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  • More Iraqi abuse photos found
    6 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    MORE photos of Iraqi prisoners being abused by their US jailers have turned up
    among 1000 digital images passed among US military police who served at the Abu
    Ghraib prison, The Washington Post reports.
    The pictures show similar acts of abuse and humiliation that have been seen around
    the world and touched off a major scandal that has led to investigations and
    expressions of disgust and disappointment by top US military and political leaders. .../... (AFP)
    06.05.2004
    Collective (…)

  • Resistance in the Banana Republic: commemorating ’El Camino de Mayo’
    6 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    The past didn’t go anywhere, did it? It’s right here, right now… Time is an enormous long river and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders were the tributaries and everything they thought, and every struggle they went through, and everything they gave their lives to, and every song they created, and every poem that they laid down flows down to me…Utah Phillips
    by Sandra Cuffe
    Nestled in the back of a pickup truck on the way to El Progreso, Yoro, in northwestern (…)

  • Disney Has Blocked the Distribution of My New Film...
    5 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Michael Moore
    Friends,
    I would have hoped by now that I would be able to put my work out to the public without having to experience the profound censorship obstacles I often seem to encounter.
    Yesterday I was told that Disney, the studio that owns Miramax, has officially decided to prohibit our producer, Miramax, from distributing my new film, "Fahrenheit 9/11." The reason? According to today’s (May 5) New York Times, it might "endanger" millions of dollars of tax breaks Disney (…)

  • Spectacular catch : an Iraq Prison Diary
    4 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Billmon
    Bernhard, a Whiskey Bar reader in Germany, has made a spectacular catch or cache, I should say, since it comes from the bowels of the Google data base.
    What he stumbled across is the diary of one Joe Ryan, a frequent caller and on-air personality at station KSTP, a conservative talk radio station in Minneapolis. More recently, Joe has been serving as a military interrogator at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and KSTP has been posting his diary on their web site.
    For some strange (…)

  • 11 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq; hostage escapes
    3 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    American truck driver flees captors three weeks after being abducted
    Eleven U.S. troops were killed in attacks across Iraq, including a mortar barrage today in which six Americans died and 30 others were wounded. Meanwhile, kidnapped U.S. truck driver Thomas Hamill escaped his Iraqi captors, prying open a door of the house where he was held when an American patrol passed by.
    Running a kilometre to the patrol, Hamill identified himself and led the soldiers to the house, where two Iraqis (…)

  • I’m Not Scared (Io non ho paura) in Berlin
    2 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    I’m Not Scared: Drama-thriller. Starring Giuseppe Cristiano. Directed by Gabriele Salvatores. Written by Niccolo Ammaniti and Francesca Marciano, from Ammaniti’s novel.(R. In Italian with English subtitles. 101 minutes.)
    By David Hudson
    I’m Not Scared I’m Not Scared (Io non ho paura) might sound like the title of a new horror flick, but while there are several pretty intense moments and one in particular that literally had the audience jolt back in their seats, it isn’t. Could have been, (…)

  • British troops abusing Iraqis too
    1 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Britain’s mass-circulation Daily Mirror newspaper published photographs today which it claimed showed British troops abusing an Iraqi prisoner in a camp near Basra, southern Iraq.
    .../...
    http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/01/1083224634091.html

  • Canada: State assault on public sector workers Strikes illegalized, wages and jobs slashed
    30 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Adelaide
    On Canada’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts, right-wing provincial governments have introduced draconian legislation this week to break strikes by public sector workers and impose massive wage and job cuts.
    In Newfoundland, the Tory provincial government introduced legislation Monday to force an end to a four-week-old strike by a total of 20,000 civil servants and hospital, highway maintenance and other public sector workers. Bill 18 explicitly threatens any worker with (…)

  • Industrial action at Fiat in Italy halts all production
    30 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Workers employed by Fiat at a car parts plant in southern Italy continued their strike this week. The strike organised by the FIOM-CGIL metalworkers union has resulted in the halting of all Fiat motor vehicle production.
    The two-week action by employees at the Melfi plant in the Basilicata region is to demand better pay and shift patterns. During the course of the strike, workers have blockaded roads around the factory preventing parts from reaching other auto plants in Italy where most of (…)

  • US war crimes : how troops tortured Iraqi prisoners
    30 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Click to watch the CBS TV pictures
    By Richard Phillips
    On April 29, CBS television’s "60 Minutes II" program screened graphic images of Iraqi prisoners being tortured and sexually humiliated by US troops at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad. The photographs, which show American soldiers- men and women-smiling, laughing or giving thumbs-up signs alongside naked Iraqi prisoners, expose the sadistic and brutal methods employed by American forces and provide more evidence of the catalog of (…)