RUSSEL LEE - 2

about russel lee

AN HONEST REPUBLICAN (EM BANDA DESENHADA)

Divertida sátira , em banda desenhada, publicada em Novembro de 2004, na Reason on line, por Peter Bagge.

É um bom aperitivo para um feriado que se aproxima.

Divirtam-se !

TENHAM UM BOM DOMINGO

DANNY LYON - 1

1968 - the line

about danny lyon

MERCADOS, MAIS QUE A DEMOCRACIA, PODERÃO SER A CHAVE PARA PREVENIR GUERRAS

Num provocante, mas bem fundamentado artigo, publicado na "reasononline", Doug Bandow defende que, hoje em dia, mais do que implementar sistemas democráticos, é a abertura de mercados que corresponde melhor ao deseja de evitar guerras.

Leiam:

"President George W. Bush's foreign policy is predicated on the idea that spreading democracy will discourage war. But new research suggests that expanding free markets is a far more important factor, leading to what Columbia University's Erik Gartzke calls a "capitalist peace." It's a reason for even the left to support free markets".

Provocador, mas bem escrito !

SOL LIBSOHN - 1

about sol libsohn

BAD DEMOCRACY NOMINATIONS

"Are you angered by politicians who tell lies, accept favours, crush dissidents, steal elections or abuse powers? Then fight back by nominating them for openDemocracy’s monthly “bad democracy” award! Tom Burgis explains how it works, and names the first six candidates for shame".

Pessoal, toca a votar !

ROBERT DISRAELI - 1

about robert disraeli

DEATH TOLL OF US TROOPS IN IRAQ APPROACHES 2.000

" The number of American soldiers killed in Iraq was climbing inexorably towards 2.000 yesterday, with the announcement of the 1,996th casualty since the invasion in 2003.

US forces suffered 15,220 wounded over the same period".

Many of the 7,159 soldiers too seriously wounded to return to duty have injuries that would have killed them in previous conflicts".

JACK DELANO - 4

at the bus station
durham - north carolina
may 1940

about jack delano

SinceSlidedBread

"We're looking for fresh, new ideas for a better America. Do you have a common-sense idea that will improve the day-to-day lives of everyday Americans? Or an opinion on how working families can succeed in the new global economy?"

Será que também podia funcionar em Portugal ?

TENHAM UM BOM FIM DE SEMANA

1933 - havana cinema

about walker evans

DOROTHEA LANGE - 5

about dorothea lange

CIA LEAK SCANDAL: PROOF BUSH LIED? A FINAL REPORT TO COME ?

" In a story posted on Tuesday night, The New York Times, citing unnamed government officials, said that special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, "is not expected to take any action" in the CIA leak case this week. That's good news for me; I have tickets to see U2 on Wednesday night. But it's also bad news, I am scheduled to go to Arkansas at the end of next week to deliver a speech at Arkansas State University-Jonesboro".

Leiam esta excelente e divertida crónica de David Corn na sua secção "Capital Games" da revista "The Nation"

MARION POST WOLCOTT

1939 - negro man entering movie theater by "colored" entrance

about marion post wolcott

BUSH THE BUDGET BUSTER

" The Bush administration recently released its mid-session review of the federal budget for fiscal 2006. The new data reveal that in spite of repeated promises of fiscal responsibility by the Bush administration and congressional Republicans, things are bad and getting worse. After five years of Republican reign, it's time for small-government conservatives to acknowledge that the GOP has forfeited its credibility when it comes to spending restraint".

Quer se goste, quer não se goste, a nossa economia depende, e de que maneira, do que se passa, a nivel económico na Europa, e o que se passa na Europa depende, em grande parte, do que se passa nos Estados Unidos.

Leiam este artigo de Veronique de Rugy e Nick Gillespie, e deitem contas à vida ...

WALKER EVANS

1929 - city launch counter

about walker evans

CONGRESS REJECTS FOOD AID FOR LOCAL DEVELOPMENT

"Both House and Senate leaders recently rejected an administration-backed recommendation by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to allot $300 million of its food aid budget to purchase food grown by local or regional producers. Once again congressional members bowed to special interests, including agroexporters, shipping firms, and nonprofits that deliver U.S. food aid".

Make poverty history ou Make money with poverty ?

NAN GOLDIN - 1

1983
Cookie at Pin Pan Alley
New York City

about nan goldin

SPREADING THE DOUGH

" Everything about freshman Congresswoman Gwen Moore is fabulous--from her rhinestone glasses and her cackling laugh to her passionate grassroots politics and blunt outspokenness (something the professional handlers, if they can get hold of her, might try to tamp down). Moore represents Wisconsin's Fourth Congressional District in Milwaukee, with areas of black unemployment as high as 59 percent. She's the second woman and the first African-American the state has ever sent to the nation's Capitol".

