Alternative Press Week in Review
Your Guide Beyond the Mainstream
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A weekly roundup of news, essays and other items of interest.
March 9, 2003
Carnival of Chaos
http://carnival_of_chaos.tripod.com/
Nice collection of satirical posters
http://winstars.free.fr/english/bush.html
Code Pink: The Day in Pictures
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/03/09/7188754
This Modern World: Loyal American's Guide to War Preparedness
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=14583&CFID=5637159&CFTOKE
N=4196682
Website of the Week
http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
INCOMING! - A short list of some of the more interesting items received at
the Alternative Press Review office this week.
Publications of the week
Prison Legal News (Vol. 14 No. 2 - February 2003)
Working to Extend Democracy to All
http://www.prisonlegalnews.org
A 36-page monthly publication that provides information and analysis of
prisoner rights, court rulings and news. Also contains reports on court
decisions affecting prisoners and information designed to help them.
Clamor (#19, March/April 2003)
New Perspectives on Politics, Culture, Media, and Life
http://www.clamormagazine.org
A special issue on how real people engage in sports. Everything from
bowling, to skateboarding, to martial arts, even breakdancing.
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (Vol. 59, No. 2 - March/April 2003)
The magazine of global security news and analysis
http://www.thebulletin.org
Coverage on the quagmire in Afghanistan, the administration's near-gag order
and less-than-satisfactory outcome to the congressional investigation of
9/11, how the Defense Department practices deception, and plenty more.
DVDs of the week
Noam Chomsky - Distorted Morality (Epitaph / Silent Films)
http://www.silent-films.org
Noam Chomsky - Power and Terror (First Run Features)
http://www.firstrunfeatures.com/
A double dose of Chomsky with both DVDs dealing extensively with the
so-called "war on terrorism." In Distorted Morality, Chomsky provides a
devastating critique of America's "War on Terror" while John Junkerman's
film Power and Terror pretty much mines the same terrority as Chomsky places
the terrorist attacks of 9/11 in the context of American foreign
intervention over the past several decades. Both are highly recommended.
Articles of the Week
MSNBC's Double Standard on Free Speech: "Turd World" is OK-- "anti-war,
anti-Bush" is not
http://www.fair.org/activism/savage-donahue.html
Activism Update, FAIR
MSNBC's claim to be championing free speech by hiring hate-talk radio host
Michael Savage is disingenuous in the extreme.
How American journalists censor themselves in the Corporate Era
http://www.americanpolitics.com/20030303Baker.html
Tamara Baker, American Politics Journal
Molly Ivins mentioned recently that, according to a recent nation-by-nation
study of the the freedom and accuracy of the world's media, the US press
comes in at -- guess where? Not first, not second, not even in the top
ten... but seventeenth place. Seventeenth! Several former Soviet client
states score better than we do.
Total Business Awareness: The Corporate Contracting Behind John Poindexter's
Total Information Awareness Program
http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2003/03jan-feb/jan-feb03corp3.html
Adam Mayle and Alex Knott, Multinational Monitor
The Total Information Awareness System, the controversial Pentagon research
program that aims to gather and analyze a vast array of information on
people in the United States, has hired at least eight private companies to
work on the effort.
Map Links Healthier Ecosystems, Indigenous Peoples
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0227_030227_indigenousmap.ht
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Stefan Lovgren, National Geographic News
Central America and southern Mexico's forests and marine resources have been
dwindling for decades. Now there's evidence that the scope of destruction
depends on who uses the land and water. A new map shows that natural
ecosystems have a better chance of survival when indigenous people inhabit
them.
Who is in charge?
http://www.mediamonitors.net/edward60.html
Edward Said, Media Monitors
It is no exaggeration to say that this war is the most unpopular in modern
history. Before the war has begun there have been more people protesting it
in this country alone than was the case at the height of the anti- Vietnam
war demonstrations during the 60s and 70s.
Untold story of February 15 demonstration: NYC used city vehicles, extreme
noise as weapons against peaceful demonstrators
http://prorev.com/nyctactics.htm
Daniel Forbes, The Progressive Review
Overwhelmed by the unexpected crush of hundreds of thousands of antiwar
demonstrators on February 15 and losing control of the streets, the City of
New York sent official vehicles barreling deliberately and at high speed
through a mass of protesters on Second Ave.
