[APR-news] November 20, 2006

Mon Nov 20 09:56:49 PST 2006

Alternative Press Review - Your Guide Beyond the Mainstream
www.altpr.org - November 20, 2006

"I feel like we are in a giant car heading for a brick wall at 100 miles an 
hour and everyone in the car is arguing where they want to sit. For God's 
sake, someone has to say put the brakes on and turn the wheel." --  
Environmentalist David Suzuki

http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_cartoon&itemid=3904
Cartoon: The power of white privilege

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http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=679
Move It Back Into the Streets--Stop the War Now!
By Ron Jacobs

A little more than twenty-six years (November 14-15, 1969), the streets of 
Washington, DC and San Francisco, CA were filled with a million protesters 
against the US war in Vietnam. These protests, known as the National 
Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam, had been preceded by a national 
Moratorium Against the War on October 15 the same year. The politics of the 
protesters ran from pacifists to liberals to hardcore anti-imperialist 
radicals bent on revolution. According to permanent war architect and 
advisor Henry Kissinger, the sight of so many protesters in the streets of 
DC caused the Nixon White House to reconsider its pending decision to nuke 
Hanoi, Vietnam. Furthermore, the pitched battles between police and some ten 
to twenty thousand protesters intent on storming the South Vietnamese 
Embassy on November 14th, 1969 and the Justice Department building the 
following day led Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell to compare the 
scene to Russia's October revolution. While Mr. Mitchell was obviously 
exaggerating the situation, the comment itself is an indication of the level 
of paranoia then present among the rulers in Washington.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=680
Opportunities lost: When bullies derail dialogue, we all lose
by Robert Jensen

I can understand why church and school administrators would take the safe 
route and cancel a talk by me to avoid potential conflict; I don't feel any 
personal resentment or hold any grudges. But I can't help but be 
disappointed in those officials, not for denying me the chance to speak but 
denying others a space in which collectively we can struggle to get closer 
to the truth. Who among us is not hungry for that?

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Other articles of interest

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov06/Whitney20.htm
Housing Bubble Smack-down
Mike Whitney, Dissident Voice

What does this mean for the homeowner whose future depends on the steady 
increase in his home equity? What can he expect? Well, first of all, you can 
ignore all the gibberish you hear on the business channel about "soft 
landings" and a "temporary downturn." There'll be no soft landings. This is 
the Big One: Real Estate Armageddon followed by a plague of locusts.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=104&ItemID=11448
PRISON LOOKS LIKE WAGING A SECURITY WAR
Avery F. Gordon, Le Monde diplomatique via ZNet

Observers didn't regard conditions and behaviours in Abu Ghraib prison in 
Iraq as abnormally brutal. That's because they so closely resembled 
conditions in ordinary supermax prisons in the US.

http://www.appvoices.org/index.php?/site/mtr_overview/
Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
Appalachian Voices

One of the greatest environmental and human rights catastrophes in American 
history is underway just southwest of our nation's capital. In the 
coalfields of Appalachia, individuals, families and entire communities are 
being driven off their land by flooding, landslides and blasting resulting 
from mountaintop removal coal mining.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-navajo19nov19,0,4003854,full.story?coll=la-home-headlines
A peril that dwelt among the Navajos
Judy Pasternak, Los Angeles Times

During the Cold War, uranium mines left contaminated waste scattered around 
the Indians. Homes built with the material silently pulsed with radiation. 
People developed cancer. And the U.S. did little.

http://www.counterpunch.org/mowrey11202006.html
America's Progressive Nightmare
Joe Mowrey, CounterPunch

The "progressive" community wasted the last two years and countless 
resources sponsoring corporate lackeys for election to a fascist system of 
government. (Fascism was originally defined by Benito Mussolini as a 
partnership between government and corporations.) Congratulations. There 
still is no serious anti-war or anti-militarism movement in this country. 
The corporatists won--peace and social justice lost, again. With progress 
like this, who needs habeas corpus?

http://www.tsunamipolitico.com/future11.htm
NEW NATIONAL REVOLUTION IN MEXICO'S FUTURE?
Harrell Rhome, Tsunami Politico

Regardless of what may or may not happen in the coming months and years, 
certain key preliminary steps necessary for a successful national revolution 
are already in place, evidenced by the fact that the resistance is well 
organized, with persons from all classes and from all over the country. As 
in the days of Porfirio Diaz, a lot of people are fed up with the Powers 
That Be, and don't want to passively take it anymore.

http://www.getunderground.com/columns/article.cfm?Article_ID=2025
Punk's Not Dead, It's Just Passed Out On The Couch
Matthew Sheahan, Get Underground

Media swarmed the Bowery in Manhattan last month when Patti Smith played the 
last show ever held at C.B.G.B. It was a sad event that marked the end of an 
era for independent music and saw the destruction of one of the best sound 
systems in all of New York City.

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NewsWire

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/11/20/EDGIEMF3Q71.DTL
Don't forget Josh Wolf

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/19/business/outsource.php
Outsourcing hits a new class of workers: Journalists

http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2006/11/19/democrats-the-party-of-slavery/
Charlie Rangel: Pro-Slavery

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/nov2006/dems-n20.shtml
Democrats seek accommodation with Bush administration to continue Iraq 
occupation

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=72&ItemID=11446
Cheney and Neo-Cons Plotting More Wars

http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=336681&sid=WOR
CIA analysis finds no Iranian nuclear weapons drive

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