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  • 60 Years Ago Dietrich Bonhoeffer was Murdered
    11 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    "We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds. We have been washed with many waters. We have learned the arts of dissimulation and ambiguous speech. Through experience we have become distrustful toward people and often owe them truth and the free word. We are worn-out or perhaps even cynical through the unbearable conflicts. Are we still needed? We will need plain, simple, direct people, not geniuses, cynics, misanthropes or clever tacticians. Will our inner power of resistance against what (…)

  • Meeting of the Rainbow Warriors
    10 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.greenpeace.org.au/ Music video featuring Michael Franti and Spearhead’s "Bomb the World" with images of the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior. Real Player Rainbow Warrior Anniversary Video News Piece This is a four minute news feature on the nuclear threat and the significance of the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior by French agents in 1985. It features interviews with former New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange, Guardian journalist Paul Brown, and Greenpeace Executive Director Gerd (…)

  • ’To abandon Viet Nam would be wrong’ - Text of speech by President Lyndon Johnson, April 7, 1965
    2 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Urges Patience on War — but it’s LBJ, in 1965 "To abandon this small and brave nation to its enemies, and to the terror that must follow, would be an unforgivable wrong," Johnson said. "To withdraw from one battlefield means only to prepare for the next." At that moment, only 400 American boys had died in the rice paddies. Here’s the complete text.
    By Greg Mitchell
    (June 29, 2005) — As the press continues to argue over what President Bush said, didn’t say or should have said (…)

  • A Nagasaki Report
    20 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A Nagasaki Report By George Weller June 19, 2005 American George Weller was the first foreign reporter to enter Nagasaki following the U.S. atomic attack on the city on Aug. 9, 1945. Weller wrote a series of stories about what he saw in the city, but censors at the Occupation’s General Headquarters refused to allow the material to be printed. Weller’s stories, written in September 1945, can be found below.
    NAGASAKI, Sept.8 — The atomic bomb may be classified as a weapon capable of being (…)

  • Enabling Evil
    15 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In 1996, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen published Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. His thesis is that the mass murder of Jews was not done on the quiet by a few Nazi fanatics. Instead, Goldhagen writes, by their complicity, ordinary Germans were willing participants in the slaughter.
    In other words, the German people as a people were guilty as well, because they accepted and permitted the slaughter of an ethnic group.
    Goldhagen’s thesis has had rough sledding. (…)

  • George Washington Warns:"Foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government"
    14 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    "Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct. And can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any (…)

  • RFK was shot 37 years ago today
    6 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Announcement of Candidacy for President
    Washington, D.C. March 16, 1968
    I am today announcing my candidacy for the presidency of the United States.
    I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man but to propose new policies. I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and because I have such strong feelings about what must be done, and I feel that I’m obliged to do all that I can.
    I run to seek new policies - policies to end the bloodshed in (…)

  • Schroeder asks Moscow for forgiveness - will America ever ask nation like Vietnam for forgiveness
    8 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    60 Years after the defeat of the German Nazis. The German chancellor Schröder ask Russia for forgiveness. 27 Million Russian have been killed during the WW II and these victims of war are almost forgotten.
    Instead we see Bush helding ridiculious speeches asking Russia to apologize for the occupation of Eastern Europe countries.
    Moreover the death toll created by American warfare 5 years after the D-Day is outperforming the victims of WW II.
    Also the shady deals in Chile where America (…)

  • WOID #XIII-2. Review: Beginning of the End for the End of the Beginning?
    25 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Perry Anderson, "Dégringolade." London Review of Books, September 2, 2004 http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n17/ande01.html
    Perry Anderson, "Union Sucrée." London Review of Books, September 23, 2004 http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n18/ande01.html
    Perry Anderson, La pensée tiède. Un regard critique sur la pensée française, with a response by Pierre Nora. Paris: Seuil, 2005 Symposium: "The End of French History? Perry Anderson Dissects ’Neo-Liberal’ France" With Michael Christofferson, Eric Fassin, (…)

  • Bringing Down a Tyrant
    12 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Norman D. Livergood
    Today, the United States is being subverted and destroyed internally by a criminal, imperialistic ruling cabal controlling the Bush junta. Plutocratic cabals have previously tried to destroy this nation by achieving dominance in political and economic power. Such attempts in the past have resulted in abject failure and in the case we will examine, led to the destruction of the political party that tried to create a dictatorship.
    By understanding the lessons to be (…)