[APR-news] November 28, 2006

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www.altpr.org - November 28, 2006

"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the 
all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers 
control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they 
love their servitude." -- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

http://www.nodraftnoway.org/index.shtml
No Draft, No Way!

http://adreampuppet.blogspot.com/2006/11/next-time-someone-tells-you-to-support.html
Support the Troops?

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http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=687
Impeachment Hearings for Bush & Co.? How about War Crimes Tribunals
By Heather Wokusch

Now that Rumsfeld has "resigned" and Bush and Co. face their lame-duck years 
watching the war on terror implode, it's worth considering the aftermath of 
World War II, when the International Military Tribunal indicted and tried 
over 20 Nazi leaders for war crimes ranging from waging a war of aggression, 
killing civilians, mistreating prisoners and plundering property. How eerily 
familiar those charges seem today.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=686
Time for a HipHop Version of Alice's Restaurant?
By Ron Jacobs

Despite this consensus on what the elections were about and what the voters 
were demanding when they voted against the Republicans, there is little 
public sentiment on Capitol Hill for ending the occupations or their 
funding. Instead, legislators on both sides of the aisle are calling for 
more money and more time. Sooner or later, they'll be joining those calling 
for more troops, as well. Which brings us right back to the objective fact 
of Mr. Rangel's bill to reintroduce a military draft. Once a draft is in 
place, the warmongers and planners can have as big of a military as they 
want.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=685
Digging in and digging deep
by Robert Jensen

On all fronts -- politically, economically, culturally and most important, 
ecologically -- we are in trouble. We live in an increasingly callous 
culture that exploits sexuality and glorifies violence; embedded in a 
house-of-cards economy built on orgiastic consumption, deepening personal 
and collective debt, and an artificially inflated dollar; at the end of an 
imperial era that is grinding to a disastrous demise -- and, as if that 
weren't enough, looming behind all those crises is the recognition of the 
consequences of humans too-long ignoring the unraveling ecological fabric 
that makes life possible.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1127-22.htm
TV Blowhard Barks at Iran: Let's Hold CNN Accountable
Jeff Cohen, Common Dreams

Turn on CNN Headline News - a supposed "news" channel - on weekday nights 
and you'll be subjected to the lectures of a loudmouthed, 
factually-challenged, occasionally funny know-it-all whose shtick is that he's 
"just a regular American schmoe."

http://www.counterpunch.org/brittain11252006.html
Censorship and Hegemony in Colombia: The Arrest of Journalist Freddie Muñoz
James J. Brittain, CounterPunch

Shedding light on issues of government corruption, state officials 
indirectly involved in the violation of its own citizens' rights, or sectors 
of the nation's elite hiring killers to eliminate their adversaries would, 
in many countries, be on the front pages of any press or headline any 
television news channel; however, this is not necessarily the case within 
the country of Colombia. Rather than seeing these issues presented in the 
media or awards being given to those involved in such investigative 
journalism, Colombia witnesses the dismissal, incarceration, or even deaths 
of those involved in exposing information that places the Colombian state or 
the elite in a critical light.

http://culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=84&Itemid=2
A young person's guide to peak oil and global climate chaos
John Siman, Culture Change

Mainstream environmentalists talk, and rightly so, about the need for 
sustainability -- for living within the earth's carrying capacity -- for 
making our human economy harmonize with the earth's ecology. We need to be 
mindful of the planet we leave to our children and grandchildren, they say. 
Their hearts are in the right place, but the situation is far more urgent. 
It was the generations of our parents and grandparents and even 
great-grandparents who exceeded the earth's carrying capacity, who, however 
unwittingly, however unintentionally (as if led by an Invisible Hand!), 
brought us into an unsustainable economy, and so we, not our progeny, will 
be the first to face The Long Emergency. The situation is urgent, the 
environmentalists will agree. We have to deal with these problems soon, very 
soon. But to paraphrase Catton, soon came yesterday. To paraphrase Kunstler, 
the shitstorm is here.

http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news570.htm#1
KISS OF DEBT
SchNEWS

It's Buy Nothing Day this Saturday (25th November), but with 
£1,300,000,000,000 of consumer debt in the UK, it would appear that the 
zombies in the malls aren't listening. And in the mad plunge to the tills 
that is Christmas, there's plenty more stuff for us to buy with so called 
'interest free credit' to help us get what we want straight away. All the 
talk of action to tackle climate change conveniently ignores the obvious 
solution: stop buying stuff! The churning out of all those consumer goodies 
is what's killing the eco system. Air freighted broccoli; plastic-wrapped 
apples; solar powered wind chimes; patio heaters - is any of this stuff 
worth the price we're paying?

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov06/Naar-Obed24.htm
Letter to the Judge Who Sentenced My Husband to Federal Prison for 
Protesting Nuclear Weapons
Michele Naar-Obed, Dissident Voice

I have to say I was quite disappointed in the defeatist attitude you seemed 
to take regarding the efficacy of this action. You consistently referred to 
their action as a waste of time because it did not result in the elimination 
of nuclear weapons. Again, you insult the lives of all who have ever worked 
for the abolition of sins and crimes such as slavery, military occupation of 
homelands, government sponsored oppression, etc. I believe you are smart 
enough and well educated enough to know that it has sometimes taken 
centuries to abolish such crimes.

http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2006/11/22/coverstory.html
Flames of Dissent (Part III)
The local spark that ignited an eco-sabotage boom - and bust
Kera Abraham, Eugene Weekly

They had come together in the late '90s to oppose the government, 
corporations and cops - all the institutions they saw destroying free 
spirits and wild places. And after the WTO protests, they were finally 
getting international attention for it. "Then it came down to what we wanted 
to do with that," eco-radical Chris Calef later reflected by email, "but it 
turned out we had very little agreement amongst ourselves on the specifics." 
That discord manifested in internal debates about gender roles within the 
movement, violence versus nonviolence, anarchists versus green hippies and 
the typical dramas of a cliquish community. "All the while we're dealing 
with police informants and infiltrators and state oppression that served to 
exacerbate the distrust," Calef added, "and basically just pour gas on the 
fire."

