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  • The story of the White Rose inevitably makes people with a military mindset very uncomfortable
    21 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The White Rose: A Lesson in Dissent
    http://www.fff.org/freedom/0196a.asp
    Now, it just so happens that of all the articles I have written for the past 17 years, “The White Rose” is my favorite. It details the efforts of Hans and Sophie Scholl, who were brother and sister, to oppose their own government - the Nazi government - in the midst of World War II. The essay was later reprinted in a book of readings for high school students on the Holocaust. While in Munich a few years ago, I (…)

  • Frankfurt : preparation of women’s meeting
    18 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dear friends,
    The next women’s meeting of the European Preparatory Assembly will take place in Frankfurt on Friday 3.3.06 at 16 -18 am.
    Some propositions for the agenda.
    A) Discussion about the programme of the seminars of the feminist’s axe and the meanstraming of the seminars.
    B)Proposal of the text for the Manifesto (or Appeal) for the Women Assembly, and
    C) Preparation of the Women Assembly.
    Unfortunately, Hugo Braun has told me that we will have no interpretation. That is (…)

  • Women on the move, let’s change Europe, let’s change the world!
    18 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    INVITATION To the Women’s Assembly Of the 4th European Social Forum, Athens 4-7 May 2006 Dear friends in the women’s and feminist movement and women’s and feminist organisations, As you probably know, women are subject to attack by a holy alliance of conservatism, neoliberalism and the Vatican, which is sharpening sex discrimination and which has as its goal to erode or even abolish our hard-won rights.
    And yet, at the same time, we have more than 200,000 women “emerging from the silence” (…)

  • Special report: America’s Long War
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US introduces radical new strategy
    de Simon Tisdall, Ewen MacAskill and Richard Norton-Taylor
    Concern is growing in Europe about US plans to involve governments in an expanded, all-out campaign against Islamist extremism from north Africa to south-east Asia, using beefed-up special forces, hi-tech weaponry and more intrusive surveillance and intelligence gathering.
    The Pentagon plan, designed to fight what it describes as "The Long War", envisages "long-duration, complex operations (…)

  • Syrian state bank ditches dollar for euro
    14 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Syria has replaced the dollar with the euro for all of the country’s official foreign currency transactions. The change comes against the background of a political confrontation with the United States. The state-owned Commercial Bank of Syria said it was being done "as a precaution" because of threats from the US against Damascus.
    It has also stopped using dollars in the international foreign exchange deals of its private clients. Washington is leading international pressure on Syria for (…)

  • Sanctions, the USA we dont just impose them, now we receive them
    14 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    WTO Rules U.S. Tax Breaks Illegal; EU to Retaliate (Update4) Feb. 13 (Bloomberg) — The European Union plans to impose new sanctions on as much as $4 billion a year in American goods after the World Trade Organization said the U.S. failed to end illegal tax breaks to exporters such as Boeing Co.
    A three-judge panel rejected a U.S. appeal because Congress ignored a WTO order to scrap the tax breaks. The EU challenged the U.S. law because it phases out the 10-year export benefits over 12 (…)

  • No Valentine for Bolkestein !
    10 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dear friends,
    After two years of discussion on the Bolkestein directive, the plenary of the European Parliament on 14-16/02/06 will be decisive.
    No Valentine for Bolkestein !
    It is time for all members of parliament to take action and to sustain the demonstrations of Saturday 11 (NGO’s and social movements) and Tuesday 14 (Unions) in Strasbourg for « another directive on services ».
    www.StopBolkestein.org
    After almost two years of debates raging across Europe, discussions on the (…)

  • Muslim-Bashing and the Power of Cartoons
    5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Shame on the European newspapers for publishing grossly disrespectful cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), the founder of Islam. One of the original 12 cartoons, which were all first published in a Danish tabloid, in Sept., 2005, showed him wearing a turban shaped like a bomb with a burning fuse. Some of the offensive cartoons were then reprinted in other newspapers in European countries. (1) How would Christians like it, if someone showed Jesus, the "Prince of Peace," with an H-bomb in (…)

  • An Open Letter To The UN Secretary General
    4 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear UN Secretary General
    I am writing to you asking you to act, according to your responsibilities, to stop the waves of insults and sarcasms about the Prophet Mohamed that are appearing in European media under the slogan of “ freedom of expression”. We all know that freedom must extend freely until it must stop where and when it offends other people. The insulting cartoon images published by the Danish newspaper Julland Posten and republished by other Swedish and recently by the France (…)

  • Preparing the World For Another 9/11
    3 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Signs of the Times Joe Quinn 03/02/2006
    What are we to make of the "furore" surrounding the publishing of anti-Islam cartoons by Dutch and French daily papers? The intent seems clear enough - to portray Islam, and therefore all Muslims as fanatic terrorists, and to provoke Muslim groups to confirm for the world that this portrayal is accurate - which is exactly what has happened. Flag and effigy burning has ensued in Pakistan, Indonesia, and the Palestine territories. In Iran, hundreds of (…)