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“Rendition” victim Maher Arar testifies before Congress via videolink
(Indymedia) A bi-partisan group of Congressmembers have personally apologized to Maher Arar, the Canadian citizen seized by U.S. officials secretly flown to Syria where he was tortured. Arar testified last week before a House panel, the first time he has had a chance to tell his story to U.S. lawmakers. But he couldn’t testify in [...]
Seymour Hersh – US intentions for Iran and the Middle East
Sy Hersh delivers the annual Amnesty International/Trinity College lecture. This is the third year, previous speakers were Noam Chomsky (2006) and Michael Ignatieff (2005). Recorded on 24th October 2007. Click here to listen to the lecture (file in mp3 format)
“In the Beginning was the Command Line” by Neal Stephenson
The new version of Ubuntu called “Gutsy Gibbon” just came out and it has plenty of good stuff. As usual the ‘main’ release is based on GNOME (v2.2), but a KDE version (Kubuntu), a Xfce version (Xubuntu, for older machines, a very elegant desktop manager) and even a non-official Fluxbox version (Fluxbuntu, available in 2 [...]
My biggest fear about Ron Paul
(Cross-posted from my blog. I know that most of you will not agree with what I write here, but I offer my opinion candidely and I apologize in advance if that offends anybody) ——- I have to admit that I like Ron Paul. A lot. While Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinch are also speaking up [...]
Don’t be a lemming
I just found this on a discussion group and decided to pass it on to those of you who have not switched to GNU/Linux (yet): Many folks are coming to me and asking me to help them solve their computer issues of sudden reboots, or massive slowdowns, by helping them o reload their Microsoft Windows [...]
US corporate thugs flex their muscles to bankrupt one woman
The BBC reports that a court in the US has ordered a woman to pay $222,000 in damages for illegally file-sharing music. The jury ordered Jammie Thomas, 32, from Minnesota, to pay for offering to share 24 specific songs online – a cost of $9,250 per song. Record companies said she had illegally shared a [...]
Scott Horton interviewed by the Saker
Check out my Q&A with Scott on my blog. We touched upon libertarian ideas and the candidacy of Ron Paul.
Ahmadinejad: US, ‘big prison’
(cross posted from my blog) President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad slams Washington’s domestic policy saying the US has turned into a big prison for the American nation. He made the remarks at a meeting with the leaders of US Muslim community on Tuesday. Ahmadinejad criticized the offensive remarks made by Columbia University’s President Lee Bollinger adding, “They [...]
Do you or your government seek the destruction of the state of Israel as a Jewish state?
(cross-posted from my blog) Excerpt of the exchange between President Ahmadinejad and Mr Coatsworth at Columbia University: MR. COATSWORTH: Mr. President, your statements here today and in the past have provoked many questions which I would like to pose to you on behalf of the students and faculty who have submitted them to me. Let [...]
Guys, if you missed this listen to Goyette skewering Ledeen
Micheal Ledeen, “Freedom Scholar†at AEI explains why America ought to help the people of Iran overthrow our government, falsely claims he was opposed to the war in Iraq, argues that Bush will not attack Iran, denies any connection to the Niger uranium forgeries, and falsely denies advocating war against Iraq again. MP3 here. (24:27) [...]
Did a non-member of the IAEA really attack an IAEA member?
(cross posted from my blog) The Times Online has published an interesting story which claims that the Israeli Air Force overflight of Syria in early September was part of a complex military operating aimed at seizing and destroying nuclear materials shipped from the DPRK to Syria: Israeli commandos from the elite Sayeret Matkal unit – [...]
Dated, but still very funny
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5752494390378871865
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