Volume 3, Number 2
Winter 1998/99
Editorial: Impeaching the Media
Departments
Alternative Press Notes
Letters
Micro Radio News
Bits & Pieces
Selections
- Theory of Coercion: The CIA's Secret Manual
of Coercive Questioning (InTERRORgation)
- Free Software, Anyone? LINUX, GNU and the Free Software Movement (Eat the State)
- Fox & Monsanto: Twisting the News
to Hide the Truth (www.foxbgh.com)
FEATURES
- Partners in Censorship: Monsanto and Fox
- by Sheldon Rampton & John Stauber
- How those who own the media control what the public knows.
- Reprinted from PR Watch.
- Heterosexual Love: Queer Families
- by Annalee Newitz
- Hollywood attempts to fit gays into traditional family roles.
- Reprinted from Bad Subjects.
- An Interview with Al Lewis
- by Chris Flash
- The many faces of Grandpa Munster.
- Reprinted from The Shadow.
- Frequencies of Resistance
- by Ron Sakolsky
- The rise of the Free Radio Movement.
- Reprinted from Seizing the Airwaves: A Free Radio Handbook.
- The Wrong Stuff: Nukes in Space
- by Karl Grossman
- Media censorship, media deception, media collusion.
- From The Wrong Stuff: The Space Program's Nuclear Threat to Our Planet.
Reviews
Alternative Press Magazines & Zines
Book Reviews
Music Reviews
Volume 3, Number 1
Spring/Summer 1998
Departments
Alternative Press Notes
News in Brief
Letters
Bits & Pieces
GANDALF 3, Convicted, Freed
Everyone is Doing Outrageous Sex: An interview with Brenda Loew
A War at Pacifica by Jesse Walker
Selections
- The Pacification of Public Radio (Alternative Radio)
- Power to the Pussy! Celebrate the Erotic (Bust)
- Codex & the FDA: Is the FDA trying to subvert our freedom? (Eye)
FEATURES
- Same-Sex Marriage by Nikki Gershbain (Border/Lines)
- Why catching the bouquet will make you straight.
- Journalism and the CIA by Daniel Brandt (NameBase NewsLine)
- Collusion between journalists and the CIA promotes disinformation.
- A Revolution in American Policing by Christian Parenti (Z Magazine)
- "Zero Tolerance" and the science of kicking ass.
- America's Sex Gulags by Bill Andriette (The Guide)
- Sexual hysteria and the new "sexual predator" laws.
Reviews
Alternative Press Magazines & Zines
Book Reviews
Volume 2, Number 4
Spring/Summer 1997
DEPARTMENTS
- Alternative Press Notes
- News In Brief
- Letters
- Talk Radio: The Myth of Electronic Populism
- Nightmare Scenarios: An Interview with Allan Nairn
SELECTIONS
- Counter-intelligence: overcoming passivity through our own DIY media (Green Anarchist)
- Radio-activist: micro-radio is taking off (The Glass Onion)
- Expletive deleted: is "F..' part of any language? (Temp Slave)
FEATURES
- Excavating the Instant Ruin
- by Alfredo Botello
- The latest rage in hip marketing aesthetics.
- Reprinted from Plazm.
- The Bisexual Closet
- by Monica Warden and Kennette Crockett
- The bisexual threat to the exclusivist foundations of gay identity.
- Reprinted from Girlfriends.
- Post-Urban, Post-Industrial but never Post-Elite
- by Edward Castleton
- Urban theorists work out new justifications for looting the cities.
- Reprinted from The Baffler.
- Kill the Car--No More Roads
- by Fifth Estate staff
- Towards the end of car culture & 100 years of automotive madness.
- Reprinted from Fifth Estate.
REVIEWS
Alternative Press Magazines & Zines
Book Reviews
Volume 2, Number 3
Winter 1996
DEPARTMENTS
- Alternative Press Notes
- News In Brief
- Letters
- David Barsamian on Radio: interviewing the interviewer
- Jay Kinney: interview with the publisher of Gnosis
SELECTIONS
- The Rhizome Connection: a metaphor of multiplicity
- (Wild Earth)
- Genocide: Just Do It: Nike at work in Indonesia
- (Out of Bounds)
- Shopper's Delight: tasteless food humor
- (Alley Cat)
FEATURES
- By Any Means Necessary: The Big Lie Theory of America's Biggest Newspaper by Edward S. Herman
- The Wall Street Journal editorial page role in corporate propaganda.
- Reprinted from Extra!
- Challenge in Chiapas by Tracy Barnett
- Enforced poverty and desperation in Southern Mexico.
- Special to Alternative Press Review.
- Rollback: Return of Predatory Capitalism
- Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian
- Ruling the world isn't enough for multinational corporations.
- From Alternative Radio.
- The Computer: Dr. Frankenstein's Monster or Biggest Ripoff in History? by Fred Woodworth
- Why digital computation doesn't fit an analog world.
- Reprinted from The Match!
- Finding Our Way out of Oklahoma by Adam Parfrey
- Is there more than the media allows to meet American eyes?
- Reprinted from Cult Rapture.
REVIEWS
Alternative Press Magazines & Zines
Book Reviews
Volume 2, Number 2
Summer 1995
DEPARTMENTS
- Alternative Press Notes
- News In Brief
- Letters
- Tale of a Takeover at the Shepard Express
- Internal Strife Threatens Future of AAN
- Cultural Subversion
SELECTIONS
- Reality-Based Crime Shows
- Marketing Police Brutality (Extra!)
