[APR-news] Alternative Press Review - October 27, 2004

Wed Oct 27 14:39:42 EDT 2004

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The Real Reasons Why Iran is the Next Target
by William Clark, globalresearch.ca

The Iranians are about to commit an "offense" far greater than Saddam
Hussein's conversion to the euro of Iraq's oil exports in the fall of 2000.
The Tehran government has a developed a plan to begin competing with New
York's NYMEX and London's IPE with respect to international oil trades -
using a euro-based international oil-trading mechanism. This means that
without some form of US intervention, the euro is going to establish a firm
foothold in the international oil trade. Given U.S. debt levels and the
neoconservative project for U.S. global domination, Tehran's objective
constitutes an obvious encroachment on US interests in the oil market.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=354&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
On the Road to Civil War
By Uri Avnery, Gush Shalom

Everybody in Israel is talking about the Next War. The most popular TV
channel is running a whole series about it. Not another war with the Arabs.
Not the nuclear threat from Iran. Not the ongoing bloody confrontation with
the Palestinians. The talk is about the coming civil war. Only a few months
ago, that would have sounded preposterous. Now, suddenly, is has become a
possibility, and a very real one.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=353&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
American Exceptionalism
By Ivan Eland, Independent.org

Many Americans, like the citizens of dominant nations of the past, believe
that their way of life is superior and should be shared with other
peoples-often at gunpoint. Lately, this American exceptionalism has assumed
even more pernicious forms.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=352&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Media Disinformation on Haiti
by Anthony Fenton, ZNet

The analysis that follows is an attempt to demonstrate the utter
unreliability of the mainstream media in Canada which moreover functions
primarily to buttress the propaganda campaign against Aristide and the
severe campaign of repression of his supporters, while simultaneously
functioning to cloud and obscure the overall picture of reality in Haiti.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/26/eminem/index_np.html
Eminem's anti-Bush anthem
By Michelle Goldberg, Salon

With his history of homophobia and his long-running beef with MoveOn
supporter Moby, Eminem is an even less likely lefty hero than Howard Stern.
But the just-released video for his new anti-Bush song "Mosh," makes
"Fahrenheit 9/11" look like a GOP campaign spot, and it will almost
certainly reach an audience that wouldn't think of shelling out for a
documentary.

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/badnarik.php?articleid=3856
Kerry's Entangling Alliances
by Michael Badnarik

Americans who oppose the war in Iraq find it easy to hold President Bush in
contempt - as they should, considering his deceptive and disastrous wars
that have killed thousands. What's harder is finding much to like in John
Kerry. Most antiwar American voters will probably pull the lever for Kerry -
or, more accurately, against Bush - but we must all come to terms with the
fact that Kerry is a hawk, and a very dangerous one.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1335961,00.html
The colonial precedent: The growing brutality and deception of the Iraq war
mirrors Britain's recent imperial history
Mark Curtis, The Guardian

The redeployment of British forces in Iraq to support a US assault on
Falluja marks another stage in a creeping return to the colonial era, when
popular revolts against occupation were routinely suppressed by overwhelming
force. These past episodes, revealed in declassified British government
files, provide numerous parallels with Iraq, and suggest a pattern of future
blunders and atrocities. Those in Britain who like to regard more recent
military interventions as humanitarian might dwell on those parallels as the
latest phase of the Iraq war unfolds.

http://www.counterpunch.org/cloughley10262004.html
Atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan: Three Weddings and Lots of Funerals
By Brian Clougley, CounterPunch

The people slaughtered at the wedding celebrations in Iraq and Afghanistan
weren't terrorists. They weren't anything much, really, because they were
just ordinary people ; wedding guests who had been enjoying themselves in
their traditional way until the rockets and 50 cal rounds and 105 millimeter
shells and monster bombs slammed explosively into them, ripping them apart
in gouts of blood and gobbets of flesh.

http://www.strike-the-root.com/4/wasdin/wasdin17.html
Four More Years
Mike Wasdin, Strike the Root

The sheeple can't see that voting is stupid and a scam in the first place.
To a sheep, voting and paying taxes is some great privilege, a moral and
civic duty. They actually derive enjoyment from this.  No greater scam has
ever been played on humanity than the illusion of Democracy. When did
mankind lose its collective mind? When did it become popular to pick our
masters, think inside the box, and do as we are told? The better question is
will we ever regain our dignity, character, and freedom again?

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NewsWire

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=562&u=/ap/20041026/ap_on_hi_te/web_server_seizure_3&printer=1
Web server takedown called speech threat

http://www.libertythink.com/2004/10/eminems-new-video-too-hot-for-mtv.html
Eminem's new video: too hot for MTV?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-1313808,00.html
Hundreds who were subjected to barbaric CIA-funded brainwashing experiments
entitled to compensation

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/26/politics/26detain.html?th
US concludes some non-Iraqi prisoners kidnapped by American forces in Iraq
not entitled to Geneva Convention protection

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6618677
Bush charged with war crimes

http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=26008
Veterans' Voices Rise in Protest

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1329025,00.html
Imprisoned for exercising his right to oppose a war on conscientious grounds

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62554-2004Oct25?language=printer
Bush administration wants additional $70 billion for war

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/oct2004/fall-o27.shtml
Guerilla attacks increase as US forces continue air raids against Fallujah

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-10-25-troops-increase_x.htm
US looking for ways to increase troop strength in Iraq from 138,000 to
160,000

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/1004/183171.html
Army Won 't Shorten Combat Tours in Iraq

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0443/robbins.php
The Soldiers Who Said No

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11199347%255E2703,00.html
84 Muslims killed by Thai police after demonstration

http://www.channel4.com/news/2004/10/week_5/26_oil.html
Top Saudi oil industry insider says American govt forecast for future oil
supplies are a "dangerous over-estimate"

http://www.energybulletin.net/2852.html
Opec asks US to release emergency oil stocks

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=253
China Strapped by Energy Shortages as Winter Nears

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