[APR-news] November 10, 2006

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www.altpr.org - November 10, 2006

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/2829
Mid-Term Election Post Mortem

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http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=672&mode=nocomments&order=0&thold=0
The 2006 elections and the coming train wreck: Does it matter if we slow 
down the train?
by Robert Jensen

As I stood in line for coffee on the morning after election night, a 
Democratic Party supporter ahead of me in line said, "Thank God this country 
is finally switching trains." If only that were true. On Election Day 2006, 
the U.S. public didn't switch trains but simply ratified a different group 
of conductors. It's the same old train, on the same tracks, heading in the 
same direction.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2006/11/02/coverstory.html
Flames of Dissent: The local spark that ignited an eco-sabotage boom -- and 
bust
Kera Abraham, Eugene Weekly

In a high-profile sweep that began on Dec. 7, 2005 and continues into the 
present, the federal government indicted 18 people for a spate of 
environmentally motivated sabotage crimes committed in the West between 1996 
and 2001. No one was physically hurt in the actions, mainly arsons against 
corporate and government targets perceived to be destroying the planet. Yet 
the FBI is calling the defendants "eco-terrorists" and seeking particularly 
stiff sentences for the five remaining non-cooperators, whose trials are 
pending. Eight defendants have pled guilty, four are fugitives and one 
committed suicide in jail.

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1410.shtml
Would Tom Paine end up in an orange jumpsuit today?
Mickey Z, Online Journal

The coast-to-coast mall known as America just loves to sing the praises of 
its revolutionary heroes: the land-owning white slaveholders affectionately 
called "Founding Fathers." But America, the land of denial, would rather 
ignore the revolutionary roots and spirit behind its birth. In other words, 
if pamphleteer Tom Paine were around today, well, he might not be around 
today. Can you say "enemy combatant"?

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20061108145508654
Bush and Blair should join Saddam
Anarcho, Infoshop News

Significantly, the trial was not about Saddam's mass killings but rather for 
the massacre of 148 men and boys from Dujail, the site of a 1982 
assassination attempt against him. The death sentence does have a 30-day 
automatic appeal but the verdict does put a damper on Saddam's genocide 
trial for the ethnic cleansing campaign against the Kurds in the late 1980s. 
Here, again, the current sentence does have advantages -- for some. By 
effectively short-circuiting the genocide trial, a whole host of questions 
about how the Reagan Administration supported and funded Saddam will not 
have to be asked and so no awkward answers about why America (and Britain) 
supported him while knowing about his atrocities (and even supplying the 
means). Unsurprisingly, during the Dujail trial Saddam was formally 
forbidden from discussing his relationship with Donald Rumsfeld, now Bush's 
Secretary of Defence, and about the support he received from the Reagan and 
Bush Sr Administrations.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=ELI20061107&articleId=3761
Selective Justice and the Trial of Saddam Hussein: Who will pass judgment on 
those who judge?
Gregory Elich, Global Research

At one time, Saddam Hussein was backed and promoted by the U.S. His brutal 
methods were regarded as effective tools in the struggle to further U.S. 
objectives. But as his actions began to threaten U.S. interests, he earned 
opprobrium. A closer look at the history of Hussein's relationship with the 
U.S. reveals much about how foreign policy is conducted.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15554.htm
Let's now charge the accomplices
John Pilger, Information Clearing House

Why isn't Donald Rumsfeld being charged? In December 1983, Rumsfeld was in 
Baghdad to signal America's approval of Iraq's aggression against Iran. 
Rumsfeld was back in Baghdad on 24 March 1984, the day that the United 
Nations reported that Iraq had used mustard gas laced with a nerve agent 
against Iranian soldiers. Rumsfeld said nothing. A subsequent Senate report 
documented the transfer of the ingredients of biological weapons from a 
company in Maryland, licensed by the Commerce Department and approved by the 
State Department. Why isn't Madeleine Albright being charged? As President 
Clinton's secretary of state, Albright enforced an unrelenting embargo on 
Iraq which caused half a million "excess deaths" of children under the age 
of five. When asked on television if the children's deaths were a price 
worth paying, she replied: "We think the price is worth it."

http://www.countercurrents.org/iran-akleh091106.htm
War on Iran: Unleashing Armageddon In The Middle East
Dr. Elias Akleh, Countercurrents.org

In mid 1970s the American Power Elite drew a "Grand Plan" to control and to 
monopolize global oil and nuclear energy resources, for he who controls 
energy resources determines the fate of nations. The base of this "Grand 
Plan" is the invasion of energy rich countries to directly control their 
resources, and to create subservient governments that would exploit their 
own people as cheap labor to harvest energy for the United States.

http://www.counterpunch.org/loewenstein11092006.html
How Gaza Offends Us All
Jennifer Loewenstein, CounterPunch

Why is the occupation not yet over? Because Israel does not want it to end. 
Because Israel wants the land and the resources without the people. Because 
you have to eviscerate a culture in order to maintain total control over it. 
Because the United States says that's just fine with us, you serve our 
purpose well. You help make the war on terror convenient. You help fit Iraq 
into the scheme. You'll help us with Iran as well. Who the hell cares about 
a million and a half poverty-stricken Gazans and their dust, their sand, 
their stinking, crumbling heap of a disaster area homeland? What a terrible 
shame it is that Gazans have not yet attained the status of Human in the 
eyes of the Western powers, for the resistance there will continue to be an 
enigma until this changes. For now, however, the slaughter will continue 
unabated.

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NewsWire

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15557.htm
Western Journalists' Coverage of Middle East Shallow and Distorted

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/11/cnn-tells-youtube-to-pull-down-video.html
CNN tells YouTube to pull down video outing GOP party head Ken Mehlman

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/subscriber/canada/story/3761710p-4350198c.html
Canada has detailed lists of activists to put in concentration camps

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1108-06.htm
Texas Inmates Protest Conditions With Hunger Strikes

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/08/1457245
Vermont's Bernie Sanders Becomes First Socialist Elected to U.S. Senate

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/09/1444246
War crimes suit prepared against Rumsfeld

http://www.alternet.org/story/44091/
Bush Replaces Rumsfeld with... Another Rumsfeld

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110806R.shtml
Gates has history of manipulating intelligence

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/nov2006/germ-n09.shtml
Germany's illegal role in US terrorist activity

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/nov2006/gaza-n10.shtml
Israel carries out deliberate massacre in Gaza

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=11619
More of Amazon rain forest destroyed during Silva administration than during 
any other four-year period since 1988

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article1962786.ece
Why water is the gravest challenge facing humanity

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061109/wl_nm/un_development_climate_dc_2
Climate change threatens agricultural crisis

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061109/ap_on_sc/climate_conference
Oceans are turning acidic, poses threat to Earth's fragile food chain

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2437530,00.html
Wasting away: John Humphrys goes back to his boyhood to find an answer to 
global warming - but it's not for the faint-hearted

http://environment.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,,1941609,00.html
Could 'wild laws' protecting all the Earth's community - including animals, 
plants, rivers and ecosystems - save our natural world?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/australia/story/0,,1941942,00.html
Australia suffers worst drought in 1,000 years

http://www.cfo.com/printable/article.cfm/8135376/c_8158206?f=options
Experts predict wave of bankruptcies

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