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

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January 2, 2005

Kick over the wall 'cause government's to fall
How can you refuse it?
Let fury have the hour, anger can be power
D'you know that you can use it? - "Clampdown" (The Clash)

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http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=412&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Too Angry...For What?
By Kirsten Anderberg

I am often told I am "too angry." I have never totally understood what that
means, honestly. "Too angry for what?" is what I always think. Too angry to
be a submissive housewife? Okay, I agree with that. Too angry to be a
complacent wage slave? Okay, that is true too. Too angry to sit silently by
while my government commits what constructively amounts to international war
crimes? Okay. Too angry to allow sexism without a counterargument of
intellectual feminism? Guilty as charged. I guess maybe what I wonder about
is not the "angry" part, but the "too" part. "Too angry" implies my anger
exceeds what the situation warrants. "Too angry" implies irrationality, a
loss of perspective, an emotional irresponsibility. I agree that I am angry.
Even angry as hell. But I am not convinced that I am "too angry."

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=413&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Stingy? Not with WMD and War
By Heather Wokusch

The Bush administration has ample funding available for war and for coming
up with increasingly barbaric means of killing, just not much left over to
help out in global humanitarian catastrophes.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=414&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
New Year Bageantry: The Richard Oxman-Joe Bageant (Rich/Joe Interview), Part
I by Richard Oxman

American progressives need to wake up to the fact that they are just as big
a part of the world's problems as the Republicans, so long as they insist on
living the American lifestyle. As long as they continue to thoughtlessly
consume the world as if it were their birthright. All talk and no walk.
Buying organic toilet paper and voting for evasive Democratic hacks just
isn't going to cut it guys.

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Other articles of interest

http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=4242
The Great Crime Spree of 2004: Rape, torture, murder, war crimes, and
treason - your government at work
Justin Raimondo, Antiwar.com

If 2003 was the year of the liars, as I opined last year, then 2004 was the
year of the war criminals, starting with Time magazine's designated Man of
the Year, criminal-in-chief George W. Bush. It was Bush who presided over
the torture and abuse not only at Abu Ghraib but in U.S.-run dungeons from
Guantanamo to Afghanistan - and spare me the cries of protest that he didn't
know, and Abu Ghraib was an "isolated incident."

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000743012
Some Readers Want to Lock Up Al Neuharth
Greg Mitchell, Editor & Publisher

Apparently, it is now an act of treason to offer an editorial opinion on the
Iraq war that goes against the conventional wisdom.

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Dec2004/Gordon1231.htm
Academic Witch-Hunt in Israel
Neve Gordon, Dissident Voice

The site's authors encourage students and scholars to pass on information
about suspect professors. They promise to publish incriminating material.
The goal, it seems, is to influence hiring and tenure decisions in order to
purge Israeli universities of those who dare question the state, or, at
least, silence them.

http://www.counterpunch.org/phillips12312004.html
Waves of Hypocrisy: The Tsunami and the Corporate Media
Peter Phillips, CounterPunch

The US corporate media coverage of the tsunami disaster exposes a huge
hypocrisy in the US press. Left uncovered this past year was the massive
disaster that has befell Iraqi civilians. Over 100,000 civilians have died
since the beginning of the US invasion and hundreds of thousands more are
homeless and weakened.

http://nypress.com/17/52/news%26columns/taibbi.cfm
PRAVDA, IZVESTIA, TIME: On the "Person of the Year" issue
Matt Taibbi, NY Press

Last time I checked, the press was not supposed to be part of the ruling
structure in our system of government. On the contrary-and I'm just going by
Jefferson and Madison, so I may be out of date-it's supposed to be an
antagonist to it, a check on civil power. Sullivan's sentence would make
fine rhetorical sense in Myanmar, the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany, but in
the United States one hopes it is just bad writing.

http://www.monthlyreview.org/0105editors.htm
The Failure of Empire
The Editors, Monthly Review

The United States is facing the prospect of a major defeat in Iraq that is
likely to constitute a serious setback in the ongoing campaign to expand the
American empire. Behind the pervasive war propaganda as evidenced in the
"victorious" attack on Fallujah lies the reality of a U.S. war machine that
is fighting a futile battle against growing guerrilla forces, with little
chance for a stable political solution to the conflict that could possibly
meet U.S. imperial objectives.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/01/opinion/01diamond.html?oref=login
The Ends of the World as We Know Them
Jared Diamond, NY Times

What lessons can we draw from history? The most straightforward: take
environmental problems seriously. They destroyed societies in the past, and
they are even more likely to do so now. If 6,000 Polynesians with stone
tools were able to destroy Mangareva Island, consider what six billion
people with metal tools and bulldozers are doing today. Moreover, while the
Maya collapse affected just a few neighboring societies in Central America,
globalization now means that any society's problems have the potential to
affect anyone else.

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NewsWire

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4086337.stm
Blogs take on the mainstream

http://prorev.com/2004/12/people-who-wont-be-out-celebrating-new.htm
55-year jail term for selling marijuana

http://207.44.245.159/article7581.htm
Daniel Pipes favors concentration camps

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A41475-2005Jan1
Lifetime detentions planned for suspects who have never been charged

http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/122704/b01p27objector.html
Small but growing resistance to Iraq war

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20041230-1053-iraq-ustroops.html
Deadly year in Iraq has grown worse

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_5928.shtml
Electricity? We don't need no stinkin' electricity

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/local_news/epaper/2004/12/30/s1b_enviros_1230.html
Activists decry suburban sprawl

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4120755.stm
Earth's permafrost starts to squelch; houses and buildings lean at odd
angles

http://www.organicconsumers.org/corp/walmartca122804.cfm
Wal-Mart & Supermarket Giants Crush Central American Farmers

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1230-08.htm
Pharma crops threaten food safety

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1231-01.htm
US Generosity? America ranks dead last in providing aid among developed
countries

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=596807
Five million people in 11 countries lack the basic requirements for life

http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/december2004/291204coastwouldbetoast.htm
Tsunami: Why America's Coast Would Be Toast

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/31/international/asia/31china.html
China's 'Haves' Stir the 'Have Nots' to Violence

http://www.guardian.co.uk/recession/story/0,7369,1381802,00.html
Global economy: This can't go on forever - so it won't

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