[APR-news] Alternative Press Review - January 10, 2005

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January 10, 2005

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NEW PENTAGON VISION TRANSFORMS WAR AGENDA
By Bruce Gagnon

Barnett predicts that U.S. unilateralism will lead to the "inevitability of
war." Referring to Hitler in a recent presentation, Barnett reminded his
military audience that the Nazi leader never asked for permission before
invading other countries. Thus, the end to multi-lateralism. Barnett argues
that the days of arms talks and international treaties are over. "There is
no secret where we are going," he says as he calls for a "new ordering
principle" at the Department of Defense (DoD). Barnett maintains that as
jobs move out of the U.S. the primary export product of the nation will be
"security." Global energy demand will necessitate U.S. control of the oil
producing regions. "We will be fighting in Central Africa in 20 years,"
Barnett predicts.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=419&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Six Degrees of Collaboration
by Zbignew Zingh

Collaborators are the lifeblood of empire everywhere. The first and most
obvious degree of collaboration is the Quisling class of empire-appointed
leaders. Vidkun Quisling was a Norwegian who identified more closely with
the Nazi Third Reich than with his own nation's heritage. He sought and
failed to become Norway's leader before the Second World War. After the
German occupation of Norway in the early stages of World War II, Quisling
willingly served as Hitler's face man and puppet governor. After the war,
Quisling was captured and executed by the Norwegians, but he gave his name
forever as the 20th Century definition of a collaborator.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=417&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
I Want My DDT: Little Nicky Kristof Bugs Out
By Mickey Z.

In a January 8, 2005 New York Times op-ed column ("It's Time to Spray DDT"),
Nicholas D. Kristof begins: "If the U.S. wants to help people in tsunami-hit
countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia - not to mention other poor countries
in Africa - there's one step that would cost us nothing and would save
hundreds of thousands of lives. It would be to allow DDT in malaria-ravaged
countries."

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=418&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Pentagon Admits "Salvador Option" in Iraq
By Kurt Nimmo

Last week a journalist sent an email, taking me to task for "conspiracy
mongering" because I speculated weeks ago that Margaret Hassan may be the
victim of "counterinsurgency" dirty tricks intended to discredit the Iraqi
resistance. A couple years ago a former copy editor for the New York Times
sent an email criticizing me for quoting what she considered less than
reputable sources (i.e., the non-corporate media) and thus dismissed my
argument as basically tinfoil hatter blather.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/1793/
Radio Insurgente: Giving Voice to the Voiceless
Deepa Fernandes, In These Times

The EZLN has said that access to and control of the media are vital for its
community's survival. And while successive Mexican governments have
surrounded Zapatista communities with armies and allowed soldiers and
paramilitaries to unleash terror on indigenous peoples, the Zapatistas have
worked quietly to build the capacity to speak directly to their people. So
quietly in fact, that when the Zapatista broadcasts first hit the airwaves,
playing popular music and reading saludos from listeners, even government
loyalists unwittingly tuned in. "Radio Insurgente is a radio station that is
completely independent from the bad Mexican government," explains the
network's Web site, radioinsurgente.org. This past November 17, the day the
EZLN celebrated its 21st anniversary, the station launched an Internet audio
version of the clandestine network. From recordings of local indigenous
musicians and story-tellers to political speeches by EZLN leaders, the
Internet audio archive serves as a history of Mexico's indigenous people.

http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=2102
Self-Portrait with Shackles for the Year 2005
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch

On military bases like Diego Garcia and in special military- or
CIA-controlled prisons like Guantanamo, the "war on terrorism" was to be
carried to its informational climax by whatever methods American
intelligence officials felt might "break" whatever prisoners we had. Whether
in Guantanamo, at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, on Bagram Air Force Base in
Afghanistan, on U.S. Navy ships at sea, or outsourced to the friendly jails
of allied nations whose interrogators practice torture, this varied and ever
developing mini-gulag was never meant to be a system of criminal
imprisonment -- hence the lack of charges, no less trials of any sort,
anywhere in the imperium. It was to be an eternal holding operation for
"World War IV," the war after the Cold War and expected by neocon devotees
to last at least as long. Now, according to the latest report from Dana
Priest of the Washington Post, the administration is considering exactly how
to turn forever into a series of post-penal establishments capable of coping
with the realities of life imprisonment beyond all charges and to the end of
time.

http://www.johnpilger.com/print/133404
THE OTHER, MAN-MADE TSUNAMI
John Pilger, johnpilger.com

The hypocrisy, narcissism and dissembling propaganda of the rulers of the
world and their sidekicks are in full cry. Superlatives abound as to their
humanitarian intent while the division of humanity into worthy and unworthy
victims dominates the news. The victims of a great natural disaster are
worthy (though for how long is uncertain) while the victims of man-made
imperial disasters are unworthy and very often unmentionable. Somehow,
reporters cannot bring themselves to report what has been going on in Aceh,
supported by "our" government. This one-way moral mirror allows us to ignore
a trail of destruction and carnage that is another tsunami.

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20865/
The 2004 Falsies Awards
Laura Miller, AlterNet

Remembering the people and players responsible for polluting our information
environment.

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NewsWire

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000748266
Guilty of reporting the truth? Five embeds kicked out of Iraq

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/06/152255
Attorney Lynne Stewart Blasts Gv't. Terror Case Against Her

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/09/wus09.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/01/09/ixportal.html
U.S. Soldiers Flee to Canada to Avoid Iraq

http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_14852.shtml
The Mighty US GI's: Lied To, Used, and Losing

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0109-05.htm
Targeting teens for troops

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=6873
Reading Winds, Waves May Have Saved Ancient Tribes on Remote Indian Islands

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/powl-j061.shtml
Powell declares tsunami aid part of global war on terror

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6802629/site/newsweek/
'The Salvador Option' - Pentagon may put Special-Forces-led assassination or
kidnapping teams in Iraq

http://207.44.245.159/article7629.htm
US Army doctors violated Geneva Conventions

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4150429.stm
US terrorists laughed as Iraqi died

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3493.shtml
Israeli Claims of Military Withdrawal from West Bank a Fabrication

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/524747.html
IDF dismisses 34 officers who signed refusal letter

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