[APR-news] November 22, 2006

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Alternative Press Review - Your Guide Beyond the Mainstream
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http://www.gocomics.com/danasummers/2006/11/20/
The Fence

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The Dangerous Truth about TeenScreen

http://www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen.html
A Front Group for the Psycho-Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=381&page=1
Inside TeenScreen: The Making of Mental Patients

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Articles of interest

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20061121235338288
Who Killed Brad Will? The footage does not lie, though governments do
Priya, Infoshop News

The FBI is now involved in 'investigating' Brad Will's murder. Whether or 
not the FBI is genuinely interested in finding Brad's murderer, what they 
are surely interested in, is establishing links between "insurgent" and 
"radical" groups in other countries to groups or individuals in this one. 
That would fit neatly into their "anti-terrorism" mandate of late. It is 
clear that the Mexican government and by extension, U.S authorities, 
consider APPO (A people's assembly) to be a terrorist threat, and treat APPO 
accordingly with extreme force and brutality to exterminate key organizers 
and crush any challenge to gov't control and rule. Historically, the FBI has 
always been interested in Americans sympathetic to foreign dissenting groups 
and monitoring any suspected links. No matter, if the "suspect" group is a 
non-violent popular movement against a brutal regime. Governments are 
interested in control - not justice.

http://mediamatters.org/columns/200611200004
CBS owes Ed Bradley an apology
Eric Boehlert, Media Matters

CBS still owes Bradley a belated apology stemming from its shameful decision 
during the 2004 presidential campaign to pointedly refuse to run a factually 
solid story of his that chronicled how the Bush administration had misled 
the country into war. Specifically, the Bradley story detailed the murky 
circumstances surrounding bogus Nigerien documents unearthed in 2002 -- the 
alleged smoking gun -- that purported to prove that Saddam Hussein had 
purchased 500 tons of so-called yellowcake uranium to build a nuclear bomb. 
The documents turned out to be obvious fakes, but that didn't stop the Bush 
administration from eagerly using them in an effort to scare Americans with 
doomsday talk.

http://www.abolitionist-online.com/interview-issue05_earth.my.body.ward-churchill.shtml
Earth My Body, Fire My Spirit: The Ward Churchill Interview
Claudette Vaughan, Abolitionist-Online

If you are on the receiving end of the continuous US projection of violence 
it's just as unsafe as it ever was. ... Its very foundation is a drive by 
the state to monopolize the means of inflicting violence domestically and, 
as nearly as possible, internationally as well. Sufficient force, or the 
threat of force, can then be projected to compel Others, who have been 
rendered relatively defenseless in the process, to accept what are perceived 
as lesser forms of violence as a daily reality. By this, I mean the 
systematic expropriation of everything the Others need in order to maintain 
a decent standard of living-in a lot of cases their very means of 
subsistence-to the ever-increasing profit of US corporations and to sustain 
the ever-more-opulent lifestyle to which a burgeoning sector of the US 
populace -I usually refer to them as "yuppies," although the term lacks 
precision-imagine themselves to be divinely entitled. The bottom line is 
brown-skinned 3-year-olds suffering chronic malnutrition and endemic 
disease, dying by the millions of readily-preventable causes before they're 
5, and, if they survive childhood at all, being impressed at age 12 into a 
lifetimes of emiseration as sweatshop workers, all so that US transnationals 
can accrue the wherewithal to quite literally "own" the entire planet, their 
CEOs "earning" something like $2,500 per minute on average, and even the 
25-year-olds peddling their stock are able to exercise their "natural right" 
to treat themselves to a new Porsche or BMW, spend lavishly on clothes and 
recreation, meanwhile living in million dollar townhouses and loft 
apartments in the trendier districts of New York, Los Angeles or San 
Francisco.

http://www.greenanarchy.org/index.php?action=viewwritingdetail&returnto=viewjournal&printIssueId=20&writingId=644
Natural Born Killers
Sky Hiatt, Green Anarchy

Certainly civilizations existed long before antibiotics and many survived to 
modern times. Of those that failed, they failed for different reasons, in 
relative isolation in their bioregion. It took technology to break down the 
protective limits, so that each threat to one becomes a threat to all. 
Before tourism, sailing ships and airplanes, if past cultures encountered 
novel pathogens, the damage would be localized. As today's societies are all 
connected, civilization as a whole is threatened. The global village is 
hostile and uncompromising. Errors are "magnified worldwide." While humans 
focus on oil wars, marauding weather systems, mutant frogs, and world 
hunger, the microbes persevere in their inexorable conquest of the planet.

http://www.madison.com/archives/read.php?ref=/tct/2006/11/20/0611200221.php
Corporate Agriculture Takes Us Down Wrong Road
Jim Goodman, The Capital Times

