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2 Maggio 2005

L'UNESCO HA TOLTO BABILONIA DALLA LISTA DEI PATRIMONI DELL'UMANITA'

Babilonia era la capitale della Mesopotamia, la pianura alluvionale tra l’Eufrate e il Tigri. Dopo la caduta dell’impero degli Assiri (612 a.C.), Babilonia divenne la capitale dell’antico Medio Oriente e il re Nabucodonosor abbellì la città con diversi edifici famosi. Anche quando l’impero Babilonese fu conquistato dal re persiano Ciro il Grande (539 a.C.), Babilonia rimase una splendida città. Alessandro il Grande e i re seleucidi rispettarono la città, ma dopo la seconda metà del…

Iraq: A Colonial Dictatorship

by Ghali HassanAfter two months of wrangling and haggling over the forming of the new Iraqi "government", the US got what it wants, a US government. The Iraqi people are saying: 'How could we have elected those people'? And those are the people the US will continue to protect. At gunpoint, the Iraqi people have been denied the right to govern their country and live in peace. Iraqis were disappointed by the results of the infighting between the expatriates in their bunker. The rigged…

Simple Math demonstrate that the Official 9/11 Account is a Fabrication

by Elias DavidssonThe term “official 9/11 account” refers to the account of the events of Sept. 11, 2001, as presented in June 2004 by the Commission of Inquiry appointed by President George W. Bush, and complemented by other official documents issued by US government agencies. This account includes various details, such as identities of the alleged hijackers, identities of aircraft, timelines and other data used to prove that the crime of 9/11 was perpetrated by the named individuals…

Why America Needs to be Defeated in Iraq

by Mike Whitney The greatest moral quandary of our day is whether we, as Americans, support the Iraqi insurgency. It’s an issue that has caused anti-war Leftist’s the same pangs of conscience that many felt 30 years ago in their opposition to the Vietnam War. The specter of disloyalty weighs heavily on all of us, even those who’ve never been inclined to wave flags or champion the notion of American “Exceptionalism”. For myself, I can say without hesitation, that I support the insurgency,…

PULCINELLA E JAMES BOND

DI GIULIETTO CHIESA Leggo Eugenio Scalfari, su Repubblica di domenica (“James Bond a Palazzo Chigi”), dopo avere letto in questi giorni, e in molti altri precedenti, il gran coltivatore di dossier “segreti” D'Avanzo, lo scopritore emerito dell'affare telekom Serbia. E tento di riassumere nel ginepraio... Vediamo: la prima tesi è che questo governo, in primis Berlusconi, seguito a ruota dal candidato a presidente Gianni Letta, insieme al capo del Sismi, sono dei pasticcioni, dei…