HELEN LEVITT - 1

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STATE OF THE ART - THEIR WAR

"Ernie Pyle, the legendary correspondent, understood soldiers. He knew how they marched, how they mourned, how they endured. With few exceptions, the coverage coming out of Iraq today doesn’t portray the grunts in the same deeply personal light. It is a different era, and most journalists have never served in the military and have only a passing acquaintance with the worlds that most soldiers come from. But for readers who want a taste of the soldier’s life, a modern-day Ernie Pyle is no longer necessary; soldiers themselves are blogging their experiences from the front lines".

A guerra do Iraque, os soldados americanos e os blogues.

A não perder !

ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN - 2

Boys in the town in front of a greek coffee shop. Ambrige, July 1938

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COLOMBIA´S AGONY, COCA-COLA´S RESPONSABILITY, AMERICAN´S SOLIDARITY

"Since 1989, eight union leaders have been assassinated at Coca-Cola bottling plants in Colombia. According to a statement from the Campaign to Stop Killer Coke in New York: “Hundreds of other Coke workers have been tortured, kidnapped and/or illegally detained by violent paramilitaries, often working closely with plant managements".

De como a "democracia" e a coca-cola são exportadas pelos Estados Unidos da América.

LEWIS H.HINE - 2

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BRING IT ON, AND ON, AND ON

"President George W. Bush has launched a campaign to shore up flagging support for the occupation of Iraq. "Our troops," he intoned in his weekly radio address Saturday, are fighting "to protect their fellow Americans from a savage enemy." Indeed, he added, "if we do not confront these evil men abroad, we will have to face them one day in our own cities and streets." This continues a theme he laid out in Fort Bragg recently: "We fight today because terrorists want to attack our country and kill our citizens, and Iraq is where they are making their stand."

Unfortunately, the dual attacks in London last month clearly showed that the Iraq war has not reduced the terrorist threat".

Leiam, leiam, leiam ...

BERENICE ABBOTT - 1

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THROWING GASOLINE ON HAITI´S FIRES

"On June 23, the U.S. State Department briefed members of Congress on its plan to distribute thousands of handguns to the Haitian National Police, continuing a program that sent 2,657 weapons to Haiti for the police last year, despite an embargo.

Haiti’s citizens, especially the poor majority, are suffering under an epidemic of armed violence. Kidnappings and gun battles, between gangs, police and UN Peacekeepers have replaced the daily and nightly routine in downtown Port-au-Prince and many neighborhoods. In some areas, residents cannot leave for days, and spend nights praying that the bullets outside do not come through their thin walls. Almost everyone in the capitol alters their patterns of work, school, travel or sleep, to avoid being shot or kidnapped".

De como a administração Bush exporta o seu conceito de democracia.

Não deixem de lêr este artigo de Brian Concannon Jr. no Americas Program

ROY DeCARAVA - 3

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THE U.S. AND IRAN: DEMOCRACY, TERRORISM, AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS

"The election of the hard-line Teheran mayor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, over former President Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani as the new head of Iran is undeniably a setback for those hoping to advance greater social and political freedom in that country. It should not necessarily be seen as a turn to the right by the Iranian electorate, however. The 70-year old Rafsanjani—a cleric and penultimate wheeler-dealer from the political establishment—was portrayed as the more moderate conservative. The fact that he had become a millionaire while in government was apparently seen as less important than his modest reform agenda. By contrast, the young Teheran mayor focused on the plight of the poor and cleaning up corruption".

Elucidativo e bem fundamentado artigo de Stephen Zunes, publicado na Foreign Policy in Focus.

Em conjunto com outros textos colocados no Jeremias, esperamos poder contribuir para um aumento do conhecimento, em Portugal, do perigo nuclear.

Boa leitura.

BOURKE WHITE - 2

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FANTASY ISLAND

" openDemocracy presents the third extract from the 2005 Ulysses Prize shortlist: Peruvian journalist Ricardo Uceda’s unique reconstruction of his country’s brutal “dirty war” in the early 1980s between the army and the “Shining Path” guerrillas".

Mais uma sugestão, e uma boa leitura, para o fim de semana.

STEPHAN ALTOUSE - 4

SUGESTÃO PARA UM FIM DE SEMANA

A vida tambêm é prazer.

Este fim de semana "viajem" com o "Epicurious", e vejam uma selecção dos melhores restaurantes do mundo.

Barcelona, Toquio, Londres, Florença...

E já agora "passem" pela base de receitas (dizem que a maior na net, com cerca de 14.000 receitas) e fiquem "clientes regulares" como o Jeremias.

Bom sábado!

