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  • 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. (…)

  • Skull and Bones- The Secret Society that has Destroyed America
    21 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    KEVIN PHILLIPS: Well, this gets complicated because nobody quite agrees when the intelligence agencies started. But Yale was front and center, because the statue that’s in front of the C.I.A. is Nathan Hail. Nathan Hail’s statue that they copied that from appears in front of Connecticut Hall at Yale in New Haven. So, if you go back to the revolution you have Yale and the Secret Service.
    AMY GOODMAN: It goes back to Andover where Bush went as well.
    KEVIN PHILLIPS: Andover was really in (…)

  • NEWS JUNKIE
    16 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In NEWS JUNKIE, the cutthroat worlds of journalism, politics, and high finance are laid bare by Jason Leopold, whose addictive tendencies led him from a life of drug abuse and petty crime to become an award-winning investigative journalist who exposed some of the biggest corporate and political scandals in recent American history.
    Leopold broke key stories about the California energy crisis and Enron Corporation’s infamous phony trading floor as a reporter for the Dow Jones Newswire. While (…)

  • A*M*E*R*I*C*A a poetic redux
    15 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (with apologies to Van Dyke) I loved thine once clean skies not groves of fungous’d trees or droughted plains. The rivers with poison’s seep the flooded canyons deep, thine clearcut mountains steep, All that remains. The politicians, bought they poor with less than nought migrating to the West. Thy foul disgusting "Prez" (who speaks to God,he says) O land which once was fair That...I loved the best!

  • Shut Them Down!: The G8, Gleneagles 2005 and the Movement of Movements
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Dissent! and Autonomedia
    Bob Geldof’s appointment as an advisor to the Conservative party has provoked a reassessment of the momentous week last summer when the G8 met in Gleneagles. This reassessment is aided by the timely publication of a new book full of first hand accounts by those more interested in shutting the G8 down than lobbying it.
    David Watts, one of the books editors, commented: "There seems to be a growing sense of disillusionment with the legacy of the Live8 concerts (…)

  • The War on Christmas
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Remi Kanazi
    Merry Christmas and a happy new year I got coal in my sack and a half shaven beard I’m going down my list And I have a few bones to pick With some of the bad kids running today’s politics
    You see Santa’s a humanitarian And brings cheer through the night Even to the third world, so you better be nice War is not is not fun and killing is not merry The architects of Iraq better be wary
    Thousands of children Were left dead in Iraq Because little boy Bush Was on the wrong (…)

  • Pinter’s Provocation: Self Love in America
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    « Just think of me as your new guidance counselor ... Or just think Mr. Jefferson’s Answer to The Friend of Peace (1816) »
    By Greg Moses
    In homage to the Nobel Prize for Literature, Harold Pinter’s acceptance speech testifies to gifts of inspiration; hints of realms apart within; callings to craft that expose writers to tempestuous solitudes where lines between truth and unreality are not marked out in advance, where things press against each other in duality, both untrue and real at the (…)

  • Marx and democratic rights
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Ann Talbot
    Tony Evans, The Politics of Human Rights: A global perspective, Pluto Press, 2005
    The publication of a new, revised edition of The Politics of Human Rights: A global perspective by Tony Evans reflects the deep-going interest, especially among young people, in the question of rights. It is a book which now occupies a place on the reading lists of many international relations and human rights law courses throughout the English-speaking world. In the United States the book is (…)

  • From Sir Henry Neville AKA Shakespeare Bush Lies
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    To my kind and gentle reader, please be patient while I conjure the spirit of Shakespeare, to call Bush a liar.
    It was a dark and stormy afternoon as I went to my computer and googled, Shakespeare, in the news option. It was the beginning of November and a new book was just released titled ’The Truth Will Out’ claiming that Shakespeare was Sir Henry Neville . One of the authors is named Rubinstein and a search of his background associates him with the Intelligent design movement. This (…)

  • Female Africans Take Lead in Prize-Winning Fiction
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jane Ciabattari
    African women are taking over artistic territory once controlled by men and are now telling the continent’s new stories in books and movies. The final article in our eight-part series on emerging female leaders in Africa.
    PRINCETON, N.J. (WOMENSENEWS)—Who will tell the stories of contemporary Africa?
    A new generation has emerged since Nigeria’s Chinua Achebe in 1958 wrote the first "African" novel, "Things Fall Apart," detailing the destruction of the Igbo culture by (…)