[APR-news] Alternative Press Review - October 12 - 20, 2004

Wed Oct 20 23:03:06 EDT 2004

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October 12 - 20, 2004

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=341&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Israel and Racism: Inseparable Allies
By M. Junaid Alam

The history of all hitherto existing anti-Palestinian propaganda is the
history of outright racism. The Israelis and their political allies have
bred and nurtured a malicious beast, kept well-fed on a steady diet of
hatred and contempt for the Palestinian people. It bristles with anger at
the mention of forced expulsions, military occupation, and excessive use of
force. Fangs bare, claws extended, eyes glaring, it aims to scare out the
moral consciences of its victims

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=339&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
If the FBI works to shut down independent journalism Web sites that are
critical of U.S. policy, isn't that a story?
By John Hanrahan, Niemanwatchdog.org

Agence France-Presse thought it was news. So did the U.K.'s Guardian
newspaper. Likewise BBC News, which reported that the FBI in cooperation
with U.K. authorities had on October 7 "shut down some 20 sites which were
part of an alternative media network known as Indymedia." But coverage of
this significant, ominous event has thus far drawn almost total silence from
the U.S. news media.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=338&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
John Kerry and the Democrats' Project for a New American Century
by Roy Rollin, Left Hook

The already infamous Democratic Leadership Council, which master-minded the
Democrats right ward lurch during the Clinton-Gore years, has its own think
tank, the "Progressive Policy Institute" (PPI), which calls for virtually
all of the same things the PNAC does, and in language that is almost
identical to that used by their Republican "rivals." This is hardly
shocking.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=340&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Don't Count on it: Ai Vay, What Kind of "Progressive" are You?
by Richard Oxman

When I criticize people like Amy Goodman and Michael Moore, invariably a
number of readers will rise up to point out that they both do much good.
That's undoubtedly true about the former, a debateable point regarding the
latter. In both cases, however, the fact that "bits" of what they do are to
be applauded, are useful to The Left, does not preclude necessary
condemnation...when sins of omission or commission rear their ugly head.

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Beyond the Mainstream Blog

http://beyondthemainstream.blogspot.com/2004/10/small-differences-large-outcomes.html
Small Differences, Large Outcomes

Noam Chomsky recently acknowledged there were "small differences" between
Bush and Kerry and that those differences could potentially translate into
"large outcomes." This is hardly a controversial stand. The controversy
stems from how you apply Chomsky's words.

http://beyondthemainstream.blogspot.com/2004/10/choose-and-lose.html
Choose and Lose

I've often heard that if you don't vote you have no right to complain. I
agree with George Carlin that it makes a lot more sense when you turn it
around. "If you vote, you have no right to complain," he says.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.oriononline.org/pages/om/04-6om/Berry.html
Compromise, Hell! - Economic WMD's are Being Used Against Our Own People
by Wendell Berry, Orion Magazine

We are destroying our country -- I mean our country itself, our land. This
is a terrible thing to know, but it is not a reason for despair unless we
decide to continue the destruction. If we decide to continue the
destruction, that will not be because we have no other choice. This
destruction is not necessary. It is not inevitable, except that by our
submissiveness we make it so.

http://www.culturechange.org/e-letter-resist.html
Resisting the war machine and U.S. ecocide
by Jan Lundberg, Culture Change

This is a time of massive denial of the destruction of both the planet's
biosphere and non-mainstream cultures by governments, corporations and the
average consumer.  A call for resistance, then, is never more appropriate.
So, what are the possibilities, and what kind of world do we want to build?

http://www.fair.org/activism/fbi-indymedia.html
FBI Shutdown of Indymedia Threatens Free Speech

In a chilling attack on free speech, U.S. authorities on October 7 seized
two internet servers in London belonging to the independent media network
Indymedia. More than 20 Indymedia sites around the world were taken down as
a result of the raid. The servers were returned on October 14, but no formal
charges have been announced and no explanation has been given for the raid.

http://www.counterpunch.com/rooij10132004.html
Amnesty International: A False Beacon?
By Paul de Rooij, CounterPunch

Consider the title of a recent press release: "Israeli army must respect
human rights in its operations". According to AI, the Israeli depredations
on occupied land are acceptable as long as they "respect" human rights. This
is analogous to recommending that a rapist should practice safe sex. It is
also difficult to imagine that a military occupation could ever be imposed
while observing "human rights".

http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2004/0410republicrats.html
House Republicans and Democrats Unite in Linking Iraq with 9/11
By Stephen Zunes, FPIF

On the eve of the third anniversary of 9/11, the U.S. House of
Representatives--by an overwhelming, bipartisan majority of 406-16--passed a
resolution linking Iraq to the al-Qaida attacks on the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon. This comes despite conclusions reached by the bipartisan
9/11 Commission, a recent CIA report, and the consensus of independent
strategic analysis familiar with the region that no such links ever existed.

http://www.alternet.org/election04/20138/
A Draft - One Way or the Other
By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor, Berkeley Daily Planet

If we're having no trouble bringing enough needed new troops into the
military, why is the Pentagon forcing soldiers to stay past their contracted
terms, leaving us with a battlefield potentially sprinkled with demoralized
and disgruntled fighters?

