[APR-news] APR -- November 12-14, 2005

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November 12-14, 2005

Articles of interest

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=21&ItemID=9110
Chomsky Answers Guardian
Noam Chomsky, ZNet

It is a nuisance, and a bit of a bore, to dwell on the topic, and I always
keep away from personal attacks on me, unless asked, but in this case the
matter has some more general interest, so perhaps it's worth reviewing what
most readers could not know.  The general interest is that the print version
reveals a very impressive effort, which obviously took careful planning and
work, to construct an exercise in defamation that is a model of the genre.
It's of general interest for that reason alone. A secondary matter is that
it may serve as a word of warning to anyone who is asked by the Guardian for
an interview, and happens to fall slightly to the critical end of the
approved range of opinion of the editors.  The warning is: if you accept the
invitation, be cautious, and make sure to have a tape recorder that is very
visibly placed in front of you.  That may inhibit the dedication to deceit,
and if not, at least you will have a record.

http://www.odemagazine.com/article.php?aID=4192
Two myths that keep the world poor
Vandana Shiva

There is a problem with Sachs' how-to-end poverty prescriptions. He simply
doesn't understand where poverty comes from. He seems to view it as the
original sin. "A few generations ago, almost everybody was poor," he writes,
then adding: "The Industrial Revolution led to new riches, but much of the
world was left far behind." This is a totally false history of poverty. The
poor are not those who have been "left behind"; they are the ones who have
been robbed. The wealth accumulated by Europe and North America are largely
based on riches taken from Asia, Africa and Latin America.

http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000317.php
Fallujah Revisited
Dahr Jamail, Iraq Dispatches

Nearly a year after they occurred, a few of the war crimes committed in
Fallujah by members of the US military have gained the attention of some
major media outlets (excluding, of course, any of the corporate media
outlets in the US).

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov05/Petersen1114.htm
Darkness Over Empire
Kim Petersen, Dissident Voice

Why is it that the US military's use of napalm in Fallujah is a surprise? It
does symbolize whopping moral hypocrisy in that the US government insisted
the casus belli for invading Iraq was that country's asserted possession of
weapons of mass destruction; so what does the US military do? They use the
self-same weapons on Iraqi civilians: napalm is a banned chemical weapon.
But hypocrisy drenched in evil is not new to US politicos, nor was it new to
history's miscreants. Adolf Hitler in his Mein Kampf wrote: ". the world
will be governed by the law of natural distribution of power, and then those
nations will be victorious who are of more brutal will and are not the
nations who have practiced self-denial." The US embodies this pre-Straussian
philosophy close to its breast. It is for the world to see, as the US regime
continues to pressure Iran and northern Korea over their alleged nuclear
intentions while defying nuclear treaties, upgrading their own nuclear
arsenal, and ignoring the possession of nuclear weapons by US client states
such as Israel.

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http://www.drudgereport.com/flashmav.htm
Domestic Spy Drones 'to fly over cities'

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10019329/site/newsweek/
Targeting activists: Increased monitoring of domestic political activity by
FBI counter-terror agents

http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2005/11/12/librarians_challenge_stereotypes_make_activism_part_of_the_job/
Librarians challenge stereotypes, make activism part of the job

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/11/latimes-jonah/
War critic Robert Sheer fired, right-wing McCarthy-lover hired at LA Times

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_171.shtml
Another foul chapter in the history of The New York Times closes with
Miller's departure

http://www.globalnewsmatrix.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3414
Muhammad Ali Gestures to Bush that he's Nuts while Receiving Medal

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10975.htm
November Surprise: Guantanamo inmates to lose all rights

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mike_whi_051112_the_senate_agrees_to.htm
Senate agrees to imprisonment without charges

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1113-02.htm
Students rebuffing military recruiters

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article326752.ece
Fish numbers plummet in warming Pacific; Disappearance of plankton causes
unprecedented collapse in sea and bird life off western US coast

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fish14nov14,0,3080268,full.story
Sewage altering fish

http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2005/s1490388.htm
We need to stop eating seafood

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=9246
New Dams Destroying Water Sources and Damaging Economies

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/11/60minutes/main1041047.shtml
60 Minutes interview with ALF cell member

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/local/sfl-zrealestate12nov12,0,4871892.story?track=mostemailedlink
Economists expect sharp recession after real-estate bubble bursts

http://www.napavalleyregister.com/articles/2005/11/11/opinion/commentary/iq_3161168.txt
Overpopulation: Partying as the Iceberg Looms

http://www.ameinfo.com/71519.html
Kuwait's biggest oil field starts to run out of oil

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHO20051113&articleId=1238
Did Israel have Prior Knowledge of the Amman 11/9 Terror Attacks?

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1114-31.htm
Riots are the only alternative: No petition, peaceful march or letter to an
MP could have achieved this

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article326747.ece
Fortress Paris: The capital is in lockdown after 16 nights of violence

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/644798.html
Hardcore Racist: Hillary Clinton voices strong support for apartheid wall,
blames victims and labels self-defense as "terrorism"

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/hirsch.php?articleid=8007
The IAEA resolution allows the United States to carry out a nuclear attack
against Iran "legally"

http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2005/11/10/in_anticapitalist_crackdown_cuba_raids_farmers_markets/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+World+News
Cuba cracks down on farmer's markets and cooperatives, rolls back changes
and recentralizes economy

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