[APR-news] April 18, 2006

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http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=633&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Ruin, Rubble and Race: Lessons on the Centennial of the Great San Francisco 
Earthquake and Fire of 1906
By Bob Wing

Indeed the same scandalous profiteering, racism, incompetence and mendacity 
that have characterized the response to Katrina had an antecedent in the San 
Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906. It is now fully documented that 
during and after the 1906 disaster, developers, insurance companies, 
corporations led by the Southern Pacific railroad, City leaders, newspapers 
and Army brass shamelessly lied and promoted anti-Chinese racism to downplay 
and distort the disaster in order to advance their own selfish agendas.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=632&mode=nocomments&order=0&thold=0
Diagnosing the U.S. 'national character': Narcissistic Personality Disorder
by Robert Jensen

We are 5 percent of the world's population and consume about a quarter of 
the world's energy. This state of affairs is clearly unjust, made possible 
by coercion and violence, not some natural superiority of Americans. Yet the 
vast majority of the U.S. public, and even much of the left/progressive 
political community, acts as if they expect this state of affairs to 
continue. That's real narcissism, and it's at the heart of the political 
problem of the United States.

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Other articles of interest

http://counterpunch.org/solomon04172006.html
Why Won't Moveon.org Oppose the Bombing of Iran?
Norman Solomon, CounterPunch

There's no way around the conclusion that the signers of the letter ("Eli, 
Joan, Nita, Marika and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team") chose to avoid 
committing themselves -- and avoid devoting MoveOn resources -- to 
categorical opposition to bombing Iran.

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2006lydersen_imm_marches
Immigrant Marches Rock the Country
Kari Lydersen, Infoshop News

Madison, Wisconsin might be best known for its football team and legions of 
Birkenstock-wearing college students. But on April 10, the town belonged to 
immigrants. About 20,000 of them marched from a downtown park to the state 
capitol building, which was engulfed in a sea of waving flags, brown faces 
and Spanish chants.

http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=340
Feds to Deport Sami al-Arian
Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire

In America, if you are an Arab and support the Palestinians, you're asking 
for trouble. Sami al-Arian also made the mistake of responding to 
reactionary loudmouth and Fox News host Bill "phone sex" O'Reilly and 
appearing on his "show," a sort of pillory for masochists. It appears Sami 
al-Arian's crime was the instrumental role he played in establishing Arab 
and Islamic institutions, not assisting the Palestinian Islamic Jihad 
movement in terrorist activities, as the government claimed.

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_709.shtml
The trouble with big greens
Joshua Frank, Online Journal

It has long been my belief that the Sierra Club and rest of the big 
environmental groups, along with the Democratic Party itself, that do the 
most harm to environmentalism. It's not the Republicans.

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NewsWire

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4639.shtml
The New York Times whitewashes the Israeli takeover of East Jerusalem

http://english-cyprus.indymedia.org/newswire/display/92/index.php
>From Venezuela to Cyprus - Self-sufficiency, Free software and the 
Revolution

http://chronicle.com/free/2006/04/2006041801n.htm
George Washington U. to Receive Jack Anderson's Papers -- but FBI Wants to 
See Them First

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2006041619070036
Political harassment: Common Ground co-founder under FBI investigation

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/14/education/14educ.html
Bloomberg to launch random unannounced police sweeps of students throughout 
the city

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/08/AR2006040800157_pf.html
Hit-and-Miss List: If You're in This Directory, Forget Shopping

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Retired_colonel_claims_U.S._Military_operations_0415.html
Retired colonel: US military operations already underway in Iran

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/14/new-report-rumsfeld/
Rumsfeld personally involved in torture at Gitmo

http://www.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard27.html
Another Bush 9/11 Lie Exposed

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/14353054.htm
'Dirty war' babies learn painful truth: During Argentina's military regime, 
officers took children from kidnapped women who, eventually, were executed

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4634.shtml
Hamas being forced to collapse

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12306509/site/newsweek/
The hidden dangers of credit card debt

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/12/AR2006041201726.html
Red ink run amok

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0416-22.htm
Fiddling while the Earth burns

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw04162006/coverstory.html
A few radical are testing the rules of environmental engagement

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002344436
Neil Young records "Impeach the President" song

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