[APR-news] Alternative Press Review - August 26, 2004

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Alternative Press Review - Your Guide Beyond the Mainstream
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Thursday - August 26, 2004

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=285&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
End the Iraq War

The United States does not belong in Iraq and should immediately
withdraw all military forces from the country. Far from
liberating Iraq, the invasion installed a puppet
dictatorship that has retained many of the trappings of Saddam
Hussein's old dictatorship. US intervention in Iraq only brings
death & destruction, while perpetuating imperialism.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=286&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
TIDE? OR IVORY SNOW? - Public Power in the Age of Empire
Arundhati Roy, Democracy Now!

In this restive, despairing time, if governments do not do all
they can to honor nonviolent resistance, then by default they
privilege those who turn to violence. No government's
condemnation of terrorism is credible if it cannot show itself to
be open to change by to nonviolent dissent.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=284&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Building a Peace: Demolished Home Rebuilt in Anata Village
By Am Johal

Jeff Halper, Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against Home
Demolitions (ICAHD) addressing a crowd at the grand opening of
the rebuilt home says, "This is an example of Israeli,
Palestinian and international civil society coming together. It's
moving to be here. This is how you make peace...by telling our
governments we refuse to be enemies."

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Other articles of interest

http://www.leftturn.org/Articles/Viewer.aspx?id=557&type=M
The whole world is watching - The RNC protests and beyond
by Max Uhlenbeck, Left Turn

The 2004 Republican National Convention (RNC) is coming to New
York City for the first time in its 150-year history. From an
organizer's perspective the convention itself presents our
movement-or movement of movements-with an almost endless series
of unique opportunities as well as some concrete challenges.

http://www.culturechange.org/e-letter-endfalseprogress.html
The end of false progress - Origins of materialism, and
implications for our future in the post-petroleum reality
by Jan Lundberg, Culture Change

What will be the alternative to today's consumerism and fear of
material insecurity?  This essay looks toward the next mainstream
culture: Life after petroleum-culture collapse.  To help explain
today's lack of preparation for fundamental change, we examine
historical practices particularly in Europe.  This installment
focuses on the history of food production vis-à-vis political
power and worldview.

http://www.nypress.com/17/34/books/hicks.cfm
911 OMISSIONS: Who needs Henry Kissinger, after all?
By Sander Hicks, NY Press

In the recent documentary Outfoxed, media critic Robert McChesney
suggests right-leaning news outlets like Fox News are worse than
the Stalinist-era propaganda. At least in Soviet Russia, he says,
people knew they were getting the official party line.

http://www.alternet.org/story/19667/
Protester scare stories
By Laura Flanders, Alternet

The story we've been hearing for years about demonstrators
performing acts of violence at demonstrations doesn't fit with
the facts.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0824-15.htm
John Kerry as the Warchurian Candidate
by Jeremy Scahill, Common Dreams

With John Kerry on the ticket, the Democrats have ensured a
victory in November for the small but powerful pro-war special
interest. Kerry is their sleeper, their private Manchurian
candidate. They face a win-win scenario.

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NewsWire

http://www.sfbg.com/38/46/news_fcc.html
Squashing David, ignoring Goliath: Why is the FCC threatening to
shut down little KALW for violations that are also rampant at
Clear Channel?

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/24/2111236
As NYC Braces for RNC, Anarchists Blast Media Coverage as Scare
Tactics

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/aug2004/prot-a25.shtml
In run-up to Republican convention: 24-hour surveillance of
protest organizers

http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=875
Protesters denied Central Park . again

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/082604I.shtml
Police Brace for Unauthorized Protest in Central Park

http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=880
Rights Groups, Politicians Condemn FBI Harassment of Activists

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-et-swed25aug25,1,6119064.story?coll=la-home-politics
Art in spirit of protest meets RNC

http://www.energybulletin.net/1714.html
Stocks set for crash like 1987, Roach says

http://www.kansan.com/getstory.aspx?id=337be2a3-1f14-4e00-9a49-0e09cf990c6f
Doomsday nearer than you think

http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/Update42.htm
COAL TAKES HEAVY HUMAN TOLL: Some 25,100 U.S. Deaths from Coal
Use Largely Preventable

http://www.enn.com/news/2004-08-26/s_26729.asp
Asian farmers are sucking the continent dry, says report

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1290833,00.html
MPs plan to impeach Blair over Iraq war record

http://212.2.162.45/news/story.asp?j=115507954&p=yy55x866x&n=115508714
20 oil pipelines sabotaged in Iraq

http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-vpmcc263942382aug26,0,3968998.column?coll=ny-news-columnists
Guantanamo abuses amount to war crimes

http://www.narconews.com/Issue34/article1051.html
Bolivia heats up once again