[APR-news] January 31, 2007

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Alternative Press Review - Your Guide Beyond the Mainstream
www.altpr.org - January 31, 2007

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Articles of interest

http://www.counterpunch.org/jw01292007.html
The Demo in DC: Chirpy Slogans, Empty City
JoAnn Wypijewski, CounterPunch

I know there are always people who come to a march and want to be safe. And 
I'm not a big risk-taker myself. But the sight of people crammed in their 
penned marching area, obeying the pen, staying all polite and confined even 
when it's crazy to do so, even when there are breaks in the stanchions that 
allow for an exit, even when all that's holding them in is a piece of flimsy 
plastic police tape -- it's pathetic, like animals on the way to the knife.

http://www.counterpunch.org/shor01302007.html
Shadow of a Resistance: Can the Anti-War Movement Dismantle the War Machine?
Fran Shor, CounterPunch

The insurgencies that marked the 60's attack on the war machine from 
anti-draft activities to military mutinies to factory uprisings to 
blockading supply trains were part of a collective revolt against the 
state's colonization of the body and the mind. Alternative institutions 
flourished in college towns, on the outskirts of military bases, and within 
communities of color and young people in general. Where are those forces or 
sectors in the US willing to reject in the most radical way the military 
neo-liberalism that has become the hallmark of the latest incarnation of 
American imperial project?

http://www.energybulletin.net/25315.html
How Much Did the Green Revolution Matter? or Can We Feed the World Without 
Industrial Agriculture?
Sharon Astyk, Energy Bulletin

Vandana Shiva describes what the Green Revolution has done in the third 
world, but it is important to remember that the loss of food that occurred 
there also happened to us - for us, the cost came in the form of our loss of 
health and nutrition. For the poor of the world, it came as a significant 
loss of calories and nutrition.

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan07/Ventura30.htm
How a Single Mom and Her Three Kids Live Simply and Well in a Small House
Maxine Ventura, Dissident Voice

Living a simpler, but higher quality, lifestyle in a smaller space is a 
basic premise of sustainability in our lives and in the lives of growing 
numbers of Americans. Indeed, several successful communities, organizations 
and publications have formed around the ideal of saving resources by leaving 
a smaller "environmental footprint" by taking up less space on the planet. 
Living in smaller spaces requires less energy, furniture, and other goods, 
and prevents the waste of heating, cooling, lighting, furnishing and 
maintaining rooms that aren't being used. It's one of the smartest and best 
ways to reduce one's environmental impact, while rediscovering some of the 
family closeness our society is rapidly losing.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance102.html
Beware of Child Predators
Laurence M. Vance, LewRockwell.com

I don't normally read Ladies Home Journal. In fact, I don't think I had ever 
read a single copy until I happened recently to look through the latest 
issue. Unfortunately, Ladies Home Journal has enlisted in the service of the 
state. The purpose of its thirteen-page child predator article was not to 
warn parents about predators at all - it was to promote them. You see, "This 
Man Wants Your Children" was not about sex offenders - even though some of 
them are sex offenders - it was about Army recruiters; specifically, 
Sergeant First Class Chad Christenson, one of the top Army recruiters in the 
country.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070128_christianists_on_the_march/
Christianists on the March
Chris Hedges, Truthdig

Adams saw in the Christian right, long before we did, disturbing 
similarities with the German Christian Church and the Nazi Party, 
similarities that he said would, in the event of prolonged social 
instability or a national crisis, see American fascists rise under the guise 
of religion to dismantle the open society. He despaired of U.S. liberals, 
who, he said, as in Nazi Germany, mouthed silly platitudes about dialogue 
and inclusiveness that made them ineffectual and impotent.

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/202/52/
An Iron Curtain is Descending: And Most Americans Don't Know
Pariah, ICH Blog

At the beginning of the Cold War, Winston Churchill made his famous comment 
about an iron curtain descending across Europe. Like many others, I 
experienced this iron curtain. I faced incessant exit and entry police 
interrogations in places like East Berlin and at the Soviet borders. In 
those days, such long waits to get OUT of a country, as well as to get in, 
were limited to the "Communist" block primarily. Thank goodness, we'd think, 
this could not happen in America. Now that virtually all travel barriers 
have fallen throughout Europe--including Eastern Europe, and with travel in 
and out of China or Vietnam far easier than before, it is around the U.S. 
that the iron curtain seems to be descending.

