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  • Today is the day that we remember the victims of those who profit from war: Remembering ’Remembrance Day’
    11 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Remembrance Day (Australia, Canada, United Kingdom), also known as Poppy Day (Malta and South Africa) and Armistice Day (France, New Zealand, and many other Commonwealth countries; and the original name of the day internationally) "is a day to commemorate the sacrifices of members of the armed forces and civilians in times of war, specifically since the First World War. It is observed on 11 November to recall the end of World War I on that date in 1918.”
    How unfortunate that we have a need (…)

  • Miriam Makeba, South African songstress dies at 76 (+videos)
    11 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    International Herald Tribune Monday, November 10, 2008
    By Alan Cowell
    LONDON: Miriam Makeba, a South African singer whose voice stirred hopes of freedom among millions in her own country though her music was formally banned by the apartheid authorities she struggled against, died overnight after performing at a concert in Italy on Sunday. She was 76.
    Source: sauvez-didi.wifeo
    The cause of death was cardiac arrest, according to Vincenza Di Saia, a physician at the private Pineta (…)

  • Letter to Google re anti-Science, anti-Humanity Google Censorship that threatens World
    1 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Risk management depends on information but Google Censors information world-wide – not just for China. The World is acutely at risk from nuclear, greenhouse and poverty threats – as indeed is the whole world, according to the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science (the world’s biggest general scientific organization and publisher of the world’s number 1 scientific journal Science: ).
    Dealing with risk involves (a) getting accurate data about the threats, (b) (…)

  • Zionist nationalist myth of enforced exile: Israel deliberately forgets its history
    27 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Zionist nationalist myth of enforced exile: Israel deliberately forgets its history
    An Israeli historian suggests the diaspora was the consequence, not of the expulsion of the Hebrews from Palestine, but of proselytising across north Africa, southern Europe and the Middle East
    By Schlomo Sand
    Every Israeli knows that he or she is the direct and exclusive descendant of a Jewish people which has existed since it received the Torah (1) in Sinai. According to this myth, the Jews escaped (…)

  • Tony Benn: What went wrong in the capitalist casino?
    22 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Friday, October 17th, 2008 Rinf.com
    These words are from the 1945 Labour manifesto Let Us Face The Future which brilliantly identified the very same crisis which is now described as a “credit crunch” as if it were a mere hiccup in an otherwise wonderful neo-liberal globalised world which could be corrected with a vast subsidy from the taxpayers to put the Wall Street casino and its partners worldwide back into profit.
    It reminded me of the fact that when slavery was abolished it was the (…)

  • BBC Radio - The Whitehouse Coup - Prescott Bush led Nazi Coup Attempt in 1933
    5 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by right-wing American businessmen
    Monday 23 July 2007
    The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat (…)

  • Mexico, October 2, 1968: The Night of Tlatelolco; the Death of the Student Movement
    4 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Ernesto Páramo, translated by Machetera
    The events of the night of Tlatelolco are still concealed, 40 years later, by a cold, dense fog that obscures the identity of a multitude of secondary actors, who nevertheless played important roles in the tragedy. The main actors who took the decisions and had direct responsibility for the events that led to the slaughter were: the President of the Republic, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz; the Interior Secretary, Luis Echeverría Álvarez, the head of the (…)

  • America now is Germany then: Analogies
    3 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    America now is Germany then: Analogies
    The German people of the late 1930s imagined themselves to be brave. They saw themselves as the heroic Germans depicted by the Wagnerian Operas, the descendants of the fierce Germanic warriors who had hunted wild boar with nothing but spears and who had defeated three of Rome’s mightiest legions in the Tuetenberg Forest.
    But in truth, by the 1930s, the German people had become civilized and tamed, culturally obsessed with fine details in both (…)

  • The Rise Of The Fourth Reich
    3 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Everyone likes to say, "Hitler did this", and, "Hitler did that". But the truth is Hitler did very little. He was a world class tyrant, but the evil actually done by the Third Reich, from the slave-labor camps to WW2 was all done by German citizens who were afraid to question if what they were told by their government was the truth or not, and who because they did not want to admit to themselves that they were afraid to question the government, refused to see the truth behind the Reichstag (…)

  • Huge tribute to Lenin visible on Google Earth
    19 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    A giant tribute to the former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin made from thousands of trees has been spotted on Google Earth.
    by Matthew Moore
    The message, which translates as "Lenin is 100", was cut into a forest in a remote region of Siberia. Each letter is around 80 metres high, and the entire message stretches for 600 metres.
    It was created by Russian woodcutters in 1970 to mark the centenary of the Communist leader’s birth, according to EnglishRussia, the blog which spotted the image. (…)