[APR-news] Alternative Press Review - Sept 1, 2004

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Wednesday - September 1, 2004 
Nonviolence and Its Violent Consequences
by William Meyers, III Publishing
In this essay it will be argued that nonviolence encourages violence by the state and corporations. The ideology of nonviolence creates effects opposite to what it promises. As a result nonviolence ideologists cooperate in the ongoing destruction of the environment, in continued repression of powerless, and in U.S./corporate attacks on people in foreign nations. To minimize violence we must adopt a pragmatic, reality-based method of operation. 

On Political Violence
By Craig Rosebraugh
While few scholars, theorists, and outright revolutionaries openly declare their love and desire for armed struggle on any level, many do promote the right to self defense which can and often does include the use of political violence. On a sociological and psychological level, there is a wealth of resources attempting to understand the mindset of the group or individual who takes up arms and violence for reasons of pursuing justice. Additionally, on a purely tactical basis, from guerrilla warfare to massive armed insurrection involving full conventional militaries, there is also a substantial amount of literature. 

The War on Terror is a Fraud: Unraveling the Logic of a Lie
by M. Junaid Alam
While both parties jockey for the lead on who can best pummel the Islamic world into submission, it seems that neither actually understands how success in this endeavor can be measured in any tangible way, how victory can be achieved decisively, or how long the war will go on. Bush and his wife have generously explained what will not happen: there will be no formal surrender, no peace treaty, and no boundaries. John Kerry, whose campaign rides on a wave of Swiftboat atrocities in Vietnam and solemn pledges to continue the brutal twin occupations of Iraq and Palestine, has also done absolutely nothing to explain how the war will be or can be "won." 

Get Ready for the Peak Experience
By Kelpie Wilson, TruthOut
The coming decline in oil production is something rarely mentioned in public, and when it is, it is portrayed as something so impossibly far off in the future that there is no sense in talking about it. The obscuring clouds have been deliberately generated by a collusion of oil industry, financial and government interests. They don't want us to know that we are about to fall off the world as we know it. 

Canada in Haiti: Who Engineered the Overthrow of Democracy?
by Anthony Fenton, The Dominion
For those seeking to understand the roots of Canada's latest intervention in Haiti, there appears to be no better place to begin than the central figure of the emerging Canada-Haiti controversy, Quebec MP Denis Paradis. 

Other articles of interest 

John Kerry Should Be Ashamed of Vietnam Service
By Ted Rall
Like Iraq, Vietnam was an ill-conceived, doomed war that wasted countless lives for no good reason, launched by a president who lied about a Cold War threat (the absurd "domino theory") that simply didn't exist. As U.S. troops are doing now in Iraq, we committed horrific atrocities in Vietnam. Not only did the guys in black pajamas beat us fair and square, we deserved it. We were wrong. We deserved to lose. Service in the wars against Vietnam and Iraq are nothing to be proud of. If John Kerry can't admit now what he knew in 1971, at least he can stop bragging about his medals. 

Pentagon/Israel Spying Case Expands: Fomenting a War on Iran
by Juan Cole, Informed Comment
It is an echo of the one-two punch secretly planned by the pro-Likud faction in the Department of Defense. First, Iraq would be taken out by the United States, and then Iran. David Wurmser, a key member of the group, also wanted Syria included. These pro-Likud intellectuals concluded that 9/11 would give them carte blanche to use the Pentagon as Israel's Gurkha regiment, fighting elective wars on behalf of Tel Aviv (not wars that really needed to be fought, but wars that the Likud coalition thought it would be nice to see fought so as to increase Israel's ability to annex land and act aggressively, especially if someone else's boys did the dying). 

Outgunned, Outmatched
By Don Hazen, AlterNet
The NYPD protester strategy on Tuesday was akin to the U.S. military's display of overwhelming and sometimes unnecessary force in Iraq. 

Israel killed 436 Palestinians in past 'quiet' six months
Arjan El Fassed, Electronic Intifada
While mainstream media tend to portray suicide bombings as a return to violence after a relatively peaceful period, there have been numerous killings in the weeks leading up to suicide bombings that underscore the lack of evenhanded attention given to loss of life in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. According to statistics from the Red Crescent at least 436 Palestinians have been killed since March 14 to August 31. 

NewsWire 

Gov't Attempts Subpoena For Indymedia Logs - Service Provider Refuses 

Fox Network refuses to air ad from The Nation magazine 

British journalist banned from speaking with the media 

The Forfeiture Documents That the Justice Dept Wanted to Destroy 

At Least 900 Arrested in City as Protesters Clash With Police 

Police Stifle Protests Across N.Y. 

Rivers of dissent flood NYC 

Half of New Yorkers Believe U.S. Leaders Had Foreknowledge of Impending 9/11 Attacks and "Consciously Failed" To Act 

Justice Department wants convictions of suspected terror cell in Detroit tossed because of prosecutorial misconduct, case once hailed as major victory in war on terrorism 

The world is consistently failing to grow enough crops to feed itself, alarming official statistics show 

Simon Upton forecasts end of industrial era 

Are we living in a fool's paradise? 

40 companies sitting on pension time bombs 

Nonviolent protest offers little hope for Palestinians 

Argentina: IMF protesters get tear gas, rubber bullets 

Sovereign Iraq Still Deadly: Attacks more frequent, now 60 per day 

New evidence of recent torture in Iraq 

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