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Daily Archives: August 22nd, 2008

A STATEMENT TO THE PRESS FROM THE FREE GAZA MOVEMENT

22-Aug-08

Forty-six international human rights workers are now sailing to Gaza through international waters with one overriding goal: to break the Israeli siege that Israel has imposed on the civilian population of Gaza. Any action designed to harm civilians constitutes collective punishment (in the Palestinians’ case, for voting the “wrong” way) and is both illegal under international law and profoundly immoral.

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STALIN, THE POET, AND LIFE’S CHOICES BY GAITHER STEWART

22-Aug-08

Standing on a square about a mile from Moscow’s Kremlin, the towers of which are nearly visible from famous Trimphalnaya Square, commonly known as Mayakovskaya Square, the poet’s statue seems lonely in the hubbub of modern Moscow. Passing right over the body of the “poet of the Revolution”, so to speak, this voyage passes through the intricacies and pitfalls of available choices in life, the artistic choices of the poet and the political-ideological choices of Stalin, a man caught at the center of an extremely complex world historical process.

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Recycling the spin cycle By Jerome Spring

22-Aug-08

Before joining the London Independent to become its diplomatic editor, Anne Penketh trailed around Moscow, Paris and New York as a foreign correspondent. Apparently, she tries to “separate the spin cycle from the news cycle”.
In a main article on Russia and Georgia in the Independent of the 20 August, she asserted that “the Georgian government [...]