JEREMIAS

2005-11-23T13:15:00.000Z

COMUNICADO

Vitimas de uma operação hóstil em bolsa,
por parte da empresa Formigas ao Poder SA.,
a partir de hoje a publicação deste blogue fica integrado no blogue da Formiga Bargante.

Na Formiga Bargante manteremos a nossa linha editorial, lutaremos para recuperar a independência perdida, e aguardamos a vossa visita.

A LUTA CONTINUA !

DOROTHEA LANGE - 5

2005-11-22T12:12:00.000Z

1937 - Toward Los Angeles, California.

about dorothea lange

CHENEY PICKS A FIGHT WITH A MARINE

2005-11-22T12:10:00.000Z

"When Dick Cheney, a Wyoming congressman who had never served in the military and who had failed during his political career to gain much respect from those who wore the uniform he had worked so hard to avoid putting on during the Vietnam War, was selected in 1989 by former President George Herbert Walker Bush to serve as Secretary of Defense, he had a credibility problem. Lacking in the experience and the connections required to effectively take charge of the Pentagon in turbulent times, he turned to a House colleague, Pennsylvania Democrat John Murtha, a decorated combat veteran whose hawkish stances on military matters had made him a favorite of the armed services. "I'm going to need a lot of help," Cheney told Murtha. "I don't know a blankety-blank thing about defense."

JACK DELANO - 6

2005-11-18T11:41:00.000Z

about jack delano

TORTURED LANGUAGE: THE POETRY OF HUMAN RIGHTS

2005-11-18T11:35:00.000Z

What is it like to live as a poet in exile from your people, your culture and your language? openDemocracy features a special audio of live poetry readings by Jack Mapanje, Yang Lian and Choman Hardi from an event organised by Poet in the City and Amnesty International.

W.EUGENE SMITH - 1

2005-11-16T11:00:00.000Z

BUSH REWRITES HISTORY TO CRITICIZE HIS ANTIWAR CRITICS

2005-11-16T10:53:00.000Z

" In a Veterans Day speech on Friday, delivered to troops and others at the Tobyhanna Army Depot in Pennsylvania, George W. Bush veered from the usual commemoration of sacrifice to strike at critics who have questioned whether he steered the country into war by using false information. This has become a tough and troubling issue for his presidency. A poll taken before his speech found that 57 percent of the respondents now believe that Bush "deliberately misled" the nation into war. That is astounding and, I assume, without precedent in history".

NAN GOLDIN - 2

2005-11-15T11:24:00.000Z

about nan goldin

PREPARED FOR THE WORST

2005-11-15T11:19:00.000Z

"Indictments! Co-conspirators! A Category 5 scandal! The first stages of a political implosion—when the rumors are moving, the phone lines burning up, and the e-mails flying—are equal parts theater, sport, and fantasy".

Um relato fascinante do dia a dia da política americana e dos seus comentadores.

Brilhante !

HELEN LEVITT - 4

2005-11-14T11:38:00.000Z

about helen levitt

A POPE FOR OUR TIMES: WHY DARWIN IS BACK ON THE AGENDA AT THE VATICAN

2005-11-14T11:27:00.000Z

"It is a precautionary statement, distancing the Church from the American attack on Darwinism that Rome considers to be neither good science, nor good theology. It will also be taken as an indication of the priorities of the present Pope Benedict XVI".

GORDON PARKS - 3

2005-11-11T11:44:00.000Z

about gordon parks

TRUTH ABOUT TRUTH

2005-11-11T11:36:00.000Z

"There’s an anecdote (quite possibly apocryphal) according to which the Oxford philosopher Elisabeth Anscombe was once asked whether she thought that Oxford Philosophy corrupts the youth. Anscombe is said to have replied that it would if they paid it any mind, but since they don’t, it doesn’t. I’m not myself convinced that the moral implications of the philosophical views that then prevailed at Oxford are really all that corrosive, but I do agree that few students take much to heart what they’re told in Phil 101; in my experience, they have trouble keeping it in their heads long enough to get through the semester. Teach them, as it might be, Hume’s argument that induction cannot be justified, and the question you’re likely to get most often is: Will that appear on the midterm exams? It is possible to doubt that the laity in general, or undergraduates in particular, actually care much what philosophers think about the Good, the True or the Beautiful".

ALEXANDER ?

2005-11-10T11:36:00.000Z

Spanish Civil War demonstration in New York.

TALKING DEMOCRATICALLY

2005-11-10T11:24:00.000Z

"Editors provide a service to writers and readers through clear, lively presentation of information and the circulation of important ideas. But as the distribution of news and comment speeds up and diversifies, unmediated online communication between engaged “peers” is taking a new role in invigorating democratic exchange.

Direct communication is raising afresh questions of broadcast and reception that have, in a sense, been suppressed or at least kept in the background by the press’s central control of reporting and comment.

