[APR-news] Alternative Press Review - November 13, 2004

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Confessions of a Scary Anti-capitalist, Anti-authoritarian Journalist
by IMC Journalist, NC Indymedia

Recent events in Raleigh, North Carolina brought a significant amount of
attention to political activism and protest strategies in the area. The
purpose of this story is not to either give support or speak out against the
protest that happened at the GOP office last week. I believe you as a reader
are capable of coming to your own conclusions over the events that occurred.
Instead, I want to discuss how the local media and authorities have searched
for a scapegoat in both individuals and organizations.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=375&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Dissecting an Associated Press Story
by Abid Ullah Jan, Media Monitors

Associated Press ran a story, "U.S. Troops Push Deeper Into Fallujah," by
Edward Harris on November 12, 2004. Dissecting this story is imperative for
understanding complicity of the media in the American genocide that is well
underway in Iraq. This is just one story from one embedded reporter. Imagine
the impact of the over all mission of the embedded media. Imagine the level
of collaboration between the killers in the killing fields, policy makers in
Washington and many think tanks, and media pundits in the "mainstream media"
in the garb of reporters and analysts from the following analysis.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=374&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Iraq: the unthinkable becomes normal
By John Pilger, New Statesman

According to a senior British officer, the Americans view Iraqis as
Untermenschen, a term that Hitler used in Mein Kampf to describe Jews,
Romanies and Slavs as sub-humans. This is how the Nazi army laid siege to
Russian cities, slaughtering combatants and non-combatants alike.
Normalising colonial crimes like the attack on Fallujah requires such
racism, linking our imagination to "the other".

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Other articles of interest

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2004_11_01_riverbendblog_archive.html#110029588434930934
Murder and Genocide in Iraq
Iraqi Girl Blog, Baghdad Burning

People in Falloojeh are being murdered. The stories coming back are
horrifying. People being shot in cold blood in the streets and being buried
under tons of concrete and iron... where is the world? Bury Arafat and hurry
up and pay attention to what's happening in Iraq.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FK12Ak04.html
A thousand Fallujahs
By Pepe Escobar, Asia Times

Once again the US has been caught in a giant spider's web. Fallujah now is a
network: it's Baghdad, Ramadi, Samarra, Latifiyah, Kirkuk, Mosul. Streets on
fire, everywhere: Hundreds, thousands of Fallujahs - the Mesopotamian echo
of a thousand Vietnams. The Iraqi resistance has even regained control of a
few Baghdad neighborhoods.

http://www.antiwar.com/jamail/?articleid=3960
Pyrrhic Victory in Fallujah
by Dahr Jamail, Antiwar.com

A military victory for U.S. forces in Fallujah seems set to lead to a huge
political loss for the U.S.-backed interim Iraqi government. Strong
anti-government reactions have set in already as reports come in from
Fallujah of bombed hospitals, high civilian casualties, and denial of access
to medical care. The political fallout could fall far beyond Iraq.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/nov2004/vet-n11.shtml
"We're committing genocide in Iraq"
By Jeff Riedel, WSWS

"As far as I'm concerned, the real war did not begin until they saw us
murdering innocent civilians," he said. "I mean, they were witnessing their
loved ones being murdered by US Marines. It's kind of hard to tell someone
that they are being liberated when they just saw their child shot or lost
their husband or grandmother."

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0411c.asp
Submit or Die: The Conquest of Falluja
by Jacob G. Hornberger, FFF

The crime for which the Fallujans were punished was their refusal to submit
to the authority of an unelected CIA-designated dictator, Iyad Allawi, and
to obey the orders of his all-powerful police force (the U.S. military), a
police force that is significantly more powerful than the one that Saddam
Hussein used to put down insurrections against his regime. The message sent
to Iraqis at Falluja is very simple and, in fact, is no different in
principle from the message sent to the Iraqi people from Abu Ghraib prison:
"Resist us or disobey us - or countenance those who do resist us or disobey
us - and we will punish you."

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3311.shtml
Palestine Greater Than Arafat
Sam Bahour, Electronic Intifada

The Palestinian struggle for freedom and independence is larger than the
late President Yasir Arafat. The decades-long symbolism that Arafat embodied
should not be underestimated. It is this symbolism that Palestinians are
mourning. The substance of Arafat's symbolism has to do with how it has
represented Palestinian nationalism and the five decade struggle for justice
for a people that were dispossessed in 1948, militarily occupied in 1967,
attacked while in exile in 1970 in Jordan and 1982 in Lebanon, and most
recently, battered in their own homes in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East
Jerusalem. A wide spectrum of opinions about Arafat, the man and the leader,
will surely outlive the international flurry of media interest in his death.
However, the world must be aware that the Palestinian struggle is beyond any
single individual.

