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  • Bellaciao Collective of Cordoba : "It was the year..." Cycle of meetings on contemporary History of Italy
    30 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Bellaciao Collective of Cordoba
    The cycle of meetings is about to finish for this year. On thursday, december 1st, we will talk about : "Culture and Ideology between 1968 and the 90’s".
    M Luigi Vallebona is on charge for this presentation, which will take place at the FAIC office, 255 27 de abril street, 1st floor, at 6:30 pm.
    Antonio Mele, founder member of the Bellaciao collective of Paris, will be present.
    Before the end of this year, the collective is going to invite for a (…)

  • Crude Designs: The Rip-Off of Iraq’s Oil Wealth
    30 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    While the Iraqi people struggle to define their future amid political chaos and violence, the fate of their most valuable economic asset, oil, is being decided behind closed doors.
    This report reveals how an oil policy with origins in the US State Department is on course to be adopted in Iraq, soon after the December elections, with no public debate and at enormous potential cost. The policy allocates the majority[1] of Iraq’s oilfields — accounting for at least 64% of the country’s oil (…)

  • U.S. Farmers Use Pesticide Despite Treaty
    29 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A sign, required by law, warns of a pesticide application of methyl bromide on a field near Watsonville, Calif., Aug. 12, 2005. The pesticide is used to fumigate the soil as preparation for strawberry planting. The U.S. continues to permit the methyl bromide to be used despite signing an international treaty that banned its use by 2005. Its survival demonstrates the difficulty of banishing a chemical that is a powerful toxin but that also helps deliver abundant, pest-free and affordable (…)

  • 10.000.000
    26 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Saturday November 26th, at LE SOLEIL, 136 Bd de Ménilmontant 75020 Paris.
    The Bellaciao collective of Paris is inviting you to celebrate the ten millionth visitor of Bellaciao site, at 9 pm.
    It will be an opportunity to meet.
    The Bellaciao collective

  • Hundreds, possibly thousands of people are shot by police every year in Brazil
    24 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Brazil’s police ’execute thousands’
    By Angus Stickler
    Hundreds, possibly thousands of people are shot by police every year in Brazil, a BBC investigation has found.
    The authorities say it is mainly criminals caught in military-style raids on drug gangs but according to a former senior official, new evidence suggests that many of the shootings are cold-blooded executions conducted by the police.
    Former police ombudsman Professor Julita Lemgruber has told BBC World Service’s Assignment (…)

  • Kucinich: Republican Iraq “Withdrawal” Resolution Is A Fraud
    19 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Kucinich: Republican Iraq “Withdrawal” Resolution Is A Fraud The American People Are Fed Up With Politicians Who Say One Thing And Do Another
    Washington, Nov 19 - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) gave the following speech tonight on the House floor on the House Republican Leadership’s plan to play politics with the war in Iraq and present a phony “withdrawal” bill:
    “I have spent three years making the case against the war in Iraq, trying to convince Congress to avoid war, working (…)

  • US senators demand oil execs re-testify, under oath
    18 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats demanded that oil company executives who testified last week about skyrocketing energy prices reappear before lawmakers and testify under oath, after news reports raised questions about the truthfulness of their testimony.
    Leading oil company executives long have denied taking part in a secretive energy task force run in 2001 by Vice President Dick Cheney .../... (AFP)
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051116/pl_afp/usoilenergypolitics

  • Bush’s breakdown
    17 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In recent months, Planetary has received a lengthy and continuous stream of alarming reports concerning the mental health of President George Walker Bush, the 43rd President of the United States of America.
    According to reports now swirling through the political community in Washington, President George Bush is suffering through a painful nervous breakdown that was triggered by an acute and recurring outbreak of alcoholism that struck him at the time of Hurricane Katrina.
    Informed (…)

  • Open letter to the BBC
    16 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by The MEDIALENS Editors
    To:
    peter.horrocks@bbc.co.uk (head of TV news) kevin.bakhurst@bbc.co.uk (head of 10 O’clock news)
    I hope things are fine with you. I was pleased to see the Ten leading last night with a report on the use of white phosphorus in the assault on Falluja last year.
    Could you possibly provide the source of Paul Wood’s assertion that "this deadly substance [WP] was fired directly at trenches full of insurgents." That was misleading. As you are likely aware, there is (…)

  • White Phosphorous, Daisycutters, DU, Thermobaric, Clusterbombs, Napalm...US uses WMD on civilians
    15 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    White Phosphorous, Daisy cutters, Depleted Uranium, Thermobaric bombs, Clusterbombs, Napalm... US uses WMD against civilians Dirk Adriaensens, coordinator SOS Iraq, Executive committee BRussells Tribunal (12 Nov 2005)
    "Injuries to everyone involved in war - civilians and troops of all sides - shown supreme contempt for international humanitarian law ever since WW2.
    If this war shows one thing it is the need for the World to start to get control over the barbarity of the US military (…)