- CB Radio Revisited & the Information Superhighway
- (The Match!)
- Revenge of the Nerds: The Republican Victory
- (Fifth Estate)
- Youth and Regression in an Infantile Society
- (John Zerzan)
FEATURES
- The Decline of American Journalism by Daniel Brandt
- From serious journalism to 'infotainment' and 'future hype'.
- Reprinted from the NameBase NewsLine
- An Interview with Zapatista Women by Guio Rovera Sancho
- The role of women in the insurgent movement in their own words.
- Reprinted from the Bad Attitude
- Immediatism vs. Capitalism by Hakim Bey
- Cultural rebellion against the commodity in daily life.
- From the book Immediatism.
- Flyposter Frenxy by Matthew Fuller
- The subversion of advertising for social contestation.
- Reprinted from the book Flyposter Frenzy.
- Dark Age: Why Johnny Can't Dissent by Tom Frank
- Business culture and the culture of business über alles.
- Reprinte from The Baffler
REVIEWS
Alternative Press Magazines & Zines
Book Reviews
Volume 2, Number 1
Winter 1995
DEPARTMENTS
- Alternative Directions
- News In Brief
- Letters
- The Expatriate Scene in Japan
- Small Publishers & Big Libraries
- Freedom of the Press
SELECTIONS
- Back Off! Stopping Harassers now
- (off our backs)
- Larry-Bob's Guide to Selling Out
- (Holy Titclamps)
- Sorrow & Cynicism: We Have to Dismantle All This
- (AAA/Anarchy)
- Defiant Life: The Wild Ranch Manifesto
- (Earth First!)
- Criminalizing Nature and Knowledge
- (Crash Collusion)
FEATURES
- Film Noir since the '50s by C. Jerry Kutner
- Beyond the golden age of Film Noir from 1950 to the present.
- Reprinted from the Bright Lights
- Spiritual Anarchy and the Wild Man in Colonial America by Peter Lamborn Wilson
- What went on at the hidden margins of American history?
- Reprinted from the Gnosis
- Paul Goodman and the Media by Taylor Stoehr
- Including pieces by Goodman on "The World of the Herald Tribune" and "Reflections on Literature as a Minor Art."
- From the introduction of the forthcoming Format and Anxiety
- The New Mythologies of Rape by Wendy McElroy
- If all men aren't rapists, then all women aren't victims.
- Reprinted from Liberty
- Bad Company by Robert Parry
- CIA manipulation in domestic U.S. politics.
- Reprinted from In These Times
- Closing the Company by I.T.T.
- CIA scandals only reveal more dirty business-as-usual.
- Reprinted from In These Times
REVIEWS
Alternative Press Magazines & Zines
Book Reviews
Volume 1, Number 4
Fall 1994
DEPARTMENTS
- Alternative Directions
- Letters
- Women's Alternative Media
- Writing On My Own
- Nina Paley: Comic Artist
- The Left Bank Collective Part 2
SELECTIONS
- The Wild Self: Why I am a Primitivist
- (Wild Earth)
- Romance
- (The Rebel's New Clothes)
- Sleeping Booty
- Sex: What is it Good For? (Bust)
- Political Correctness in the Queer Zine Scene
- (Holy Titclamps)
- Temp Slaves And Why Bosses Are Assholes
- (Temp Slave)
- Harassment Policy: Guidelines for Management
- (Here aand Now)
FEATURES
- Media Trance by Taylor Stoehr
- Televak: What are the effects of background media?
- Insurgent Mexico by T. Fulano
- Redefining revolution and progress for the 21st century.
- Reprinted from the Fifth Estate
- Cults, Anti-Cults, & the Cult of Intelligence by Daniel Brandt
- The political uses of provocative labelling.
- Reprinted from the NameBase NewsLine.
- The Trouble with Do-Gooders by Billy Golfus
- What does "care" really mean when it's bought and sold?
- Reprinted from Mouth.
- Decadence by Alex Trotter
- What are the historical meanings of social and cultural "decay"?
- Reprinted from Black Eye.
REVIEWS
Alternative Press Magazines & Zines
Book Reviews
Volume 1, Number 3
Spring/Summer 1994
DEPARTMENTS
- Alternative Directions
- Letters
- From APA to Zines
- The Left Bank Collective
SELECTIONS
- Revolutionary Politics
- (The Rebel's New Clothes)
- The PLO/Israel Treaty: Another defeat for the Palestinians
- (Fifth Estate)
- Play Me: Girlz Just Wanna Have?
- (Bust)
- A Woman's True Story: of an herbal self-abortion
- (Choosing Choice)
- The Feminist Mistake: a response to The Morning After
- (In These Times)
- The Clowns: running amok in Los Angeles
- (Shit Happy)
- Redefining the Radical: PC as media scare
- (Here and Now)
FEATURES
- Time Bombs by Noam Chomsky
- Why the new global economy will trigger more explosions like Chiapas
- Reprinted from In These Times
- Forests of the Milk River by Wade Davis
- Some thoughts on biodiversity in the Amazon Basin
- Excerpted from Wild Earth
- Pornography and Pleasure by Sunfrog
- Beyond capital, beyond patriarchy, would pornography exist?
- Reprinted from the Fifth Estate
- Alternative to What? by Tom Frank
- Rock'n'roll is the health of the state
- Reprinted from The Baffler
- The Political Economy of Ecstasy by Arch Stanton
- Who will win the battle for control of the meaning and use of the newest psychedelic to gain a mass following?
- Reprinted from Here and Now
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