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  • Of the Evil Empire
    25 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Manuel Valenzuela
    Let us for a few moments put aside our lavish lifestyles of fortuitous endowment and providence that have made us blind to the realities of billions of our fellow humans. Let us ignore our plasma televisions, our DVDs, our two-story cookie cutter homes and gas-guzzling SUVs. Let us promise to not open our overstocked pantries and refrigerators, or to go out and eat at one of many corporate controlled franchise restaurants offering vast assortments of gargantuan meals. (…)

  • Revolt in the ranks in Iraq
    25 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    The inside story of the Army platoon that refused to carry out a "death sentence" mission.
    By Mary Jacoby
    The e-mail arrived Tuesday evening. But Kathy Harris didn’t see the urgent plea from her son, Spc. Aaron Gordon, 20, until she arrived at work Wednesday morning. By then, Gordon and 16 other members of his Army Reserve platoon were corralled in a tent in Tallil, Iraq, under armed guard, for refusing to drive a fuel supply convoy in what another of the detained soldiers would later (…)

  • A Movement of Movements: Is Another World Really Possible?
    25 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Edited by Tom Mertes, Verso (London, New York), 2004; price $19/£13
    By V. SRIDHAR
    The annual celebration of the resistance to globalisation, in particular the dominant neoliberal version, has within the space of a few years acquired significance as a rallying point for people around the world. Diehard advocates of neoliberal globalisation like to portray "globalisation’s discontents" as Luddites, without a sense of the unfolding process of globalisation, which is portrayed as being not (…)

  • Depleted Uranium Released During Canadian Plane Crash
    24 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Little-Known Use of DU in Commercial Jets Exposed
    By Christopher Bollyn
    The recent crash of a Boeing 747 in Halifax, Canada, raises a number of questions
    about the use of depleted uranium (DU) in airplanes, public health concerns and
    the 9-11 attacks. When a Boeing 747 crashed and burned on takeoff at Halifax
    International Airport in Nova Scotia, Canada, on Oct. 14, an official accident
    investigator said the aircraft probably contained radioactive depleted uranium. .../... (…)

  • Who benefits from "Anti-semitism" ? (a sad story)
    24 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Robert Thompson
    A respectable lady went into a Bordeaux supermarket and stuck labels on dates which had come from the "State of Israel", on which it was pointed out that the state of origin of the fruit was founded on racist principles and asking customers to boycott anything coming from there. This strategy was well-known and popularly supported by people protesting against the apartheid of the former South African régime.
    The Manager of the supermarket called the Police and the lady (…)

  • The Bush Bulge, the Grossly Incompetent Media and the Complicit Kerry Campaign
    23 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Margaret Whitman
    This is what I don’t understand. Doesn’t cheating in a debate warrant an investigation? Shouldn’t we be concerned that president might not be able to speak for himself? We have all seen the obvious bulge in Bush’s jacket at the debates by now and have heard the silly excuses from the white house and Bush campaign. To see Bush’s actions in the first debate only confirm what everyone was already thinking. The man is listening to someone and repeating afterward. No (…)

  • Ben Franklin Weighs In On George W. Bush
    23 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jack Walters In the annals of sales and salesmen, perhaps the most effective sales closing technique ever devised is the “Ben Franklin” close, also known as the “Balance Sheet” close. Used by salesman for decades, the essence of this sales technique is that it brings the prospect to a buying decision. By way of history, here’s how it all started: Old Ben advised an English scientist friend how to make an important personal choice his friend otherwise couldn’t seem to (…)

  • Eat your heart out Mussolini
    23 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “We control political forces, we control moral forces we control economic forces, therefore we are a full-blown Corporative state.” - Benito Mussolini [1]
    By William Bowles
    The database state
    Six million video surveillance cameras, bioemetric ID cards, transnational data interception laws and ’joined up’ government. Add to this the privatisation of key state functions, all mediated by global IT corporations that are also the indispensable link in the weapons, media, pharmaceuticals and (…)

  • Naomi Klein : The $500 billion fire sale
    23 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Naomi Klein
    In a shattered postwar Iraq, there are rich pickings to be had - and for US businesses at least, it promises to be a risk-free bonanza. Naomi Klein joins those at a trade show jostling for a stake
    It’s 8.40am, and the Sheraton Hotel ballroom thunders with the sound of plastic explosives pounding against metal. No, this is not the Sheraton in Baghdad, it’s the one in Arlington, Virginia. And it’s not a real terrorist attack, it’s a hypothetical one. The screen at the front (…)

  • The European Social Forum: time to get serious
    22 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Will political and commercial dogma crush the liberating energies of the world’s social justice movements? The European Social Forum in London leaves Paul Kingsnorth with mixed feelings.
    By Paul Kingsnorth
    It was when they silenced the free-tea man that I knew something was wrong.
    A friendly young man had brought a kettle, cups and a few packets of tea bags into Alexandra Palace, site of the third European Social Forum (ESF), and had set himself up in one corner of its great hall, (…)