[APR-news] December 14, 2006

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Alternative Press Review - Your Guide Beyond the Mainstream
www.altpr.org - December 14, 2006

http://www.mickeyz.net/news/mickeyz/fullarticle/the_trial_and_re_trial_of_americas_peace_grandma/
The Trial (and re-trial) of America's "Peace Grandma"

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/ferner131206.html
If They Vote for War, Occupy 'Em!"

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http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=701
The Iraq Study Group Study Group
by Zbignew Zingh

Once stripped of its tepid criticisms, the Baker-Hamilton ISG report looks 
like an attempt to stuff the evil genie of Mr. Bush's policies back into the 
bottle of a more subtle Bismarck-Metternich style of empire. Mr. Baker and 
his groupies clearly are nostalgic for the day when his class of people 
could achieve dominance while keeping up the pretenses of goodness and 
democracy for public consumption. They recoil from the blunt, naked 
aggression of the Bush Administration which Mr. Baker et. al. equate with 
the boorish behavior of crass amateurs and thugs. Baker et. al. prefer the 
more nuanced, more subtle exercise of power, like the true aristocrats they 
are, who keep their white gloves clean while the blood is spilled off-stage 
and out-of-sight by covert military operations.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=700
Saying goodbye to my "Fargo" accent
by Robert Jensen

In the course of his talk, Clark made reference to the fact that in the 
United States, English is a foreign language. That remark set off in my head 
a chain of thoughts that left me resolved to never again joke about a North 
Dakota accent. Let's start with the obvious: While some of the indigenous 
people killed or displaced by Europeans and their descendants learned to 
communicate in English with the settler-colonizers, they did so in a second 
(or third, fourth, or fifth) language. English is not a native language in 
the territory we now call the United States -- it's the language of a 
colonizing people who pursued a genocidal strategy to acquire that territory 
and its resources.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=21&ItemID=11614
Deleting Irony and Hiding Truth: Recent Reflections on the New York Times 
and the Narrow Spectrum of Debate
Paul Street, ZNet

It's like Noam Chomsky says: if you want to see how shockingly narrow the 
spectrum of acceptable political debate and ideological contestation is in 
the U.S., read the "liberal" New York Times. It's in the "leftmost" sections 
of dominant corporate media that you best discern where the business 
community sets the outer parameters of permissible discourse.

http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/knight/knight11.html
The Terror of Television
Alex R. Knight III, Strike the Root

Another contention of Hitler's, as he so masterfully demonstrated, was that 
the power of suggestion was a terrible weapon in the hands of anyone who 
knew how to utilize it to maximum effect.  Television, in the modern world, 
is every single bit that weapon.  One need only peruse the propagandist drek 
of which 90% of television media is comprised:  CNN, MSNBC, ABC News, Fox 
News ("Fair And Balanced!"  Right.  About as much so as a wrinkly 
octogenarian hag on her second fifth of Jack Daniels.), CBS.  Take a drive 
through suburbia sometime at night.  Anywhere, USA , will suit just fine. 
Watch the blue glows through all the windows while inundated minds of every 
stripe and walk of life absorb the garbage filtering outward like a cancer, 
stifling meaningful controversy, erasing independent thought.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121306O.shtml
World's Largest Science Teachers' Organization Awash in Denials
John Borowski, Truthout

The hypocrisy of the NSTA is a stark and bold reaffirmation of the 
incredible stranglehold corporate interests have, not only in the media, the 
Congress and so many walks of life: they are now trying to manufacture 
consent amongst our youngest citizens in school.

http://oilbeseeingyou.blogspot.com/2006/12/right-to-pursue-powerdown-seaking.html
The Right to Pursue Powerdown: Seaking alternative lifestyles post-peak
Richard Embleton (Oil, be seeing you blog)

Those unwilling to adhere to the practices and tenets of mainstream society 
seem invariably to be considered a threat to that society, a threat that 
must be dealt with harshly. The presumed threat, however, generally exists 
only in the collective mindset of the mainstream society. Most often the 
splinter group seeks only to follow their own beliefs and practices in 
freedom. And almost invariably the mainstream society around them will not 
accept their right to do so.

http://anthropik.com/2006/12/industrial-agriculture-the-e-coli-outbreak/
Industrial Agriculture & the E. Coli Outbreak
Jason Godesky, Anthropik Network

This is not a question of washing vegetables or even the unhealthy nature of 
fast food. The E. coli is being absorbed right into the vegetables in their 
irrigation water. This is the price we pay for intense, concentrated, 
industrial agriculture. At work are the perverse forces of economic markets, 
not the forces of nature. The U.S. food production system has been 
fined-tuned to maximize profits for a small group of farmers, often 
corporations, holding vast acres of land.

