[APR-news] Alternative Press Review - November 9, 2004

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Tuesday - November 9, 2004

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http://www.optoutamerica.com/
The modern industrial world is headed for disaster.
Are you trying to ... save the ship? or opt out?

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=373&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
What Sort of Criminal Monsters Bomb Hospitals?
By Kurt Nimmo, kurtnimmo.com

A hospital has been razed to the ground in one of the heaviest US air raids
in the Iraqi city of Falluja," reports the BBC. "A nearby medical supplies
storeroom and dozens of houses were damaged as US forces continued preparing
the ground for an expected major assault."

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=372&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
In Fallujah, U.S. Declares War on Hospitals, Ambulances
by Brian Dominick, New Standard News

US troops appear to be including the restriction of civilian health care
services as a primary objective in the current assault on Fallujah,
including the bombing and seizure of clinics and confiscation of ambulances.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=371&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
We Had To Destroy Fallujah in Order to Save It
By Edward Herman, ZNet

The similarities between the Vietnam and Iraq wars become more marked with
each passing week.We are now told that the U.S. forces have surrounded
Fallujah and are about to unleash a full-scale attack to recover it from the
insurgents. They are already bombarding the town with howitzers and
missiles, so we can be fairly certain that the town will be destroyed and
that civilian casualties will be very heavy. Fallujah must be destroyed in
order to save it from control by a resistance to the
U.S.-invasion/occupation and U.S. control, as was the case with Ben Tre in
Vietnam, about whose destruction the famous phrase "We had to destroy the
town in order to save it" was coined by a U.S. officer implementing the
destruction. Then as now the U.S. right to invade and destroy in order to
shape the politics of a distant country was taken as a given by the media
and ready-access intellectuals.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=370&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
I'm Free Because I Voted, Right?
by Jacob G. Hornberger, FFF

In the wake of his reelection, President Bush has announced that he remains
committed to bringing democracy to the Middle East, which includes the
indefinite military occupation of Iraq. In the president's mind - indeed, in
the minds of most public officials in America - democracy is freedom. So,
given that I voted in the recent election, that makes me free, right? Let's
see.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=369&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
REBELLION AND DISOBEDIENCE IN NEVER-NEVER LAND
by Richard Oxman

"Marcello," as I call him in moments of unabashed hope and pride, never
salutes the flag. This is a much underrated form of protest/activism.
Following John Lennon's lead, the only nation he pledges allegiance to is
imagination. In fact, he goes so far as to make negative observations about
where and when an Old Glory is inserted...intrusively. In public. Like in
the Gradgrindian schools that he visits on occasion...to cause trouble.
Which brings me to something else that's important/effective about his
particular form of protest/resistance. To wit, for better or worse, he's
enthusiastically embraced our home-schooling proposal.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/nov2004/fall-n09.shtml
US media and liberal establishment: accomplices in the assault on Fallujah

A murderous operation is under way in Fallujah and the entire media and
political establishment in the US is an accomplice in the crime. The
unfolding massacre in the Iraqi city has failed to elicit an outcry, or even
significant questioning of the assault, from these circles. No editorialist
at a major newspaper or television news commentator has even hinted at moral
qualms over the American onslaught. Not one columnist at the New York Times
or Washington Post thinks Fallujah worth mentioning. Last week's Democratic
Party presidential hopeful hasn't a word to say.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7235.htm
The Final Solution (Endlösung) for Fallujah and Ramadi
Yamin Zakaria, ICH

While modern propaganda techniques were developed by Adolf Hitler and his
spin master Joseph Gobbels, it is now the likes of CNN, Fox TV and
mainstream radio shows and newspaper editors that have perfected it. The CIA
has perfected the torture techniques inherited from the Gestapo and is now
ready to implement its version of the final solution (Endlösung) in Fallujah
and Ramadi by killing everyone there that opposes its agenda.

http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000106.php
Carnage and Martial Law
Dahr Jamail, Iraq Dispatches

"The marines that have been killed over the last 5 months have been killed
by a faceless enemy. The enemy there has a face, and it's called Satan, and
it lives in Falluja." These are the words of US Marine Colonel Gary Brandl,
as he speaks of the imminent attack on Falluja. Who says this isn't a holy
war?

http://b90.net/APC/APC1107.htm
CDC To Study Post Traumatic Bush Disorder
Douglas O'Rourke, AbsurdPress.com

What started Wednesday as a trickle of highly nervous patients wandering
into free clinics has become by this weekend a major national public health
crisis as thousands of listless, confused adults flooded emergency rooms
across the country complaining of nausea, vomiting, insomnia, hopelessness,
depression, and deep suicidal thoughts,
muttering, "but the blogs, the blogs..."

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NewsWire

http://interestalert.com/brand/siteia.shtml?Story=st/sn/11040002aaa0056b.upi&Sys=siteia&Fid=WORLDNEW&Type=News&Filter=World%20News
Norway shuts down satirical anti-Bush website

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/nov2004/colo-n06.shtml
Colorado students occupy high school to protest war, Bush policies

http://newsobserver.com/news/story/1806840p-8108947c.html
GOP HQ vandalized, burn two-headed effigy of Bush/Kerry

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31016-2004Nov6.html
Unrivaled Security Planned for Inauguration: Will include military combat
brigade of up to 4,000 troops

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11638
Agent Orange victims sue Monsanto

http://www.fair.org/press-releases/bush-bulge.html
NYTimes, WashPost kill "Bush Bulge" story

http://electroniciraq.net/news/1697.shtml
How the "war on terror" became a war on Iraqi human rights

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3994699.stm
War criminal Colin Powell: US to continue fascist policy of mass murder,
destruction, and terror across the planet

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3988433.stm
US strikes raze Fallujah hospital

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1346511,00.html
Go kick some butt, bomb hospitals and make history, Vietnam-style, US
terrorists urged

http://207.44.245.159/article7256.htm
'Watching tragedy engulf my city'

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/813419D5-CC95-4505-9367-05140111C618.htm
Scores of civilians slaughtered in Falluja

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/09/content_2195293.htm
Dozens of Iraqis including 20 Medics killed in US bombing of clinic

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1108-26.htm
Attack on Falluja yet another war crime

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110904C.shtml
Will Iran be next?

http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FK05Ak01.html
More strain, more stress for US forces

http://www.nyjournalnews.com/newsroom/110504/b10w05wartalk.html
Draft coming students told

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1617069,00.html
Religious Fundamentalist Terrorists: Marines turn to God

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200411/s1236326.htm
Iraqi officer deserts with Fallujah battle plans

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1109-08.htm
Iraqi troops condemned, 200 desert

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/250134p-214174c.html
Arafat poisoned?

http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/powers/2004/1104.html
$80 Oil, Here We Come!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3997589.stm
US oil output lowest since 1950

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=580333
Global warming will redraw map of world

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-drought4nov04,1,1557181.story?coll=la-news-a_section
Massive forest fires linked to global warming

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1108-05.htm
Global warming heating Arctic almost twice as fast as rest of planet

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