[APR-news] February 9, 2007

Fri Feb 9 06:19:29 PST 2007

Alternative Press Review - Your Guide Beyond the Mainstream
www.altpr.org - February 9, 2007

http://www.constitution.org/pub/swinton_press.htm
John Swinton on the Independence of the Press
The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to 
pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country 
and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly 
is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich 
men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and 
we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property 
of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.

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http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=732
The Men the Authorities Came to Blame: The San Francisco 8
By Ron Jacobs

It is but a small leap to see that the prosecutors of the men arrested for 
the 1971 shooting in San Francisco will also attempt to introduce evidence 
obtained via torture and already considered inadmissible, no matter how 
flimsy. If the judge in this trial does allow this to happen, it not only 
flies in the face of accepted legal understanding, it is another step on the 
road to a totalitarian state--a road some in the United States are intent on 
leading their fellow countrymen and women down.

http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=731
Making an Example of Ehren Watada
By Norman Solomon

The people running the Iraq War are eager to make an example of Ehren 
Watada. They've convened a kangaroo court-martial. But the man on trial is 
setting a profound example of conscience - helping to undermine the war that 
the Pentagon's top officials are so eager to protect.

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Other articles of interest

http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=163152
Bombs over Baghdad: The Pentagon's Secret Air War in Iraq
Nick Turse, TomDispatch

A secret air war is being waged in Iraq -- often in and around that 
country's population centers -- about which we can find out little. The U.S. 
military keeps information on the munitions expended in its air efforts 
under tight wraps, refusing to offer details on the scale of use and so 
minimizing the importance of air power in Iraq. But expert opinion holds 
that the forms of aerial assault being employed in that country, though 
hardly covered in our media, may account for most of the U.S. and 
coalition-attributed Iraqi civilian deaths there since the 2003 invasion.

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/47489/
>From Afghanistan to Iraq: Connecting the Dots with Oil
Richard W. Behan, AlterNet

The long-held suspicions about George Bush's wars are well-placed. The wars 
in Afghanistan and Iraq were not prompted by the terrorist attacks in New 
York and Washington. They were not waged to spread democracy in the Middle 
East or enhance security at home. They were conceived and planned in secret 
long before September 11, 2001 and they were undertaken to control petroleum 
resources.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/08/1610254
Cheering Movers and Art Student Spies: Was Israel Tracking the Hijackers 
Before the 9/11 Attacks?
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!

Freelance journalist Christopher Ketcham has just published a comprehensive 
piece on this story in the newsletter Counterpunch. The article highlights 
various interconnected stories: The five Israeli "movers" who witnesses say 
were cheering after the first plane struck the World Trade Center; the 
so-called Israeli art students who were living in concentrated areas where 
hijackers were living around the United States and how two of the hijackers 
ended up on the Watch List weeks before 9/11.

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Feb07/Zingh08.htm
Standing at the Gates of Fort Lewis: Worlds Collide at the Watada Court 
Martial
Zbignew Zingh, Dissident Voice

Eichmann protested that he had merely had a desk job. He denied having 
personally killed anybody. He had not gassed anyone nor burned any bodies in 
any oven. He explained that orders could not be disobeyed in the Third Reich 
and that conscience played no role in the matter. Eichmann explained that 
passing along an order from Hitler to the lowest level officer was a matter 
of absolute duty, an obligation that no one could even contemplate 
questioning. Eichmann was a pathetic, bureaucratic little man. And he was a 
war criminal who merely followed orders. He was hanged. He was hanged like 
the other war criminals previously convicted at Nuremberg whose defense of 
"merely following orders" garnered no sympathy from the world or the judges 
of their war crimes.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/nolan-m5.html
It Can't Happen Here? It Has Happened Here
Michael Nolan, LewRockwell.com

Don't wonder if "it" (a fascist takeover of the United States government) 
can happen here. It has happened here. This administration can wage war 
when, where and how it pleases, for as long as it pleases, for whatever 
reason it wants and - under current conditions - there is nobody in America, 
within or without the government, who can stop it. The US Government is 
effectively a dictatorship in all matters of war and peace.

http://www.fcnp.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=845&Itemid=33
The Peak Oil Crisis: Connecting the Dots
Tom Whipple, Falls Church News-Press

