Le 28 Juillet : La Liberté guidant le peuple (1830), Eugène Delacroix. Tableau commémorant les Trois Glorieuses et symbole de la France, de la démocratie et de la République (analyse de l’œuvre sur le site du Louvre).
Category: Foreign Policy
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Jul 12 2011
I determine who is a Jew
Interview with Dr. Hajo Meyer [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGa4heNE-SA[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGa4heNE-SA Dr. Hajo Meyer is a Holocaust survivor and anti-Zionist activist. He has been conducting a speaking tour titled “Never Again For Anyone,” sharing his experiences of surviving Auschwitz and his perceptions of Zionism and the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. This video is a selection of clips from …
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Jul 12 2011
Nothing ventured, nothing gained
While this cautionary tale of power and corruption is specifically about the caliphate of Rupert Murdoch, it reveals much about how powerful men like former Vice President Cheney were able to coerce the CIA and others to spoon-feed and self-redact and “sex up” the intelligence needed to justify criminal wars. With, of course, the willing cooperation of the …
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Jul 10 2011
Buy a hybrid
Changing the way oil drives US policy By PJ Crowley, Saturday 9 July 2011 21.10 BST … Twenty years after we went to war over oil and ten years after 9/11, America has still not connected the dots. This is not about the intelligence community, but American politics, policy and behaviour. We still don’t see …
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Jul 10 2011
Committed to the rule
My lost boy John Walker Lindh Frank Lindh, Sunday 10 July 2011 … John Phillip Walker Lindh, my son, was raised a Roman Catholic, but converted to Islam when he was 16 years old. He has an older brother and a younger sister. John is scholarly and devout, devoted to his family, and blessed with …
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Jul 08 2011
Turning the sun backward
How the religious right distorts history By Susan Jacoby, 01:31 PM ET, 07/06/2011 … On the Fourth of July, the Today show featured an annual ceremony at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home, in which hundreds of immigrants take the oath that makes them naturalized citizens of the United States. Such occasions are always moving, as I can …
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Jul 08 2011
The Wörgl experiment
Largely forgotten now (or intentionally ignored), this cautionary tale is excerpted from Silvano Barruso’s account of the amazing, audacious Wörgl experiment. Had it been allowed to continue, the world today might be a radically different (and better) place. As Børre wrote this morning, “In this age of collective despondency, at least on the part of those of who remember …
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