[APR-news] Alternative Press Review - January 22, 2005

Sat Jan 22 19:15:49 PST 2005

Alternative Press Review - Your Guide Beyond the Mainstream
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January 22, 2005

The Face of War
http://dahrjamailiraq.com/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=album32

In Pictures: Iraqi Children Witness Killing Of Parents By American
Occupation Forces
http://207.44.245.159/article7784.htm

The Nuremberg Principles
http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=430&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Principle I. Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under
international law is responsible therefore and liable to punishment.

Principle II. The fact that internal law does not impose a penalty for an
act which constitutes a crime under international law does not relieve the
person who committed the act from responsibility under international law.

Principle III. The fact that a person who committed an act which constitutes
a crime under international law acted as Head of State or responsible
government official does not relieve him from responsibility under
international law.

Principle IV. The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his
Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under
international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him.

Principle V. Any person charged with a crime under international law has the
right to a fair trial on the facts and law.

Principle VI. The crimes hereinafter set out are punishable as crimes under
international law:

(a) Crimes against peace:

(i) Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a
war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances;

(ii) Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of
any of the acts mentioned under (i).

(b) War Crimes:

Violations of the laws or customs of war which include, but are not limited
to, murder, ill-treatment or deportation of slave-labour or for any other
purpose of the civilian population of or in occupied territory, murder or
ill-treatment of prisoners of war or persons on the seas, killing of
hostages, plunder of public or private property, wanton destruction of
cities, towns, or villages, or devastation not justified by military
necessity.

(c) Crimes against humanity:

Murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation and other inhumane acts done
against any civilian population, or persecutions on political, racial, or
religious grounds, when such acts are done or such persecutions are carried
on in execution of or in connection with any crime against peace or any war
crime.

Principle VII. Complicity in the commission of a crime against peace, a war
crime, or a crime against humanity as set forth in Principle VI is a crime
under international law.

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http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=429&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
American Terror
Chris Floyd, Moscow Times

More than two years ago, we wrote here of a secret Pentagon plan to foment
terrorism by sending covert agents to infiltrate terrorist groups and goad
them into action -- in other words, committing acts of murder and
destruction. The purpose was two-fold: first, to bring the terrorist groups
into the open, where they could be counterattacked; and second, to justify
U.S. military attacks on the countries where the terrorists were
operating -- attacks which, in the Pentagon's words, would put those
nations' "sovereignty at risk." It was a plan that countenanced -- indeed,
encouraged -- the deliberate murder of innocent people and the imposition of
U.S. military rule anywhere in the world that U.S. leaders desired. This
plan is now being activated.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=426&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
To War or Not to War, That is the Question
By Jack Dalton

"What is wrong with a country when a man can walk into a military recruiting
office, sign on the dotted line and find himself in a war zone 2 months
later, without one question directed toward his sanity?"

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=427&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
The Political Jailing of Lori Berenson
Mark L. Berenson, CounterPunch

My daughter Lori has been wrongfully incarcerated in Peru since the night of
Nov. 30, 1995, when she was arrested on a public bus in Lima. She has been a
victim of injustice on three occasions: First, by a draconian Peruvian
justice system that had received worldwide condemnation, second by a
Peruvian propaganda machine that made her into the symbol of a "terrorist
monster" and third by an international court that disappointingly
capitulated to political pressure.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=428&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Practicing Spontaneity To Increase Our Collective Courage
By Kirsten Anderberg

All Do-It-Yourself (DIY) and grassroots movements require the ability to
think for yourself, on the part of organizers and participants, against a
tide of corporate advertising assaults, and amidst conflicting religious and
political agendas. Somewhere inside this whirl of spin doctors and
commercialism, exists a people who still operate free of the machine. There
is great freedom in knowing you can trust your own intuition, independent of
peer pressure, the status quo, or criminalization of thought. Most great
art, music, literature, et al, comes from people who follow their own
drummers, to paraphrase Thoreau.

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Other articles of interest

http://207.44.245.159/article7778.htm
The Naked  Hegemon: Why the emperor has no clothes
Andre Gunder Frank, Asia Times

Uncle Sam has reneged and defaulted on up to 40% of its trillion-dollar
foreign debt, and nobody has said a word except for a line in The Economist.
In plain English that means Uncle Sam runs a worldwide confidence racket
with his self-made dollar based on the confidence that he has elicited and
received from others around the world, and he is a also a deadbeat in that
he does not honor and return the money he has received.

http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=2141
A tour of economic disaster, 2005-style
Marshall Auerback, TomDispatch

The beginning of that end could potentially be set off at any level at any
time. Nevertheless, it is possible to sketch out several scenarios which
could conceivably, in the eleven months left to 2005, trigger such a
reversal or even something approaching economic collapse.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lind/lind55.html
Coming Unglued
William S. Lind, LewRockwell.com

On the ground in Iraq, America's war is coming unglued. Most of the soldiers
and Marines I've talked to who have recently returned say the situation is
much worse than American newspapers report.

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NewsWire

http://mediamatters.org/items/200501210007
Lapdog servants to the State: CNN, Fox, MSNBC ridiculed, dismissed
inauguration protesters; implied they posed a security threat

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/wash-j21.shtml
Tens of thousands protest Bush inauguration

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0501210326jan21,1,5989003.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
Hundreds of students walk out of classes to protest Bush's policies

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan05/Finnegan0120.htm
Freedom is Slavery: US Army Sergeant Kevin Benderman Charged With Desertion

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8EBCFED0-6677-4F9F-B0D0-6995460FCEFA.htm
Rumsfeld cancels trip to Germany after being threatened with arrest for war
crimes

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A24875-2005Jan20?language=printer
US torture camps in Iraq filled with thousands of Iraqi's suspected of
defending themselves and their families from US terrorists

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/10703534.htm
Iraqi resistance to occupation growing larger, more effective

http://www.freep.com/news/nw/iraq22e_20050122.htm
US headed towards a well-deserved defeat in Iraq

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4195691.stm
Bolivian fuel protests escalate

http://www.energybulletin.net/4107.html
Indigenous peoples protest against Sakhalin oil, gas projects

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=44&ItemID=7076
Indonesian Troops Accused Of Raping Children Of Papua

http://internationalreporter.com/news/read.php?id=433
Large extinction caused by global warming

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