We Say Liberation, You Say War Crimes
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15337
Terry Allen, New Scientist
"Whether I hate Saddam or not, and I'm not saying I do," one man told me
quietly during my recent trip to Iraq, "I hate America - the government, not
the people - for what it did and is going to do to our children." His is not
a lone voice. The vast majority of the Iraqi people I spoke to believe the
United States committed war crimes during the last Gulf war in 1991 by using
depleted uranium (DU) weapons deliberately to cause cancer and inflict birth
defects for generations to come.
Media Dodging U.N. Surveillance Story
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0306-12.htm
Norman Solomon, Media Beat
Three days after a British newspaper revealed a memo about U.S. spying on
U.N. Security Council delegations, I asked Daniel Ellsberg to assess the
importance of the story. "This leak," he replied, "is more timely and
potentially more important than the Pentagon Papers."
Librarians as FBI Extension Agents
http://www.counterpunch.org/price03062003.html
David H. Price, CounterPunch
The FBI is back in our libraries, and librarians and their professional
associations are doing nothing to directly obstruct their access to private
records of what we read.
US media ignore Sharon's embrace of ethnic cleansers in new Israeli cabinet
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article1209.shtml
Ali Abunimah, Michael Brown & Nigel Parry, The Electronic Intifada
The inclusion in the new Israeli government of the racist National Union,
which openly calls for the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, received
muted coverage in the US media and passed largely without comment.
Oops Journalism
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Media/030603Conover/030603conover.html
Bev Conover, Online Journal
The corporate-controlled media's employees-who falsely call themselves
journalists-breathlessly feed the American people a daily diet of lies,
distortions and disinformation packaged as news.
Pentagon, media agree on Iraq war censorship; Reporters to be "embedded" in
military
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/mar2003/med-m05.shtml
By Henry Michaels, World Socialist Web Site
During the 1991 Gulf War, the White House and the Pentagon imposed
unprecedented censorship on media coverage. With the willing agreement of
the corporate-owned media, American military activities in the region were
mostly off-limits to journalists. Defense Department censors cleared photos,
video footage and battlefield dispatches. Reporters were allowed to travel
only in "pools," accompanied by US military escorts.
The Unbalanced Hawks at the Washington Post
http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/corp-focus/2003/000147.html
Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, Focus on the Corporation
What is going on at the Washington Post? We would say that the Post
editorial pages have become an outpost of the Defense Department -- except
that there is probably more dissent about the pending war in Iraq in the
Pentagon than there is on the Post editorial pages.
Israeli officer court-martialled for refusing order to target civilians
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/mar2003/isre-m03.shtml
Brian Smith, World Socialist Web Site
An Israeli military intelligence officer has been court-martialled for
refusing to carry out an order that blatantly defied both international laws
and Israel's own statutes and would have led to the certain death of
countless Palestinian civilians.
Bill O'Reilly's Enemies of the State: Journalism as McCarthy Hearing
http://www.counterpunch.org/nimmo03032003.html
Kurt Nimmo, CounterPunch
As O'Reilly points out, in the not too distant future you will be expected
to either give your full support to Bush, or shut up. If you can't shut up,
if you insist on taking to the streets in protest, if you insist the First
Amendment (which O'Reilly exploits) means what it says it does, you will be
"spotlighted." You will be declared an "enemy of the state."
The Disinformation Age
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00011.htm
Dennis Hans, The Scoop
How George W. Bush and Saint Colin of Powell are lying America into an
unnecessary war - and what honest journalists can do about it
As the Economy Crumbles #6
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/03/09/3005815
It should come as no surprise to see the conservative Daily Telegraph
declare in an editorial that what the world needs is a war. They openly
admit the world economy is in danger of falling off a cliff and seizing Iraq
's oil is a necessity to stave off an economic collapse.
NewsWire
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-pobjector06mar06,0,3
505973.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines
Some military reservists will risk jail to resist Iraq duty
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2464603,00.html
U.N. weapons inspectors say some documents presented as evidence by US were
forged.
http://www.underreported.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&s
id=900&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
US Army field manual on large "civilian internment" camps
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,909294,00.html
Afghan prisoners beaten to death at US military interrogation base; 'Blunt
force injuries' cited in murder ruling
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/03/05/1294079
Students Worldwide Stage Walkouts to Protest War in Iraq
http://www.casi.org.uk/pr/pr030217.html
Over One Million Iraqi Children Might Die in War - Secret UN Document
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=383931
Water scarcity could affect billions: is this the biggest crisis of all?
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2326548
Lawyer Arrested for Wearing a 'Peace' T-Shirt
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,907727,00.html
Hunger in Gaza
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