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  • TV news reader quits in protest at Berlusconi
    3 June 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    One of Italy’s top news readers has dramatically quit her job on state-funded television after claiming its coverage was biased in favour of the media mogul and premier, Silvio Berlusconi.
    Maria Luisa Busi, who presented the flagship evening TG1 news show on the Rai 1 channel, reportedly told bosses what she thought of the programme’s editorial line in a frank letter pinned to a notice board.
    Her abrupt departure at the weekend follows a series of clashes with TG1 editor Augusto (…)

  • letter of june to Obama
    3 June 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    June 1st, 2010
    Mister President Obama The White House
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
    Washington DC 20500
    Mister President,
    Since your election, every month, in the name of the friends of the Cuban Five from Monein, I write you asking you to liberate the five Cubans - Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez, Ramon Labañino, and René Gonzalez – prisoners in your country.
    Each day that passes (…)

  • U.S. Lifts Sanctions Linked to Iran
    23 May 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    23 May 2010 AP WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s administration has removed sanctions against three Russian organizations that the United States had previously accused of assisting Iran’s effort to develop nuclear weapons. Penalties against a fourth Russian entity previously accused of illicit arms sales to Syria were also lifted.
    The timing of the decisions, published in Friday’s Federal Register but not otherwise announced by the State Department, suggested the possibility of a (…)

  • Video: Roseanne Barr Declares Candidacy for Presidency!
    9 May 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Roseanne Barr Declares Candidacy for Presidency! from William Hughes on Vimeo.
    Just when you thought there was no hope left, Roseanne Barr has come to the rescue. On Mother’s Day, May 8, 2010, the popular actress and comedian, declared her candidacy for the Presidency of the U.S. And, if that wasn’t enough to scare the pants off the power brokers, she’s also tossing her bonnet into the race for Prime Minister of Israel. If elected, Ms. Barr intends to bring back the guillotine and to use (…)

  • letter of may to the president Obama
    3 May 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    May 2nd, 2010
    Mister President Obama The White House
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
    Washington DC 20500
    Mister President,
    More than a year after your election, we sincerely thought that we would not be having to write you again to ask you to free the Cuban Five – René González, Ramón Labañino, Gerardo Hernández, Fernando González and Antonio Guerrero, who have been political prisoners (…)

  • Bibi Milikovsky Netanyahu
    4 April 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bibi makes it personal Ahmed Amr
    Aside from the usual canards, Israel’s premier is claiming ancient heritage on the basis of his immigrant father’s assumed name. Well, why not, ponders Ahmed Amr*
    April 3, 2010
    You can’t make this stuff up. It was a Monday, the first day of spring in 2010, a time usually reserved for a little fresh air. Alas, the prime minister of Israel was dispensing noxious fumes in a speech to AIPAC, the pro-Israeli lobbying conglomerate that is considered the (…)

  • Propaganda War or Infowar?
    24 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "George Washington" suggests that we use the tools of the enemy, "psychology or marketing techniques," i.e., propaganda, to "promote the truth," and he is quite right to anticipate "ethical reservations," but my reservations are not only ethical but tactical. He is "completely opposed" to using to using these techniques to spread "disinformation," but what in the world does he think would then enable us to distinguish "good" propaganda from bad?
    The answer is of course the very "facts and (…)

  • The unstated script of the Wiesel open letter to Obama
    24 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William A. Cook
    February 23, 2010 "Information Clearing House" — Earlier this month, the Wiesel Foundation for Humanity published, as an advertisement, an open letter to the President of the United States and the leaders of France, Russia, Britain and Germany, a letter carried by the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. The issue eliciting the need for such a public letter, essentially a letter written to the world, stood boldly as a heading: “How Long Can We Stand Idly (…)

  • letter of february to obama
    3 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mr. Barak Obama, President February 1st, 2010 The White House
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
    Washington DC 20500
    Dear Mister President,
    After the attempted terrorist attack, which luckily failed, on flight 253 Amsterdam-Detroit, you took the necessary measures to reinforce security on the airlines, which is normal.
    When we read the list of the countries suspected of terrorism, for which passengers will be closely monitored, and we saw Cuba on this list, we burst out (…)

  • Blame it on the French
    29 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Blame it on the French
    Lord Goldsmith was making a further attempt to shift responsibility for the Iraq war
    Philippe Marlière
    guardian.co.uk, Thursday 28 January 2010 22.30 GMT
    In the end, it was the Frogs’ fault. It was down to Jacques Chirac’s slippery diplomacy that the US-British-led coalition could not secure a second resolution ­authorising the use of force against Saddam Hussein. This is no tabloid rant but, in substance, Lord Goldsmith’s astonishing account when he appeared (…)