[APR-news] Alternative Press Review - January 6, 2005

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January 6, 2005

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=416&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
What about the Children of Iraq?
By Jack Dalton

It is good to see the outpouring of the world's people doing what they are 
able to come to the aid of the Tsunami victims. My question is simply this, 
where is the worlds concern for the tens of thousands of Iraq's children 
that have been so completely decimated by the U.S. invasion and subsequent 
occupation of Iraq?

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=415&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Bageantry Continued: The Richard Oxman - Joe Bageant Interview, Part II
by Richard Oxman

How can we remain so oblivious and unconnected with our fellow Americans? 
Answer: Americans, rich or poor, now live in a culture entirely perceived 
through, simulacra-media images and illusions. We live inside a 
self-referential media hologram of a nation that has not existed for quite 
some time now. Our national reality is held together by images, the 
originals of which have been lost or never existed. The well-off with their 
upscale consumer aesthetic, live inside gated Disneyesque communities with 
gleaming uninhabited front porches representing some bucolic notion of the 
Great American home and family. The working class, true to its sports 
culture aesthetic, is a spectator to politics . politics which are so 
entirely imagistic as to be holograms of a process that has not existed for 
decades in America, if ever. Social realism is a television commercial for 
America, a simulacran republic of eagles, church spires, heroic firemen and 
"freedom of choice" between holograms. America's citizens have been reduced 
to balkanized consumer units by the corporate state's culture producing 
machinery. We are all transfixed on and within the hologram and cannot see 
one another in the living breathing flesh.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=6952
A Mire of Death, Lies and Atrocities
Robert Fisk, ZNet

Over the past year, there has been evidence enough that our whole project in 
Iraq is hopelessly flawed, that our Western armies--when they are not 
torturing prisoners, killing innocents and destroying one of the largest 
cities in Iraq--are being vanquished by a ferocious guerrilla army, the like 
of which we have not seen before in the Middle East.

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/123104Davies/123104davies.html
The crime of war: from Nuremberg to Fallujah
Nicolas J S Davies, Online Journal

A review of current international law regarding wars of aggression, and its 
implications for U.S. policy in Iraq and elsewhere.

http://www.counterpunch.org/cassel01042005.html
They Say They Can Lock You Up for Life Without a Trial
Elaine Cassel, CounterPunch

On Sunday, Jan 2, Dana Priest, writing in the Washington Post, described the 
plans of the Pentagon and the Justice Department to imprison indefinitely, 
perhaps for life, persons it wants "removed" from society.

http://www.texansforpeace.org/NewsEditorialsGregMoses120704.htm
Ask Not Who Bankrolled Falluja: War Tax Resisters Opt Out
Greg Moses, Texans for Peace

So who made Falluja possible? Who enabled budgets to be filled with imperial 
plans? American taxpayers did. The moral tracer on this funding leads to me 
and you, the co-investors who backed this pre-holiday discount on the lives 
of Fallujans, thousands of lives, forever lost and unlived. To pay for this 
moral bankruptcy, we got up in the morning, worked all day, and sent money 
to the war machine.

http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=4245
Today's Conservatives Are Fascists
Justin Raimondo, Antiwar.com

Torture, dictatorship, phony "elections," and endless war - it's fascism 
with a "democratic" face.

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NewsWire

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3476.shtml
NPR hides an atrocity but highlights the reaction

http://seetheforest.blogspot.com/2005_01_01_seetheforest_archive.html#110490286982093125
Journalists challenge Fox, get $1 million legal bill

http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/philly4.html
Military doctor's Iraq web diary shut down

http://www.citizen-times.com/cache/article/editorial/73296.shtml
The Good Americans: Closing their eyes and letting a new form of fascism get 
rolling

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1425022,00.html
Iraqi insurgents outnumber coalition forces

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?ID=35545
Iraq battling more than 200,000 insurgents

http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/010305X.shtml
Final Six Months of 2004 Deadliest Ever for US Forces in Iraq

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4710494,00.html
US wounded tops 10,000 in Iraq

http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_1719.shtml
New horror stories emerge about GI abuses at Iraqi hospitals

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/print.php?sid=19372
Army Reserve fast becoming 'broken' force

http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2005/01/03/news/opinion/1edmon103.txt
Oppose the draft? It's already here

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/print.php?sid=19344
Military's testing of high school students brings a salvo of concerns

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0103-04.htm
Objection sustained: Maine Soldier Home from Afghanistan as Conscientious 
Objector

http://207.44.245.159/article7608.htm
USSA: Two years in solitary confinement without being charged

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=6851
EcoVillage provides challenge, support

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/aceh-j05.shtml
In the wake of tsunami calamity Indonesian army steps up war in Aceh

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