[APR-news] February 2, 2007

Fri Feb 2 08:32:10 PST 2007

Alternative Press Review - Your Guide Beyond the Mainstream
www.altpr.org - February 2, 2007

http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_cartoon&itemid=4217
Do You Have A Surge Problem?

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http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=725
Google: Disabling the Politically Incorrect
By Kurt Nimmo

Uruknet is highly rated as an Iraqi news source. "URUKNET is and has been 
the most consistent, credible, and powerful web-based source of News and 
Information on Iraq during the last 4 years. They have incomparable lines of 
communication
direct from inside Iraq that fly in the face of the lies of the Global 
Corporate Empire. When the imperialists cannot buy off or intimidate 
websites like URUKNET, they can always depend on their billion dollar 
corporations like Google to get the job done," explains Les Blough of 
AxisofLogic.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=723
Shameless in Gaza: Inching Toward a Palestinian Civil War
By Ramzy Baroud

The most recent fighting in the Gaza Strip, which has left many people dead, 
confirms that the internal strife plaguing the Occupied Territories since 
the advent of Hamas to power in January 2006 was not entirely the outcome of 
outside meddling in Palestinian affairs. It is, in most part a violent 
expression of the already existing weaknesses and disunity that has sadly 
defined the Palestinian political milieu for
generations.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=724
CHRISTIAN FASCISM: THE JESUS GESTAPO OF ST. ORWELL
By Carolyn Baker

New York Times reporter, Chris Hedges, has written an extraordinary book, 
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America. Having 
survived a Christian fundamentalist background myself, I marvel at the 
timely urgency of Hedges' book, but also, at the obtuse disconnect most 
Americans have with the pivotal thesis of his book: the power of the 
religious right in the United States to bring forth a nation whose 
totalitarian repression could dwarf that of Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.slate.com/id/2158608/
Newsweek Throws the Spitter: The magazine repeats the myth of the 
gobbed-upon Vietnam vet
Jack Shafer, Slate

The myth of the spat-upon Vietnam veteran refuses to die. Despite Jerry 
Lembcke's debunking book from 1998, Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the 
Legacy of Vietnam, and my best efforts to publicize his work, the press 
continues to repeat the fables as fact. Earlier this month, Newsweek 
resuscitated the vet-spit myth in a dual profile of John McCain and Chuck 
Hagel.

http://www.mises.org/story/2465
The Orwellian Ideology of 24
Matt McCaffrey, Mises.org

The show calls to mind the brilliant propaganda films of Leni Riefenstahl, 
who managed to sway the opinions of many Germans prior to World War II, 
convincing them of the righteousness and glory of the Nazi Party.... the 
show is attempting to justify and even celebrate an ever-expanding Orwellian 
state. It almost makes me want to root for the bad guys.

http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/boston020107.htm
Turner Broadcasting, Time Warner, Two Artists in Boston and the Big Double 
Standard
Corporate Crime Reporter

Now that two young artists have been charged with felonies by state 
prosecutors in Massachusetts for placing 38 cartoon devices to promote the 
Cartoon Network's show "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" around Boston - devices that 
caused a city-wide panic - the question becomes - why were the artists 
charged and not the companies? The artists were charged with placing a hoax 
device - a felony - and disorderly conduct. But the artists were working for 
some very big companies. So, why isn't Time Warner facing felony charges? 
Why isn't Turner Broadcasting? The Cartoon Network? The marketing company - 
Interference Inc.? Why not the CEOs of these companies? Why were the artists 
charged and not the companies? And not the company executives?

http://www.alternet.org/stories/45726/
9/11: The Case Isn't Closed
Sander Hicks, AlterNet

No matter what you believe about who was responsible for 9/11, and how it 
went down, we're all amazed at how much political capital the events of that 
day produced for this administration: A bipartisan consensus on torture; an 
era of permanent war; detentions without trial; "no fly" lists for 
activists; the Bill of Rights gone with the wind, and a cowed professional 
media willing to self-censor and suppress pertinent information. The 9/11 
"America Attacked" story has distracted us from the natural outrage we 
should feel over illegal wiretaps, stolen elections, hundreds of billions of 
dollars missing at the Pentagon, war profiteering, Enron and Cheney's secret 
energy policy.

