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May 18, 2006
05.18.06 Ali G. Interviews Noam Chomsky; Of NGOs and Missionaries; Propaganda and the World Cup
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THiS WEEK: Ali G. interviews Noam Chomsky, for real; a gang of "Robin Hoods" in Germany rob elite shops and give away their booty; news that Mossad, Israel's spy network, killed at least 530 Iraqi scientists and university professors, in cooperation with the US; Fast Food Nation is being made into a movie, and the industrial food lobby is freaking out; propaganda and the world's most popular sporting event; the creator of a new documentary on rape, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, talks about race, gender, and the Duke rape case; why we should care about the fungus among us; hot sex for the wheelchair-bound; the top 100 corporate air polluters; the Arctic may lose all of its ice by 2030; and much more in this week's dose of Media Picks.
This Week's Picks:
- VIDEO TORRENT | Ali G. Interviews Noam Chomsky
It's hard to say which is funnier: Ali G's ridiculous questions or Chomsky's good-spirited but increasingly irked responses.Chomskytorrents.org
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Direct torrent link: http://chomskytorrents.org/DownloadTorrent.php?TorrentID=1303 - Rob From the Rich and...
Plundering champagne and smoked salmon from high-end shops and distributing them among the city's less fortunate, a gang of "thieves" in Hamburg, Germany has taken it upon themselves to highlight the inequalities in German society. Using the tactics of confusion and spontaneity (and dressing in various superhero costumes), the unknown thieves have been at it for the last several months, and have yet to be apprehended.Nidhi Sharma | All Headline News
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7003489913 - Mossad Murdered 530 Iraqi Scientists
Persistent Israeli hit squads against Iraqi scientists had been active in Iraq since April 2003, but the latest chapter was uncovered on Tuesday, 14 June 2005 by the Palestine Information Center which, citing a report compiled by the United States Department of State and intended for the American President, stated that Israeli and foreign agents sent by Mossad, in cooperation with United States, to Iraq, killed at least 350 Iraqi scientists and more than 200 university professors and academic personalities. - Food Flack Nation
The industrial food lobby is freaking out over “Chew On This,” his new book aimed at youngsters, and the fact that his “Fast Food Nation” is being made into a major Hollywood movie with the same title.John Stauber | Guerrilla News Network
http://www.guerrillanews.com/articles/2279/Spin_of_the_Week - Using Soccer to Kick Iran
This year's World Cup—by sheer numbers the most important sporting event on earth—is being seized upon by Germany (the Cup's host) and the US to intensify the saber rattling aimed at Tehran. Citing Iran's efforts to develop a nuclear program and the anti-Israel pronouncements of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, several leading politicians in both countries have called for the Iranian team to be banned from the World Cup. In this spirit of tolerance and peace, Berlin's liberal daily Der Tagesspiegel ran a cartoon in February that depicted Iranian soccer players as suicide bombers.Dave Zirin & John Cox | The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060529/zirin - INTERVIEW | Aishah Shahidah Simmons: Words on the Duke Rape Case
Aishah Shahidah Simmons has lots to say about the Duke rape case, in which two (white) members of Duke University's lacrosse team were accused of raping a (black) female stripper. Based in Philadelphia, Penn, Aishah is the producer, writer, and director of the film NO! The Rape Documentary.Celine de Lion | Feministing
http://feministing.com/archives/005022.html#more - AUDIO | The Promise of Fungi
In a world where pollutants accumulate in the environment around us, our homes and our bodies, is there any way to protect ourselves and the environment? Paul Stamets thinks so and he thinks one of the answers lies in an unexpected place—mushrooms.C.S. Soong | Against the Grain
http://www.againstthegrain.org/audio5.16.06.mp3 - Getting Around
One quadriplegic woman's story of how she discovered her wheelchair wasn't a chastity belt.Tiffiny Carlson | Nerve
http://www.nerve.com/personalessays/carlson/gettingaround/ - Why They Hate Our Kind Hearts, Too
Missionaries are still operating today, but the field has become more intensely populated and diverse. Today's NGOs are elephantine, serpentine, and Byzantine. They may be international organizations, their local affiliates, or seemingly spontaneous grassroots groups. And they are heirs of the missionaries, who did many good deeds, but also served as scouts for corporations and colonizers.Joan Roelofs | CounterPunch
http://www.counterpunch.org/roelofs05132006.html - CARTOON | What You Can Do to Fight Against the War on Sex
Tim Kreider | The Pain Comics
http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly060517a.htm - The Toxic 100
A recently-updated list of the top 100 corporate air polluters in the US. Make your top ten guesses, then check out the table!Political Economy Research Institute
http://www.umass.edu/peri/programs/development/toxic100press.htm - Latin America and the Wide War
How fast has Latin America fallen from favor? Just a decade ago the Clinton administration was holding up the region as the crown jewel of globalization's promise: All is quiet on "our southern flank," reported the head of the US Southern Command, General Barry McCaffrey, in 1995, "our neighbors are allies who, in general, share similar values."Greg Grandin | Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2006/05/latin_america_wide_war.html - Meltdown Fear as Arctic Ice Cover Falls to Record Winter Low
Record amounts of the Arctic ocean failed to freeze during the recent winter, new figures show, spelling disaster for wildlife and strengthening concerns that the region is locked into a destructive cycle of irreversible climate change. Satellite measurements show the area covered by Arctic winter sea ice reached an all-time low in March, down some 300,000 square kilometres on last year—an area bigger than the UK. Scientists say the decline highlights an alarming new trend, with recovery of the ice in winter no longer sufficient to compensate for increased melting in the summer. If the cycle continues, the Arctic ocean could lose all of its ice much earlier than expected, possibly by 2030.David Adam | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1774815,00.html
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Posted by erin at May 18, 2006 11:15 PM