[APR-news] Alternative Press Review - January 18, 2005

Tue Jan 18 20:44:32 PST 2005

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January 18, 2005

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Iraq Pipeline Watch
http://www.iags.org/iraqpipelinewatch.htm
Comprehensive list of attacks on Iraqi pipelines, oil installations, and oil
personnel

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http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=421&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Exposing the Lies of Our Times: An Interview with Mickey Z.
By Mark Hand

Occupants of the White House, especially during the past 100 years, have
carried out aggressive overseas wars with regularity during their tenures in
Washington. George W. Bush is not unique among presidents in his fetish for
seeing human beings in other nations terrorized by American firepower; he's
perhaps just a little less shy than recent commanders-in-chief in displaying
his true intentions. Mickey Z., the New York City author, essayist and poet,
chronicles America's thirst for war in many of his works.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=422&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Bolivians Win Water War II
By Will Braun

Another multinational water privatizer is closing shop in South America's
poorest and perhaps boldest country. On Monday neighborhood organizations in
the Bolivian city of El Alto launched an indefinite general strike demanding
that Aguas del Illimani-a company operated by French giant Suez-immediately
return the city's water system to public control. By Thursday they were
marching en masse to the capital to claim their victory and reiterate
demands that extend to issues of electricity and gas.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=407&row=0
CBS' COWARDICE AND CONFLICTS BEHIND PURGE
Greg Palast, gregpalast.com

"Independent" my ass. CBS' cowardly purge of five journalists who exposed
George Bush's dodging of the Vietnam War draft was done under cover of what
the network laughably called an "Independent Review Panel." The "panel" was
just two guys as qualified for the job as they are for landing the space
shuttle: Dick Thornburgh and Louis Boccardi.

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/20946/
The Conservative Marketing Machine
Laurie Spivak, AlterNet

Armstrong Williams being paid to promote Bush administration policies in his
columns is just one part of the behemoth marketing effort that the right
wing has perfected.

http://www.energybulletin.net/3948.html
The Neurobiology of Mass Delusion
Jason Bradford, Energy Bulletin

History is replete with examples of social organizations, whether a business
or a nation, that failed to perceive the realities of a changing environment
and didn't adapt in time to prevent calamity. Hubris and a self-reinforced
dynamic of mass delusion characterize the waning phases of these once
powerful groups. In hindsight we ask, "What were they thinking? Wasn't the
situation obvious to everyone? The evidence is so clear!" Here's the
question we should ask next: "Is history now repeating itself?"

http://www.eces.org/articles/000691.php
The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
Jared Diamond, ECES

Are twentieth century hunter-gatherers really worse off than farmers?
Scattered throughout the world, several dozen groups of so-called primitive
people, like the Kalahari bushmen, continue to support themselves that way.
It turns out that these people have plenty of leisure time, sleep a good
deal, and work less hard than their farming neighbors. For instance, the
average time devoted each week to obtaining food is only 12 to 19 hours for
one group of Bushmen, 14 hours or less for the Hadza nomads of Tanzania. One
Bushman, when asked why he hadn't emulated neighboring tribes by adopting
agriculture, replied, "Why should we, when there are so many mongongo nuts
in the world?"

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0110-33.htm
First They Came For The Terrorists...
by Thom Hartmann, Common Dreams

The Gonzales confirmation is not just about the torture memos. It's much
bigger than that. If Bush continues to roll back human and civil rights -
and the installation of Alberto Gonzalez as America's chief law enforcement
officer is very much a part of his campaign to do so - we may be facing a
"Pastor Niemöller moment" sooner than most of us could have imagined.

http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/22/eugenics-daniel-kevles.html
The Great White Way: Daniel Kevles on the History of Eugenics in the US
Carrie McLaren, Stay Free!

