[APR-news] November 21, 2006

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www.altpr.org - November 21, 2006

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http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=681
The Catastrophe in Iraq: Neither Truth Nor Consequence
By James Ryan (1962 West Point graduate, cofounder of West Point Graduates 
Against The War)

[T]he Democrats, complicit in the devastation wrought by the Bush 
administration, grin and gape in victory. Instead they should be mourning, 
mourning for the millions their decisions have so grievously harmed. Their 
high-fives and boogying are as unseemly as their role in the slaughter of 
innocents that is Iraq. As unseemly as not holding the Bush administration 
accountable for its lies and criminal behavior. Or are the Democrats 
embarrassed to revisit the source of their gullibility and shame?

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=682
Stubbornly pursuing a course that is destroying the planet
By Peter Montague

We set up all our institutions (churches, corporations, governments, laws, 
courts, media, schools) to encourage population growth and economic growth 
(the accumulation of capital assets -- farms, factories, highways, ports, 
power plants, and so on). Now we find ourselves with a shortage of nature, a 
superabundance of people, and a glut of capital assets -- more than we know 
what to do with, really. Because of this fundamental shift, almost 
everything is different now than it was 50 years ago. But our institutions, 
our language, and our mental tools have not changed. As a result, we are 
stubbornly pursuing a course that is wrecking the future.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.counterpunch.org/mcdaniel11202006.html
Living Within Limits: Natural Patterns of Living
Carl N. McDaniel, CounterPunch

Every important environmental trend today is negative: growth of population 
and consumption, global warming, mounting pollution, loss of soil, declining 
biodiversity. Our modern world is headed toward the same place as old 
civilizations that overreached their ecological means: collapse -- only this 
time on an unprecedented scale. Yet we press on. Why?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/14/AR2006111400979.html
Another Way: Band of idealists try to build a low-energy lifestyle
Joel Achenbach, Washington Post

The key to modern life is strategic ignorance. There are so many things we 
don't know about our lives and that, frankly, we don't want to know. We 
don't know much about the basic things that sustain us. We are clueless "end 
users" in elaborate industrial supply lines. Energy comes from distant power 
plants and oil refineries and pipelines and electrical grids, but we don't 
think about them when we flick on a light or turn the key in the ignition. 
We live in a world we didn't make, by rules and customs and laws we didn't 
invent, using tools and technologies we don't understand. Even as science 
teaches us, constantly, that we are part of the fabric of life, that we have 
a common genetic heritage with all other living things, we continue to hold 
nature at arm's length. Predation and cultivation and gathering and even 
preparation of food have all been outsourced.

http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=661
Democrats and Republicans Agree: Iraq Shall Suffer Occupation in Perpetuum
Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire

As it turns out, predictably so, the tussle between neocon Republicans and 
their kissing cousin neoliberal Democrat relatives is not about ending the 
"war" in Iraq but rather over how many brainwashed kids will be sent there 
to be shot up, killed and maimed, afflicted with "mysterious diseases" that 
translate into a "debilitating death sentence," thanks to depleted uranium.

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/44506/
CACI: Torture in Iraq, Intimidation at Home
Joshua Holland, AlterNet

Dogged by serious allegations of human rights abuses in Iraq, a leading 
profiteer from the Iraq war engages in intimidation campaigns against 
journalists in America who seek to expose its practices.

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NewsWire

http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/sf/nyt11_21_6_3.htm
Antiwar activities at US churches, libraries, colleges and other places part 
of Defense Department anti-terror database

http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061120/NEWS/611200331/1033/NEWS01
LA Urban Farmers Plow New Fields

http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/sf/nyt11_21_6.htm
US considers large "temporary" troop increase in Iraq

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20061120214716453
Oaxaca protesters attack ultra-violent terrorist group<

http://www.redress.btinternet.co.uk/dhalpin.htm
Evidence of Israeli use of unconventional weapons in Gaza

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/789876.html
IDF admits targeting civilians in Lebanon with cluster bombs

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/HK21Dj02.html
Hard lessons, harder landings as US begins to unwind the largest housing 
bubble in modern history

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/US-is-unfriendly-to-visitors-survey/2006/11/21/1163871376458.html
Global survey shows US ranked the world's "worst" and most unfriendly 
country for international travelers

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