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  • War Crimes, USUK Hypocrisy & Collective Responsibility
    13 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    On BBC Radio 4, I have been listening to an abridged version of Peeling the Onion, an autobiography by the German writer, Günter Grass.
    Grass, famous for his satirical writings on Nazi Germany, will be remembered for his major works, The Tin Drum and Dog Years. When Peeling the Onion was published last year in Germany there was a lot of kerfuffle among literary circles about Grass having served, as a teenager, in the Waffen SS which was later condemned collectively for war crimes.
    In his (…)

  • JOHN PILGER :Rage against injustice (The Guardian )
    16 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Rage against injustice
    John Pilger’s Freedom Next Time confronts some uncomfortable truths, says Nicholas Lezard
    Saturday June 9, 2007 The Guardian Buy Freedom Next Time at the Guardian bookshop
    Freedom Next Time by John Pilger (Black Swan, £8.99)
    A recent profile of the politically active comedian Mark Thomas described him as "John Pilger with a sense of humour". This is a bit hard on Pilger. It might be easy to think of him as the grim chronicler of the world’s many injustices, (…)

  • Ideas: The Hatred Within Democracy Unmasked by Adorno
    5 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Grégoire Chamayou
    In the United States during the 1950s, Adorno was exploring the mental and social landscape favorable to implanting antidemocratic ideas.
    The Authoritarian Personality, by Theodore Wiesengrund Adorno, translated from the English by Hélène Frappat. Éditions Allia, 2007, 440 pages, 25 euros.
    Why do people of the same social background adopt different and even opposite political opinions? A seemingly banal answer would be saying that it is because they do not have the (…)

  • Oh Beautiful
    3 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Oh Beautiful
    Michael D. Morrissey March 3, 2007
    May be redistributed for non-profit purposes, with copyright acknowledgement. Original place of publication is http://www.mdmorrissey.info/beautiful Oh Beautiful, your spacious skies were never filled with so many lies as on 9/11, when a caveman in Afghanistan flew his planes into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, pulverizing two, doing what no plane in history could ever do and a third one, just for the heck of it eight hours (…)

  • The Spirit of Tom Paine
    4 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Spirit of Tom Paine - by Stephen Lendman
    We only know about Tom Paine because Thomas Edison discovered him in the 1920s. Edison believed he was our most important political thinker, and it was essential that his writings and ideas be taught in the nation’s schools. It’s no exaggeration that there might never have been an American Revolution without this man’s writings that had such a profound influence on the nation’s founders and masses of people he reached through one of the few (…)

  • Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar’s New Book - Perilous Power
    29 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar’s New Book: Perilous Power - by Stephen Lendman
    Noam Chomsky needs no introduction. He’s MIT Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics and a leading anti-war critic and voice for over 40 years for social equity and justice. He’s also one of the world’s most influential and widely cited intellectuals on the Left. Gilbert Achcar is a Lebanese-French academic, author, social activist, Middle East expert and professor of politics and international relations (…)

  • Eva Golinger’s New Book - Bush vs. Chavez
    22 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Eva Golinger’s New Book - Bush vs. Chavez - by Stephen Lendman
    Eva Golinger’s eagerly awaited new book is now out - but only for those able to read and understand Spanish as it’s not yet available in English. It’s appropriately called Bush vs. Chavez - Washington’s War Against against Venezuela published by Monte Avila Editores in Caracas. Hopefully it will soon be available in English as well.
    Golinger is a Venezuelan-American attorney specializing in international human rights and (…)

  • JAMES PETRAS’ NEW BOOK - THE POWER OF ISRAEL IN THE UNITED STATES
    26 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    James Petras’ New Book: The Power of Israel in the United States - by Stephen Lendman
    James Petras is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York. He’s a noted academic figure on the US Left and a well-respected Latin American expert and longtime chronicler of the region’s popular struggles. He’s also an advisor to the landless workers in Brazil and the unemployed workers movement in Argentina. Along the way, he managed to find time to write many hundreds of (…)

  • ARMIES UNDER FIRE (a poem parody)
    24 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (The original poem is by Robt.Lewis Stevenson) ARMIES UNDER FIRE Explosions crumble up the streets the acrid air full of debris Orphaned children wail and cry while politicians sell the lie. In our failing, spelling doom our generals don’t speak of gloom instead, the claim,"Let’s take a look...and strategize,fight by the book" They stand up while we stand down (we use the slogan of the clown) but as we gaze with burning eyes both armies fall,all reason dies. Now the public anger (…)

  • Poe’s "The Ravin’" (Darth Cheney)
    21 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (If Poe were alive today, perhaps he’d have written THIS) THE RAVIN’
    Once upon the TV,dearie, while I pondered Foley (queerie?) I thought "It’s quaint and curious, but what a frightful bore!" While disgusted and not clapping,suddenly there came a tapping,(not from TV overlapping),but instead a gentle rapping,bugging me right to the core! "’Tis the radio", I muttered,"just rap music, please no more!" Only this, it makes me sore!
    Oh,how stinky,I remember,please not another rigged (…)