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15720.htm
Iraqi Guerilla
Mike Whitney, ICH

They've waged an impressive battle under very thorny circumstances and 
they've persevered despite clear disadvantages in communications, logistics, 
firepower, propaganda, mobility and supplies. With the most primitive of 
weaponry and bomb-making equipment, they've gone nose-to-nose with the world's 
only superpower and forced a stalemate. In truth, the Iraqi resistance has 
succeeded where the Congress, the United Nations, and the millions of 
peace-loving antiwar citizens across the globe failed; they stopped the Bush 
juggernaut dead in its tracks.

http://bostonreview.net/BR30.3/zinn.html
The Power and the Glory: Myths of American exceptionalism
Howard Zinn, Boston Review

There is a growing refusal to accept U.S. domination and the idea of 
American exceptionalism. Recently, when the State Department issued its 
annual report listing countries guilty of torture and other human-rights 
abuses, there were indignant responses from around the world commenting on 
the absence of the United States from that list. A Turkish newspaper said, 
"There's not even mention of the incidents in Abu Ghraib prison, no mention 
of Guantánamo." A newspaper in Sydney pointed out that the United States 
sends suspects-people who have not been tried or found guilty of anything-to 
prisons in Morocco, Egypt, Libya, and Uzbekistan, countries that the State 
Department itself says use torture.

http://civillibertarian.blogspot.com/2006/11/blind-obedience-to-canons-of.html
Blind Obedience to the Canons of Capitalism
Jason Miller, Thomas Paine's Corner

Bow your heads and drop to your knees, brothers and sisters! Feel the power 
of the Holy Dollar coursing through your being as you humbly offer your 
prayers, exaltations and gratitude to Mighty Mammon! Lay the perpetual 
argument to rest. There is no separation of church and state. It is 
indisputable that the United States is one nation, under God. Our nation 
worships the unholy trinity of the Dollar, Acquisitiveness, and Opulence 
with the fanaticism of the Inquisitors.

http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=673
Democrats Blame Iraqis for U.S. Induced Misery
Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire

Democrats have repeatedly expressed their approval of decimating Iraq and 
reducing it to a depleted uranium wasteland where, one day, the living will 
envy the dead. Last November, for instance, the Democrats voted their 
approval, by a 37 to 6 margin, for a Republican amendment in support of the 
neocon policy on the Iraq war. Not surprisingly, they also voted to support 
the illegal torture and internment of dirt farmers and hapless Muslims at 
Guantánamo.

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NewsWire

http://greatreporter.com/mambo/content/view/1343/2/
New York Times ignoring Project Censored

http://www.arabisto.com/p_blogEntry.cfm?blogEntryID=201
Academic freedom declines across the United States

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15716.htm
Big Brother, Big Business: Technology is being used to monitor Americans 
more than ever before

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Gingrich_US_may_be_forced_to_1128.html
USSA: Gingrich says US may be forced to reexamine freedom of speech

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6187486.stm
Program created capable of circumventing government censorship of the web

http://www.ksby.com/home/headlines/4738066.html
Secret Pentagon documents classify "Veterans for Peace" as a "threat"

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-11-23-whistleblower-translator_x.htm
'State secrets privilege' blocks whistleblower from suing FBI

http://www.davidswanson.org/?q=node/660
New Downing Street Memos from Down Under

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1127-06.htm
Documentary film rattles business world

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112706T.shtml
War protester's public suicide ignored by media

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4358468.html
Anti-war Democrat has ties to US prewar Iraq claims; worked for neo-con 
Pentagon unit touting al-Qaida link

http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=2857&blz=1
On Alcatraz, American Indians and Palestinians Offer Thanks

http://www.givemeliberty.org/RTP2/UPDATES/Update2006-11-18.htm
"V" Makes a mark in DC

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/horton.php?articleid=10055
Teens frustrate military recruiter's ASVAB scam

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1957881,00.html
New York on edge as police kill unarmed man in hail of 50 bullets on his 
wedding day

http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/504/1/
Argentina: Wave of Threats Follow Disappearance of Human Rights Witness

http://www.narconews.com/Issue43/article2382.html
Marcos: "We Are On the Eve of Either a Great Uprising or a Civil War"

http://www.narconews.com/Issue43/article2393.html
Oaxaca: Government Launches New Aggression Against the Popular Assembly 
Movement

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2018685.ece
Nato urged to plan Afghanistan exit strategy as violence soars

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28129357.htm
Bush pleads for more cannon fodder for Afghanistan

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061122/wl_nm/israel_usa_iraq_dc_1
Iraq war was good for Israel: Olmert

http://www.juancole.com/2006/11/revolutionary-guards-head-us-forces-in.html
Revolutionary Guards Head: 'US Forces in Middle East 'Extremely' Vulnerable

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200611/s1798632.htm
Iraq: "worse than Vietnam"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6189600.stm
Carbon emissions show sharp rise

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1127-20.htm
World's Largest Science Teacher's Organization Says No To Climate Change 
Education

http://www.alternet.org/stories/44356/
Young borrowers face life of debt

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