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  • — White House insiders report / Pt 2
    23 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    March 23, 2006 — White House insiders report that an influential group of extreme right-wing gay Latino power brokers has been given almost total control over U.S. foreign and business policy decisions affecting Latin America. A number of members of the Young Hispanic Republican Association report that they have been sexually preyed upon by members of the influential Latino power brokers after accepting administration appointments, including positions on the White House staff.
    The gay (…)

  • THE ANNUAL FICTION REPORT Malcom Lagauche
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    No apologies from U.S. government over this once popular pursuit
    March 13, 2006
    Last week, the U.S. came out with its annual human rights report for the world. The only difference between this year’s and those of the recent past is the elimination of Iraq as being the world’s most vile abuser of human rights. Otherwise, the same culprits are mentioned: China, Syria, Iran, North Korea, and a quickly ascending Venezuela.
    Here are a few statements from the report:
    The Chinese (…)

  • Danish Cartoons: Racism Has No Place on the Left
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Deepa Kumar
    I’ve just about had it. I cannot watch one more episode of the Daily Show which makes racist jokes about Arabs and Muslims. I am sick and tired of people who see themselves as part of the left writing articles that put a liberal gloss over what is, in essence, a right-wing "clash of civilizations" argument. And I am fed up with an anti-war movement in the United States that will do nothing to defend Muslims against all the attacks they have faced both domestically and (…)

  • “Terrorist” Mohammad, “Democrat” West
    6 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Terrorist” Mohammad, “Democrat” West Thoughts on the Cartoon Crisis and the Protest Actions of the Muslim Masses
    Garbis Altinoglu, February 2006
    Publication of cartoons portraying prophet Mohammad as a terrorist by Jyllands-Posten, a reactionary Danish newspaper on September 30th, 2005 and their re-publication in Norvegian papers on January 10th, 2006 and in French, German, Spanish and Italian papers on February 1st, 2006, opened the way for a (…)

  • In the name of equality and freedom
    28 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    of RUMINA SETHI
    Feminist critique of the march of globalisation and the resultant shrinking of democratic possibilities
    AGAINST EMPIRE - Feminisms, Racism, and the West: Zillah Eisenstein; Women Unlimited, an associate of Kali for Women, K-36, Hauz Khas Enclave, Ground Floor, New Delhi-110016. Rs. 350.
    This book marks a significant attempt to conflate activism among women and the hegemonic processes of globalisation. Zillah Eisenstein’s particular attack is on the masculinist U.S. (…)

  • Harvard study blasts Bush education policy
    19 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jason SzepTue
    President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind education policy has in some cases benefited white middle-class children over blacks and other minorities in poorer regions, a Harvard University study showed on Tuesday.
    Political compromises forged between some states and the federal government have allowed schools in some predominantly white districts to dodge penalties faced by regions with larger ethnic minority populations, the study said.
    Bush’s 2001 No Child Left (…)

  • Misunderstanding Muslims
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by James Carroll
    When the Koran was said to have been denigrated by American guards at Guantanamo last year, Muslims reacted with rage, but most observers in the West misunderstood why.
    It was easy for Christians and Jews — the other ’’people of the Book" — to think that such an insult to the Koran was like an insult to the Bible. That would be sacrilege enough, but it was worse than that.
    Drawing analogies between religions can mislead, but the Koran stands in Islamic belief more as (…)

  • The Cost of Prisons
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Tom Montgomery-Fate
    The remarkable thing about Renny Golden’s writing is that it provides a bridge of understanding between a silenced, disenfranchised community and those who need to hear what that community is trying to say. Via her books, Golden, a professor of criminal justice, sociology, and social work at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, has constructed these bridges by deftly balancing social analysis with her deep concern for the voices of the analyzed. Whether (…)

  • Bigotry on the loose
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Carl Bloice
    It wasn’t Copenhagen, it was Washington and something that transpired there recently was ugly and more than a little frightening. Bigotry was on the loose.
    It wasn’t covered much by the country’s major media, and those that did cover it seem to have missed a critical piece of the story which was reported by slate.com and the Financial Times.
    Michael Scherer wrote that of the attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Omni Shoreham Hotel (…)

  • Four Presidents and a Raucous Funeral for a King
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Karen Jacobs and Tabassum Zakaria Speakers seized on the presence of President Bush to attack his policies on Tuesday at the funeral of Coretta Scott King, the first lady of the U.S. civil rights movement.
    Jimmy Carter, one of four presidents to speak, took a jab at Bush’s domestic eavesdropping program during six hours of sermons, speeches and song for the late widow of Nobel peace laureate Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated in 1968.
    The 10,000 mourners also heard the Rev. Joseph (…)