JOE SCHWARTZ - 1

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FEEDING THE NUCLEAR FIRE

"...The clearest expression of this perspective comes from former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who seek the largest possible nuclear weapons capability. Vajpayee argues: that “Separating the civilian from the military would be very difficult, if not impossible… It will also deny us any flexibility in determining the size of our nuclear deterrent.” When he refers to “flexibility” in determining the size of the Indian nuclear arsenal, he does not include reducing or eliminating it. Rather, his term expresses the fear that separating civil and military facilities may curb the arsenal’s size".

Na sequência das chamadas de atenção, pelo Jeremias, sobre este tema, cada vez mais presente no nosso dia a dia planetário, aqui fica mais um contributo notável para este tema.

Não percam !

LEWIS H.HINE - 1

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BUSH ADMINISTRATION SEEKING CHARITABLE DONATIONS FOR IRAQ FUNDING

"U.S. President George W. Bush's administration in a highly unusual attempt to increase their funding for the re-building of Iraq, earlier this month launched a website which allows the ordinary citizen to submit charitable donations to fund various initiatives in the war-torn country".

A boa notícia é que durante a primeira semana já conseguiram 39 dolares.

Promete !

ROBERT FRANK - 5

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IT'S THE NATIONS, STUPID !

" The United Nations summit may prove to be a lost opportunity for reform, says Ian Williams. It is time for member-states who care about the organisation’s principles to act in concert – without the United States if need be".

Para entender melhor o que está em causa na reforma da ONU, leiam este artigo de Ina Williams, publicado no site da "openDemocracy".

Um tudo nada diferente daquilo que "passa" na comunicação social portuguesa, verdade ?

EDWIN ROSSKAM - 2

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OPERATION ENDURING BOREDOM

"When the Pentagon announced it would be staging a march on September 11, 2005, to commemorate the victims of 9/11 and show support for the troops, it was hard not to expect the worst: Triumph of the Will on the Potomac".

Excelente artigo de Christopher Hayes em "In these times" sobre o "clima" que se vive nos EUA, três anos após o 11 de Setembro.

Não percam !

TENHAM UM BOM FIM DE SEMANA

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ROBERT FRANK - 4

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GLOBAL WARMING PAST THE POINT OF NO RETURN

"A record loss of sea ice in the Arctic this summer has convinced scientists that the northern hemisphere may have crossed a critical threshold beyond which the climate may never recover. Scientists fear that the Arctic has now entered an irreversible phase of warming which will accelerate the loss of the polar sea ice that has helped to keep the climate stable for thousands of years".

Da necessidade da rectificação do protocolo de Quito pelos EUA (o maior poluidor à escala mundial) e de muitas mais medidas para evitar a derrocada do planeta Terra.

Ainda a tempo ?

SID GROSSMAN - 1

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ROBERTS THE ELDER - JOHN ROBERTS HAS AN UNDERSTATED PERSONALITY, BUT HIS RECORD WILL BE ALL TORPEDO.

"As John Roberts sits down before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, its members will be searching to better understand the man who would become the 17th chief justice of the United States. If history is any guide, they will learn little about who John Roberts is and even less about who John Roberts will become. The problem with confirmation hearings is that, even with a forthcoming nominee, they offer only a snapshot of a jurist before he or sheenters the rarified and mind-altering world of the country's highest court".

Ainda sobre a nomeação do Presidente do Supremo Tribunal de Justiça dos Estados Unidos, um apaixonanta artigo de Jonathan Turley na Vlillage Voice, que nos ajuda a perceber um pouco melhor a complexidade do sistema político americano

STEPHAN ALTOUSE - 3

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"DIGNIFIED PROCESS"?

"The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of John Roberts to serve as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court began with an appropriate message from Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold.

A maverick within his own Democratic party and the Senate as a whole, Feingold called upon the committee, the full Senate and all of official Washington -- a city that frequently is more concerned about images than Constitutional duties -- to get serious about the monumental task that lies ahead".

O Supremo Tribunal de Justiça Americano desempenha um papel muito considerável na política americana, daí que a nomeação de um juiz para conselheiro deste Supremo Tribunal seja seguida com enorme atenção e paixão nos EUA.

Então quando se trata da nomeação do presidente daquele Tribunal, a atenção e a paixão aumentam considerávelmente.

É conveniente recordar que foi devido ao voto favorável do então Presidente do Supremo Tribunal que o actual presidente Bush ganhou as primeira eleições, lembram-se ?

Neste artigo de John Nichols, publicado no "blogue" da revista Nation (tal como cá, não é?) ficamos com uma aborgem muito importante sobre este tema.

E não menos importantes são os comentários que se lhe seguem.

Boa leitura

JOE SCHWARTZ - 1

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THE REPUBLICAN WAR ON SCIENCE

"A stinging indictment of how the Republican Party has not only ignored science, but has used bad science to justify its political agenda".

Sem comentários. LINK

JEFF WALL - 1

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BLOGGERS DEBATE CODE OF CONDUCT FOR POLITICAL SITES

"Should Virginia's political bloggers adhere to a code of ethical conduct?

