Religions always seem to find a way of crossing each other. Now the Russian orthodox church is upset with the Mormons, who are buying records of dead Russians in order to baptize their dead souls in the Mormon religion.

A list of 40 good and promissing film directors. Some I don't like (Todd Haynes and his terrible 'Safe'), some I admire (Almodovar, Wong Kar Wai, , Takeshi Kitano, etc etc,), overall an interesting list.

An article about Israel's secret prison.

Two billionaires in the U.S. (one of them is Soros) are paying up to $5 million of their own money to fund anti-Bush advertisements.

An article by George Monbiot on how the U.S. and the U.K. did everything to avoid a peaceful solution to the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts.

Um artigo do The Guardian sobre uma nova novela da Globo, ambientada numa favela.

An article by Naomi Klein on why the Iraq privatization of firms is against the rules of the U.S. army, the Geneva and the Hague conventions.

Have a look at the size of the bite of this shark...

An article about the poor in the U.S..

An article by Tariq Ali, the 'Baghdad Blogger', entitled "Resistance is the first step towards Iraqi independence". Strongly opinionated, good reading for those who still believe the talk of Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz about how well the Iraqi occupation is going.

Two articles on the current situation in North Korea.