[APR-news] November 8, 2006

Wed Nov 8 07:56:20 PST 2006

Alternative Press Review - Your Guide Beyond the Mainstream
www.altpr.org - November 8, 2006

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4068.htm
The Real Terrorists: How 6 million people were killed in CIA secret wars 
against third world countries

"If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we 
cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned ... You've 
got to learn that when you push people around, some people push back. As 
they should. As they must. And as they undoubtedly will. There is justice in 
such symmetry." -- Ward Churchill

"Which one book would you give to every politician? Answer: One that 
explodes. Before you freak out, let's change the question and see what you 
think: Which one book would you give to Hitler, Goering, Himmler, and 
Goebbels? Let's ask this another way: Would a book have changed Hitler? I 
don't think so. Unless it exploded. And before you freak out at the 
comparison of modern politicians to Hitler and his gang, try to look at it 
from the perspective of wild salmon, grizzly bears, bluefin tuna, or any of 
the (fiscally) poor or indigenous human beings. Those in power now are more 
destructive than anyone has ever been. And they are for the most part 
psychologically unreachable. And if someone does reach some politician, that 
politician will no longer be in power. I recently shared a stage with Ward 
Churchill. He said the primary difference between the U.S. and the Nazis is 
that the U.S. didn't lose. I responded with one word: "Yet." -- Derrick 
Jensen

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Articles of interest

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/brendan_oneill/2006/11/whats_worse_than_an_illegal_wa.html
What's worse than an illegal war? A legal one
Brendan O'Neill, The Guardian

If I hear another anti-war protester or commentator use the word "illegal" 
to describe the war in Iraq, I will throttle them. Not because I think the 
war was "legal", or because I supported the war; in fact I was an implacable 
opponent of invading Iraq since long before the invasion took place. Rather, 
I despise the cries of "illegality" because implicit in this line of attack 
is the idea that if the war had been legal - had the UN security council 
decided in its infinite wisdom that Saddam really was tooled up with WMD and 
thus deserved a whooping from the west - then the invasion and destruction 
of Iraq would have been OK, or at least better. In fact, there would have 
been only one thing worse than the illegal war against Iraq, and that would 
have been a legal one.

http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/3853
Rising Violence Against Native Women Has 'Colonial Roots'
Michelle Chen, New Standard News

Groups advocating for Indian women say legislative remedies do not tackle 
the colonialist underpinnings of the abuse, which are deeper and less 
comfortable for official institutions to broach. Viewing the current 
brutalization of native women through a historical lens, activists say that 
violence on the scale seen today is a direct outgrowth of white settlement. 
They argue that the rampant abuse, along with other social problems that 
feed into it, originate from the sexual, economic and racial hierarchy 
imposed on indigenous peoples. "Violence against native women is a result of 
colonization," asserted Brenda Hill, a Siksika Blackfeet tribal member and 
education coordinator with the Sacred Circle National Resource Center to End 
Violence Against Native Women. "So how do you undo colonization? How do you 
undo the internalized oppression?"

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20061107071519534
All the leaves are brown
Mickey Z, Infoshop News

More than two million acres of parks, farms, and open space are destroyed 
each year in the name of a little something called sprawl. During the 
twentieth century, an area equal to all the arable land in Ohio, Indiana, 
and Pennsylvania was paved in the United States. This swath of terra firma 
requires maintenance costing over $200 million a day and the surreptitious 
cost of our car culture totals nearly $500 billion a year in the U.S. alone 
(much of that going to the sustentation of waging perpetual war to keep the 
world safe for petroleum). Besides the global warming, greenhouse effect, 
unchecked militarism, and other sinister side effects of a society beholden 
to the internal combustion engine, all that concrete severely impinges upon 
those multi-hued falling leaves-which are, by design, supposed to be 
introduced to microorganisms in the soil where they should theoretically 
land. Since we humans have seen fit to pave the planet, the rhythms of the 
natural world are habitually and imprudently ignored.

http://the-fourth-world.blogspot.com/2006/09/apocalypse-no.html
Apocalypse No! An Indigenist Perspective
Juan Santos, The Fourth World

It's simple. And obvious. We find ourselves in the midst of the most rapid 
mass extinction in Earth's history; we have the power to all-but end life on 
Earth. We can do so with nuclear weapons, today, in Iran, or simply by 
turning the ignition switch on our automobiles and gliding over paved 
surfaces where nothing can live. A little more carbon dioxide, just a 
little, will tip the scale-unleashing our potential for matching the 
greatest mass extinction ever-the one called The Great Dying.

http://the-fourth-world.blogspot.com/2006/11/apocalypse-no-christian-fascism-and.html
Apocalypse No! Christian Fascism and the Nazi Legacy
(Part 2 of Apocalypse No! An Indigenist Perspective)
Juan Santos, The Fourth World

The Christian fascism we see arising before us is not the historical 
exception - it's the rule, a rule proven time and again over the last half - 
millennia. Christian Rome got its start slaughtering pagans and Gnostics in 
a drive for imperial cultural conformity and conquest. It's little different 
now. This is a deadly serious business.

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NewsWire

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1407.shtml
The FCC must stop shutting down microradio stations

http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/071106_disciplined_911.html
10-year old student disciplined for visiting 9/11 website

http://electroniciraq.net/news/2603.shtml
Iraqi democracy at work: Two TV stations shut down for showing Iraqis 
protesting against death sentence for Saddam

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-2437544,00.html
Britain and America insist they defeated the Nazis, overwhelming historical 
evidence shows they were only minor partners

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061106/pl_afp/usiraqmilitaryunrest
Hundreds of US soldiers call for withdrawal from Iraq

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1941076,00.html
US and Britain determined to protect right to kill civilians at random

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=ROK20061106&articleId=3748
Crimes against humanity: Bunker buster bombs containing depleted uranium 
warheads used by Israel against civilian targets in Lebanon

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2631129
"Frightening" study predicts hotter, drier Australia

http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/061104_gb_insects.html
Global warming could trigger insect population boom with potentially dire 
consequences for humans

http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1640162006
Vast vortex of plastic rubbish has formed in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

http://www.energy-daily.com/reports/IEA_Warns_Current_Energy_System_Doomed_To_Failure_999.html
IEA Warns Current Energy System Doomed To Failure

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