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  • Daniel Bensaid – 1946-2010
    12 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Tragically, Daniel Bensaid, leading French revolutionary socialist and author of Marx For Our Times passed away this morning, Tuesday 12th January 2010.
    This is a rough translation of Liberation’s report of the death of Daniel Bensaid.
    The Marxist philosopher and theorist of the old Revolutionary Communist League (LCR), a predecessor New anti-capitalist party (NPA), Daniel Bensaid, died this morning at 63. He had been seriously ill for several months.
    After co-founding the JCR (…)

  • A Good-News Photo Op Embarrasses 2 French Ministers
    23 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By STEVEN ERLANGER
    The French education minister, Luc Chatel, center, visiting the Intermarché supermarket in Villeneuve-le-Roi on Monday. Olivier Laban-Mattei/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
    PARIS — It was apparently just a little summertime spinning with the aid of a grocery chain, but Luc Chatel, the education minister and government spokesman, found himself in some hot water over a supposedly staged visit to a quiet supermarket on Monday.
    Journalists accompanying Mr. Chatel and (…)

  • Talk peace, make war
    15 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    It is inconceivable that the Polisario would agree to any arrangement that didn’t give the Western Saharans control of their natural resource assets, most notably the phosphates and fish. These alone would give the small population of the area a good per capita income, probably well above Morocco’s. And if oil is discovered does anyone really think that Morocco would allow the Western Sahara to control the petrodollars? Inconceivable.
    The Moroccan military is heavily entrenched in the (…)

  • Latin America : Social Movements in Times of Economic Crises
    12 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Prof. James Petras Global Research, August 12, 2009
    The most striking aspect of the prolonged and deepening world recession/depression is the relative and absolute passivity of the working and middle class in the face of massive job losses, big cuts in wages, health care and pension payments and mounting housing foreclosures. Never in the history of the 20-21st Century has an economic crisis caused so much loss to so many workers, employees, small businesses, farmers and professionals (…)

  • Marseille Sways to a Maghreb Rhythm
    12 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By SETH SHERWOOD
    AS a warm Saturday night hung over the Mediterranean, the Algerian-French band Yazmen shuffled under the spotlights with its instruments — hand drum, flute, electric bass and a boxy, long-necked stringed instrument called a guembri — while a crowd filed into the hot confines of the windowless Tankono club.
    Couples arrived with children while bespectacled record-store geeks and a bald guy in a dashiki made toasts with Kronenbourg beers. Close to the stage, a dozen or so (…)

  • Woodstock, Handmade
    11 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Glenn Cox
    It is funny how sometimes you start out to write one story and end up writing another. I have been doing research on Woodstock and as the old joke goes, “If you remember it, you weren’t there.”
    I remember it well enough and I wasn’t there, but as I watched the You Tube videos I began to remember details long forgotten, plus some things that I’ve learned since. I was watching a video of the Rolling Stones in Hyde Park in 1969, playing "Honky Tonk Woman." Yes, I know the (…)

  • Get My Soul Free
    10 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Glenn Cox
    “I came upon a child of god He was walking along the road And I asked him, where are you going And this he told me I’m going on down to Yasgur’s farm I’m going to join in a rock ’n roll band I’m going to camp out on the land I’m going to try an get my soul free”
    How can you describe the fires of Vesuvius or a sunny day in a Roman market square? History leaves us only pale shadows and dirty windows of the past to peek into. Even with celluloid how can it be described? (…)

  • Toppling a Coup, Part I: Dilemmas for the Honduras Regime
    9 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Al Giordano
    Last Saturday, at a hastily called public meeting in Tegucigalpa, more than one hundred rank and file participants in the Honduran civil resistance and some of its known leaders came out to speak with Ivan Marovich, the Serbian resistance veteran who had been invited by local and national anti-coup organizations to share his experiences.
    It was one of three such sessions, and the only public meeting of the three. Almost immediately upon the completion of the screening of (…)

  • Israeli police deliver East Jerusalem demolition orders
    7 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Jerusalem – Ma’an – Eight Palestinians were injured when they were assaulted by Israeli forces who delivered demolition orders in the Al-Bustan neighborhood of East Jerusalem on Wednesday.
    Jerusalem Police used tear gas to disperse residents who confronted the Israeli officers serving five demolition orders in the densely populated neighborhood, where there are already 90 standing demolition orders.
    Israeli police also seized the ID card of Musa Odeh, a member of the Al-Bustan Committee, (…)

  • Judges say UK spy visited Morocco 3 times while ex-Guantanamo detainee was held there
    2 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    A British intelligence officer repeatedly visited Morocco at the same time that a former UK resident was allegedly being tortured there, two senior judges said Friday. Supporters of Binyam Mohamed say the revelation casts doubt on the position of the UK spy agency, which insists it never knew he was being detained by Moroccan authorities. Mohamed, an Ethiopian who moved to Britain as a teenager, was arrested in 2002 in Pakistan.
    He alleges he was subjected to sleep deprivation and had his (…)