[APR-news] Alternative Press Review - February 2, 2005

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February 2, 2005

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=439&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Ringing in 1984 with Ward Churchill & Derrick Jensen: Bigoted Terrorist
Supporters Make Sounds
by Richard Oxman

Ward Churchill, University of Colorado at Boulder professor, recently
resigned his post as head of the school's ethnic studies department
following an uproar over an article he wrote about the people who died in
the World Trade Center 9/11 event. Pressure had been applied.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=438&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Freedom on Steroids
By John Chuckman

A writer at The Times counted 27 references to freedom in Bush's inaugural
speech. The speech contained not one reference to his ugly war in Iraq, but
for hundreds of thousands of Iraqis the only freedom established by Bush's
invasion was their freedom to miserable deaths or future lives as cripples.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=437&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Veterans' Benefits "hurtful" to National Security, says Pentagon
By Joel Wendland

The Wall Street Journal describes the pittance set aside for veteran's
benefits as "Congress' generosity," even as the Republican-controlled
Congress and Bush Pentagon get set to slash billions more from Veterans
Administration's (VA) programs. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal
(1-25-05), Pentagon official David Chu, in a mockery of the contribution of
veterans, defended a new round of cuts by ironically describing funding for
programs like veterans' education and job training, health care, pensions,
VA housing and the like as "hurtful" to national security.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/012805.html
Money, Media & the Mess in America
Robert Parry, Consortium News

In 1983, a plan, hatched by CIA Director William J. Casey, called for
raising private money to sell the administration's Central American policies
to the American public through an outreach program designed to look
independent but which was secretly managed by Reagan-Bush officials. The
project was implemented by a CIA propaganda veteran, Walter Raymond Jr., who
had been moved to the National Security Council staff and put in charge of a
"perception management" campaign that had both international and domestic
objectives.

http://www.nypress.com/18/4/news&columns/AlexanderZaitchik.cfm
IT'S THE PIPELINES, STUPID: How to bring down a giant, one blood vessel at a
time
Alexander Zaitchik, NY Press

One of the biggest stories of 2004 was Peak Oil-the hardening consensus
among analysts that global reserves of recoverable oil are half gone, and
that output will soon begin a decline as drastic as last century's growth
was explosive. Even if the 50 percent mark hasn't been reached yet, few
disagree that the roller coaster car is at most inches from the big rush
down. All of which makes the current pipeline-terrorism fad more than a
little ironic. Just as it becomes clear that the earth's juiciest sunken oil
veins are collapsing, along comes Johnny Jihad to start smacking the needle
out of our fingers. Turns out we may not get the honor of sucking the
world's last oil well dry, after all.

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts02012005.html
American Police State
Paul Craig Roberts, CounterPunch

Should Americans have to give up the Bill of Rights in order to be "safe"
from terrorists? Actually, it doesn't matter what Americans think. The trade
has already been made--and without any input from the people. The
"democracy" that America is exporting is in fact a Homeland Security State
with more surveillance powers than Saddam Hussein.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1399228,00.html
Criminals the lot of us
Scott Ritter, The Guardian

The invasion of Iraq was a crime of gigantic proportions, for which
politicians, the media and the public share responsibility.

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NewsWire

http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcase/la-me-resign26jan26.story
High school journalist punished for interviewing gay students

http://mediamatters.org/items/200501280006
What is Talon News, and why does it have press credentials?

http://www.arabamerican.net/?q=node/44
Under pressure, Qatar may sell Al-Jazeera station

http://www.fair.org/activism/pbs-buster.html
PBS Censors Postcards From Buster -- Episode featuring lesbian moms deemed
not 'appropriate'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4225013.stm
Soviets R US: American teens reject key freedoms -- half of high school
students felt newspapers should only be allowed to publish stories with
government approval

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan05/Brengle0128.htm
Another Conservative Commentator Discovered on the White House Payroll

http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/012905Z.shtml
Yet another columnist caught whoring for Bush admin

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/39630.htm
Two US Army Terror Recruiting Centers Vandalized

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,FL_bigger_012705,00.html?ESRC=eb.nl
The vile technocrats of Empire demand a much larger US terror machine

http://www.craigdailypress.com/section/frontpage_lead/story/15670
In Debt to His Country: McWilliams carries the scars of battle and three
years of service in Iraq, but he came away from the experience with
something more -- a bill from the Defense Department for more than $3,000
and 30 days to pay it

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1398648,00.html
Isolation, breakdowns and mysterious injections

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/vene-j26.shtml
Washington backs kidnapping of Colombian guerrilla exile in Caracas

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1402922,00.html
The Vietnam turnout was good as well

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12065912%255E1702,00.html
Global warming 'twice as bad as feared'

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6889985/
Arctic ozone layer is thinning

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/let_them_eat_rocket_fuel.php
Let them eat rocket fuel

http://www.non-gm-farmers.com/news_details.asp?ID=1960
Monsanto continues to gobble up seed companies

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=8&u=/nm/20050202/ts_nm/health_bankruptcy_dc
Half of US bankruptcies due to medical bills

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4209527.stm
US consumers' debts are an "accident waiting to happen"

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/living/home/10690193.htm?1c
Recalling the days of N.Y. cooperative homes built in the '20s by Bronx
radicals

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