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  • Gore Vidal on war for oil, politics-free elections, and the late, great U.S. Constitution
    25 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Undoing of America
    For the past 40 years or so of Gore Vidal’s prolific 59-year literary career, his great project has been the telling of the American story from the country’s inception to the present day, unencumbered by the court historian’s task of making America’s leaders look like good guys at every turn. The saga has unfolded in two ways: through Vidal’s series of seven historical novels, beginning with Washington DC in 1967 and concluding with The Golden Age in 2000; and (…)

  • Noam Chomsky ... still furious at 76
    22 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Alan Taylor
    ON my way to meet Noam Chomsky in Boston, I pick up a copy of The American Prospect, whose cover features snarling caricatures of US Vice-President Dick Cheney, and of Chomsky: the man dubbed by Bono “the Elvis of academia”. Cheney is presented as the proverbial bull in an international china shop, Chomsky is portrayed by this “magazine of liberal intelligence” as the epitome of high- minded dove-ish, misguided idealism. Chomsky, of course, is well used to such attacks. For (…)

  • The System: Capitalism and its Role in American Society’s Plunge into the Abyss
    31 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Writer’s Note: This essay includes all three parts of the series, with each subsection acting as its own article. I encourage readers to read the essay in installments, taking breaks, absorbing each section before moving on to the next.
    Breaths of Freedom
    For one brief moment of life, when light enters our eyes for the very first time, we can claim to be the embodiment of innocence and human goodness, the essence of human perfection. It is also the only moment in our lives we can claim (…)

  • The System: Capitalism and its Role in American Society’s Plunge into the Abyss. Parts I, II and III
    31 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Writer’s Note: This essay includes all three parts of the series, with each subsection acting as its own article. I encourage readers to read the essay in installments, taking breaks, absorbing each section before moving on to the next.
    by Manuel Valenzuela
    Breaths of Freedom
    For one brief moment of life, when light enters our eyes for the very first time, we can claim to be the embodiment of innocence and human goodness, the essence of human perfection. It is also the only moment in (…)

  • Susan Sontag, writer, political activist and anti-Bush campaigner, dies at 71
    31 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Andrew Buncombe
    Susan Sontag, the writer and activist who loudly criticised US foreign policy and military action in the aftermath of the 11 September attacks, died yesterday morning in New York. She was 71 and had been suffering for some time from leukaemia.
    "I can confirm she passed away this morning," said a spokeswoman at the city’s Sloan Kettering hospital, declining to give more details.
    Sontag, the daughter of a fur trader, wrote 17 books, including the influential 1964 study (…)

  • Was Gary Webb ’Suicided’ To Kill New Book?
    28 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Charlene Fassa
    Before all articles, legitimate questions, and informed speculation critical of Webb’s alleged ’confirmed’ suicide are automatically tossed in the ’memory hole’, or are destined to endlessly travel through the ’conspiracy belt’ - I have some new and important revelations that need to be factored into the Gary Webb death equation, including information that he was working on a NEW book that he would soon finish.
    And what would people think about Gary Webb’s OFFICIAL (…)

  • Off the Record: An Investigative Journalist’s Inside View of Dirty Politics, High Finance...
    30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Off the Record: An Investigative Journalist’s Inside View of Dirty Politics, High Finance, and Corporate Scandal
    by Jason Leopold
    Off the Record is the story of the cutthroat worlds of journalism, politics, and high finance told by Jason Leopold, who survived a life of drug abuse and petty crime and went on to become one of the most highly regarded investigative reporters of the last few years, uncovering some of the biggest scandals of corporate America, the office of the governor of (…)

  • Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions
    29 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by AMY GOODMAN
    We speak with John Perkins, a former respected member of the international banking community. In his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man he describes how as a highly paid professional, he helped the U.S. cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then take over their economies.
    John Perkins describes himself as a former economic hit man - a highly paid professional who cheated (…)

  • Thank You...
    26 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Thank You:
    Thank You for those who shed light on darkness everywhere,
    Who give everything of truth for us to see.
    Thank You for the freedom those before left us,
    That we have the light given us to see.
    Thank You for our needs being met,
    In whatever manner that may be.
    Thank You for every moment of peace in our lives,
    And the many more there will yet be.
    Thank You for the gift of snow’s pure white,
    That replenishes so much life for the coming spring.
    Thank You for the love (…)

  • Manu CHAO : new album, "Sibérie m’était contéee"
    25 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bellaciao chats: conversation with Manu Chao in french
    As an offspring of the French alternative scene, Manu Chao has remained faithful to his first ideals, regardless of the huge success he has met as a solo artist. Shunning the ‘star system’, the anti-globalisation activist does not hesitate to mix politics with music, drawing his inspiration from his Spanish origins and his relentless globetrotting.
    Manu Chao - singer, songwriter, musician and globetrotter extraordinaire - has (…)