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  • Crude Designs: The Rip-Off of Iraq’s Oil Wealth
    30 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    While the Iraqi people struggle to define their future amid political chaos and violence, the fate of their most valuable economic asset, oil, is being decided behind closed doors.
    This report reveals how an oil policy with origins in the US State Department is on course to be adopted in Iraq, soon after the December elections, with no public debate and at enormous potential cost. The policy allocates the majority[1] of Iraq’s oilfields — accounting for at least 64% of the country’s oil (…)

  • Science Fiction Writer Octavia Butler on Race, Global Warming and Religion
    18 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    We speak with Octavia Butler, one of the few well-known African-American women science fiction writers. For the past thirty years, her work has tackled subjects not normally seen in that genre such as race, the environment and religion. [includes rush transcript] The Washington Post has called Octavia Butler “one of the finest voices in fiction period. A master storyteller who casts an unflinching eye on racism, sexism, poverty and ignorance and lets the reader see the terror and beauty of (…)

  • The life and death of Pier Paolo Pasolini
    2 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The career and achievement of the filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini is being celebrated thirty years after his brutal murder, but the political controversy surrounding his death haunts Italy still.
    by Geoff Andrews
    In the early hours of 2 November 1975, the body of Pier Paolo Pasolini - writer, poet, film director and one of Italy’s leading intellectuals - was found on wasteland in Ostia, just outside Rome. Several hours later, Pino “The Frog” Pelosi, a 17-year-old male prostitute, was (…)

  • SCOOTER’S LIBBY’S SEX SHOCKER NOVEL
    31 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Of all the scribbled sentences that have converged to create the Valerie Plame affair, the most remarkable, in literary terms, may belong to Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney’s recently deposed chief of staff. “Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work-and life,” he wrote in a jailhouse note to Judith Miller. Meant as a waiver of confidentiality, the letter touched off the sort of fevered exegesis (…)

  • Harold Pinter: Torture and misery in name of freedom
    14 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Harold Pinter who yesterday won the Nobel Prize for Literature
    The great poet Wilfred Owen articulated the tragedy, the horror - and indeed the pity - of war in a way no other poet has. Yet we have learnt nothing. Nearly 100 years after his death the world has become more savage, more brutal, more pitiless.
    But the "free world" we are told, as embodied in the United States and Great Britain, is different to the rest of the world since our actions are dictated and sanctioned by a moral (…)

  • Randall Robinson Interview
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Amitabh Pal
    Randall Robinson is a disillusioned man. So much so that he decided to leave the United States in 2001 and settle down in St. Kitts, where his wife is from. He has written a book, Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man from His Native Land, explaining the reasons for his relocation. Robinson hasn’t completely quit the United States, though. He still maintains a home in Virginia and comes back often for visits.
    A lifelong activist, Robinson is best known as the (…)

  • Robert Fisk in London
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Sarah Meyer
    On 11 October, the reporter Robert Fisk made one of his rare appearances in London. The bookshop, Bookmarks arranged for Mr Fisk to speak to an audience of about 250 in a church hall close to Tottenham Court Road. The event marked the publication of Mr. Fisk’s new book, The Great War of Civilisation, the Conquest of the Middle East, published by Fourth Estate, London.
    Robert Fisk is an outstanding journalist. His clarity, courage and in-depth knowledge have, throughout his (…)

  • Death of America’s pre-eminent playwright
    11 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Brenda Payton writes for ANG newspapers.
    IT was probably predictable that the obituaries of August Wilson would describe him as the preeminent African-American playwright. It’s not that it’s an incorrect description, it just isn’t broad enough. Given the scope of his body of work and the remarkable accomplishments of his career, he is arguably the preeminent American playwright.
    Paradoxically, one of his major themes was addressing that discrepancy, making the point eloquently that (…)

  • The Federal Mafia - Schiff Criminal Tax Trial Fireworks Continue
    5 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    October 4, 2005
    Government’s Case Sputtering
    Schiff Facing Jail For Contempt
    The criminal tax trial of Irwin Schiff entered its fourth week Monday with a cantankerous Schiff apparently making significant headway in repelling the government’s prosecution witnesses who have testified thus far.
    Schiff and his former co-workers, Cindy Neun and Larry Cohen, are defending against a plethora of criminal charges in Las Vegas stemming from consulting activities related to Schiff’s (…)

  • Neo-CONNED! and Neo-CONNED! Again
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A Must-Read Set on Gulf II
    After 20 months of extensive research, Neo-CONNED! and Neo-CONNED! Again are finished! Currently on a truck and headed from the printer in Wisconsin to our Chicago distributor and Colorado fulfillment center, these two volumes bring together the leading minds and pens of journalism, politics, the military, the intelligence community, and academia for a hard-hitting, no-holds-barred examination of the immorality, the injustice, the illegality, and the insanity of (…)