[APR-news] Alternative Press Review - October 21, 2004

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Thursday - October 21, 2004

"My father rode a camel, I drive a car, my son rides in a jet airplane. His
son will ride a camel." - Saudi Arabian saying

Website of the Day - http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=343&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Buffalo Commons Cum Indian Territory: An Uncommon Need/Demand
By Richard Oxman

I submit that we need spiritually-intact, traditional Indians to watch over
Mother Earth now for reasons of enlightened self-interest, not just because
it's the right thing to do vis-à-vis survival on the Rez. Again, I'm not
going to recount the various ways in which the Bureau of Indian Affairs
("The Colonial Office of the United States") has assisted corporations in
raping the land and contaminating the contiguous U.S., making traditional
indigenous life-which kept these lands pristine for tens of thousands of
years-all but impossible. But I am obliged to underscore something. To wit,
what should be the wealthiest group of people within U.S. borders-based on
resources-is the poorest and the most contaminated (by the abusive outside
handling of its own land).

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=342&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Bill Clinton and the "Anybody But Bush" Movement

If the democrats take power this November they will probably continue the
same policies as Bush.  We know this because Clinton did basically the same
thing when he was in office.  To think otherwise is to ignore history and
the democrat's records.  The "Anybody but Bush" (ABB) movement is founded on
a basically irrational hatred of Bush that completely ignores the record of
the democrats the last time they were in power.  The ABB movement practices
a double standard: when republicans do something it's wrong but when
democrats do the same thing it's okay (or didn't happen at all).  In party
politics it is always the other party's fault, never the system's fault.  If
a democrat were in office and implemented the same policies Bush has most of
the ABBers would support him.  We know this because Clinton implemented many 
of the same policies ABBers criticize Bush for yet they didn't develop the
same kind of hatred towards Clinton they have towards Bush.  Most outright
supported Clinton and the minority who didn't support him did not develop
the kind of irrational hatred towards Clinton they have towards Bush.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff10202004.html
Draft Creep: First They Came for the Nurses
By Dave Lindorff, CounterPunch

So the cat's out of the bag. With reports today in the New York Times, AP
and other media outlets that the Pentagon is contemplating a draft call-up
of health professionals because of a shortage of doctors, nurses and medics
in the increasingly thinly stretched U.S. military, we can see the lie in
Bush's (and in Kerry's) promises not to reinstate conscription.

http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/10686/
"Anti-Semitism": The new McCarthyism
by Sadanand Nanjundiah, Media Monitors

The reality is that Israel has been cleansing all of Palestine of its 
indigenous population, which is the real genocide in this region. But for 
die-hard Zionists, Israel can never do any wrong and any criticism or 
negative characterization of its belligerence or oppression is immediately 
called "anti-Semitic.

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NewsWire

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/oct2004/iraq-o21.shtml
New York Times editorial: Fuck the troops

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/10/20/9089531
Arizona Republic censors voices of real Indians

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1019-02.htm
It Took Jon Stewart to Gun Down Crossfire

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/people/9922815.htm?1c
KRS-One: African-Americans ''cheered when 9/11 happened''

http://www.allhiphop.com/editorial/?ID=218
KRS-One rebuttal to NY Daily News distortion of his views

http://slate.msn.com/id/2108357/
The Reserve Mutiny - How the Iraq war is crippling the Army Reserve

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/index.php?page=national&story_id=102004b1_iraq_guard
300 Iraqi soldiers abandon unit in Samarra

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002067759_wounded20.html
Number of wounded US troops tops 8,000

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20031124/humans_print.html
There are 1,000 times too many humans to be sustainable

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1021-02.htm
Consumption of Resources Outstripping Planet's Ability to Cope

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3747724.stm
Water scarcity: A looming crisis

http://www.thedesertsun.com/news/stories2004/business/20041017013610.shtml
Energy doomsday could strike in coming decade

http://www.usatoday.com/money/books/2004-10-17-crude-oil_x.htm
Oil: We are living on borrowed time

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3751810.stm
Britain faces winters of blackouts and energy price hikes

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BAF1E1C50%2D4723%2D43E3%2DB022%2D269DA54BE50B%7D&siteid=mktw
Oil nears record as product stocks fall; Heating-oil price at new high;
Natural gas at 19-month high

http://www.forbes.com/energy/2004/10/19/cx_da_1019topnews.html?partner=rss
Is oil heading for $100?

http://www.nola.com/business/t-p/index.ssf?/base/money-0/1098253792150260.xml
Oil prices could double in three years

http://cathyseipp.journalspace.com/?entryid=414
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