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"The Michael Moore Conservatives:

Meet Britain's Anti-American Tories"

Adrian Wooldridge, Weekly Standard

There are many things that can be said against Michael Moore. An odd
combination of Howard Stern and Paul Krugman, Moore is the king of
all left-wing media, from films to books, who specializes in trashing
everything that conservative America holds dear. For Moore,
businessmen are always trampling on the faces of the poor,
Republicans are always the tools of sinister vested interests, and
America is always up to no good in the world. But say this for the
pudgy auteur, he has his uses as a timesaver at dinner parties in
hyper-partisan America. If the woman next to you admires Moore, she
probably dated Dean and is now firmly married to Kerry; if she
regards Moore as a bilious blowhard, then she is probably going to
vote for George W. Bush.

The list can be found here: BBC.

A member of
the Iraqi Communist Party retains his same position as
Minister of Culture in the US-imposed stooge regime:

Minister of Culture: Mufid Mohammad Jawad al-Jazairi,
Iraqi Communist Party, Shia Muslim, maintains his
existing position. Worked as a journalist for Czechoslovak
radio in the 60s and 70s but returned to Iraq in the 1980s.

Michael Moore Has Film of US Hostage Berg

Contents of Interview with Beheading Victim Undisclosed

BBC News

Film director Michael Moore says he has interview footage of slain US hostage Nick Berg that was not used in his anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11.

Moore, whose film won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes festival, said the footage was about 20 minutes long.

He said it would not be released to the media and that he was dealing privately with Mr Berg's family about it.

Mr Berg's killing shocked Americans after an Arabic-language website showed a video of him being beheaded.

Neither Moore nor his representatives would discuss the nature of the interview with Mr Berg, or its contents, the Associated Press news agency reported.

New York's Socialist Scholars Conference Board Splits

To: The Socialist Scholars Conference community.

From: Stanley Aronowitz, Nancy Holmstrom, Manning Marable, Leith
Mullings, Frances Fox Piven, Julia Wrigley.

At its meeting on the evening of May 19th, the Board of the Socialist
Scholars Conference voted by 8 to 7 to terminate the services of our
staff director, Eric Canepa. This move has been afoot for some
months, and we have tried hard to avert it. Now that this decision
has been made, we feel morally obligated to resign from the Board. We
note that the people leaving include a majority of the women and
people of color who have joined the Board.

"The Trail of Torture:

The Things Bush Didn't Say in His Speech"

Robert Fisk,
The Independent

I can't wait to see Abu Ghraib prison reduced to rubble by the Americans — at the request of the new Iraqi government, of course. It will be turned to dust in order to destroy a symbol of Saddam's brutality. That's what President Bush tells us. So the re-writing of history still goes on. Last August, I was invited to Abu Ghraib — by my favourite US General Janis Karpinski, no less — to see the million-dollar US refurbishment of this vile place. Squeaky clean cells and toothpaste tubes and fresh pairs of pants for the "terrorist" inmates. But now, suddenly, the whole kit and caboodle is no longer an American torture centre. It's still an Iraqi torture centre, and thus worthy of demolition.

American Pacifist Dave Dellinger, 1915–2004

On Tuesday, May 25, 2004, at approximately 1:30 p.m., nonviolent hero Dave Dellinger passed from this world in Montpelier, Vermont. Although suffering from Alzheimer's for several years, Dave recognized his wife, Elizabeth, and other family members right until the end.

For more than sixty years, Dave Dellinger was at the forefront of movements for peace and social justice. From his refusal to serve in World War II (which resulted in imprisonment) and early opposition to the nucelar arms race to leading anti-war protests at the 1968 Democratic convention, the famous Chicago "conspiracy" trial, and beyond, Dave led the way by powerful personal example and inspired teaching for generations of activists.

"FBI Abducts Artist, Seizes Art:

Feds Unable to Distinguish Art from Bioterrorism,

Grieving Artist Denied Access to Deceased Wife's Body"

Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) collective member Steve Kurtz was already suffering from one tragedy when he called 911
early in the morning to tell them his wife had suffered a cardiac arrest
and died in her sleep. The police arrived and, cranked up on the rhetoric
of the "War on Terror," decided Kurtz's art supplies were actually
bioterrorism weapons.

Thus began an Orwellian stream of events in which FBI agents abducted
Kurtz without charges, sealed off his entire block, and confiscated his
computers, manuscripts, art supplies... and even his wife's body.

"The Bush Doctrine"

Noam Chomsky Interview, BBC

If George Bush were to be judged by the standards of the
Nuremberg Tribunals, he'd be hanged. So too, mind you, would
every single American President since the end of the second
world war, including Jimmy Carter.

The suggestion comes from the American linguist Noam
Chomsky. His latest attack on the way his country behaves in
the world is called Hegemony or Survival, America's Quest
for Global Dominance.

Jeremy Paxman met him at the British Museum, where they
talked in the Assyrian Galleries. He asked him whether he
was suggesting there was nothing new in the so-called Bush
Doctrine.

"Venezuela's Oligarchy Imports Soldiers
Because It Cannot Recruit Them At Home"

Marta Harnecker

If anything has become clear following the discovery of
an incursion of a significantly large paramilitary group
into the country, it is that the 'anti-Bolivarian and
anti-Venezuelan oligarchy and its masters in the north'
have not been able to recruit Venezuelan soldiers for
their subversive objectives and 'have been forced to
recruit them in another country,' as expressed President
Chavez in front of tens of thousands of people, who
gathered in Caracas this past Sunday, May 16th, to
demonstrate their rejection of paramilitary activity and
to express their support for peace.