Alternative Press Notes

Welcome to a special theme issue of Alternative Press Review. In this issue we focus on the current NATO war with Yugoslavia. As you will read, the alternative press has done an excellent job covering the war and analyzing the real reasons why Yugoslavia is being bombed to a state where mainstream pundits say it will take 45 years to rebuild. Alternative publications such as Z Magazine have maintained excellent websites about the wars (don’t forget Iraq) that put the Pentagon lapdog mainstream press to shame. Contrary to what CNN might want you to believe, there has been widespread opposition to the Balkans War since the cruise missiles started flying. We hope our special section demonstrates why you should patronize the alternative press for news and opinion which Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner don’t want you to hear.

In this issue we reprint some fascinating interviews with anarchists in the Midwest U.S, who are involved with some exciting projects. Forced psychiatric drugging is another issue that you’ll be hearing more about in months to come. We’re happy to bring you a special article on the subject from MadNation. Finally, “Against the Grain” examines the controversy over genetically-modified foods, which is a hot topic around the world and just now getting attention in the U.S.

We had hoped to get this issue to you about a month earlier, but basically changed horses in midstream in order to put together this special issue on the War in the Balkans.

You may notice a few odd things here and there in this issue. That’s because the layout and production have moved from Columbia, MO to Arlington, VA. Not only is a new crew doing the layout, but this is the first time Alternative Press Review has been submitted to the printer electronically. That’s right, no gluesticks were used in producing this issue.

The author of the Israel piece wrote it under a pseudonym, Miguel Xolotl, which appears on the cover, but he asked us to run it under his own name, David Watson, which appears in the Table of Contents and with the article itself.

We’d like to mention that one of our contributors, Kevin Keating, recently had a run in with the San Francisco police. It seems that they aren’t taking too kindly to his involvement in the Mission Yuppie Eradication Project, a grassroots effort working to combat gentrification in San Francisco’s Mission District.

We promised you that we would start printing 84-page issues, but it looks like we’ll stick with 76 pages indefinitely. We’re doing this for cost reasons.

Our review section in this issue is a bit shorter than we’d planned, but expect an expanded review section in the next issue.

Speaking of next issues, the Fall issue will be published in September.

—Chuck0, Co-Editor

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Updated: 5/6/2000