RIP: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Writer who shone light on gulag dies Associated Press August 4, 2008 ALEXANDER Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, has died at 89. Solzhenitsyn as gulag prisoner. Son Stepan said his father died of heart failure. Solzhenitsyn’s unflinching accounts of torment and survival in the Soviet Union’s slave labour camps riveted his countrymen, whose secret history he exposed. It earned him 20 years of bitter...

August 4, 2008

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Soviet dissident writer Solzhenitsyn dies at 89

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet dissident writer and Nobel literature prize winner, has died aged 89, the Interfax news agency reported on Sunday. He died of a stroke, the agency said, quoting literary sources in Moscow. Solzhenitsyn served with the Red Army in World War Two but became one of the most prominent dissidents of the Soviet era, enduring labor camps, cancer and persecution by Soviet officialdom. His experience in the network of labor camps was vividly described in his “One Day...

August 3, 2008

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Björk: Declare Independence

August 1, 2008

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Kucinich seeks to bar US oil firms from Iraq

Rep. Dennis Kucinich has introduced a measure that would bar US oil companies from receiving contracts in Iraq. The Ohio Democrat, who believes exploiting Iraq’s massive oil reserves was the primary reason we invaded, introduced a measure he says aims to keep Iraq’s oil wealth within the country. “Iraq needs oil revenue now more than ever as they try to rebuild their country,” Kucinich said Thursday, unveiling the Oil for Iraq Liberation Act. Kucinich noted Congress recently required...

August 1, 2008

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Gravel: Take Bush to The Hague

Former Democratic candidate Mike Gravel says President George W. Bush should be taken to The Hague for war crimes rather than being impeached. In a Monday video conference with Press TV, the former Alaska senator said President Bush does not ‘deserve’ to be impeached for invading Afghanistan and Iraq, which has resulted in the loss of ‘millions of lives’. “An Impeachment just means you would only take away his (Bush’s) presidency. Well, he is almost done (with)...

July 27, 2008

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‘Imperial presidency’ hearing to feature 13 witnesses

Kucinich, Barr, Bugliosi among those testifying The House Judiciary Committee has released a witness list for its hearing to examine “the imperial presidency” of George W. Bush. Testifying Friday morning will be Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who has introduced several resolutions calling for President Bush’s and Vice President Dick Cheney’s impeachment; former Rep. Bob Barr, the Libertarian presidential candidate who led the charge to impeach Bill Clinton in 1998; Vincent Bugliosi,...

July 25, 2008

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John Lennon on Military Industrial Complex and Revolution

July 23, 2008

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Flight carrying Ron Paul, other Reps. makes emergency landing

A flight with members of Texas’ U.S. Congressional delegation aboard, including former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, “took a major nosedive” and was forced to make an emergency landing on Tuesday afternoon, according to a Houston TV station. KHOU reports that a Continental Airlines flight carrying seven U.S. lawmakers suddenly lost cabin pressure on its way from Houston to Washington, D.C.’s Reagan National Airport. The flight recovered, was diverted and landed...

July 22, 2008

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Ron Paul Doesn’t Look So “Crazy” Now, Does He, New Yorkers?

Look, it’s Ron Paul! But what is he doing in New York, the fancy magazine for elites, alongside establishment finance types like a former Morgan Stanley economist and a famous investor? Isn’t he sort of “kooky?” Everyone (who didn’t live in a basement or wasn’t a furry) laughed at Paul’s quest for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, especially since Paul wanted to get rid of the Federal Reserve and take America back to the gold standard, in which...

July 21, 2008

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