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  • LEFT LETTERS: The Good News From Haditha
    6 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by David McReynolds
    Good news? Yes, of a sort. It is good news that Time magazine, which of late has taken a Wall Street Journal turn with its choice of columnists, broke the story. Strange, of course, that a massacre that took place last November only made the big news here in May. But not so strange. My Lai, which involved the slaughter of hundreds of Vietnamese, took place in 1968 but wasn’t revealed until 1969.
    It is good news that Americans have been forced, at last, to see the Iraq (…)

  • Absalom, O Absalom: ’Not for inciting hatred, but for learning lessons from history’
    5 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jerry Saltz
    The irony couldn’t be sharper, the justice more poetic: What America calls "the Vietnam War," Vietnam calls "the American War." Perhaps the Iraq war will be one day be called "the American War" as well. For his powerful, almost anonymous outing at White Columns, Portland-based Harrell Fletcher, a quiet strong point in the 2004 Whitney Biennial with his video project of a group of mechanics and their customers reading snippets of James Joyce’s Ulysses, has installed 90 images (…)

  • Panel: N.C. Should Pay for 1898 Race Riot
    4 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By MIKE BAKER
    RALEIGH, N.C. — A state-appointed commission is urging North Carolina to provide reparations for the 1898 racial violence that sparked an exodus of more than 2,000 black residents from Wilmington.
    The 500-page report that was produced after six years of study also said the violence, which killed as many as 60 people, was not a spontaneous riot but rather the nation’s only recorded coup d’etat.
    "There is no amount of money that can repair what happened years ago and (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • Bush is asserting the powers that accrued to Hitler
    25 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In effect, Bush is asserting the powers that accrued to Hitler in 1933. His Federalist Society apologists and Department of Justice appointees claim that President Bush has the same power to interpret the Constitution as the Supreme Court. An Alito Court is likely to agree with this false claim.
    Dictatorships seldom appear full-fledged but emerge piecemeal. When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon with one Roman legion he broke the tradition that protected the civilian government from (…)

  • How the Right Stole the ’60s (And Why We Should Get Them Back)
    22 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Conservatives are winning the battle over how the 1960s are remembered. But their version is far from the truth.
    By Astra Taylor
    It wasn’t until I got to college that I heard that the 1960s had "failed" and that all the Baby Boomers went straight and sold out.
    Yet such sweeping proclamations never quite rung true. Those weren’t the people I knew when I was a kid: the aging organic farmers, the people living on and running a commune founded long before I was born, the self-sacrificing (…)

  • Inspiration
    21 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
    – Robert F . Kennedy

  • Clip of Apollo 11 News Conference
    17 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Notice the strange reactions from the men who supposedly landed on the moon.
    For a scientific analsis of the Apollo Moon Missions go to
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RcK...
    http://members.aol.com/painfulquest...

  • Palestine: The Great Catastrophe Historical Review article by Karma Nabulsi May 15, 2006 The
    17 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Historical Review article
    by Karma Nabulsi
    May 15, 2006 The Guardian - 2006-05-12
    May 15th marks the 58th anniversary of the founding of Israel in 1948 - and the expulsion of Palestinians from their land. With millions still living under occupation or in exile, what Palestinians call their ’nakba’ remains at the heart of their national identity, argues Karma Nabulsi
    In the last week of April 1948, combined Irgun-Haganah forces launched an offensive to drive the Palestinian people out (…)

  • 58 Years of Zionist Cruelty and Terror... It’s Time to Put America First
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    58 Years of Zionist Cruelty and Terror... It’s Time to Put America First
    By Hassan El-Najjar
    Al-Jazeerah, May 15, 2006
    On May 15 1948, world Zionists claimed their state, which they called Israel. It was not good news to the world in general, and the Palestinian people in particular.
    Zionist Israelis did not limit their state to the borders prescribed in the 1947 UN Resolution 181, known as Partition Resolution. They occupied most of the lands prescribed to the Arab state of (…)