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toukokuu 21, 2004
Pythonline > Plugs > Idlewild > About The Editor Eric Idle presents... The FCC Song. "Here’s a little song I wrote the other day while I was out duck hunting with a judge… "
toukokuu 20, 2004
Link TV - About Us - Mission: "Our participatory network brings the world's events, issues and cultures to audiences in the United States. We focus on critical global issues, from human rights, justice and conflict prevention to environmental protection, sustainable development and preserving cultural integrity in the face of globalization. We also present the music of diverse cultures from around the world."
The Village Voice: Features: The Jesus Landing Pad by Rick Perlstein: "Affiliated with the United Pentecostal Church, the Apostolic Congress is part of an important and disciplined political constituency courted by recent Republican administrations. As a subset of the broader Christian Zionist movement, it has a lengthy history of opposition to any proposal that will not result in what it calls a "one-state solution" in Israel."
toukokuu 17, 2004
ZNet | Terror War | The Crash of Civilizations: "Just as in the arena of economics the concept of 'growth' needs serious redefinition there are a variety of other globally influential concepts that are up for a thorough overhaul. One can in fact start with the very notion of what it means to be 'civilized'. "
End the Occupation: "For 10 years, Vietnam shadowed my student life. I believed the war was morally wrong; I thought it was unwinnable. But until I read that story, I never imagined that Johnson knew it as well. Today, we are faced with a similar conundrum. The United States can win the battles, but it cannot win the war in Iraq. History teaches us that no occupation can last indefinitely. People are humiliated -- not only by depraved and violent interrogations as happened at Abu Ghraib prison -- but by the mere fact of being occupied. They inevitably resist."
John Pilger: Breaking The Silence. Watch it on-line: "A hard hitting special report into the 'war on terror'Award winning journalist John Pilger"
The New Yorker: "The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (...)"
CJAD 800 : News: "The Iraq prisoner abuse scandal shifted Sunday to the question of whether the U.S. administration set up a legal foundation that opened the door for the mistreatment. Within months of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, White House counsel Alberto Gonzales reportedly wrote President George W. Bush a memo about the terrorism fight and prisoners' rights under the Geneva Convention."
toukokuu 10, 2004
News: "Shocking new pictures of US soldiers using dogs against naked Iraqi prisoners emerged yesterday - along with compelling fresh evidence that the mistreatment and abuse were a widespread practice, extending beyond the jail of Abu Ghraib."
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Why everyone's not a torturer: "Evil can become banal, but so can humanism. The choice is not denied to us by human nature but rests in our own hands. Hence, we need a psychological analysis that addresses the value"
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Torture as pornography: "The pictures of American soldiers humiliating Iraqi detainees are reminiscent of sadomasochistic porn, says military historian Joanna Bourke."
toukokuu 5, 2004
Shocking video/images of prisoner abuse in Iraq : HindustanTimes.com: "The French cable television station Canal Plus on Tuesday broadcast images, stolen in Iraq, of a US army helicopter killing three Iraqis, one of them wounded, who do not appear to be posing any threat."
Ekoenergia: "Nykyisin kuluttajat voivat päättää millaisesta sähköstä ja kenelle maksavat. Tällöin voi valita uusiutuvaa energiaa, joka täyttää ympäristömerkinnän kriteerit." -- vastalause öljysodille!
