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  • CHERNOBYL : Hell on Earth, the world’s worst environmental disaster in 1986
    26 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 by the Guardian / UK Hell on Earth Chernobyl was the world’s worst environmental disaster. Twenty years on, John Vidal reports on the clean-up, the false medical records, the communities that refused to leave and the continuing cost to people and planet
    by John Vidal
    Twenty years ago today, Konstantin Tatuyan, a Ukrainian radio engineer, was horrified when Reactor No 4 at Chernobyl nuclear power complex exploded, caught fire, and for the next 10 (…)

  • It happened before, not so long ago.
    24 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It’s said that during the height of the Cuban Missiles Crisis, when President Kennedy was faced with backing-off or starting World War III, he looked seriously rattled. Understandable for a normal human being you might think. Fortunately for the world it was the Russians who had the sense to defuse the confrontation by turning their ships away. Life went on.
    Forty-four years later the world is again faced with the prospect of a US President incumbent (albeit fraudulently elected) (…)

  • Posada Carriles, Orlando Bosch and the Downing of Cubana Flight 455 (InternationalANSWER.org)
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    April 11, 2006
    Posada Carriles, Orlando Bosch and the Downing of Cubana Flight 455
    A Glimpse into the Mind of a Terrorist By JOSÉ PERTIERRA
    http://answer.pephost.org/site/News2?abbr=ANS_&page=NewsArticle&id=7729
    Last week in Miami, Luis Posada Carriles?s accomplice in the downing of the Cuban passenger plane that was blown out of the sky with 73 innocent people on board on October 6, 1976 was interviewed by Juan Manuel Cao of Channel 41 in Miami. His name is Orlando Bosch. (…)

  • FLYING HIGH: A VERY EARLY HISTORY OF SPACE TRAVEL
    16 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Peter Fredson
    April 16, 2006
    People, watching birds, probably wished they too could fly. In ancient times, in many countries, flying Gods were imagined by story tellers, who invested them with immortality, supernatural powers to overcome natural conditions such as gravity, with the ability to live in the sky and travel through space.
    In Ancient Sumer, gods flew in vehicles called Shems, described as rocket-like "rocks” emitting fire. It was thought possible to travel to the sky home (…)

  • AGENT ORANGE VIETNAM: Spraying of Agent orange by US Army in Vietnam and its consequences
    15 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Andre Bouny
    1) Historical context - Decision.
    2) Methods - Amounts - Composing - Equivalences.
    3) Stability - Food chain - Entering in the cell.
    4) Visible and invisible consequences - Diseases and photos.
    5) “Redress” - Scientific proof - American Constitution - Multinational companies - Proceedings
    This succinct text enlightened with photos by Alexis Duclos, is the content of the conference by André Bouny for launching of International Support Committee in aid of Agent (…)

  • U.S. urged to apologize for 1930s deportations
    15 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Wendy Koch, USA TODAY
    His father and oldest sister were farming sugar beets in the fields of Hamilton, Mont., and his mother was cooking tortillas when 6-year-old Ignacio Piña saw plainclothes authorities burst into his home.
    "They came in with guns and told us to get out," recalls Piña, 81, a retired railroad worker in Bakersfield, Calif., of the 1931 raid. "They didn’t let us take anything," not even a trunk that held birth certificates proving that he and his five siblings were (…)

  • On Revolutionary Medicine By Che Guevara, 1960
    9 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dimanche 9 avril 2006 (07h33) :
    On Revolutionary Medicine
    By Che Guevara, 1960
    "Except for Haiti and Santo Domingo, I have visited, to some extent, all the other Latin American countries. Because of the circumstances in which I traveled, first as a student and later as a doctor, I came into close contact with poverty, hunger, and disease ; with the inability to treat a child because of lack of money ; with the stupefication provoked by continual hunger and punishment, to the point that (…)

  • Race, class, and "whiteness theory" By SHARON SMITH
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ISR Issue 46, March-April 2006
    Race, class, and "whiteness theory"
    By SHARON SMITH
    http://www.isreview.org/issues/46/whiteness.shtml
    Adapted from Sharon Smith’s new book, Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States (Haymarket Books, April 2006). Sharon Smith is also the author of Women and Socialism: Essays on Women’s Liberation (Haymarket Books, 2005). Her writings appear regularly in Socialist Worker newspaper and the ISR.
    GIVEN THE depths of (…)

  • How GI Resistance Changed History (Alternet)
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Paul Rockwell, In Motion Magazine Posted on April 6, 2006, Printed on April 6, 2006
    http://www.alternet.org/story/34532/
    When actors Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland organized an anti-war review, touring U.S. military bases and towns around the world, the GI rebellion against the war in Vietnam was already in full force. In one theatrical episode, evoking laughter and applause from thousands of soldiers and Marines, Fonda played the part of an aide to President Richard Nixon. (…)

  • Amazing Interview: Leo Wanta, U.S. Secret Service Treasury official speaks out
    2 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Leo Wanta, U.S. Secret Service Treasury official speaks out Thu., March 23, 2006: Playlists: M3U | RAM (Individual MP3s: Hr1 Hr2 ) This is one interview you shouldn’t miss! Greg talked with former Ambassador Leo Wanta, a former U.S. Treasury official under President Ronald Reagan. Wanta spend 134 days in a Swiss dungeon and is still serving, under house arrest in Switzerland, 10 years of a 22 year sentence for bogus Wisconsin income tax charges. Wanta tells how he saved (…)