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  • Who earns what Worldwide
    17 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The world’s 225 richest people now have a combined wealth of $1 trillion. That’s equal to the combined annual income of the world’s 2.5 billion poorests people.
    Three billion people live on less than $2 per day while 1.3 billion get by on less than $1 per day. Seventy percent of those living on less than $1 per day are women.
    Three decades ago, the people in well-to-do countries were 30 times better off than those in countries where the poorest 20 percent of the world’s (…)

  • The Battle of Algiers
    17 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jenny Haines
    The Battle of Algiers is a moving film about the national independence revolt in the 1950s and early 1960s in Algeria, in particular the urban revolt in Algiers in the Arab Quarter, the Casbah. The film was shot on 35mm film and has been digitally remastered for current release. The black-and-white film emphasises the dramatic action and the grainy quality illustrates with traumatising clarity the grinding poverty of the Casbah. The movie maker has a fascination (…)

  • Abu Ghraib : New photos, U.S. intelligence personnel ordered military dog to Scare Prisoners
    11 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Use of Dogs to Scare Prisoners Was Authorized Military Intelligence Personnel Were Involved, Handlers Say
    By Josh White and Scott Higham
    Washington Post Staff Writers
    U.S. intelligence personnel ordered military dog handlers at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq to use unmuzzled dogs to frighten and intimidate detainees during interrogations late last year, a plan approved by the highest-ranking military intelligence officer at the facility, according to sworn statements the handlers (…)

  • Ray Charles, 1930-2004 : I was born with music inside me
    11 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Matthew Taylor and Julian Borger
    The Guardian
    The death of Ray Charles, the blind singer who defied musical categories, drew tributes from some of the biggest names in the world of entertainment last night.
    Soul diva Aretha Franklin said the 73-year-old was "the voice of a lifetime" and country singer Willie Nelson declared he had lost one of his "best friends".
    Charles died yesterday in Beverly Hills after a long fight with liver disease, surrounded by friends and family.
    A hip (…)

  • Bush Administration Lawyers Greenlight Torture Memo Suggests Intent to Commit War Crimes
    10 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Wall Street Journal has released the text of the now-infamous March 6, 2003 Defense Department memo regarding legal liability for torture. The conclusions reached advised President Bush and Pentagon officials that prohibitions against torture do not apply to the "war on terrorism."
    The file is available here in .pdf format by Human Rights Watch
    The Bush administration should immediately explain who reviewed and approved a high-level classified Pentagon memorandum that sought to (…)

  • Forced Nudity of Iraqi Prisoners Is Seen as a Pervasive Pattern, Not Isolated Incidents
    10 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Tomm W. Christiansen/Dagbladet Iraqis picked up for looting weapons were marched naked through a park into a building after their clothes were burned by American troops in April 2003. They were then freed and chased naked onto the street.
    SEXUAL HUMILIATION
    By KATE ZERNIKE and DAVID ROHDE
    In the weeks since photographs of naked detainees set off the abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib, military officials have portrayed the sexual humiliation captured in the images as the isolated acts of a (…)

  • Hands off Venezuela at Anti-Occupation demonstration in Los Angeles, California
    9 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On Saturday, June 5, 2004, supporters of the Hands off Venezuela Campaign were present at the anti-war demonstration in Los Angeles, California. A few thousand people were present at the demonstration which went from the Olympic and Broadway to the Los Angeles Federal Building to demonstrate against the occupation of Iraq, to call for the withdrawal of foreign troops from the occupied countries, and against US Intervention in Haiti, Korea, Afghanistan, Philippines, Colombia, Cuba, and (…)

  • New entries from Joe Ryan’s diary found in Alexa cache
    9 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Another bunch of entries from Abu Ghraib interrogator Joe Ryan’s diary have now been found, for Mar 21-Apr 02. They have been lurking all along in the cache of Alexa, a relatively obscure search engine.
    ( The April 11-26 entries were published by Bellaciao here:
    http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=886 )
    For the new entries, go to www.alexa.com and search for
    "joe ryan" site: www.am1500.com
    or go directly to the cached page at: (…)

  • The Price of Death : Sherwood Baker was killed in action in Baghdad on April 26, 2004
    9 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by MFSO Member Dante Zappala
    Dante Zappala teaches history at Fremont High School in Los Angeles.
    His brother Sherwood Baker was killed in action in Baghdad on April 26, 2004. This essay was published in the Los Angeles Times.
    Not long ago, $250,000 bought you a house, a car, started a college trust fund and still left you with enough for dinner at the Olive Garden. Today, $250,000 gets you a dead soldier.
    My brother, Sgt. Sherwood Baker, was killed in action in Baghdad last month. (…)

  • George Bush never looked into Nick’s eyes
    8 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Even more than the murderers who took my son’s life, I condemn those who make policies to end lives
    Michael Berg
    My son, Nick, was my teacher and my hero. He was the kindest, gentlest man I know; no, the kindest, gentlest human being I have ever known. He quit the Boy Scouts of America because they wanted to teach him to fire a handgun. Nick, too, poured into me the strength I needed, and still need, to tell the world about him.
    People ask me why I focus on putting the blame for my (…)