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- Is There Anyone More Ridiculous?
Prosecutor Brenda Morris, toward the end of her cross-examination of the senator yesterday, settled in for a long discussion about the chair, which Alaska restaurateur Bob Persons bought for Stevens as a gift seven years ago — but which Stevens never reported on his Senate disclosure forms. “And the chair is still at your house?” [...]
- Immanuel Wallerstein: Le capitalisme touche à sa fin
Signataire du manifeste du Forum social de Porto Alegre (“Douze propositions pour un autre monde possible”), en 2005, vous êtes considéré comme l’un des inspirateurs du mouvement altermondialiste. Vous avez fondé et dirigé le Centre Fernand-Braudel pour l’étude de l’économie des systèmes historiques et des civilisations de l’université de l’Etat de New York, à Binghamton. [...]
- Robert Fisk: Secrets of Iraq’s Death Chamber
Like all wars, the dark, untold stories of the Iraqi conflict drain from its shattered landscape like the filthy waters of the Tigris. And still the revelations come. The Independent has learnt that secret executions are being carried out in the prisons run by Nouri al-Maliki’s “democratic” government. The hangings are carried out regularly – [...]
- Juan Cole: The Non-Debate
It was not a debate. Just as television in prime time has been largely emptied of drama and innovative comedy, with a few exceptions, in favor of empty-headed “reality shows,” so the political debates have mostly been gutted. Judging “how the candidates did” is rather like weighing in on the wittiness of the libretto of [...]
- Alan Bock: No Matter Who Wins, Expect More Wars
If the presidential debate Friday night told us anything, it was that whichever of these candidates is elected, we can expect more wars, or at least more conflicts that put U.S. forces or citizens in danger for dubious reasons. Neither John McCain nor Barack Obama came close to questioning the "bipartisan" consensus on U.S. foreign [...]