Blogs are an obvious recent landmark in this revolution".

MINOR WHITE - 1

2005-11-09T23:12:00.000Z

1968 - rings & flowers, puerto rico

about minor white

REMAKING MULTICULTURALISM

2005-11-09T18:21:00.000Z

" Britain’s multicultural model is held responsible for the London bombs of July 2005. Rather, says Tariq Modood, it needs to be extended to a “politics of equal respect” that includes Britain’s Muslims in a new, shared sense of national belonging".

LIDA MOSER - 3

2005-11-08T23:29:00.000Z

about lida moser

MUSLIMS: MADE IN EUROPE ?

2005-11-08T11:42:00.000Z

"The idea that a Muslim community is a European neo-colonial invention is a myth; rather, the emergence of this community represents a rebuke to European claims to universalism".

Tema cada vez mais actual na Europa (Paris já está a arder?), visto por outros olhos que não os nossos.

A não perder, esta leitura !

DIANE ARBUS - 1

2005-11-07T11:59:00.000Z

1962 - a brooklyn family

about diane arbus

IRAN AND THE UNITED STATES: A CLASH OF PERCEPTIONS

2005-11-07T10:10:00.000Z

" The rhetoric of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the ambition of George W Bush are making an attack on Iran more likely".

Este artigo de Paul Rogers é um daqueles a não perder !

2005-11-07T00:13:00.000Z

MARION POST WOLCOTT - 2

2005-11-04T11:12:00.000Z

picnic on the running board
1941 - saratosa - florida

about marion post walcott

NOW THERE SEEMS TO BE EVEN MORE HOT WATER IN CHENEY' S BOILER ROOM

2005-11-04T11:05:00.000Z

"While Patrick Fitzgerald's indictment follows the Byzantine finagling between Scooter Libby and various Washington reporters to make the overall charge he engaged in obstruction of justice, lied, and committed perjury in his grand jury testimony, the overall picture that emerges is of the vice president's office as a boiler room, with Dick Cheney's flunkies concocting a story to smear Joe Wilson by outing his wife's undercover employment by the CIA".

A temperatura está muito, muito alta para os lados da Casa Branca.

Leiam este artigo de James Ridgeway no Village Voice, e pensem pelas vossas próprias cabeças.

JACK DELANO - 5

2005-11-03T12:06:00.000Z

farm boy along the road
corozal - puerto rico 1941

about jack delano

SCHWARZENEGGER, A NET E AS ELEIÇÕES, ESTE MÊS, NA CALIFORNIA

2005-11-03T11:57:00.000Z

"SANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct. 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- As Arnold Schwarzenegger prepares for another big campaign fundraiser tonight, consumer advocates and Hollywood creative artists today launched an Internet animation campaign to get-out-the-"no"-vote. The animation exposes a pant-less Arnold Schwarzenegger making unwanted "propositions" to the state seal's Minerva, goddess of wisdom, who combats the advances with help of California's grizzly bear".

Leiam este divertido e exclarecedor artigo sobre a campanha que começou na Califórnia, relativa à eleição para governador, e na qual Arnold o "Exterminador" se recandidata à presidência do Estado da Califórnia.

RUSSEL LEE - 2

2005-10-31T14:40:00.000Z

about russel lee

AN HONEST REPUBLICAN (EM BANDA DESENHADA)

2005-10-31T14:31:00.000Z

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

2005-10-30T09:52:00.000Z

DANNY LYON - 1

2005-10-27T10:53:00.000+01:00

1968 - the line

about danny lyon

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

2005-10-27T10:47:00.000+01:00

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

2005-10-26T15:34:00.000+01:00

about sol libsohn

BAD DEMOCRACY NOMINATIONS

2005-10-26T15:21:00.000+01:00

"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

2005-10-25T12:35:00.000+01:00

about robert disraeli

DEATH TOLL OF US TROOPS IN IRAQ APPROACHES 2.000

2005-10-25T12:27:00.000+01:00

" 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

2005-10-24T11:52:00.000+01:00

at the bus station
durham - north carolina
may 1940

about jack delano

SinceSlidedBread

2005-10-24T11:43:00.000+01:00

"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

2005-10-22T11:27:00.000+01:00

1933 - havana cinema

about walker evans

DOROTHEA LANGE - 5

2005-10-21T15:48:00.000+01:00

about dorothea lange

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

2005-10-21T15:38:00.000+01:00

" 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

2005-10-20T12:00:00.000+01:00

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

about marion post wolcott

BUSH THE BUDGET BUSTER

2005-10-20T11:51:00.000+01:00

" 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

2005-10-19T11:19:00.000+01:00

1929 - city launch counter

about walker evans

CONGRESS REJECTS FOOD AID FOR LOCAL DEVELOPMENT

2005-10-19T11:07:00.000+01:00

"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

2005-10-18T10:23:00.000+01:00

1983
Cookie at Pin Pan Alley
New York City

about nan goldin

SPREADING THE DOUGH

2005-10-18T10:15:00.000+01:00

" 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

2005-10-17T00:49:00.000+01:00

old chevy truck

about victor friedman

THE REAL CASE FOR ISRAEL

2005-10-17T00:37:00.000+01:00

"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

2005-10-15T08:43:00.000+01:00

ROY DeCARAVA - 4

2005-10-14T12:54:00.000+01:00

about roy decarava

DEMOCRACY OR THEOCRACY?