Que diferença, que diferença...

Estamos tão adormecidos, neste cantinho à beira mar plantado !

VICTOR FRIEDMAN - 1

old chevy truck

about victor friedman

THE REAL CASE FOR ISRAEL

"It is not everyday that a professor hires a prestigious law firm to threaten the University of California Press".

Israel e o anti-semitismo.

Uma análise lúcida e bem documentada sobre o tema do anti-semitismo.

Compare-se aqui, a forma como o mesmo tema é discutido entre nós.

TENHAM UM BOM FIM DE SEMANA

ROY DeCARAVA - 4

about roy decarava

DEMOCRACY OR THEOCRACY?

" In its silence about Islam and its hostility to the United States, Anthony Barnett & Isabel Hilton’s definition of the threats to democracy fails to convince Roger Scruton".

Aqui está o tipo de polémicas que TAMBÉM fazem falta em Portugal.

RUSSEL LEE - 1

about russel lee

WHAT IRAQUIS REALLY THINK ABOUT THE ACCUPATION

"The lack of critical media coverage at the beginning of the Iraq War is widely acknowledged. But the media's failure to cover Iraqi voices of opposition is arguably a greater default".

Neste artigo publicado em The Nation, Tom Hayden reflete sobre a cobertura, ou a falta dela, sobre o que se passa REALMENTE no Iraque.

Os média americanos "embarcam" numa cobertura mais ou menos oficiosa, "esquecendo-se" de informar sobre as várias matizes que a realidade Iraquiana apresenta.

Mas será só no Iraque ? E tem só a vêr com os média americanos ?

STEPHAN ALTOUSE - 5

about stephan altouse

U.S. INSISTS ON KEEPING CONTROL OF WEB

"GENEVA - A senior U.S. official rejected calls on Thursday for a U.N. body to take over control of the main computers that direct traffic on the Internet, reiterating U.S. intentions to keep its historical role as the medium's principal overseer.
-"We will not agree to the U.N. taking over the management of the Internet," said Ambassador David Gross, the U.S. coordinator for international communications and information policy at the State Department. "Some countries want that. We think that's unacceptable."

Sabiam ? Então leiam, e não percam o sono.

TENHAM UM BOM FIM DE SEMANA. VOTEM BEM.

about andré kertész

DOROTHEA LANGE - 4

about dorothea lange

CAPTURED BY GUANTÁNAMO

" The detention without trial of Haitian refugees at the United States base in Guantánamo prefigures the “war on terror” by a decade. The Yale University law professor Harold Hongju Koh tells the story of his own immersion in the territory, and assesses its impact on the rule of law in America".

"By a decade ?" Isto significa que esta política já vem da era Clinton ?

Leiam, leiam ...

SANDRA WEINER - 1

about sandra weiner

RECKONING WITH THE GOD SQUAD

"At the Central Baptist Church in Marshall, Texas, where I was baptized in the faith, we believed in a free church in a free state. I still do".

Excelente artigo deBill Moyers na "In TheseTimes" sobre as ligações da direita americana de George Bush e a igreja mais conservadora dos Estados Unidos.

A não perder !

ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN - 4

about arthur rothstein

OIL AND AMERICAN POLITICS

“This is not about oil”, said Donald Rumsfeld, President Bush’s secretary of defence, as America prepared to invade Iraq. Few objects have had greater priority in the Bush administration’s public-relations campaigns than the insistence that the United States invaded, not for any basely selfish or self-aggrandising reason but for one of a series of high-minded motives: to spread American ideas of democracy, to get rid of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, or to take Saddam’s boot off the throats of the Iraqi people.

There is no need to disbelieve any of those idealistic motives. But the fact is that the Bush administration’s foreign policy is indeed “about oil”.

E quando acabar o petróleo ?

ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN - 3

about arthur rothstein

GITM´S HUNGER STRIKERS

"I am slowly dying in this solitary prison cell," says Omar Deghayes, a British refugee and Guantánamo Bay prisoner. "I have no rights, no hope. So why not take my destiny into my own hands, and die for a principle?"

É esta a democracia que George Bush II exporta ?

LIDA MOSER - 2

about lida moser

THE PENTAGON´S OVERSTRETCH

" A rebuff from the United States’s Nato partners over counter-insurgency operations in Afghanistan reveals the military and political pressures facing the Pentagon".

O tipo de comentários que não existêm em Portugal.

Leiam.

TENHAM UM BOM FIM DE SEMANA

about stephan altouse