Long before Adolf Hitler hit his stride, American activists worked to breed
a better, whiter race. Historian Daniel Kevles discusses the U.S. eugenics
movement, Fitter Families, and efforts to segregate, sterilize, and castrate
the "unfit."

http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000165.php
"This is not a life"
Dahr Jamail, Iraq Dispatches

Driving through Baghdad today, en route to an interview, we are once again
spending most of the time sitting in traffic. At most intersections, women
and children begging for dinars walk between cars with their hands
out.pleading. Abu Talat fumbles in his pocket for some dinars while an old
man pleading for God to help him stands at the car window. Holding a cane,
he is blessing Abu Talat repeatedly for his kindness as he is handed some
money. "Look at what has become of Baghdad Dahr," he tells me as the traffic
finally begins to inch forward again, "All of us are suffering now. This is
not a life."

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050124fa_fact
THE COMING WARS: What the Pentagon can now do in secret
Seymour M. Hersh, New Yorker

The President has signed a series of findings and executive orders
authorizing secret commando groups and other Special Forces units to conduct
covert operations against suspected terrorist targets in as many as ten
nations in the Middle East and South Asia. The President's decision enables
Rumsfeld to run the operations off the books-free from legal restrictions
imposed on the C.I.A.

http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/20972/
The Afghan 'Dark Alliance'
Bill Weinberg, AlterNet

The same dynamic that journalist Gary Webb described - a CIA proxy army
supporting itself through the drug trade - was also at work in Afghanistan
in the 1980s.

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NewsWire

http://207.44.245.159/article7718.htm
Hotel journalism gives American troops a free hand

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0111-13.htm
Allawi group slips cash to reporters

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bal-te.to.aljazeera14jan14,1,2661755.story?coll=bal-home-headlines&ctrack=1&cset=true
Al-Jazeera grows boldly, keeps head down in D.C.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3508.shtml
Media grossly exaggerated Palestinian voter turnout

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1393015,00.html
Fearful US networks censor more shows

http://www.blackcommentator.com/121/121_cover_williams.html
Armstrong Williams: The biggest whore of all

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Media/011405James/011405james.html
State-run news agencies in America?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/01/11/banned.book.ap/index.html
Library board reverses ban on Jon Stewart book

http://www.capetimes.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=332&fArticleId=2367939
Striking similarity between McCarthyism and Patriot Act

http://magic-city-news.com/article_2779.shtml
Can the FBI Monitor Your Web Browsing Without a Warrant?

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050115/D87K6FAG3.html
FBI Keeping Records on Pre-9/11 Travelers

http://www.unknownnews.org/05011111fingerprinting.html
Police begin fingerprinting on all citations

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-1442015,00.html
The big secret of espionage is that spying doesn't work

http://news.bostonherald.com/politics/view.bg?articleid=62564
Congress passes doomsday plan

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=4308
America's Death Squads

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1387467,00.html
Film reveals true destruction to ghost city Falluja

http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=27077
US military resorting to collective punishment

http://www.truthout.org/docs_05/011405Z.shtml
US torture worse than Saddam

http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/smh41.html
US official confirms Allawi shot six dead

http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/review/article_full_story.asp?service_ID=6634
US Veteran: "We're committing genocide in Iraq"

http://oldamericancentury.org/voices_004.htm
Why I refused a 2nd deployment to Iraq

http://207.44.245.159/article7659.htm
U.S. Army Sergeant Defies Order, Refuses Re-Deployment: 2 Soldiers Attempt
Suicide at 2-7 Infantry, 17 Go AWOL

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050111143424521
Marine brings a bit of the war home

http://www.rabble.ca/news_full_story.shtml?x=36195
A military-governmental-industrial conspiracy?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/drugs/Story/0,2763,1386240,00.html
Cocaine now cheaper than a cappuccino

http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6403
US is the only developed country in the world to ban hemp

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=6908
Rising Seas Threaten Islands, Cities, Coasts

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4171591.stm
Why the Sun seems to be 'dimming'

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050111/w011154.html
Many wondering what happened to Europe's winter

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CCC584E1-15E2-49A1-9AAD-048EC1BFA248.htm
Beginning of the end for oil

http://www.newsreview.com/issues/sacto/2005-01-13/cover.asp
Here come the Wobblies!

http://207.44.245.159/article7680.htm
Woman loses insurance coverage because of her politics

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/trouble_at_home_the_housing_bubble.php
Trouble at home: The housing bubble

http://www.forbes.com/business/2005/01/07/cx_da_0107topnews.html
World on brink of ruin

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