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20061213143446488
Indigenous Peoples were disposables to nuclear industry
Brenda Norrell, Infoshop News

Arriving from every region of the earth, their stories are the same. They 
tell of the machinations of the global nuclear industries, corporations 
leaving behind trails of radiation, cancer, birth defects and death for 
Indigenous villagers. Stolen as an infant from her birth family, one 
Australian Aboriginal woman now speaks out against the massive expansion of 
a uranium mine that threatens her people with more misery in South 
Australia.

http://www.rawa.org/events/dec10-06_e.htm
Afghanistan the Bloodiest Field for Slaughtering Human Rights
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)

Five years ago, America and their allies attacked Afghanistan in the name of 
bringing "Human Rights", "Democracy", and "Freedom" to the war-torn country. 
The Taliban regime fell and Hamid Karzai's puppet regime, which included the 
world-known Northern Alliance criminals or as UN envoy Mahmoud Mestri said, 
"the bandit gangs", took over in the name of a fake democracy. However, 
today, the deceitful policies of Mr. Karzai and his Western guardians have 
brought Afghanistan to a very critical situation in which disaster is a 
ticking time bomb that can explode any minute. Treason and mockery have 
efficiently been used under the name of "democracy" and "freedom" in these 
five years and the human rights situation in Afghanistan is a product of the 
painful deception of the warlord led government.

http://www.counterpunch.org/frank12132006.html
More Dangerous Than Crack--Death By Coke
Joshua Frank, CounterPunch

Despite the barrage of marketing to the contrary, sales pitches, and 
misinformation, consumption of soda has been directly linked to both obesity 
as well as type 2 diabetes. Soft drinks are packed full of sugar and refined 
carbohydrates, both of which are undeniably correlated to these factors. 
Type 2 diabetes is also associated with a poor diet that is laden with 
high-fructose corn syrup and low in fiber. Research indicates that soft 
drinks largely contribute to this growing epidemic, with high school and 
college age kids being the most likely to consume sugar laden soda beverages 
on a regular basis.

http://citypaper.net/articles/2006/12/14/freedom-song
Freedom Song: Building an Icon Out of Kuwasi Balagoon
Jessica Loughery, Philadelphia City Paper

On Dec. 13, 1986, Kuwasi Balagoon died in prison of pneumocystis carinii 
pneumonia, an AIDS-related illness. He was a bisexual man and a part of the 
queer liberation movement. A Black Panther who was a defendant in the 
Panther 21 case. A member of the Black Liberation Army. A New Afrikan 
Anarchist. And yet his name is nowhere to be found in our history books.

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NewsWire

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121306J.shtml
Army Targets Truthout for Subpoenas in Watada Case

http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/45418/
Suburbia: Running on Empty?

http://anthropik.com/2006/12/treating-us-like-human-beings/
8-yr old child's message: "start treating us like human beings"

http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2006/s1810380.htm
Israeli nuclear whistleblower demands freedom

http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={FE299846-4D77-4E20-A226-B6B2E67871C9})&language=EN
Gore Vidal breaks US blockade on Cuba

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35820
Native peoples boycott International Human Rights Day

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/dec2006/raid-d14.shtml
ICE thugs arrest 1,282 in raids at six meatpacking plants

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1213-04.htmt
Pentagon's Plan: More US Troops in Iraq

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061213/pl_nm/iraq_usa_funding_dc
Bush wants to loot an additional $100 billion to escalate mass murder 
campaign

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HL14Ak01.html
US staying the course for Big Oil in Iraq

http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m28991&hd=&size=1&l=e
Apartheid declared legal in Israel

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20061213183639242
Mexico is at war

http://www.survival-international.org/press_room.php?id=2128
Joy as Bushmen win landmark legal case

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