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0129-26.htm
War Criminals 'R' US
Richard Curtis, Common Dreams

If the war is acknowledged as illegal that means admitting that everyone who 
participates in it, plans it, or orders it is a war criminal. As a society, 
our morality is incredibly shallow, and we have a difficult time dealing 
with challenges such as these. Watada is obviously right and those who 
prosecute him can only succeed if they can put the law aside in making their 
charges stick. We don't like to think that a young Marine drafted into the 
military via the Poverty Draft and then sent off to war in Iraq is a War 
Criminal - but he is. They all are. This is the obvious moral truth that 
follows from Watada's challenge. This is what the Nuremburg Conventions 
demand.

http://electroniciraq.net/news/2877.shtml
"Surging" Right Into Bin Laden's Hands
Adam Elkus, Electronic Iraq

Lost in the "surge" debate is the unfortunate reality that Bush's surge in 
Iraq, just like the invasion itself, is just another success for Al Qaeda's 
ultimate strategy to eliminate America. The goal is to get America to throw 
all of its resources into fighting a losing battle against Iraq's lethal 
patchwork of warring factions. Bush's 'surge' is only throwing more meat to 
the jackals, who gain strength and popularity with each web-broadcasted 
beheading or IED explosion.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/013107.html
Iran Clock Is Ticking
Robert Parry, Consortium News

Military and intelligence sources continue to tell me that preparations are 
advancing for a war with Iran starting possibly as early as mid-to-late 
February. The sources offer some differences of opinion over whether Bush 
might cite a provocation from Iran or whether Israel will take the lead in 
launching air strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities. But there is 
growing alarm among military and intelligence experts that Bush already has 
decided to attack and simply is waiting for a second aircraft carrier strike 
force to arrive in the region - and for a propaganda blitz to stir up some 
pro-war sentiment at home.

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/03/whitehouse200703?printable=true&currentPage=all
>From the Wonderful Folks Who Brought You Iraq
Craig Unger, Vanity Fair

The same neocon ideologues behind the Iraq war have been using the same 
tactics-alliances with shady exiles, dubious intelligence on W.M.D.-to push 
for the bombing of Iran. As President Bush ups the pressure on Tehran, is he 
planning to double his Middle East bet?

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0701f.asp
A Clarion Call for Health Independence
Wendy McElroy, FFF

On a more political level, the overriding theme is "Question Authority." 
Early in Lorenzo's Oil, Augusto requests medical material to better 
understand what is happening to his son. Without meaning offense, a doctor 
assures Augusto that he could not make possibly make sense of the studies. 
The Odones do not stop questioning even when the responses are openly 
hostile. Their willingness to tolerate both unlikely theories and the 
skepticism those theories elicit is precisely what leads them to the source 
of an effective treatment: olive oil. It is not merely that experts are 
shown to be fallible and constrained by narrow thinking. It is that ordinary 
people are shown to be capable of realizing their own self-interest even in 
"expert only" areas.

http://campusprogress.org/features/1410/five-minutes-with-noam-chomsky
Five Minutes With: Noam Chomsky
Niral Shah, Campus Progress

The U.S. used to routinely overthrow governments in Latin America. It went 
on for decades, but it can't anymore. The last time the U.S. backed a 
military coup, in 2002 in Venezuela, it had to back down very quickly. There 
are tremendous barriers, and it's very hard to know if Latin America can 
overcome them. But there is development of a kind that's never happened 
before. It is, in many ways, the most exciting part of the world.

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NewsWire

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/state/16595105.htm?source=rss&channel=cctimes_state
Jailed freelance videographer loses another bid for release

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/013107U.shtml
Molly Ivins 1944-2007

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/31/1543227
As Police Arrest Public Housing Activists in New Orleans, Federal Officials 
Try to Silence Leading Attorney for Low-Income Residents

http://www.prwatch.org/node/5701
An Army of Thousands More: How PR Firms and Major Media Help Military 
Recruiters

http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/hard_news/archives/iraq/000534.php
Official Lies over Najaf Battle Exposed

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=arAEZnV8MUs4&refer=muse
Bio Weapons Spurned by Hitler Were Tested on Adventists by U.S.

http://www.defensetech.org/archives/003239.html
Breaking: Double the Troops in "Surge"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020207J.shtml
Iraq Surge Could Actually Total 50,000

http://www.comw.org/pda/0701dab2.html
"We have the largest Pentagon budget since World War II, but we are losing 
to an opponent in Iraq that spends less over an entire year than what we 
spend in one day"

http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2007/jan/science/nl_warm.html
2006 was warmest year on record for continental US

http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn11083-sea-level-rise-outpacing-key-predictions.html
Sea level rise outpacing predictions

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/31/wreef31.xml
Great Barrier Reef 'will be bleached-out wasteland in 25 years'

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C7FE7672-4C55-4276-8AD6-D3CCCC00156B.htm
Tibet glacier melt threatens China

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/2226
An Update on Mexico's Oil Production--The Rapid Collapse of Cantarell

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=12145
"Carbon neutral" a scam?

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070201/D8N0V3C00.html
Personal savings drop to 74-year low

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9063-2580931,00.html
Spiraling debt crisis hitting UK

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