[APR-news] APR -- November 15-17, 2005

Thu Nov 17 16:24:00 GMT 2005

Alternative Press Review - Your Guide Beyond the Mainstream
www.altpr.org
November 15-17, 2005

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/42166
Satire: Bush Orders Mass Bald Eagle Slaughter To Stop Spread Of Bird Flu

******
http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=367&page=1
The Making of the Arab Menace
By Rayan El-Amine

Anti-Arabism and Islamophobia are so much a part of the political and
cultural discourse on Arabs and Muslims in American society today that most
do not even recognize it as racism. The fear mongering of the Bush
administration and the right wing media pundits who make a living from
demonizing Arabs and Muslims have inundated people with images of the
violent Arabs bent on death and destruction. For media outlets like Fox
Television, it is a way to sell their sensationalist news programs and for
the current administration, a way to sell its wars.

******
Other articles of interest

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11022.htm
The Corporate Media's threat to Freedom
Mike Whitney, ICH

The media has become an adversary to the people it is supposed to serve. It
now functions exclusively as a weapon in the imperial arsenal; exalting the
state and its wartime agenda, while savaging the institutions of democracy
and personal liberty. Its role as state-propagandist is conspicuous in
everything from its blind devotion to the president to its obfuscation of
facts that discredit the administration.

http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2589
Police Harassment of New Orleans Relief Workers Escalating
Jessica Azulay, New Standard

The arrest and alleged abuse of an activist has pushed local relief workers,
who have complained of harassment since the early days after Katrina, to
demand a solution so they can get on with their vital work.

http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0508c.asp
A New Federal War on Dissent?
James Bovard, FFF

The confidential FBI intelligence bulletin revealed to the nation's law
officers that protesters might use "media equipment (video cameras,
photographic equipment, audio tape recorders, microphones, and computer and
radio equipment) ... for documenting potential cases of police brutality and
for distribution of information over the internet." Apparently, the FBI sees
videotaping an arrest as an illicit infringement on a police officer's
creativity.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/111505.html
Bush's Rewriting of History
Robert Parry, Consortium News

For decades, the well-connected Bush family has been treated like a kind of
American royalty in which a petulant king or prince can stamp a foot and
insist that whatever the evidence says the truth is otherwise. Their
subjects are expected to bow in acquiescence, while dissenters can expect a
good thrashing.

http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/herman/herman22.html
Worst President Ever? You Might Be Surprised
Douglas Herman, Strike the Root

"The criteria to use is to what degree has a president diminished
sovereignty of the individual states, how aggressive was his administration
in an interventionist international foreign policy and what assault of
destruction did his minions do on honest money and national debt," wrote
Sartre. "However . . . each successive administration build upon the tyranny
of the past . . . Abe Lincoln was the worst.  He killed the last hope of a
genuine Republic." Among Sartre's list of others: Hamilton, Wilson, FDR,
LBJ, and Clinton. What appears to make GWB worse, at present, is his
surrounding cast of scoundrels. By appearances, no one among his retinue
seems to have the scruples of a gnat. But were those courtiers of Bill
Clinton (Madeline Albright) much better? Indeed, one respected leftist
writer claims Clinton was far worse than George W. Bush.

http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2599
Peeling the Smokies: Mountaintop Removal Meets Fresh Resistance in Tennessee
Kari Lydersen, New Standard

A revival of the controversial strip-mining practice that decimates
landscapes known for their lush, majestic peaks is stirring ire and protest
from locals in Tennessee's Smokey Mountains.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/15/1632233
Former U.S. Army Interrogator Describes the Harsh Techniques He Used in Iraq
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now

With deep remorse, former U.S. Army interrogator Specialist Tony Lagouranis
talks about his own involvement with abusing detainees in Iraq and torture
carried out by the Navy Seals. He apologizes to the Iraqi people and urges
U.S. soldiers to follow their conscience. Lagouranis returned from Iraq in
January and until now had given no live interviews. But Lagouranis says he
now feels it his duty to speak out about what he witnessed in Iraq.

*****
NewsWire

http://www.counterpunch.org/chomsky11172005.html
Guardian forced to apologize to Noam Chomsky, issues total retraction

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article327308.ece
How the Great Firewall of China keeps cyber dissidents in check

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/iraq/bal-te.pentagon13nov13,0,1642188.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines
Secretive firm helps US wage propaganda war abroad

http://www.canada.com/vancouver/theprovince/news/story.html?id=8bac6520-2b68-4d36-ac26-691647b6578b
Massive empire of surveillance: All cellphone, Blackberry, Net subscriber
info available without warrant

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-connole15nov15,0,6471984.story?coll=la-home-local
FBI settles with environmentalist wrongly jailed

http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=05/11/16/1426247&mode=nested&tid=1
CAE Artist Steve Kurtz Released From Pretrial Supervision

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/15/AR2005111501704.html
Eviction: FEMA's holiday gift to Katrina evacuees

http://ainfos.ca/ainfos33141.html
Venezuelan anarchists plan Alternative Social Forum at Caracas in January
2006 in response to the bureaucratic World Social Forum

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1152AP_Detaining_Thousands.html
US has kidnapped 83,000 people in war OF terror around the world

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,80320,00.html
Unemployment rate for returning veterans skyrockets, three times national
average

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/11/15/halliburton_katrina/
Halliburton and its subcontractors hired hundreds of undocumented Latino
workers to clean up after Katrina -- only to mistreat them and throw them
out without pay

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1642831,00.html
The US used chemical weapons in Iraq - and then lied about it

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article327136.ece
'I treated people who had their skin melted'

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/nov2005/sena-n16.shtml
Senate Democrats back war OF terror, support concentration camp operations

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1103AP_France_Militant_Farmer.html
Militant French farmer sentenced to prison

http://www.economist.com/agenda/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5138990
The French riots: an underclass rebellion

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1643573,00.html
Not guilty -- The Israeli captain who put 17 bullets into a Palestinian
schoolgirl

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4440134.stm
Iraq detainees 'found starving'

http://jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2005-daily/16-11-2005/world/w6.htm
Would-be bomber had three brothers murdered by US terror forces

http://telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/16/nmenez16.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/11/16/ixnewstop.html
Brit police used illegal bullets to murder Menezes

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100015_15/11/2005_63023
Greece: Anarchists stage raid on police

http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?feature=yes&id=1096411932
Vine Deloria Jr. passes after a life of seminal work

http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2005/11/16/winter_may_bring_rolling_blackouts/
Winter may bring rolling blackouts

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-11-14-fiscal-hurricane-cover_x.htm
A 'fiscal hurricane' on the horizon

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/15/business/15natgas.html
Natural Gas: Big Worry This Winter

http://www.terradaily.com/news/iceage-05r.html
Rapidly Accelerating Glaciers May Increase How Fast The Sea Level Rises

http://www.bom.gov.au/announcements/media_releases/ho/20051114.shtml
2005: Australia's warmest year on record?

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1114-02.htm
Climate change could spread plague

******
http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=81&page=1
Subscribe to Alternative Press Review magazine

To help support Alternative Press Review you can make donations online at
the APR website (www.altpr.org), or send donations by mail to:

Alternative Press Review
PO Box 6245
Arlington, VA 22206