In the months after 9/11 there was much discussion about the American 
government's failure to "connect the dots." Hints and clues that Al Qaida 
was about to launch airborne suicide attacks inside the US abounded but 
nobody put the bits and pieces together into a convincing warning. Such it 
may be with peak oil. There are trend lines and clues from across the earth 
pointing to serious troubles just ahead, but once again they are not 
generally perceived as making a "convincing case," especially when nobody 
really wants to contemplate the conclusion.

http://carolynbaker.org/archives/pfeiffer-dirty-biofuels
THE DIRTY TRUTH ABOUT BIOFUELS
Dale Allen Pfeiffer, Speaking Truth to Power

The main reason why we are currently subsidizing ethanol production is the 
mistaken belief that ethanol contributes less CO2 than gasoline. There is 
also talk about ethanol being a renewable fuel source. However, in reality, 
ethanol produces 42% more atmospheric CO2 than an equivalent amount of 
gasoline, and it requires 10% more energy to produce than it provides. What 
is more, to remediate all the pollution of corn-ethanol production would 
require a minimum of 7 times the maximum amount of work that ethanol can 
produce in a car engine. Industrial corn-ethanol production is not renewable 
and it is far from sustainable. Furthermore, analysis shows that there are 
no process changes that can make the system viable. We would be better off 
to abandon corn ethanol production right now.

http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/904/81/
The Great Dollar Crash of '07
Mike Whitney, Atlantic Free Press

Clearly, the well is running dry; the housing bubble is hang-gliding into 
the abyss and there's nothing Fed-master Bernanke can do to save it from its 
inevitable crash-landing. The central banks around the world are now 
watching for any sign that the American consumer is about to give up the 
ghost. As soon as that happens, bank managers everywhere will swing into 
action, ditch their U.S.Dollars and head for the exits. When the "global 
engine" sputters to a halt; it'll be curtains for the greenback.

http://civillibertarian.blogspot.com/2007/02/pox-upon-mr-armstrongs-wonderful-world.html
Of Illusory Democracies, Rogue States, and Accelerating Humanity's Demise
Jason Miller, Thomas Paine's Corner

India's desire to attain superpower status is no secret, but its power elite 
and decision-makers are loathe to admit their tenacious pursuit of imperial 
supremacy of the subcontinent. As Munshi's exhaustive research demonstrates, 
India's policies, attitudes, and actions toward its neighbors are quite 
analogous to the machinations of the United States throughout Central and 
South America. Replete with its own version of the Monroe Doctrine (Akhand 
Bharat) and an intelligence agency called RAW (their version of the CIA), 
India has a long-term commitment to wielding undue power and influence 
throughout the subcontinent.

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NewsWire

http://sev.prnewswire.com/publishing-information-services/20070206/SFTU11506022007-1.html
Josh Wolf Becomes Longest Jailed Journalist in U.S. History

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/47706/
Josh Wolf's case is a symptom of something very, very wrong

http://www.prwatch.org/node/5733
Sarah Olson and Leaders of 'Defend the Press' Call for Freeing Josh Wolf

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070208/ap_on_re_us/convention_arrests
NYPD held GOP protesters longer

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0206-25.htm
Armed to the teeth, America marches towards military state

http://www.wbbm780.com/pages/191752.php?contentType=4&contentId=297421
Selective Service System Has Draft Boards Ready

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/feb2007/wata-f09.shtml
US Army court martial against war resister lieutenant ends in mistrial

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Marine_congratulated_men_for_murder_of_0208.html
Marine 'congratulated' men for murder of Iraqi civilian

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/02/06/18358801.php
Livermore Lab to escalate depleted uranium testing

http://www.counterpunch.org/norrell02082007.html
"Leave It in the Ground!" -- Indigeneous Peoples Call for Global Ban on 
Uranium Mining

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-emissions5feb05,0,1388116,full.story
Game over on global warming?

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/China_Sweats_In_Warmest_Temperatures_On_Record_999.html
China experiencing warmest winter on record

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/China_Drought_Leaves_300000_Short_Of_Water_999.html
China drought leaves 300,000 short of drinking water

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/02/pablo_calculate.php
The staggering cost of bottled water

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20070208110119210
Do not feed the homeless: Orlando, Florida, goes to extreme lengths to get 
transients out of town

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16960673/site/newsweek/
For first time poverty shifts to suburbs

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070206/bs_nm/usa_economy_housing_dc_1
Far-flung exurbs hard hit by housing downturn

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070208/mortgage_lenders.html?.v=2
Mortgage industry plunged deeper into distress as sagging home prices, 
higher interest rates push borrowers into delinquency

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/IB07Dj01.html
Another nail in the US dollars coffin

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