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  • Interview With A Dixie Chick. "Let Them Hate Us"
    17 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Interview With A Dixie Chick "Let Them Hate Us" By Christoph Dallach And Matthias Matussek July 11, 2006, 04:50 PM
    Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks discusses her group’s new album and her outspoken criticism of US President George W. Bush, the boycotts, the death threats, their betrayal by Nashville and why the group is "not ready to make nice."
    The Dixie Chicks began their careers in the late 1980s as tradition-conscious country darlings. They fiddled Bluegrass numbers and warbled (…)

  • From my home, I saw what the ’war on terror’ meant
    16 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Robert Fisk
    All night I heard the jets, whispering high above the Mediterranean. It lasted for hours, little fireflies nthat were watching Beirut, waiting for dawn perhaps, because it was then that they descended.
    They came first to the little village of Dweir near Nabatiya in southern Lebanon where an Israeli plane dropped a bomb on to the home of a Shia Muslim cleric.
    He was killed. So was his wife. So were eight of his children. One was decapitated. All they could find of a baby (…)

  • OIL ON TROUBLED WATERS
    31 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by William Fisher Amid the ever-escalating rhetoric between the United States and Venezuela, the president of the oil-rich Latin American country, Hugo Chavez, has been busily scoring points with low-income American consumers. Under a program sometimes dubbed petro-diplomacy, Citgo, Venezuela’s wholly-owned gas and oil subsidiary, has been providing discounts of up to 60 per cent on heating oil to poor communities in the U.S. The program is currently operating in Maine, Massachusetts, (…)

  • Fresh evidence of ’executions’ by rogue US marines in Iraq
    30 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    New photographs lend weight to allegations of revenge killings by US unit under attack in which 24 unarmed civilians died
    by Paul Harris in Washington and David Smith in Basra
    Fresh photographic evidence seen by US investigators is believed to reveal that some of the 24 unarmed Iraqis killed in the Iraqi town of Haditha after an American died in a roadside bomb in November were in effect executed, it was reported yesterday.
    According to Congressional and defence officials quoted by the (…)

  • The Wind That Shakes the Barley
    30 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ray Bennett
    A Ken Loach film about the British in Ireland always has the potential for controversy, but his historical drama "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" is unlikely to inflame passions on either side.
    Atmospheric but pedestrian, it is a retelling of the classic tragedy of all civil wars, from the U.S. to Vietnam to England, where brother is pitched against brother.
    The film looks handsomely authentic, and the familiar characters are engaging, but the story is predictable and (…)

  • At least 1,000 UK soldiers desert
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    More than 1,000 members of the British military have deserted since the start of the Iraq war, the BBC has learned.
    Figures for those still missing are 86 from 2001, 118 from 2002, 134 from 2003, 229 from 2004, 377 from 2005, and 189 for this year so far.
    The news comes as Parliament debates a law that will forbid military personnel from refusing to participate in the occupation of a foreign country.
    The MoD insists "absent without leave" figures have remained constant.
    A Ministry of (…)

  • USED THE PHONE LATELY? WORRIED?
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by William Fisher Anticipating that the U.S. federal government would invoke the so-called "state secrets" privilege to block any lawsuit calling for the disclosure of details about allegations that phone companies shared customer records with the government’s biggest spy agency, a major civil rights group has embarked on an alternate course.
    The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed complaints in more than 20 individual states demanding that their utility commissions and (…)

  • FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
    24 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of PRAVDA.Ru
    The Bells did not toll in remembrance on April 9, 2006. The flags did not fly at half-mast. The rubbish that passes for “news” in the world of corporate-controlled media did not mention his name. Even the glut of television programs and networks devoted to the sycophantic worship of “celebrities” failed to acknowledge him.
    He was, after all, a man of substance, and substance finds no home in a culture obsessed with sensationalism and (…)

  • State Department Memo: "16 Words" Were False
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    Sixteen days before President Bush’s January 28, 2003, State of the Union address in which he said that the US learned from British intelligence that Iraq had attempted to acquire uranium from Africa - an explosive claim that helped pave the way to war - the State Department told the CIA that the intelligence the uranium claims were based upon were forgeries, according to a newly declassified State Department memo.
    The revelation of the warning from the closely guarded (…)

  • BELLACIAO ATHENS: Media control and freedom of speech, Italy before and after Berlusconi
    4 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Thursday 4th of May from 2.00 pm to 5.00 pm at the ESF in Athens Room S 208 screening of of the Italian film by Sabina Guzzanti
    followed by a debate on
    "Media control and freedom of speech: Italy before and after Berlusconi"
    organised by Collettivo Bellaciao with: Luciana Castellina (co-founder of Il Manifesto, author, reviewer) Gigi Sullo (director of the weekly Carta) Doriana Goracci (Women in Black, Bellaciao Italia) Cecchino Antonini (journalist, Liberazione) Angelo Mastrandrea (…)