That question was posed at a first-of-its-kind conference last weekend hosted by the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia".

Sim ou não ? Na dúvida, aqui fica o link.

OS AMERICANOS E A BOMBA ATÓMICA - II

Em complemento do texto anterior, aqui fica a notícia da "France Press", bem como um cometário da "Common Dreams" sobre o mesmo tema.

TENHAM UM BOM DOMINGO, SE PUDEREM.

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OS AMERICANOS E A BOMBA ATÓMICA

A TSF, no noticiário das 10 horas da manhã, informa que, segundo uma notícia de uma agência internacional (AP ?), o governo americano tem em estudo, desde março deste ano, um documento que contempla a utilização de armas atómicas em cenários pré-definidos.

Para todos aqueles que se preocupam que a segurança do planeta, sejam de esquerdas ou de direitas, aqui vai um artigo fundamental, escrito por Robert McNamara (sim, esse do Vietnam...) no Foreign Policy de Maio/Junho deste ano e intitulado APOCALYPSE SOON.

Não percam e façam circular.

TENHAM UM BOM DOMINGO

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MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE - 2

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VOLUNTEERS RESTORE NET ACCESS FOR KATRINA VICTIMS

"Grassroot effort uses old PCs, free software to build net kiosks"

O mundo mudou mesmo nos últimos 10 anos.

Pela primeira na sua já longa história, a Cruz Vermelha foi chamada a dar apoio técnico e material para a instalação, nos campos de refugiados, de uma rede de acesso à Net.

Lêr mais, neste artigo publicado na ABC NEWS.

JACK DELANO - 3

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UNFINISHED WARS

"This past February, just after finishing his fourth stint in Iraq for The New Yorker, George Packer moved into a cabin he shares in western Massachusetts. He had forty-four notebooks and a pile of interview transcripts. When he emerged in April, he had written a 160,000-word manuscript.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq in October. (It has been rushed through production to keep pace with the dozen other Iraq books that will appear this fall.) In his Brooklyn neighborhood in mid-June, Packer seems slightly manic, as if he’s still coasting on the energy that carried him through the book’s composition. He has a bland, boyish face and disarmingly gentle eyes, which probably serve him well as a reporter. It can take several minutes to realize how much skepticism and sheer ferocity he brings to a conversation".

Entrevista conduzida por David Glenn, na Columbia Journalism Review, que nos chama a atenção para um livro a ser lançado em Outubro, nos Estados Unidos, escrito por alguêm que viveu a experiência do Iraque, e que escreve sobre isso na primeira pessoa.

A não perder, a entrevista e o livro !

BILL WITT - 1

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BEYOND THE "VIETNAM SYNDROME".

The specter of Vietnam has been buried forever in the desert sands of the Arabian peninsula,” President George H. W. Bush said of the Gulf War victory in early 1991. He told a gathering of state legislators, “It’s a proud day for America—and, by God, we’ve kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for all.”

Artigo fundamental de Norman Solomon, sobre o Vietnam e o Iraque. Não percam.

HELEN LEVITT - 3

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JOSEPH ROTBLAT - UM DOS CRIADORES DA BOMBA ATÓMICA

"Joseph Rotblat - nuclear physicist, Pugwash organiser, disarmament campaigner, Nobel peace laureate, eternal Pole, world citizen – has died at the age of 96. Brian Cathcart remembers him".

Um grande homem. Um grande artigo. LINK

CORNELL CAPA - 1

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KILLED BY CONTEMPT

"Each day since Katrina brings more evidence of the lethal ineptitude of federal officials. I'm not letting state and local officials off the hook, but federal officials had access to resources that could have made all the difference, but were never mobilized.

Here's one of many examples: The Chicago Tribune reports that the U.S.S. Bataan, equipped with six operating rooms, hundreds of hospital beds and the ability to produce 100,000 gallons of fresh water a day, has been sitting off the Gulf Coast since last Monday - without patients".

Mais uma vez, brilhantemente, Paul Krugman desmonta, aqui, a incapacidade do actual governo americano.

A não perder.

STEPHAN ALTOUSE - 2

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The Iraq Quagmire: The Mounting Costs of War and the Case for Bringing Home the Troops

“The Iraq Quagmire” is the most comprehensive accounting of the mounting costs and consequences of the Iraq War on the United States, Iraq, and the world. Among its major findings are stark figures that quantify the continuing of costs since the Iraqi elections, a period that the Bush administration claimed would be characterized by a reduction in the human and economic costs".

Phyllis Bennis e Erik Leaver publicam um estudo fundamental, no "Foreign Policy in Focus" para nos ajudar a entender o que está realmente em jogo no Iraque.

E tambêm para entender o "colapso" da ajuda às vitimas de New Orleans!

TENHAM UM BOM DOMINGO

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