Tag: usa

21 Nov

Michael Schwartz: Will The Slaughter Of Iraqis By The US Military Ever Be Reported?

US patrol in Iraq (labanex) Michael Schwartz: Will The Slaughter Of Iraqis By The US Military Ever Be Reported?: “Will The US Government And Media Finally Report The Slaughter Of Iraqis By The US Military? I recently received a set of questions from Le Monde Diplomatique reporter Kim Bredesen about the 2007 Project Censored story about 1,000,000 [...]
17 Nov

330 – From Pickin’ Cotton to Pickin’ Presidents

Correlation between the results of the recent presidential election and the cotton centres in 1860s 330 – From Pickin’ Cotton to Pickin’ Presidents: “ I received an overlay of both maps from Mark Root-Wiley: ‘The borders do not line up perfectly but came closer than I thought they would. The top layer had to be made semitransparent in [...]
12 Nov

Nikola Kavaja: Interview with an assassin

Nikola Kavaja on the cover of ‘Serbian Army’ The Associated Press: Serb who hijacked US plane in 1979 dies: “Nikola Kavaja, who hijacked a U.S. passenger jet in 1979 with the intention of crashing it into Yugoslav Communist Party headquarters, has died.” Nikola Kavaja: Interview with an assassin – The Independent: “Kavaja is 73, but he looks [...]
06 Nov

Black Man Given Nation’s Worst Job

Day One, Mike Luckovich Black Man Given Nation’s Worst Job: “African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation’s broken-down economy, [...]
04 Nov

SFMOMA Artscope Visual Artwork Browsing Tool

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Artscope SFMOMA Artscope Visual Artwork Browsing Tool: “The new SFMOMA ArtScope has been designed for wandering, for the chance discovery of artworks visitors might not have encountered before. The visual browsing tool based on Stamen’s Modest Maps tile engine, features more than 3,500 objects from the SFMOMA collection, arranged in [...]
28 Oct

Fregarsi le mani

Fregarsi le mani: “Sono le dieci di sera, e i siti italiani (anche le redazioni dei giornali di carta) stanno impazzendo per il ‘complotto per uccidere Obama’. Nel senso che si stanno ribaltando le prime pagine e occupando le homepage con una storia che negli Stati Uniti al momento è trattata solo da qualche giornale [...]
15 Oct

Going West – XKCD

14 Oct

Did the US drop a nuclear bomb in Iraq in 1991?

Jim Brown (from Rainews24) An American veteran who participated in “Desert Storm” accuses the Us Administration of having used a small nuclear penetration bomb with an energy of 5 kilotons between the Iraqi town of Basra and the border with Iran. The journalist Maurizio Torrealta of the Italian state channel Rainews24 reports that the coalition forces dropped [...]
13 Oct

US National Debt Clock runs out of numbers

National Debt Clock runs out of numbers – Economy in Turmoil- msnbc.com: “A non-digital, improvised dollar sign has been pasted next to the “1.” (Via Msnbc.)
29 Aug

Bush espansionism in Georgia

Bush expansionism in Georgia by Latuff