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“The evil...in man...is of gigantic proportions.” - Carl G. Jung
Baltimore, MD - On Saturday, Nov. 24, 2007, my wife and I went to the new movie theatre in town. It’s called, the “Landmark,” and it is located in the Inner Harbor area, just south of one of my favorite neighborhoods, “Little Italy.” The film we chose to see was “No Country for Old Men,” produced and directed by the talented Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan. It is based on the best selling novel, penned in 2005, by Cormac (…)

THIS YEAR’S Nobel Peace Prize justly rewards the thousands of scientists of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. These scientists are engaged in excellent, painstaking work that establishes exactly what the world should expect from climate change.
The other award winner, former US vice president Al Gore, has spent much more time telling us what to fear. While the IPCC’s estimates and conclusions are grounded in careful study, Gore doesn’t seem to be similarly (…)

By Claude Ribbe translation : Idriss Stelley Foundation (ISF)
The north of Paris’ suburbs currently lives an unprecedented explosion. There has not been any precedents to compare to this time, the violence expressed towards the police is extreme and the Youth are seeking all the local politicians to lynch them.
Abruptly, the police chief of Sarcelles, a nearby city, was seriously struck in the face and sixty policemen were injured (five of them critically) last night. It would seem that (…)

Germany’s Greens Turn Left, Avoiding Radical Motions
25.11.2007 Germany’s Greens voted in favor of extending social benefits but rejected a proposal that would guarantee a basic income to everyone at a key party congress that ended in the city of Nuremberg on Sunday, Nov. 25.
The party, in opposition since the September 2005 elections, backtracked from the market reform policies introduced under the last government, when it was the junior partner in Social Democrat (SPD) Chancellor (…)

StopWar.UK
The invasion of Iraq heralded promises of freedom from tyranny and equal rights for the women of Iraq. But three years on, the reality of everyday life for women inside Iraq is a different story.
To make this film, two Iraqi women risk their lives to spend three months travelling all over the country with a camera to record the lives and experiences of women they meet. Dispatches: Iraq: The Women’s Story provides a compelling account of a life inside Iraq that is rarely seen (…)

By Romain Migus
What is Radio Venezuela en Vivo?
Radio Venezuela en Vivo is an internet radio, launched by a group of international journalists and academics based in Venezuela, to broadcast continual objective coverage of Venezuela’s upcoming Constitutional Reform Referendum. Radio Venezuela en Vivo will principally broadcast in English and French, with support programs and news coverage in Portuguese, Arab and other languages.
Why Radio Venezuela en Vivo?
As international observers (…)

This past Thanksgiving weekend, upon visiting a mall, I witnessed every day Americans coming together to support our troops overseas in Iraq and even Afghanistan. The volunteers manning this booth were collecting donated items and they in turn were packaging individual boxes to be shipped via Fed-Ex. These packages were being sent to our troops in time for the holidays. In seeing that display of true compassion, again in my mind, I screamed: They did not have to be there in the first (…)

“Naomi Wolf’s essays have appeared in numerous publications including, ‘The New Republic’, ‘The Wall Street Journal’, ‘Glamour’, ‘Ms’, ‘Esquire’, ‘Washington Post’, and ‘The New York Times’, she is also the author of numerous books including the international best seller, ‘The Beauty Myth’, ‘Fire with Fire: the New Female Power and How It Will Change the 21st Century’, ‘Promiscuities: the Secret Struggle for Womanhood’, ‘The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love, (…)

azzaman.com By Mohammed Dhaher Azzaman, November 19, 2007
Thousands of manuscripts have disappeared among them priceless copies of the Holy Koran, an Iraqi librarian said.
The librarian, who wanted his name kept secret, said the manuscripts were “expropriated” by a U.S.-led force shortly after the 2003 invasion of Baghdad.
The former government had moved the manuscripts from the national library shelves to a cellar close to the Umm al-Teboul mosque in Baghdad for fear of damage or (…)

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday warned that Moscow would not remain indifferent to NATO’s "muscle-flexing" and said Russia’s nuclear forces would be ready for an adequate response to any aggressor.
Putin, speaking to top generals less than two weeks before December 2 parliamentary elections, said the NATO military alliance had built up its forces close to Russia’s borders.
"We see that military resources of certain states and members of the NATO alliance are being built up (…)