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Clandestine “Summer Reading”

Matt Dineen August 17, 2006 Matt Dineen

"This is nice, light summer reading." I look up, smiling, at the customer who proclaimed this about one of the best-selling new releases at the bookstore where I work. This whole concept of "summer reading" has been on my mind ever since I left this job when the season began to pursue something vaguely resembling a summer vacation. Now I'm back and, with one more hot and sticky month to go, the reading masses are still in search for the perfect summer book-something nice and light.

Tahiti: Nuclear cover-up stokes tension with France

Norm Dixon, Green Left Weekly August 16, 2006 Norm Dixon, Green Left Weekly

Oscar Temaru, the pro-independence president of the Tahiti Nui (Temaru’s preferred name for the French colony known as French Polynesia), dropped a political bombshell in the Pacific country’s parliament on July 28. Temaru released a letter from a respected government health expert in Paris that officially confirmed for the first time what most Tahitians have long known and France has always denied: that French nuclear explosions in their territory have increased cancer rates throughout the Tahitian islands. The revelation has further strained tensions between the Temaru-led coalition government and Tahiti’s colonial masters in Paris. read more

A War Over Nothing

Sandy LeonVest August 15, 2006 Sandy LeonVest

"See, this war is different from all the ones that our fathers and grandfathers fought. Those wars were for something. This war is for nothing," accused rapist and mass murderer, Private Steven Green said in an interview with Stars and Stripes reporter Andrew Tilghman in February, 2006. "I came over here because I wanted to kill people."

Feeding Ourselves: Organic Urban Gardens in Caracas, Venezuela

April M. Howard August 10, 2006 April M. Howard

In the middle of the modern, concrete city of Caracas, Venezuela, Noralí Verenzuela is standing in a garden dressed in jeans and work boots. She is the director of the Organopónico Bolivar I, the first urban, organic garden to show its green face in the heart of the city of Caracas, Venezuela.

U.S. War Crimes in Iraq: A Review of In the Name of Democracy

Bob Feldman August 9, 2006 Bob Feldman

In this post-9/11 "Era of Permanent War Crimes," U.S. antiwar activists have not yet been able to create a U.S. antiwar movement to end the U.S. military occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq or the U.S. government support for the Israeli war machine.

Return to Camp Casey: An Interview with Cindy Sheehan

Dan Bacher August 8, 2006 Dan Bacher

Cindy Sheehan, the Vacaville mother of a fallen soldier who reinvigorated the anti-war movement in the U.S. last year during her vigil outside Bush's ranch near Crawford, Texas, is planning another "Camp Casey" this August when George W. Bush takes his annual vacation.