[APR-news] Weekend Edition (February 25-26, 2006)

Tue Feb 28 06:06:18 PST 2006

Alternative Press Review - Your Guide Beyond the Mainstream
www.altpr.org - Weekend Edition (February 25-26, 2006)

******
http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=608&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Out of Touch with Military Reality
By Gene C. Gerard

The Army has long maintained storage sites in Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, 
and the Netherlands. But the report revealed that few stocks remain there 
because they have been dispersed to support operations in Iraq. To 
complicate the shortages, the report noted that significant supply stocks of 
the Army have deteriorated. At a large prepositioning supply base in South 
Korea the GAO found that the Army's prepositioned stocks were in poor 
condition and that much of the equipment was overdue for scheduled 
maintenance. Army officials in South Korea admitted that regular maintenance 
had not been performed in years. The GAO found that equipment was being 
stored outside and had corroded, reducing the ability to use this equipment 
in the event of a conflict. The Marine Corps has exhausted 75 percent of its 
supplies on one-third of its prepositioning ships owing to the war in Iraq.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=609&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Whose Bombs Were They?
by Mike Whitney

There's no telling who was behind the bombing of the al-Askariya Mosque. 
There were no security cameras at the site and it's doubtful that the police 
will be able to perform a thorough forensic investigation. That's too bad; 
the bomb-residue would probably provide clear evidence of who engineered the 
attack. So far, there's little more to go on than the early reports of four 
men (three who were dressed in black, one in a police uniform) who overtook 
security guards at the mosque and placed the bombs in broad daylight. It was 
a bold assault that strongly suggests the involvement of highly-trained 
paramilitaries conducting a well-rehearsed plan. Still, that doesn't give us 
any solid proof of what groups may have been involved.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=610&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Volunteers of America: A Review of Dan Berger's Outlaws of America: The 
Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (AK Press 2006)
Reviewed by Ron Jacobs

AK Press of Oakland, California is adding another book to this growing 
library of Weather Underground literature. The book, titled Outlaws of 
America and written by up-and-coming radical author Dan Berger, is an 
important complement to the earlier works. The first history of the Weather 
Underground Organization(WUO) to be written by someone whose age parallels 
the ages of the children of WUO members and many other "sixties" activists 
(Berger is 24), this well-researched and detailed work provides a 
perspective on the most well-known group in the militant wing of the 
anti-racist and antiwar movement. The book is essential to understanding the 
history of the 1960s, as well as the present movements against racism and 
imperialist war.

******
Other articles of interest

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2006sherman_austin_nsa
NSA Surveillance and the Case of Sherman Austin
Sherman Austin, Infoshop News

Former political prisoner and former webmaster of Raisethefist.com, Sherman 
Austin talks about NSA wire-taps and FBI "anti-terrorism" surveillance used 
against him shortly after 9/11.

http://www.globalpublicmedia.com/articles/657
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
Megan Quinn, Permaculture Activist

Since the early 1990s, an urban agriculture movement has swept through Cuba, 
putting this capital city of 2.2 million on a path toward sustainability.

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2006/03/the_fate_of_the_ocean.html
The Fate of the Ocean
Julia Whitty, Mother Jones

Our oceans are under attack, and approaching a point of no return. Can we 
survive if the seas go silent?

http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=421
GM soybean: Latin America's new colonizer
Miguel Altieri and Walter Pengue, Grain

In Latin America, the frontiers to soybean production are being pushed back 
aggressively in all directions at a breathtaking rate. Driven by export 
pressures and supported by government incentives, soybean fields are taking 
over forests and savannah in an unprecedented manner.

http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/index.php?ntid=74015
Being poor's the real crime as cops nab trash thieves
Joel McNally, Capital Times

Now we judge the success of a government program by how few people it helps. 
By that definition, President Bush was right. Brownie really was doing a 
heckuva job at FEMA.Forget about homicides, rapes and armed robberies. The 
police have far more important priorities. Someone is stealing our garbage.

http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000365.php
Who Benefits?
Dahr Jamail, Iraq Dispatches

The most important question to ask regarding the bombings of the Golden 
Mosque in Samarra on the 22nd is: who benefits?

******
NewsWire

http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2006/0223nj1.htm
Total Information Awareness lives on

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0223-03.htm
'Big Brother' Watching E-mail, Computer Data

http://news.com.com/National%20ID%20cards%20on%20the%20way/2100-1028_3-5573414.html?tag=nl
National ID cards on the way?

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20060222&articleId=2034
Police State Technology: Implanting a GPS-microchip in the body of a human 
being, using a high powered sniper rifle

http://www.malcomlagauche.com/id1.html
Mayor of London suspended for offending journalist

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1716840,00.html?gusrc=rss
Blogger bares Rumfeld post 9/11 orders

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/24/cnn-pundit-bombing/
CNN Pundit: Mosque Bombing Shows Bush Strategy Is Working In Iraq

http://mediamatters.org/items/200602240003
Fox News: Cheerleaders for civil war in Iraq

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=35298
Insurgent attacks hit postwar high

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/24/iraq.security/index.html?section=cnn_topstories
It Goes to Zero: Not a single Iraqi battalion capable of fighting without 
U.S. support

http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1559027.php
Commanders consider increasing US forces if Iraqi units unable to quell 
serious spike in violence

http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=244
Pentagon-Controlled Iraqi National Guard Implicated in Samarra Mosque 
Bombing

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/ed436938-a49d-11da-897c-0000779e2340.html
US marines probe tensions among Iran's minorities

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3585035a12,00.html
Al Qaeda vows more attacks after Saudi oil raid

http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=135343
Afghanistan more dangerous per capita than Iraq for US troops

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?pid=63406
Why's a Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel on the "No-Fly" List?

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0225-02.htm
China Activists 'Vanish' Amid Protests

http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/report-55478.html
Warmer than a Hot Tub: Study Suggests Climate Models Underestimate Future 
Warming

http://wwwa.accuweather.com/promotion.asp?dir=aw&page=dustbowl
Is America facing another Dust Bowl?

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Hooked_On_Fishing_And_Were_Heading_For_The_Bottom.html
Hooked on fishing and we're heading for the bottom

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11520810/
Millennium Seed Bank: Scientists racing to save the world's plants as global 
warming and human expansion threaten whole species facing financial 
difficulties

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4732924.stm
New infectious diseases are now emerging at an exceptional rate

http://www.upi.com/ConsumerHealthDaily/view.php?StoryID=20060222-044543-1356r
Organic diets keep kids pesticide free

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1421736.cms
Blackouts in Britain by 2012?

http://www.vnunet.com/computing/news/2150780/electricity-supplies-keep
Can electricity supplies keep up with growing server demand?

http://www.forbes.com/business/businesstech/feeds/ap/2006/02/23/ap2549825.html
Average American income declines

http://abcnews.go.com/International/CSM/story?id=1651196
More Americans turning to soup kitchens

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/02/24/cccredit24.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2006/02/24/ixcoms.html
Global credit ocean dries up: Cash machine that sustained world boom is 
about to close, and it's going to get ugly

http://survival-international.org/news.php?id=1401&PHPSESSID=589ed84894b90eb28e3d9ed0c37e18a4
De Beers's mine on Bushman land would be a hundred times larger than 
previously announced

http://www.survival-international.org/news.php?id=1403
Logging operations in Peru force uncontacted Indians to flee

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Teen_groups_push_Congress_for_comprehensive_0223.html
Teens push for comprehensive sex education

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4750262.stm
Sex Pistols refuse to attend their induction in Hall of Fame

******
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 