Friday, February 28, 2003

An interesting article on the celebration of 60 years of the battle of Staliningrad, and the different ways official history has treated its importance.

Thursday, February 27, 2003

Sobre a mais recente onda de violencia no Rio: em uma semana, 45 veiculos incendiados, seis supermercados atacados e nove onibus depredados.

Tuesday, February 18, 2003

A text by Naomi Klein on the midia war in Venezuela.
An analysis (by an Oxford scholar) on why the US wants war.

Sunday, February 16, 2003

Friday, February 14, 2003

O governo Lula se declara contra o plano Colombia (intervencao militar americana na Colombia).
Sean Penn is against the war, and has been speaking about it for a while now, in a mostly silent Hollywood. Now he's sueing a producer, claiming that he was dismissed from a film because of his anti-war views. This brings to mind the McCarthy's era in Hollywood, with black lists etc.
The US government instills panic in its citizens, telling them to store water, money, flashlights and plastic sheets in case of a terrorist attack. This is unlikely to help, but it creates panic and support for the authorities. In my view, it's all part of the drive for war.
An article by a reporter who was in Iraq in 1991, reporting on what 'collateral damage' really means.

Thursday, February 13, 2003

On the ethics of nanotechnology. This reminds me of Prey, a book by Michael Crichton that I recently read.

Wednesday, February 12, 2003

A nice collection of anti-war sites.

Tuesday, February 11, 2003

An article on the left in the US today.

Saturday, February 08, 2003