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IN, 23 mai 2008
videos:
http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-19893755.html
Oh my name it is nothin’ My age it means less The country I come from Is called the Midwest I’s taught and brought up there The laws to abide And that land that I live in Has God on its side.
Oh the history books tell it They tell it so well The cavalries charged The Indians fell The cavalries charged The Indians died Oh the country was young With God on its side.
Oh the Spanish-American War had (…)

IN, 1 juin 2008 Newport Folk Festival
vidéo:
http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/categorie-10183256.html
De : cskwan
Come gather ’round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You’ll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you Is worth savin’ Then you better start swimmin’ Or you’ll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin’.
Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance (…)

Inter Press Service (IPS) June 2 2008
The real number of the dead is far higher than even the highest declared in death tolls, many Iraqis say.
A study by doctors from the Johns Hopkins School of Health in conjunction with Iraqi doctors from al-Mustanceriya University in Baghdad, published in the British medical journal The Lancet in October 2006, estimated the number of excess deaths as a result of the occupation at above 655,000.
Source: www.worldproutassembly.org
Just Foreign (…)

Voice of the White House June 2, 2008
TBR News.org – June 2, 2008
“My colleague here showed me an overview, official study concerning U.S. detainees. It is not generally known to the public but the U.S government now has over 30,000 (31,082 as of May 19, 2008 ) people in secret custody, all over the world.
An official U.S. program of torture and ‘rendition’ has been going on since before 9/11 and has never stopped. A number, estimated to be approximately 3,500, have been killed (…)

The NYT leads this morning with "Obama Claims Nomination; First Black Candidate to Lead a Major Party Ticket." You can see from my headline that I put a different emphasis. I’m not one of those politically correct, color-blind people who finds it indelicate to mention race or ethnicity. I think those categories are largely socially constructed, but I don’t deny that once they have been constructed, they have social and political significance. US urban politics can’t possibly be understood (…)

The widely accepted definition of industrial relations as the study of job regulation emphasises an interpretation of work issues being primarily about solving a ‘problem of order’, thus concealing the centrality of power, conflict and instability in Industrial Relations processes and prioritising the aim of maintaining order with the rhetoric of avoiding conflict.
Two perspectives on industrial relations represent contrasting views on organisational interests and authority and preferred (…)

Countercurrents.org 02 June, 2008
So says Heinz Dieterich Steffan - German sociologist, economist, political analyst and Hugo Chavez consultant who claims he coined the phrase "21st century socialism" in the mid-1990s. He currently teaches at the Autonomous Metropolitan University in Mexico City and writes often on Latin American issues.
In a May 21, 2008 Kaosenlared.net article and follow-up Montevideo, Uruguay debate, Dieterich was blunt. He said "Washington does not want to lose (…)

“It is the responsibility of the intellectual to speak the truth and to expose lies.” - Noam Chomsky
On May 19, 2008, David McCullough, acclaimed author and gifted historian, gave the commencement address at Boston College, a Jesuit institution. His message to the graduating class centered on the “Love of Learning.” (1) He sharply criticized the misuse of the English language and urged the students to “cure the verbal virus that seems increasingly rampant among your generation.” Mr. (…)

By John PILGER
In this season of 1968 nostalgia, one anniversary illuminates today. It is the rise and fall of Robert Kennedy, who would have been elected president of the United States had he not been assassinated in June 1968.
Source: bvar22.iwarp.com
Having traveled with Kennedy up to the moment of his shooting at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, I heard The Speech many times. He would "return government to the people" and bestow "dignity and justice" on the (…)

The Great Oil Swindle
Mike Whitney – Pacific Free Press May 30, 2008
The Commodity Futures and Trading Commission (CFTC) is investigating trading in oil futures to determine whether the surge in prices to record levels is the result of manipulation or fraud. They might want to take a look at wheat, rice and corn futures while they’re at it. The whole thing is a hoax cooked up by the investment banks and hedge funds who are trying to dig their way out of the trillion dollar (…)