[APR-news] APR -- October 8 - 11, 2005

Tue Oct 11 17:07:04 GMT 2005

Alternative Press Review - Your Guide Beyond the Mainstream
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October 8 - 11, 2005

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on
five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of
our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county
commissioners. - Edward Abbey

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http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=503&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
We Can't Let It Happen Here
By Jason Miller

America's apologists can deny the reality to their dying breath, but the
truth is that the United States of America as a democracy, a republic, or a
free society is a fraud.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=502&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
A Horrid Reality
By Sheila Samples

That does it. No more flowery prose. No more screaming into the wind for
Americans to wake up before it's too late. No more succumbing to an attack
of the vapours while daubing my eyes with a scented handkerchief and
plaintively wailing, "when is enough -- enough?" The reality is the panting
war profiteers who control Bush will never have enough. Their greed is
ravenous, insatiable; it devours everything in its path.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=501&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Promoting Fear and Guilt: Federally Funded Sex Education Programs Endanger
Students, Violate First Amendment
by Gene C. Gerard

These sex education programs all rely on messages of fear and guilt. The
curriculums are predicated on the assumption that adolescents can be scared
into refraining from sex, rather than making educated decisions.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Oct05/Frank1010.htm
Accusations and Smear: An Interview With Ward Churchill ( Part 3 of 5)
By Joshua Frank, Dissident Voice

Maher's gotten all gushy lately about the "prospect of democracy in Iraq"
being somehow redemptive of the slaughter over there. Sometimes he sounds
like a comedic reincarnation of Rudyard Kipling. Then there's Dennis Miller.
>From a liberal perspective, he used to do some really good, biting stuff.
Since 9-1-1, though, he's ridden the tide of reaction for all it's worth,
coming out of the closet as an unmitigated Nazi whore. For my money, the
only one of these guys you can count on to remain consistent with their
supposed principles over the long haul is George Carlin, but maybe I'm
convinced he's a safe bet only because he's already stayed the course for
40-odd years.

http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=223&Itemid=1
I, Bagman: The Story of Colin Powell
Chris Floyd, Empire Burlesque

Jonathan Schwarz is back and loaded for bear over at Tiny Revolution, with a
takedown of the tissue of lies that Colin Powell disgorged in an interview
with ABC News last month. Powell's reputation as "one of the good guys" in
the Bush Administration has been one of the most enduring mysteries of our
sad, demented times. He was not only one of the chief enablers of Bush's war
crime in Iraq, but his entire career has marked him out as a bagman for a
bloody elite, ever willing to turn a blind eye -- or pitch in directly --
when there is dirty work to be done, from the My Lai massacre to Iran-Contra
to the murderous excursion in Panama to the warm embrace of Saddam Hussein
to his final apotheosis as Imperial Handmaiden in his sick-making appearance
at the UN in February 2003, when he "made the case" for war.

http://www.antiwar.com/solomon/?articleid=7569
The War on Terror: A Translation
Norman Solomon, Antiwar.com

When the Bush administration fires off a new round of speechifying about
"the war on terror," the U.S. press rarely goes beyond the surface meanings
of rhetoric provided by White House scriptwriters. But the president's big
speech at the National Endowment for Democracy on Oct. 6 could have been
annotated along these lines: "We will not tire or rest until the war on
terror is won." Translation: This is a war that can go on forever.

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20051001/rosebraugh.html
Craig Rosebraugh's War
Bill Donahue, Inc. Magazine

Oregon restaurant owner Craig Rosebraugh is much like any other person
battling to get an ambitious new business onto solid ground. Except for the
part about striving for the overthrow of the United States government.

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NewsWire

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/oct2005/jail-o10.shtml
Australian government instigates move to jail journalists

http://electroniciraq.net/news/2175.shtml
US military thugs rounding up and jailing journalists without charges

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20051010010350273
Denver: Protesters decry Columbus

http://www.counterpunch.org./wallis10102005.html
Four Years for Talking Without a Permit? The Fight for Free Speech at Union
Square

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2005/10/1720561.php
RIAA targets indie musicians and rappers

http://www.alternet.org/rights/26133/
Books with gay themes are increasingly banned in schools and libraries

http://www.xbiz.com/news_piece.php?id=10680
Red Rose Stories shut down by FBI

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article317801.ece
Diary of a Vietcong doctor: The Anne Frank of Vietnam

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/article318238.ece
GM crop 'ruins fields for 15 years'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5333596,00.html
Mayan towns to be declared mass graves

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/article317210.ece
El Salvador Flood Disaster Worsened by Deforestation

http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/nation/12842182.htm
'Caribou People' Wage Last Stand in the Arctic

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1010-07.htm
Pathological exploiters: Making money off of wrecking the planet

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-fg-deflate10oct10,1,3091991.story?coll=la-news-environment&ctrack=1&cset=true
French marauders known as The Deflated targeting SUVs in Paris

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9648788/
Shortages could close factories and shut down schools

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1819000,00.html
UK: Cold winter could spark energy crisis

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_42/b3955060.htm
Living Too Large In Exurbia: Big houses. Big cars. Now, bigger bills. A
lifestyle built on cheap energy and cheap credit is in jeopardy

http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=b0b5606b-bbdf-4c50-aa6a-edd905da290b
Smurf's village carpet bombed in new anti-war TV ad

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9602401/site/newsweek/?rf=nwnewsletter
Pentagon wants power to spy on U.S. citizens

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/nuclear-warplans-101
US nuclear war plans fly around the internet

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/07/uritter.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/10/07/ixportaltop.html
Former US Marine compares Bush and Blair to Nazis

http://www.speroforum.com/site/print.asp?idarticle=1986
Nazi sympathizers: National Security Agency report labels Holocaust deniers
as "scholars and researchers"

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20051009rp.htm
America's war criminals pass the buck to underlings

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1819278,00.html
Stand by for real robot wars after Pentagon's desert contest

http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/051006_nat_stereotypes.html
Submissive Canadians? Efficient Germans? Yeah, Right

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