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  • Shock and awe: the night Baghdad burned. Exclusive extract from Robert Fisk’s new book
    3 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In an exclusive extract from his powerful new book about the Middle East, Robert Fisk watches in the Iraqi capital as the US air offensive begins in March 2003
    by Robert Fisk
    A pulsating, minute-long roar of sound brought President George W Bush’s crusade against "terrorism" to Baghdad. There was a thrashing of tracer on the horizon from the Baghdad air defences and then a series of tremendous vibrations that had the ground shaking under us, the walls moving, the sound waves clapping (…)

  • BANNING BOOKS
    30 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BURN THE BOOKS
    By Peter Fredson
    September 30, 2005
    “Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in anything except the posters that were plastered everywhere. The black-mustachio’d face gazed down from every commanding corner. There was one on the house front immediately opposite. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption said, while the dark eyes looked deep (…)

  • The DaVinci Code Recoded: How to stop Hollywood from stealing your mind
    26 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Judy Hodgkiss
    Producer/director Ron Howard is now bringing to the screen, Dan Brown’s best-selling novel, The Da Vinci Code. With 25 million copies in print, internationally, the book has been breaking all records for adult fiction, even though the only version available is a hardback, selling for $24.95 a copy. And there are no plans for Doubleday to bring out a paperback version any time soon, since sales are only expected to climb, as the publicity for the movie kicks in.
    Barnes (…)

  • HE SARTRE MYTH: REBORN?
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Georges Duncan
    Cubanow.- Half a century later, the texts and words of Jean Paul Sartre, the scandalous French intellectual, are once again being read as if they had never before been read, and his figure is being reconsidered as if it had been hidden and waiting for better times.
    Recently, in connection with his 100 th anniversary, philosophers and writers, critically searched out files of one of the most lucid and controversial thinkers of the last century.
    For some, Sartre was the (…)

  • America Library Association calls for withdrawal of US troops from Iraq
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Sandy English 25 August 2005
    At its annual conference in Chicago earlier this summer, the 182-member Council of the American Library Association, representing more than 65,000 librarians, passed a resolution calling for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq.
    The resolution stated: “The justifications for the invasion of Iraq have proven to be completely unfounded and the war already has taken the lives of more than 100,000 Iraqis and more than 1700 U.S. soldiers and these (…)

  • Corruption: Falling away from or not returning to the first principle
    19 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “I am a philanthropist by character,” wrote Washington to the Marquis de Lafayette, “and a citizen of the great republic humanity at large.” Washington to Lafayette, August 15th, 1786.
    Principle - the basic truth on which all truths depend, in a republic is virtue. Returning to principles has always been the saving grace of republics, but what kind of republic are we talking about. As an American author who loves France for many reasons, I question why there is not much respect for our (…)

  • FINDING EVIL IN HARRY POTTER BOOKS
    16 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    UNUTTERABLE EVIL AND HARRY POTTER
    By Peter Fredson
    July 16, 2005
    Another Harry Potter book went on sale yesterday, with bookstores opening at 12 o’clock midnight. People stood in long lines to purchase the long awaited book. When children actually got a copy in their hands they squealed with pleasure and skipped off happily to their homes to read the book.
    Although millions of people are fans of Harry Potter, yet there are many others that are very unhappy with the books. They find (…)

  • ONCE MORE, INTO THE BREACH DEAR FRIENDS
    14 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ONCE MORE AND YET AGAIN
    By Peter Fredson
    July 14, 2005
    Shakespeare’s Henry V urged his troops as follows:
    “Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favor’d rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect.” (…)

  • From Dictatorship to Democracy - A Primer for Freedom
    12 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Pro democracy? Learn the strategy and techniques for non violent toppling of goverments that act more like dictatorships than so-called democracies. Velvet Revolution: An interview with Gene Sharp
    Laura Secor has an interview in the Boston Globe Ideas section with Gene Sharp, the author of a pamphlet, From Dictatorship to Democracy, that has been used by pro democracy groups from Serbia to Ukraine, to learn the strategy and techniques for non violent toppling of dictatorships. Sharp’s (…)

  • A spring morning in the autumn of America
    18 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ‘Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone’
    By John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net
    Mornings on my porch these days are exquisite. I pry myself from my bed and shuffle out into paradise in this (what I call) cool Florida spring. Every day starts out at 70 degrees. Sun flashes through the dense foliage, creating lush shadows and undulating sunbeams flecked with shimmering dust motes. The mockingbird symphony (somewhere between Vaughn Williams and Wagner, I (…)