2005-10-14T12:40:00.000+01:00

" 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

2005-10-13T12:16:00.000+01:00

about russel lee

WHAT IRAQUIS REALLY THINK ABOUT THE ACCUPATION

2005-10-13T12:10:00.000+01:00

"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

2005-10-10T11:38:00.000+01:00

about stephan altouse

U.S. INSISTS ON KEEPING CONTROL OF WEB

2005-10-10T11:32:00.000+01:00

"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.

2005-10-08T10:22:00.000+01:00

about andré kertész

DOROTHEA LANGE - 4

2005-10-07T12:29:00.000+01:00

about dorothea lange

CAPTURED BY GUANTÁNAMO

2005-10-07T12:24:00.000+01:00

" 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

2005-10-06T08:38:00.000+01:00

about sandra weiner

RECKONING WITH THE GOD SQUAD

2005-10-06T08:33:00.000+01:00

"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

2005-10-05T10:31:00.000+01:00

about arthur rothstein

OIL AND AMERICAN POLITICS

2005-10-05T10:26:00.000+01:00

“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

2005-10-04T15:15:00.000+01:00

about arthur rothstein

GITM´S HUNGER STRIKERS

2005-10-04T15:10:00.000+01:00

"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

2005-10-03T09:20:00.000+01:00

about lida moser

THE PENTAGON´S OVERSTRETCH

2005-10-03T09:17:00.000+01:00

" 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

2005-10-01T10:40:00.000+01:00

about stephan altouse

HELEN LEVITT - 1

2005-09-30T15:44:00.000+01:00

about helen levitt

STATE OF THE ART - THEIR WAR

2005-09-30T15:39:00.000+01:00

"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

2005-09-29T12:47:00.000+01:00

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

about arthur rothstein

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

2005-09-29T11:11:00.000+01:00

"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

2005-09-28T11:22:00.000+01:00

about lewis h.hine

BRING IT ON, AND ON, AND ON

2005-09-28T11:18:00.000+01:00

"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

2005-09-27T11:05:00.000+01:00

about berenice abbott

THROWING GASOLINE ON HAITI´S FIRES

2005-09-27T10:58:00.000+01:00

"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

2005-09-26T19:54:00.000+01:00

about roy decarava

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

2005-09-26T12:34:00.000+01:00

"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

2005-09-25T09:15:00.000+01:00

about bourke white

FANTASY ISLAND

2005-09-25T09:12:00.000+01:00

" 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

2005-09-24T09:35:00.000+01:00

SUGESTÃO PARA UM FIM DE SEMANA

2005-09-24T09:21:00.000+01:00

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

2005-09-23T13:23:00.000+01:00

about joe schwartz

FEEDING THE NUCLEAR FIRE

2005-09-23T13:19:00.000+01:00

"...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

2005-09-22T12:03:00.000+01:00

about lewis h.hine

BUSH ADMINISTRATION SEEKING CHARITABLE DONATIONS FOR IRAQ FUNDING

2005-09-22T11:56:00.000+01:00

"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

2005-09-20T11:34:00.000+01:00

about robert frank

IT'S THE NATIONS, STUPID !

2005-09-20T11:30:00.000+01:00

" 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

2005-09-19T12:41:00.000+01:00

about edwin rosskam

OPERATION ENDURING BOREDOM

2005-09-19T12:37:00.000+01:00

"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

2005-09-16T23:26:00.000+01:00

about james casebere

ROBERT FRANK - 4

2005-09-16T12:10:00.000+01:00

about robert frank

GLOBAL WARMING PAST THE POINT OF NO RETURN

2005-09-16T12:05:00.000+01:00

"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

2005-09-15T12:03:00.000+01:00

about sid grossman

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

2005-09-15T11:55:00.000+01:00

"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

2005-09-14T12:56:00.000+01:00

about stephan altouse

"DIGNIFIED PROCESS"?

2005-09-14T12:44:00.000+01:00

"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

2005-09-13T11:45:00.000+01:00

about joe schwartz

THE REPUBLICAN WAR ON SCIENCE

2005-09-13T10:47:00.000+01:00

"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

2005-09-12T11:44:00.000+01:00

about jeff wall

BLOGGERS DEBATE CODE OF CONDUCT FOR POLITICAL SITES

2005-09-12T11:39:00.000+01:00

"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.