Self-reliance is not a bad thing. While Emerson's thoughts on "Self 
Reliance" were controversial enough to get him banned from Harvard 
University, it seems that most Americans have willingly ceded their own 
self-reliance and therefore their right of choice into the hands of 
corporate America. They have given up choice in media, health care and even 
food.

http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=1545
Independence from the Corporate Global Economy
Ethan Miller, Yes! Magazine

We're taught that there are only two possible economic choices: capitalism-a 
system in which rich people and corporations have the power, make the 
decisions, and control our lives; or communism-a system where state 
bureaucrats have the power, make the decisions, and control our lives. What 
a choice! When it comes to real economic alternatives, our imaginations are 
stuck. Clearly, we need something different, but what would it look like? 
How do we start to imagine and create other ways of meeting our economic 
needs?

http://permaculturetokyo.blogspot.com/2006/11/passive-cooling.html
Passive Cooling
Scott A. Meister, Permaculture Reflections

If you happen to live in an area that depends on a lot of electricity, and 
you're finding electricity to be rather expensive...or would rather wisely 
eliminate as much of that expense as possible so you could spend your hard 
earned money on other things, then you need to be looking for ways to reduce 
or eliminate your electrical use as much as possible. Where can we cut our 
electric bills?

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/112106b.html
Chertoff's 'Chilling Vision'
Nat Parry, Consortium News

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who runs the giant agency that 
keeps track of threats to the United States, has shared what he calls his 
"chilling vision" of the future - a time when U.S. government actions might 
be constrained by international law. Chertoff outlined his nightmare 
scenario in a Nov. 17 speech to the Federalist Society, an organization of 
right-wing lawyers who spearheaded the legal arguments for granting 
President George W. Bush authority unbound by any law, including the 
constitutional rights of Americans. But the focus of Chertoff's warning was 
that the United States is under growing pressure from legal scholars and the 
world community to comply with international law, especially on war crimes 
and humane treatment of detainees in the "war on terror."

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/293201_amy22.html
Rumsfeld and a mountain of misery
Amy Goodman, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Frederick Douglass, the renowned abolitionist, began life as a slave on 
Maryland's Eastern Shore. When his owner had trouble with the young, unruly 
slave, Douglass was sent to Edward Covey, a notorious "slave breaker." 
Covey's plantation, where physical and psychological torture were standard, 
was called Mount Misery. Douglass eventually fought back, escaped to the 
North and went on to change the world. Today Mount Misery is owned by Donald 
Rumsfeld, the outgoing secretary of defense.

http://harpers.org/sb-ken-adelman-1164050030.html
Ken Adelman: A Rat Abandons a Ship of Fools
Ken Silverstein, Harpers

"Embittered Insiders Turn Against Bush," was the headline of a front-page 
Washington Post story yesterday that detailed how former Iraq hawks have 
broken with the Bush Administration over the war. Exhibit A was Ken Adelman, 
a onetime Reagan Administration official and "onetime member of the Iraq war 
brain trust," who has fallen out with Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, and 
who told the Post that "the President is ultimately responsible" for the 
"debacle" in Iraq. Adelman's hypocrisy is stunning. In 2002 it was he who 
famously predicted that American forces would enjoy "a cakewalk" in Iraq, 
and during the run-up to the invasion he derided war critics for their 
stupidity and naiveté.

http://www.counterpunch.org/pringle11212006.html
Drug Your Fetus: Big Pharma Hits on Pregnant Women
Evelyn Pringle, CounterPunch

If Big Pharma cared one iota about the unborn fetus, at a bare minimum, it 
would call off its hired-guns traveling around the country peddling SSRI 
antidepressants to pregnant women by convincing doctors to prescribed the 
drugs and ignore the studies and FDA warnings that say SSRIs are associated 
with serious birth defects.

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NewsWire

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=76634
FBI ordered to disclose details of 9/11 bin Laden family evacuation

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003410658
Legitimate Self-Defense: Most Iraqis support attacks on ultra-violent 
criminal occupation forces

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/11/20/selective.service/
Selective Service: Ready for a draft

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20061121174533852
Updates on two U.S. soldiers accused of fragging

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4346971.html
Thousands protest terrorist training facility in Georgia

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/nov2006/army-n22.shtml
Bush's Poodle in Trouble: UK military faces recruitment and retention crisis

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/061121/1/4502y.html
US could bomb Iran nuclear sites in 2007

http://www.earth-policy.org/Indicators/CO2/2006.htm
2005 Another Record Year for Global Carbon Emissions

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=11695
Animal and plant species dying off sooner than predicted because of global 
warming

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/19/AR2006111900831.html?nav=hcmodule
Killing the oceans: Imagine a world without seafood

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=414858&in_page_id=2
Blackout warning as energy crisis looms

http://www.energybulletin.net/22790.html
Global copper thefts on the rise

http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron15.htm
A Bombshell Drops on Cholesterol Medication's Glass House

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/11/21/D8LHSRR01.html
Police thugs murder 92-yr old woman who had the audacity to defend herself

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