[APR-news] Alternative Press Review - October 29, 2004

Fri Oct 29 14:46:04 EDT 2004

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Eminem Joins the ABB Mosh Pit
by Thomas Wheeler, Alternative Press Review

The culture industry is in the business of recuperating and co-opting
efforts that might directly confront the system. It is more than happy to
dish out a generous supply of rhetoric and images of resistance and
revolution to the masses so long as it is safely channeled into activities
that do not aggressively question the prevailing orthodoxies and do not
openly challenge the legitimacy of the system itself. Order must be
maintained and subservience to authority must be upheld. Despite all the
radical imagery, Eminem's video fits this role quite well.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=358&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Denouncing Americanism
By John Pilger, New Statesman

The most enduring silence is that which guards the system that has produced
these catastrophic events. This is Americanism, though it dares not speak
its name, which is strange, as its opposite, anti-Americanism, has long been
successfully deployed as a pejorative, catch-all response to critical
analysis of an imperial system and its myths. Americanism, the ideology, has
meant democracy at home, for some, and a war on democracy abroad. From
Guatemala to Iran, from Chile to Nicaragua, to the struggle for freedom in
South Africa, to present-day Venezuela, American state terrorism, licensed
by both Republican and Democrat administrations, has fought democrats and
sponsored totalitarians.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=357&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Psycho-Wars: The Role of US Agents Provocateurs in Iraq
by William Bowles, globalresearch.ca

History is littered with innumerable examples of psycho-war operations
conducted by the US around the planet, whether it was covert backing of the
invasion of Cuba in 1961 or its support (and training) of death squads in
Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua all the way through to its arming and
support of UNITA in Angola for decades. Therefore it should come as no
surprise that the US would be up to its neck in such operations as
kidnappings and executions, all purportedly orchestrated by one man, Abu
Masaab al-Zarqawi who prior to Colin Powell's UN address in February 2003
was virtually unknown.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=359&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
RNC REDUX: Anarchist Analysis of the 2004 RNC Protests
by Alexander Trocchi, CrimethInc.

The Republican National Convention was the ultimate slight to New York:
those who made careers and a quick buck off the September 11th events
returned to feast like vultures on the corpses of the dead, attempting to
rally support for a failing war and a disastrous regime by parading around
near the site of Ground Zero.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1028/p16s01-cogn.html
Update on an old warning: Beware the coming shortages
By David R. Francis, Christian Science Monitor

Dennis Meadows warned 32 years ago that the world would run short of
resources within a century, putting the planet at risk of expanding hunger
as well as economic and social disaster. Today, that danger is more
imminent, says Mr. Meadows, one of the authors of "The Limits to Growth," a
book published in 1972 and now just updated.

http://www.survivingpeakoil.com/article.php?id=facing_dark_age
Facing the New Dark Age: A Grassroots Approach
By John Michael Greer, Surviving Peak Oil

Despite four decades of detailed warnings, industrial civilization has
failed to turn aside from self-destructive policies of exponential growth
and dependence on nonrenewable resources. At this point, stark limits of
time and resources as well as a failure of political will make attempts to
prevent the fall of industrial society an exercise in futility. Individuals,
small groups, and communities can still prepare for the approaching crises
by mastering low-tech survival skills now to lay foundations for a
sustainable society in the future.

http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/columnists/ny-nyhen294022619oct29,0,6504299.column
Bush's camp gets gift from 'Azzam the American'
Ellis Henican, Newsday

Is it a pre-election gift to the Bush campaign from al-Qaida? Or is it the
Republicans' long-awaited October surprise? A 75-minute videotape, featuring
a scary-looking fellow in sunglasses and a Palestinian headscarf, warning
that blood will "run red" in the streets of America. Yikes! There was no
actual evidence yesterday that the late October tape was produced in Karl
Rove's basement or Ed Gillespie's garage. But the top-ranking Republicans
politicos, who've been enduring a drip-drip of difficult news, were said to
be grinning like they hadn't since the term "swift boat" led the evening
news. However the tape materialized - wink, wink - it dovetails almost
perfectly with the president's fear-based campaign.

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NewsWire

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-iraq-death-toll,0,7799287.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines
Mass Murder: 100,000 Iraqis killed since war, most are women and children

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/102804B.shtml
More Mass Murder: U.S. Assault on Fallujah May Be Imminent

http://www.socialistworker.org/2004-2/518/518_12_Iraq.shtml
Iraq's opposition to occupation: "All our people are resisting"

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1028-06.htm
Seymour Hersh: War Can't Be Won

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/49/news-blume.php
This GI Joe Won't Go - Ex-soldier resists backdoor draft into Iraq war

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/10/27/national1210EDT0540.DTL
Scientists find prehistoric dwarf human skeleton with puzzling traits on
Pacific island

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1028/p01s02-usec.html
Yuppie McMansions bring energy crisis home to middle class

http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=17581
United State's supply of oil is in tatters due to underwater mudslides
caused by Hurricane Ivan

http://www.energybulletin.net/2889.html
$2 gallon gas will look like the good old days before end of decade

http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/102904/a0729peakoil.html
Why you may soon pay $10 a gallon for gasoline

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000039&refer=columnist_pesek&sid=aoP8MaxIzWb8
$200 Oil Within the Next Five Years?

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