11 september archives

August 7, 1998: Julian Bartley and many other lives from Marian @ Marian's Blog 07 Aug 2008 4:29 am

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I will never forget that August 7, 1998 was a Friday. In Croatia I finished a report for work. My colleague-friend Melinda and I had taken a day of leave and arrived on Croatia's beautiful, rocky, pine-scented Dalmatian coast to...

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United States Social Forum debuts in Georgia, 27 Jun-1 Jul from Marian Douglas @ Marian's Blog 27 Jun 2007 9:09 am

[politics] [ USA] [ Postcards from the Over-developed world] [ The Movement] [ 11 september] [ Capitali$m] [ Globalisation redux] [ Richfolk poorfolk] [ Africa/americas/both] [ Elections U.S. 2006/2008] [ Wretched of the Earth?] [ HR] [ MSM] [ save democracy now] [ "Black Is a Country"] [ Black Progressives]
Hmmm... what's making headlines in the U.S. today? Paris Hilton out of jail and possibly giving an 'interview' to Playboy. Duh. In the UK Tony Blair steps out as prime minister as his Chancellor of the Exchequeur Gordon Brown steps...

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WAR as “tax”, only worse, & the U.S. 2006 elections from Marian Douglas @ Marian's Blog 03 Nov 2006 6:00 am

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We're into the countdown to the 2006 U.S. mid-term elections. Tuesday, Nov 7, is election day, and if you're registered, I urge you to vote. On t.v. one of the usual political talking heads tries to remind us that if...

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September 11th from Marian Douglas @ Marian's Blog 11 Sep 2006 4:28 am

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On Friday, Feb. 26, 1993, I was sitting at my desk in the Washington congressional office of my boss, Central Brooklyn, NY representative Major R. Owens. My office partner, Braden, and I noticed we were unable to reach our New...

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A Coming Autumn of Discontent from Marian Douglas @ Marian's Blog 02 Sep 2006 11:12 am

[Race and Ethnicity] [ Stayin' alive] [ Black america culture ethnicity] [ 11 september] [ Capitali$m] [ Wash, dc Local] [ Richfolk poorfolk] [ Africa/americas/both] [ Elections U.S. 2006/2008] [ Elections anywhere] [ Middle east] [ MSM] [ Hurricane/Katrinagate] [ "Black Is a Country"] [ the Gulf Coast]
The summer's been busy. It's not quite over. I don't really want to let it go. Fall won't arrive officially for a while but, in the U.S. anyway, the signs say we're entering a fall of political discontent. Let's hope...

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Britain: Plot to blow up transatlantic flights from London from Marian Douglas @ Marian's Blog 10 Aug 2006 9:12 am

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BBC and other media are reporting an alleged terror plot to blow up planes on transatlantic flights out of London. In the UK more than 20 persons have been arrested with searches continuing. Three U.S. airlines are said to have...

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Britain reports plot to blow up transatlantic flights from London from Marian Douglas @ Marian's Blog 10 Aug 2006 9:04 am

[USA] [ Int'l dispatches] [ Postcards from the Over-developed world] [ Wash, dc "Official"] [ Current] [ 11 september] [ UK US special relationship] [ Terror incognito] [ MSM] [ EU]
BBC and other media are reporting an alleged terror plot to blow up planes on transatlantic flights out of London. In the UK more than 20 persons have been arrested with searches continuing. Three U.S. airlines are said to have...

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Gaza, Haifa, Somalia, Colombia, Srebrenica: Nurit Elhanan’s “Women” at the Euro Parliament from Marian Douglas @ Marian's Blog 17 Jul 2006 12:55 pm

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Why does that streak of blood rip the petal of your cheek? Correction: Nine years have passed since I worked in eastern Bosnia in 1997. In July 1995 the mass killings took place there, in the town of Srebrenica. I...

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Iraq: Civil war and Nir Rosen’s Green Bird; long live Zarqawi? from Marian Douglas @ Marian's Blog 08 Jun 2006 5:01 pm

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Thursday, 8 June 2006. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi no longer walks the earth and CNN has interviewed a 'less well-known' (to some of us) freelance journalist called Nir Rosen. Today Rosen became the first person I've heard in the mainstream media...

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“The Israel Lobby” in London Review of Books from Marian Douglas @ Marian's Blog 07 Jun 2006 7:06 am

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I've been told by those in the know that this piece by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt is a seminal article. It's aboutUS foreign and domestic policy toward Israel, and its other effects in the Mideast. Also in Africa which...

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