying about getting out the vote for
John Kerry. The main intellectual and political firepower of the
liberal anti-war left is and has been directed at whipping up the
ABB frenzy, slandering Nader, painting Bush as Hitler reborn - in
other words, not focused on Iraq. This represents a tremendous
failure to capitalize upon an enormous opportunity: to galvanize
and consolidate public anti-war sentiment into a powerful
domestic movement to end the war at this pivotal stage of
conflict.

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Other articles of interest

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/green/comment/0,9236,1289553,00.html
The Age of Entropy is here. We should all now be learning how to
live without oil
George Monbiot, The Guardian

If it is true that the Age of Growth is over, and the Age of
Entropy has begun, and if we are to retain any hope of a
reasonable quality of life without destroying other people's,
then our infrastructure, our settlements, our industries and our
lives require total reconstruction.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/aug2004/iraq-a23.shtml
The battle for Najaf and the US crisis in Iraq
By Peter Symonds

The ongoing siege of Najaf has graphically underscored the crisis
of US imperialism in Iraq. Whatever the immediate outcome of the
confrontation between the US military and the militia of Shiite
cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, the occupation has turned into a
nightmare for the American ruling elite. Having invaded Iraq to
plunder its oil and dominate the Middle East, the US faces a
widening popular uprising that is having a profoundly
destabilising impact on the region and indeed on world
capitalism.

http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn08212004.html
They Want Blood: The Bi-Partisan Origins of the Total War on
Drugs
By Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch

Both Kerry, who misses no chance of emphasizing how he was once a
"prosecutor", and Bush, pledge more cops, tougher penalties, and
above all no let up in the War on Drugs which has thrown millions
into the American Gulag, for ten, fifteen, 20-year sentences
based on mandatory minimums and "enhancements" which a federal
appeals court has now declared to have flouted the Constitutional
right to a fair trial before a jury of one's peers. Ever since
the mid-1980s the War on Drugs has been a bipartisan affair. Come
with us on a journey back to the time when Tip O'Neill, liberal
Democrat from Massachusetts, and Ronald Reagan, colluded in a
terrible new chapter of a war aimed at the poor, particularly
ethnic minorities, and waged ever since the late nineteenth
century and the attacks on the Chinese laborers of California.

http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/19628/
Bad Seeds
By Denise Caruso, AlterNet

Whoever controls the seed controls the food. And as a new film
documents, the dangers of monoculture, industrial agriculture -
and Monsanto - bode poorly for the future of food.

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NewsWire

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000616218
How the Washington Post promoted a war

http://www.mindfreedom.org/mindfreedom/bush_APA_silences_media.shtml
American Psychiatric Association Says Bush Administration
"Appreciative" of APA Efforts to Suppress Mass Media Coverage

http://www.enn.com/businesscenter/products/797_25328.asp
30-Year Update of The Limits to Growth Finds Global Society in
"Overshoot"

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.warming22aug22,1,3501308.story
Climate in crisis

http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4999304-103681,00.html
Meat eaters soak up the world's water

http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=865
Groups Protest Gov't Leasing of Colorado Wilderness to Oil, Gas
Mining

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/082304_million_depletion.shtml
Over a million barrels of oil a day lost to depletion

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/39/news-mikulan.php
Anarchist, Interrupted: Sherman Austin May Face State Charges

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--cvn-anarchist-spe0824aug23,0,845282.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire
Activists defend anarchism as nonviolent social protest

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/08/23/3623040
Iowa RNC convergence experiences state repression

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_5080.shtml
Heckle Bush, Lose Your Job

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/9477757.htm?1c
Israel to utilize 'stun shells' to break up crowds

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=554111
Guantanamo's military trials are condemned as grossly unfair

http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2004/august/08_22_2.html
Iraqi Desertion Rate Exceeds 80%

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=982422004
Iraq considers plan to fire 30,000 police officers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3590048.stm
Kenya Maasai land tensions grow