http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2007-01/24herman.cfm
Iraq: The Genocide Option
Edward Herman, ZNet

The genocide option threatens Iraq, where the United States is engaged in 
direct military action against another virtually defenceless population-in 
contrast with El Salvador where proxies did the dirty work. Military 
technology has advanced further, and the complete amorality of the Deciders 
and their willingness to kill without limit to achieve their goals or save 
face is clear.

http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=10432
The Crime of the Century
Paul Craig Roberts, Antiwar.com

The invasion of Iraq under false pretenses comprises solid grounds for 
impeaching both Bush and Cheney and for turning them over to the War Crimes 
Tribunal at the Hague. Under the Nuremberg standard, to commit unprovoked 
aggression is a war crime. Among the consequences of Bush's monstrous war 
crime are the deaths of tens or hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, 
the destruction of Iraqi civilian infrastructure, the outbreak of civil war 
between Iraqi Sunnis and Shi'ites, the spreading of this sectarian conflict 
throughout the Middle East, and the consequent destabilization of the 
region.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=67&ItemID=11963
Hegemony and Appeasement: Setting Up the Next U.S.-Israeli Target (Iran) For 
Another "Supreme International Crime"
Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, ZNet

The ease with which a supposedly independent media in a supposedly 
democratic society like the United States can demonize enemies and convert 
third- and fourth-rate official targets into major threats is almost beyond 
belief. And the collective amnesia of the establishment media enables them 
to do the same thing over and over again; they never learn, and most 
important never have to learn, because the collective amnesia they help 
instill in the society protects them against correction-an unending series 
of victories over memory in the exercise of "reality-control" (Orwell).

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/012907.html
Reagan & the Salvadoran Baby Skulls
Robert Parry, Consortium News

Ronald Reagan's many admirers may find this idea offensive, but - given a 
new report by the Washington Post - it might be fitting to have a display at 
Reagan National Airport to show how Salvadoran baby skulls were used as 
candle holders and good luck charms. Perhaps the presentation could contain 
skeletal remains of Guatemalans and Nicaraguans, too. It might be modeled 
after skeletons on display in Cambodia from the slaughters by the Khmer 
Rouge. After all, it was President Reagan - more than any other person - who 
justified and facilitated the barbarity that raged through Central America 
in the 1980s, claiming the lives of tens of thousands of peasants, clergy 
and students, men, women and children.

http://brickburner.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/01/offering_a_resp.html
What America Really Needs to Hear: Offering a Response to Senator Webb
Joshua Frank, Brickburner

Never once did we hear Webb utter the bitter truth about the Iraq crisis. 
Certainly the invasion and subsequent occupation were not "mismanaged" as 
Webb and many others have put it, rather the civil war now engulfing Iraq is 
a result of a criminal performance carried out by President Bush that was 
enabled and encouraged by the leaders of the Democratic Party dating back to 
President Clinton. Webb also did not express any significant criticisms of 
the "war on terror" as he seems to believe in its underlying premise.

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NewsWire

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/30/BAGGTNRC0H1.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea
Journalist jailed for 5 months seeking freedom

http://www.prwatch.org/node/5695
Defend the Press, Sarah Olson, Declare Victory in Watada Court Martial

http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4268
Is Keith Olbermann the Future of Journalism?

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6154457.html
FBI turns to broad wiretap method

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Report_FBI_conducting_sweeping_Internet_wiretaps_0130.html
FBI conducting sweeping Internet wiretaps that mirror warantless NSA 
surveillance

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm
US Plans To 'Fight The Net' Revealed

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003538598
Dick Cheney: The New Baghdad Bob?

http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Guantanamo-conditions-like-a-Nazi-camp/2007/01/30/1169919311648.html
Guantanamo "like a Nazi concentration camp"

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2201103.ece
US 'victory' against cult leader was 'massacre'

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/01/30/070130081454.ieaxdzu8.html
Climate change means hunger and thirst for billions

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=12114
Indonesia could lose about 2,000 islands by 2030 due to climate change

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/012907EA.shtml
Climate experts blast sugarcoated climate report

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/jeremy_leggett/2007/01/peak_oil_meets_organic_farming.html
Tipping point of global oil production will be accompanied by dire energy 
shock, redefine the concept of farming

http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/4208
Homelessness Mounting Among Kids, Families

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