World Culture Newswire Archive

In a column in The Observer Feb 26th Bliar reckons he's protecting Civil Liberties in the UK.

Methinks we ALL beg to differ..........

Hot on the heels of news about actors being questioned for potential thought crime after playing terrorists in a film, now we have the Smiths front man being quizzed by thought police after comments denouncing the war in Iraq.

How did an Egyptian city planner, a Yemeni religious fanatic, a boy from the United Arab Emirates who worshipped sex, not Allah, and a young student of aircraft design who went to a Christian school in Lebanon - four very different men with very different ideas - get involved in flying the 9/11 planes? How did the plot develop, and who developed it?

DALSTON THEATRE / THE FOUR ACES / THE LABYRINTH…TOO LATE IN THE DAY? IT DOESN’T MATTER, PLEASE COME AND SHOW YOUR SUPPORT TODAY, THIS EVENING, TOMORROW!!!! GIVE IT A LAST SHOT AS THE BULLDOZERS ARRIVE. SUPPORT THE OCCUPANTS!
21st February 2006

Carl is a subversive multimedia artsit who hosts the podcasts Cyberpunk Radio, Mental-Escher and Hack VTV as well as heading the PluriMedia Group and the Microcasting Alliance.

You'd think the translator of a text that shows that people can't understand texts that have passages left out of them would NOT leave any passages out of his/her translation. But Ken Knabb may not be as good a translator as we'd like to think, because he failed to translate a full third of the situationists' crucial essay "How not to understand situationist books"!

Interview with Dave and mark of the Chicago Afrobeat Project. Continuing a series of interviews with Afrobeat musicians. Afrobeat is deeply concerned in social criticism to pave way to social change.

Braving the bitter cold, rain and even a brief hail storm, a dozen or so people turned up at the Brazilian Embassy in London on Thursday to show solidarity with the residents of Prestes Maia in Sao Paulo, Brazil....

ohn Howard's recent appearance on the Australian media was noted by his transparent attempt to portray grief and 'genuine' concern. The Australian Prime Minister feigned choking-back tears as he pleaded with Australian youth not to contemplate smuggling drugs. Howard’s insincere performance was in response to (anticipated) judgements handed down to members of the ‘Bali nine’ in an Indonesian court. The events that led to Australian youths being fed to the barbaric determinations of a thoroughly corrupt and primitive legal system should not pass without scrutiny. The actions of the Australian Federal Police require an independent and thorough investigation. The lives of Australian citizens should never be surrendered to foreign powers when discretionary prerogatives lie directly with Australian authorities.

Hurricane Katrina is a red flag to all of America. There comes a time when the rationality of men must fade into insignificance and one must accept the inevitability of the Truth. An ill wind is blowing and there is a great storm gathering in America’s societal.

Interview with Jim Berenholtz, peformance artist, composer, writer, ethnomusicologist, ceremonial artist, photographer, and world traveler.

Valentines Day is here again. Did you, like millions of others all across the world, traipse into novelty gift and card shops to buy up cute teddy bears holding velvet red hearts, red roses - real and fake - gold chains and rings? Or diamonds, the ultimate way to prove your love, right?

extra information, background, support, following up the previous post "re: war/peace; 11 - 18 march . . . . ideas to spread" and comments received via internet + other, here's....

A bunch of audio files including traditional bolivian music, an interview with a member of the Bolivia Solidarity Campaign, plus a little bit of Attila The Stockbroker...

It seems a good idea to suggest, in the week that precedes the march 18 global effort to stop this "war of error-ism", in the spirit of the "remember the eleventh of every month" campaign, instead of a "long (wrong) war", a week of sunset candlelit vigils, mutual explaining + information sharing ....

The Danish and generally, Scandinavian Passports were the safest documents to travel with in the world, not any more.

We start out with some sound from a small anti-immigrant rally in Vista, Ca. if less than 20 people constitutes a rally. A poem called True Lies performed by Taalam Acey, Jody Paluson with Bush v.s. Nixon and Gore Vidal's take on the State of the Union 2006 with a Raymond Lafferty music bed.

Tasmanian Officials have blocked access to Tasmanian prisons for the International Conference On Penal Abolition XI delegates. There has been a history of access to prisons at previous ICOPA's putting focus on human rights in prisons in the local country and ensuring accountability.

Calling for the beheading of an artist for creating a caricature depicting a religion as violent is about hypocritical. The one certain thing all of these Torah-touting, Koran-clutching, Bible-thumping, Scripture-screeching religious zealots seem to share, is an unbridled lust for violence.

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