[APR-news] April 7, 2006

Fri Apr 7 13:01:43 PDT 2006

Alternative Press Review - Your Guide Beyond the Mainstream
www.altpr.org - April 7, 2006
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http://www.prwatch.org/fakenews/execsummary
Fake TV News: Widespread and Undisclosed
A multimedia report on television newsrooms' use of material provided by PR 
firms on behalf of paying clients

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Articles of interest

http://www.counterpunch.org/santos04052006.html
A Nation of Colonists ... and Race Laws
Juan Santos, CounterPunch

You hear it everywhere. Even from Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, author of 
the vicious anti-migrant legislation that has polarized the US. "We are a 
nation of immigrants and a nation of laws," he says. And like almost 
everyone else, he's got it wrong. The original Europeans in what is now the 
US were not immigrants, but colonists. And the US is not a nation of 
immigrants - it is a white colonial settler state, like South Africa under 
Apartheid, the former Rhodesia, Australia and Israel. And like those states 
the US has always operated on a sometimes hidden, sometimes overt system of 
Apartheid.

http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/3027
L.A. Urban Farmers Fight for Community Garden
Jessica Hoffmann, New Standard News

More than 300 families draw food from a garden in South Central that faces 
seizure by a real-estate developer bent on converting it to commercial use, 
unless the community can stop the takeover.

http://www.alternet.org/rights/34314/
The Power of Thunder
Rose Aguilar, AlterNet

Just two weeks after South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds signed the state's 
extreme abortion ban with no exceptions for rape and incest, Cecilia Fire 
Thunder, the first woman president of the Oglala Sioux tribe, made national 
headlines after saying she would personally set up a clinic on her tribe's 
land in South Dakota to preserve a woman's right to choose.

http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/opin/pr_sirnosir.html
How GI Resistance Altered The Course Of History
Paul Rockwell, In Motion Magazine

The three-decade blackout of GI resistance is not due to any lack of 
evidence. Information about the resistance has always been available. 
According to the Pentagon, over 500,000 incidents of desertion took place 
between 1966 and 1977. Officers were fragged. Entire units refused to enter 
battle. Large social movements create their own "committees of 
correspondence" -- communication systems beyond the control of power-holders 
and police authority. Despite prison sentences, police spies, agent 
provocateurs, vigilante bombing of their offices, coffeehouses and 
underground papers sprung up in the dusty, often remote towns that 
surrounded U.S. military bases throughout the world. "Just about every base 
in the world had an underground paper," Director Zeiger tells us in Mother 
Jones.

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Apr06/Corseri07.htm
Bin Laden's Favorite American Author: An Interview with William Blum
Gary Corseri, Dissident Voice

When I think about it, the fact that I had the ear and the eyes of tens of 
millions of Americans who normally would never hear anything from me, or 
about me, and I could say things they normally are never exposed to at all 
by the mass media . . . it really was marvelous. On a personal level it was 
very time-consuming; I had to put aside all kinds of things. But on a 
political level, it was excellent.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4C5B8EE6-F99C-4AB9-84B6-40F7F8F9B656.htm
Interview: Iraqi blogger Riverbend
Firas Al-Atraqchi, Al Jazeera

Riverbend, who describes herself as a 26-year-old computer specialist, 
insists on remaining anonymous. Riverbend's blog Baghdad Burning began to 
make waves in late 2003 and quickly became one of the most read Iraqi blogs. 
She offered an Iraqi woman's perspective on the US invasion and the first 
months after the fall of Baghdad. Since then, her blog has been adapted into 
book form by UK-based publishers Marion Boyars and New York-based Feminist 
Press. In March 2005, the blog was adapted into a play by a New York-based 
theatre production company.

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NewsWire

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/77_TV_stations_aired_fake_news_0405.html
77 stations aired 'fake news reports'

http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=319
Katie Couric: The pretty face of corporate propaganda

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20060405071954491
Iraqi Court Frees Journalist Held Without Charge by U.S. For Over A Year

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060406/ap_on_en_ot/books_erotica;_ylt=AnmuA8QYvPEvgdSvFlkK_rys0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-
Erotica finds a home in mainstream publishing

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040506K.shtml
US uses front companies for "rendition"

http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/april2006/060406terrortargets.htm
New Terror Targets: Clash fans and wheelchair-bound senior citizens

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article356033.ece
Two grandmothers: the new face of terrorism

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0405-10.htm
France's political crisis grows as 3 million take to the streets

http://www.guardian.co.uk/globalisation/story/0,,1747904,00.html
The 7,000km journey that links Amazon destruction to fast food

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1144292123305320.xml&coll=7
Fossil fuels threatening sea life

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4874224.stm
Major melt for Alpine glaciers

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0405-03.htm
The big melt coming faster than expected

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Experts_Forecast_Another_Active_Atlantic_Hurricane_Season.html
Experts predict another active hurricane season

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article355200.ece
Pollution: Where have all the baby boys gone?

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/04/5PIANKA.html
Professor's population speech unnerves some; FBI to investigate

http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/3026
Increasingly vicious laws push out homeless

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060404/phtufns1.html?.v=1
Seven trends spell a US financial crisis

http://www.moneyweek.com/file/10891/six-months-to-housing-hell.html
Six months to housing hell

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/rural/story/7595085p-7506303c.html
Powering down: Rationing electricity becomes common in Alaska as fuel costs 
soar

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/05/world/asia/05letter.html
The Papuans Say, This Land and Its Ores Are Ours

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