le 1er Juin : Seattle en photo ! via zizou from Djerba
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Memorial day : Yes We Can via zizou from Djerba
Plein de Washingtoniens pleurent aujourd'hui leurs morts en Iraq. Ces morts sont des victimes de la politique de Bush et de ses acolytes... Je les invite aussi a avoir une pensee aux victimes iraquiennes de cette guerre horrible ! et c'est a ces familles que je dedie cette video !Copyright...
Haider la star de la semaine via zizou from Djerba
Mon ami Haider est iraquien. Il est sur les news cette semaine... je vous laisse lire son email.Greetings... The road trip was picked up by ShowTime and NPR. Last week the documentary of the trip was played in over 300 cinemas across the states! In a live one night only event broadcasting from NYC to cinemas all cross to the west coast and whats in between. http://www.pri.org/About/press-releases/tal-live-release.htmlOne of the audience filmed off the theater screen then posted a couple of minutes of the segment on YouTube which you can find herehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojb37lK06DYThe entire episode (25 min) will also air on ShowTime on Sunday (May 11th) at 10pm and every day of that week in a different time. You can find the schedule...
Sari’s mother : oscar nominee for Best Doc Short Subject via zizou from Djerba
C incroyable ! Sari's mother est nomine aux oscars...L'annee derniere, lors de la 5eme International Health Northwest conference, j'ai fait une communication sur le sida au moyen orient... James Longley, qui se trouve etre l'ami d'une amie nous a file, en exclusivite, un pt doc sur un pt enfant malade du sida qu'il a tourne en iraq... Le doc n'etait meme pas sorti en dvd et presque personne n'en avait entendu parle !Voila qu'aujourd'hui j'apprends que ce court metrage de 21 minutes, qui relate les souffrance de Sari et la lutte de sa maman contre le Sida et le systeme, a ete nomine aux oscars !Congratulations a James qui recoit donc sa deuxieme nomination ... apres le fameux Iraq in fragments...Actualite oblige ... Il faut rappeler que James a realise son premier film sur... Mes blogs amis via zizou from Djerba
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Documentaire : Bying the War via zizou from Djerba
C'est de loin le documentaire le plus parlant sur le role des medias americains dans la preparation de l'opinion publique a la guerre en Iraq. Il est passé sur la télé publique americaine et il a fait bcp parlé de lui.http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.htmlA voir absolument !De plus en plus, je me rends compte que les citoyens americains sont finalement comme nous autres. Meme si la democratie existe aux USA, la marge de manoeuvre d'un citoyen americain pour changer les choses est tres faible... C'est desesperant !!Copyright...
Politics and truth via Body and Soul
Russ Feingold just gave me one more reason to support him: Sen. Russ Feingold, a potential presidential candidate, said Tuesday he supports giving gays and lesbians the right to marry, again positioning himself to the left of possible 2008...
Wonderful news via Body and Soul
Jill Carroll is free. And, like the recently freed Christian Peacemakers, was treated well, and released without a shot being...
Riverbend via Body and Soul
Wow. An anonymous Iraqi woman has become the first blog author to be in the running for a big literary prize for a book published between hard covers.Baghdad Burning, by a 26-year-old author who has won an international readership...
Which side are we on again? via Body and Soul
I guess it's official now: American officials are now saying that Shiite militias are the No. 1 problem in Iraq, more dangerous than the Sunni-led insurgents who for nearly the past three years have been branded the gravest security...
Kidnappers via Body and Soul
Last week, when the three Christian Peacemaker Team members were freed, I was a little troubled by an official statement that the operation to free the men was based on information from someone U.S. forces had captured only three...
Wonderful news via Body and Soul
The three remaining kidnapped Christian Peacemaker Team members -- Harmeet Singh Sooden, Jim Loney and Norman Kember -- have been released. Nell Lancaster points out that their release was clearly negotiated, although the British Embassy has taken some pains...