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov2004/Wendland1111.htm
Gonzales' Appointment is a Danger to Human Rights
Joel Wendland, Dissident Voice

As Bush prepares to send his nomination of Alberto Gonzales for Attorney
General to the Senate for its "advice and consent," let's recall who Mr.
Gonzales is and what his enduring imprint on history may be. Gonzales
authored the infamous August 2002 torture memo for the Bush administration
that provided hair-brained arguments for discarding the Geneva Conventions.
This appointment affirms Bush's rejection of international oversight of
human rights and signals a dramatic right wing shift.

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/11/11_402.html
Trial By Fury
Susan Orenstein, Mother Jones

After the revelations about prisoner abuse and flimsy terrorism cases, is it
time to reconsider the fate of John Walker Lindh?

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NewsWire

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3288.shtml
Yasser Arafat, 1929-2004

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/04/1621202
How the Far Right Built a Media Empire to Manufacture Consent

http://salon.com/tech/feature/2004/11/09/indymedia/index_np.html
Who nabbed Indymedia's computers?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/11/gov_indymedia_response/
Democracy in Action: US govt declares they can seize servers - citizens have
no right to complain

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3323602,00.html
Poetry reading of Bob Dylan song at Denver high school prompts Secret
Service visit

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19469
Blogger gets night visit from US Secret Service

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/world/10157796.htm
Liberty & Freedom in Iraq: U.S. soldiers raid homes of Sunni Muslim clerics
critical of offensive

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4610349,00.html
Iraqi Gov't Warns Media About Coverage

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20439/
News Media Propagandists Rush to Jump in Bed With Pentagon

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/nov2004/iraq-n11.shtml
Letters to US newspapers reflect widespread revulsion over Fallujah attack

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/11/1540256
Israel re-arrests Nuclear Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu

http://www.wral.com/news/3910173/detail.html
Some Call Vandalism At GOP Headquarters Civil Disobedience

http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/latimes391.html
Military's Presence at Antiwar Rally Is Called a Coincidence

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/nov2004/gonz-n12.shtml
Democrats ready to confirm defender of torture as new US attorney general

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1348298,00.html
A father's anger: 'I would kill Geoff Hoon ... I would kill that man. I
would cut his throat'

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/local/10132620.htm
Air Force researching 30,000 pound bomb

http://iafrica.com/news/worldnews/389225.htm
'Body parts everywhere' in Fallujah

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1111-03.htm
Human 'Disaster' Looms in Encircled Falluja

http://www.aztlan.net/fallujah_guernica.htm
Fallujah: America's Guernica

http://www.iii.co.uk/news/?type=afxnews&articleid=5116596&action=article
Slaughterhouses: US troops shooting into houses before searching

http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/14667064?source=Evening%20Standard
US forced to pull troops out of Fallujah to fight growing insurgency in
other Iraqi cities

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/11/13/wirq13.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/11/13/ixnewstop.html
US troops stretched to limit as insurgents fight back

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1113-01.htm
Fallujah Situation 'Disastrous', Charity Says

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1347490,00.html
Medicines and food scarce for trapped civilians, many wounded unable to get
treatment

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FK11Ak03.html
Satan hides in a hospital

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6E722418-6B50-4D2A-93E1-77C9A8FC6DAC.htm
Mosques bombed in Falluja fighting

http://www.islamonline.org/English/News/2004-11/10/article05.shtml
US troops reportedly using chemical weapons and poisonous gas in its assault
on Fallujah

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3999899.stm
Defiance amid carnage

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1347354,00.html
Falluja's defiance of a new empire

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/ad3f7d52-3295-11d9-8498-00000e2511c8.html
'Every town will become a Fallujah'

http://www.tuftsdaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/11/10/4191be8ca4fff
U.S. military overstretch raises possibility of draft

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=753&e=1&u=/nm/20041110/sc_nm/brazil_environment_forest_dc
Brazil Forests Seen Doomed Without Int'l Aid

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1109-06.htm
Global Warming Exposes Arctic to Oil, Gas Drilling

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B2EC085D-4426-49F5-8579-0FD9BDFDC3F8.htm
World risks global recession in 2005

http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_13452.shtml
The coming collapse of the US economy?

http://www.nationalhomeless.org/crimreport/pressrelease.html
Escalating civil rights abuses against homeless people

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=359
Pesticide Study Using Children as Guinea Pigs Postponed

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