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  • On Aug. 23, 1927, Italian-born Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti
    by Doug Linder
    Sacco and Vanzetti: for a generation of Americans, the names of the two Italian anarchists are forever linked. Questions surrounding their 1921 trial for the murders of a paymaster and his guard bitterly divided a nation. As the two convicted men and their supporters struggled on through appellate courts and clemency petitions to avoid the electric chair, public interest in their case continued to grow. As the end drew near, in August (…)

  • Machiavelli and U.S. Politics Part 4: War
    22 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Lawrence M. Ludlow, August 19, 2005
    Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 (Forthcoming)
    On the subject of war, Machiavelli offers simple advice (chapter 14):
    "Thus a prince should have no other object, nor any other thought, nor take anything else as his art but that of war and its orders and discipline; for that is the only art which is of concern to one who commands. "
    Again it is important to remember that Machiavelli’s chief concern is not the freedom or well-being of (…)

  • Like Nagasaki, August 9 is an orphan of history
    10 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Harvey Wasserman
    And in that history, new, definitive evidence has finally surfaced that the atomic bombing there was completely unjustified.
    More than 80,000 human beings perished in Nagasaki three days after at least that many died in Hiroshima.
    The Bomb that destroyed this historic city was made of plutonium (Hiroshima’s was uranium).
    Whatever the case for nuking Hiroshima, it was far weaker for Nagasaki.
    The US had already shown it had this ultimate weapon. It showed it was (…)

  • Ibrahim Ferrer, 78, Cuban Singer in ’Buena Vista Social Club,’ Dies
    8 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By BEN RATLIFF
    Ibrahim Ferrer, the Cuban singer whose life included one of popular music’s most triumphant second acts, died on Saturday in Havana. He was 78.
    The cause was multiple organ failure, his manager, Carmen Romero, announced.
    Mr. Ferrer was at the center of the Buena Vista Social Club, a phenomenon that brought long-delayed international fame to a group of older Cuban musicians thanks to a Grammy-winning 1997 album produced by Ry Cooder and a subsequent film by Wim Wenders, (…)

  • Chile - MIR 40 Anniversary
    8 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Chile : "Spreading the social and popular revolution" MOVEMENT OF THE REVOLUTIONARY LEFT OF CHILE (MIR) MIR 40 Years of Struggle in Chile
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    Join Us for a Night of Culture and Music Multimedia Presentation Photo’s Display Poetry Music, Dance Video Clips

  • Cook’s contribution will be missed
    7 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nick Assinder
    The death of Robin Cook not only deprives the Labour Party of one of its greatest figures, it will also diminish the House of Commons.
    The former foreign secretary was one of the very few MPs - on either the back or front benches - who demanded attention when he spoke in the chamber.
    His piercing intellect and ability to go to the very core of an issue, combined with a devastating ability to take his enemies to pieces was never better displayed than during the debate (…)

  • Never again? How the war in Iraq spurred a new nuclear arms race
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As the world prepares to mark the anniversary of Hiroshima, Iran is poised to go nuclear amid a new global arms race
    by Anne Penketh
    At 8.15am, a minute’s silence will reverberate around the world. The people of Japan will commemorate the victims of the first atomic bomb, which was dropped by an American B-29 on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.
    Half a world away, in Tehran, the new hard man of Iranian politics, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, will take the oath of office before the country’s (…)

  • Hiroshima Cover-up Exposed
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    60-year-old footage from Hiroshima and Nagasaki — suppressed and nearly destroyed by the U.S. — will finally be shown in America.
    By Greg Mitchell
    In the weeks following the atomic attacks on Japan almost 60 years ago, and then for decades afterward, the United States engaged in airtight suppression of all film shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the bombings. This included footage shot by U.S. military crews and Japanese newsreel teams. In addition, for many years all but a handful of (…)

  • Thousands mark Hiroshima A-bomb 60th anniversary
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By George Nishiyama
    HIROSHIMA, Japan - Tens of thousands of people from around the world gathered in Hiroshima on Saturday to mark the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city and to renew calls for the abolition of nuclear arms.
    The anniversary of the world’s first atomic bombing comes as regional powers continue talks in Beijing to urge North Korea to give up its nuclear programme, seen by Tokyo as a threat and one of the reasons behind rising calls in Japan to strengthen its (…)

  • How the American Right became an enemy of peace and freedom (1964)
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Transformation of the American Right by Murray N. Rothbard
    First published in Continuum, Summer 1964, pp. 220-231.
    In the spate of recent books and articles on the burgeoning conservative movement, little has been said of its governing ideas and its intellectual leadership. Instead, attention has been centered on the mass phenomena of the Right-wing: The Billy James Hargises, the Birchers, the various crusaders for God and country. And yet, the neglect of the ruling ideas of the (…)