Damn! And I used to like peanut butter via Body and Soul
Probably my least favorite thing about blogs is the obsession with personal invective, with seeking out losers and calling them names like third graders on the playground. Usually I skip over posts that start by tearing down other bloggers....
Lee amendment via Body and Soul
Via Liberal Oasis, here's a pretty important story I missed. Last week, the House approved an amendment to the emergency war spending bill which prohibits funds for permanent bases in Iraq. Bill's analysis of the politics seems right to...
Sinister via Body and Soul
What we've seen is a serious effort by them to foment civil war, but I don't think they've been successful. -- Dick Cheney I don’t think anyone imagined three years ago that things could be quite this bad today....
Soldiers and civilians via Body and Soul
I understand that Operation Swarmer was hyped, but the air war is real -- something the hundreds of Iraqi families who fled Samarra on the first reports understand all too well. Last week, Knight-Ridder reported a fifty percent increase...
Psychotic reaction via Body and Soul
Although seemingly less brutal than physical methods, no-touch torture leaves deep psychological scars on both victims and interrogators. One British journalist who observed this method's use in Northern Ireland called sensory deprivation the worst form of torture because it...
Yesterday’s Papers (and Today’s) via Body and Soul
I haven't been home much the past couple days, so I hope you'll forgive me while I do a quick catch up before I get back to more substantial posts. Iran. On Monday, the Washington Post reported on the...
Faces via Body and Soul
I hate cameras. I don't think I have more than a dozen pictures of myself taken in the past twenty years, and not many more before that, because I hate posing, and hate looking at myself. So I sympathize...
“The wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God” via Body and Soul
You all know by now, I'm sure, that Tom Fox's body was found in Iraq yesterday. As far as I can tell, the Washington Post is the only major paper to put the story on the front page....
Numbers via Body and Soul
You all know I am not good with numbers, so could a smart person explain this to me? Baghdad's morgue has catalogued and photographed 24,000 bodies, almost all of them killed by violence, since the American invasion -- 10,000...
Wolves in freedom’s clothing via Body and Soul
The Wolf Brigade, one of the most feared of Iraqi commando units, and one with close US ties, no longer exists. It's now called the Freedom Brigade. Doesn't that sound noble? It's about changing images, [Army Maj. Gen. Joseph...
Militias via Body and Soul
Yesterday's Washington Post story on the death of Maj. Gen. Mubdar Hatim Hazya al-Dulaimi contained a sentence that confused me: Losing a strong commander for even a little while in Baghdad could cause a further power shift toward what...
Blessed are… via Body and Soul
This is not promising: Arab television broadcast a new videotape Tuesday showing three Christian peace activists taken hostage in Iraq last year, but a fourth — the only American abducted — was not seen in the footage. The four...
The subtle art of deceit via Body and Soul
The press always appreciates a good fight, and congressman vs. chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is a juicy one. Official court stenographers aside, most of the press, I think, will take Murtha over Pace. That's partly a...
If the president does it, it’s legal via Body and Soul
I have a strange feeling Saddam Hussein has been reading the collected works of John Yoo: As president, Hussein explained, he had every right to confiscate land and raze orchards, as he did in Dujayl. The destruction of farmlands...
And what’s the bright side of plagues of locusts? via Body and Soul
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Immunity via Body and Soul
Dahr Jamail has an intriguing post suggesting that despite initial violence over the Samarra bombing, the response has been more solidarity than division, and that Iraqis seem to be united in blaming the US -- with some cause. No...
Faith via Body and Soul
I understand the thinking here: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, traveling to Beirut, stressed moves underway to try to bridge sectarian differences and avoid a more serious rupture.I don't think we do the Iraqi people any good, or really...
Al-Askariya via Body and Soul
This is 9/11 in the United States. -- Adel Abdul Mahdi, one of Iraq's two vice-presidents. Many a day I've rolled my eyes at the number of times George Bush can work the word terrorists into a sentence, as...