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/11/10_400.html
Breaking Ranks
By David Goodman, Mother Jones

More and more U.S. soldiers are speaking out against the war in Iraq -- and
some are refusing to fight.

http://www.alternet.org/story/20140/
Soldiers Once ... And Young
By Tai Moses, AlterNet

After serving a 12-month tour of duty in Iraq last year, Marine Lance
Corporal Jeff Lucey returned home to his relieved family with no injuries -
or at least none that were visible. "When we didn't see him tremendously
traumatized when he returned, we thought, 'Oh, thank god,'" says his father,
Kevin Lucey. "And then it exploded."

http://www.socialistworker.org/2004-2/516/516_05_MilitaryOut.shtml
Get the military out of our schools

Hundreds of students, parents, teachers and community members last week
packed into what had been billed as a "community forum" to protest the
planned invasion of Senn High School by the U.S. military.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1327904,00.html
The making of the terror myth
By Andy Beckett, The Guardian

Since September 11 Britain has been warned of the 'inevitability' of
catastrophic terrorist attack. But has the danger been exaggerated? A major
new TV documentary claims that the perceived threat is a politically driven
fantasy - and al-Qaida a dark illusion.

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NewsWire

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1019-06.htm
Sinclair Fires Journalist After Critical Comments

http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB137/index.htm
Government Censors Aviation Warnings Leading up to 9/11

http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,65305,00.html/wn_ascii
US spies on chatrooms

http://news.findlaw.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=/ap/ht/1700/10-13-2004/20041013154502_063.html
Group Posts Surveillance Camera Locations

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/10/10/MNG0996S3P1.DTL
'60s Free Speech leader got caught in FBI web

http://207.44.245.159/article7073.htm
21st century book burning

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1014-04.htm
Political artists awakening in unprecedented numbers

http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=8733
The Draft: Bush may have to bring back conscription, whether he wants to or
not

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1015/p09s03-cods.html
Assurances aside, some feel a draft

http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2004/10/19/news/draft.html
Secret report details plan to draft medics

http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2002/11/ma_153_01.html
No Child Left Undrafted

http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-18/109798906786681.xml
By the thousands, soldiers 50 and older are being deployed

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,FL_army_102004,00.html
Army still stretched by Iraq

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4553776,00.html
Boot camps & "get tough" programs for adolescents do not prevent criminal
behavior, may make the problem even worse

http://ydr.com/story/mike/45086/
Marine in Iraq: "It's worse every day"

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041015/NEWS01/410150366/1002
Platoon defies orders in Iraq

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/oct2004/muty-o18.shtml
US soldiers mutiny over "suicide mission" in Iraq

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/oct2004/mili-o16.shtml
Discontent rife in US military ranks

http://207.44.245.159/article7103.htm
1.7 Million Veterans Lack Health Care

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/15/157205
>From Vietnam to Iraq: American War Resisters Seek Refuge in Canada

http://207.44.245.159/article7067.htm
CIA using Jordan as torture base

http://207.44.245.159/article7069.htm
Global Terror by US Death Squads

http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/p-neff-truman.html
Truman Overrode Strong State Department Warning Against Partitioning of
Palestine in 1947

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/RickSteves/story?id=147701&page=1
Copenhagen's Hippie Haven

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/15/international/americas/15brazil.html
Brazilians Battle Indians: 'This Land Is Our Land'

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/19/1423205
The Forgotten Coup: Violence Erupts in Haiti, Activists and Political
Leaders Arrested

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=193
Amphibian Extinctions Sound Global Eco-alarm

http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/27674/story.htm
Chart watchers eye $70 oil

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/16/1097784099124.html?from=storylhs&oneclick=true
Fears of a third oil shock

http://www.guardian.co.uk/oil/story/0,11319,1324917,00.html
Britain's bounty of oil and gas running dry

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/FJ14Dj01.html
Ominous: The US deficit vs the dollar

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-10-18-suburbs-poverty_x.htm
Poverty on the increase in the suburbs

http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=1799
U.S. Businesses File Four Times More Lawsuits Than Private Citizens And Are
Sanctioned Much More Often for Frivolous Suits

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