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Iranian Cartoonist Marjane Satrapi

January 30, 2008 – 10:46 am

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Marjane Satrapi and her comic self portrait.
KBOO’s Words and Pictures show recently featured an interview with Iranian cartoonist Marjane Satrapi, whose autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis was just made into a feature length film.
“Satrapi became famous worldwide because of her [...]

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The History of Oil

January 27, 2008 – 7:48 pm

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British comic Robert Newman tells the story of Western oil dependency and the U.S.’s unique ‘trade relationships’ with oil-producing nations better than any Chomsky lecture.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8957268309327954402

Funny and illuminating.

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Happy Holidays, Christmas, whatever you call it…

December 21, 2007 – 8:20 am

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“Sorry to interrupt, but I had one of those brain learnin’ things that wasn’t there a minute ago…”
Have a great Christmas, Solstice, Mithras, Saturnalia, Hanukkah, Festivus, Holiest of High Holy Shopping Day, Stuffmas, or whatever you call it.
I call it [...]

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Congress Looking Out For Their Constituents…

December 8, 2007 – 12:20 pm

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Big Corporations:
A bipartisan group of Congressmen (and one woman) yesterday introduced a major bill aimed at boosting US intellectual property laws and the penalties that go along with them. While much of the legislation targets industrial counterfeiting and knockoff drugs, it [...]

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R.U. Sirius Kicks Off The QuestionAuthority Movement

November 28, 2007 – 8:26 pm

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Author, podcaster and Mondo 2000 founder Ken Goffman - better known as R.U. Sirius - has a proposal for all of us:
A dark cloud is passing over America. We’ve witnessed, in recent years, the death of many of our constitutional [...]

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YouTube stops account of anti-torture activist

November 28, 2007 – 8:00 am

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The video-sharing website YouTube has suspended the account of a prominent Egyptian anti-torture activist who posted videos of what he said was brutal behaviour by some Egyptian policemen, the activist said.
Wael Abbas said close to 100 images he had sent to [...]

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More on Time’s Joe Klein…

November 28, 2007 – 7:44 am

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…and his apparently willful inability to get it right on FISA legislation and the Dems :
After being called to task last week for writing a dangerously misinformed column on changes to the nation’s spying laws, Klein concedes that he might have made [...]

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More Fallout from Baird’s Pro-Surge Stance

November 13, 2007 – 8:03 am

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Baird’s war turn blew “any chance” of Iraq “compromise.”
In August, Rep. Brian Baird (D-WA) returned from a two-day trip to the war-torn country, proclaiming that “real progress” was being made and that the escalation should be extended “at least into early [...]

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Freedom’s Happening

November 7, 2007 – 9:01 pm

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For the last year or so, I’ve let the shrub off the hook. He obviously can’t help it and to a large extent, he and his intelligence is a sort of red herring, in my opinion; I seriously doubt that he has much to do [...]

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FCC Public Hearing on Media Ownership

November 6, 2007 – 8:32 pm

[ November 9, 2007; 4:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ] Mike Ellison from Vancouver for Peace sends us this message:

Dear Peacemakers, I don’t usually pass on these alerts, but I know that many of you care deeply about media ownership. This is from FreePress.net. If you plan to drive and have room for passengers, you could write to this list with your [...]

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