[APR-news] Alternative Press Review - December 20, 2004

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December 20, 2004

"We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where
feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity
in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the
meaningless life that issues forth at the other end." - Lewis Mumford

"The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From
Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and
Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the
mass production of human corpses." - Edward Abbey

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http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=402&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Crumbs from Our Table: Direct Action for Third World Misery
By Mickey Z.

Charles Bukowski once said: "As we go on with our lives we tend to forget
that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are
packed." To that list, we can add how we tend to forget how privileged we
are. As we walk around consumed with our typically self-imposed problems,
how often do we consider those born without a hint of hope?

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=403&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Desperado Days
by Zbignew Zingh

Occasionally, we need to step back from the facile criticism of the Bush
Administration and think deeper about why it does what it does. It is fun to
merely label it insane and delusional and idiotic, for Mr. Bush, in
particular, deserves most of those labels. However, many of us believe that
Mr. Bush is just the figurehead for a larger Design and Policy, and he,
himself, has acknowledged as much. The "others" responsible for the
administration's actions could, too, be idiotic and delusional, but they may
not be insane. We must acknowledge that it is very dangerous not to
understand what drives our adversary.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1373913,00.html
Balance in the service of falsehood
David Edwards and David Cromwell, The Guardian

The British and US governments stand accused of lying their way to war on
Iraq, both at home and abroad. But while a series of what were widely
regarded as nobbled inquiries have at least gone through the motions of
holding them to account, there has been no attempt to hold the media to
account for its role in making war possible. To his credit, George Monbiot
argued on these pages earlier this year that "the falsehoods reproduced by
the media before the invasion of Iraq were massive and consequential: it is
hard to see how Britain could have gone to war if the press had done its
job." But an examination of this failure, and its roots in a mass media with
a long history of protecting and promoting the powerful, is conspicuous by
its absence.

http://www.pressaction.com/news/weblog/full_article/federation12192004/
David Cobb and Medea Benjamin: Losers of the Left
Glorious Revolutionary Federation of Fortune 500 Killers, Press Action

In its ongoing attempt to place deserved blame for the epidemic of Anybody
But Bush (more like Nobody But Kerry) that plagued the left and resulted in
one of the most disastrous electoral outcomes it has ever experienced, the
Federation will continue to identify the foulest specimens and boosters who
spread this idiotic ideology. Here to inaugurate the first installment are
Captain David "I steered the Green Party into an iceberg" Cobb and Medea "I
hog the limelight but in fact am useless" Benjamin.

http://bringthemhomenow.org/what/latest.html#goff041215
We Will Reclaim Our Armed Forces!
Speech by Stan Goff, Bring Them Home Now

One thing I agree with Christian Parenti on is that I oppose the criminal
justice system as it is, but I think we will need prisons for a long time. I
say that because while my bumper sticker says impeach, what I really want to
see - for these people who are presiding over yet another generation of our
kids being sent abroad to do their criminal wet work - what I really want to
see is George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin and Condoleeza
I-forgot-who-I-am, Paul Wolfowitz, and cabinet members old and new. slammed
up against a wall, searched as roughly as an Iraqi detainee, put in
handcuffs, and their sorry asses thrown into a cell at Guantanamo Bay. after
we give it back to Cuba.

http://www.progressivetrail.org/articles/041219Nimmo.shtml?mail=19
Indiana Jones, War Criminal
Kurt Nimmo, Progressive News

Rush Limbaugh is full of it. Hollywood is not a nest of hate-America
liberals. In fact, so-called Hollywood liberals are as rah-rah for Bush and
the Strausscon war against Islam as any number of yahoos from the
Deliverance states. Case in point: Universal Pictures has announced it plans
to make a film entitled "The Battle for Falluja," starring none other than
Indiana Jones himself, Harrison Ford.

http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=f3311202b4be2c2aea1955b6bbc202fd
Teflon Tyrants: After Pinochet, Prosecute Kissinger
Roger Burbach and Paul Cantor, Pacific News Service

The Chilean government has arrested Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who led a brutal
military coup in 1973 and ruled the country with an iron hand until 1990.
The United States should now follow suit by prosecuting Henry Kissinger,
President Richard Nixon's former national security advisor, for breaking
U.S. and international law by helping foment the coup that brought Pinochet
to power.

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NewsWire

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/print.php?sid=19169
Gary Webb: The lonesome death of a truthteller

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/121604.html
Hung out to dry: How Webb's Series Died

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=amRg3O8daYc8&refer=us
21st Century Nazis: Almost Half of Americans Favor Restrictions on Muslims'
Rights

http://207.44.245.159/article7491.htm
Va. boy's defiant words draw police response

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1376992,00.html
Bible is 'lies and spin'

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/12/12/7231195
Vermont to secede from America?

http://enn.com/today.html?id=617
2004 among hottest years on record

http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/99757/1/
One in four bird species could disappear by next century

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11756
Paving the Amazon with soy

http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/99798/1/
Indigenous group forcibly evicted from their land by farming co-operative
specializing in soy production

http://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/news/spotlight/spotlight_article.cfm?id=DBC8EFBF-E4D7-4053-AEFF-5812CD2B00D2&region_id=9&subregion_id=0&issue_id=11
Attacks Force Indigenous Papuans to Seek Refuge in Mountains

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=593660
Inuit demand right to exist, launch dramatic legal action against America

http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=f3311202b4be2c2aea1955b6bbc202fd
Another water revolt begins in Bolivia

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1376873,00.html
Revealed: Haiti bloodbath that left dozens dead in jail

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/121804F.shtml
Guard Reports Serious Decline in Recruitment

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/12/18/wus18.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/12/18/ixworld.html
US military sees sharp fall in black recruits

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/print.php?sid=19133
War protesters target military recruiting

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Eric_Margolis/2004/12/19/790077.html
West has bloodied hands

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/hung-d17.shtml
Hungry and homeless ranks swell in US cities

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1220-01.htm
US Housing Rentals Unaffordable to Poor

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/pens-d20.shtml
'Slow motion train wreck': federal pension insurance program edges toward
bankruptcy

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