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Ugo Mattei's Blog
October 28, 2009
- Texas Oil Man: US Should Plunder Iraqi Oil by Len Hart pickens2.jpg <http://www.uruknet.info/pic.php?f=pickens2.jpg> The Existentialist Cowboy <http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2009/10/texas-oil-man-us-should-plunder-iraqi.html> , October 23, 2009 Texas oil man T. Boone Pickets typifies what is dead wrong about America and what passes for ...
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October 14, 2009
- I am particularly concerned about this. In Italy we have an interior minister as shamefulas this one. Let's see what else we will have to hear http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1120966.html
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October 12, 2009
September 23, 2009
- I received the following and I post it here. From: Global Women's Strike/SF Bay Area [mailto:sf@crossroadswomen.net] Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 9:56 AMTo: Mattei, UgoSubject: ALERT: EMERGENCY SITUATION IN HONDURAS: ACT NOW Dear sisters and brothers, The democratically elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, who was removed by a military coup in June has returned to Honduras and ...
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September 18, 2009
- A fifty five years old man, of course black, after 25 years from his crime gives his arm to the State material executors murderers. They try to fix a large needle in his arm. Despite the awful pain, the needle has touched his bones, he tries to help them to carry out Justice the U.S. way. After 16 attempts with his arm brain and sould devastated by this torture the murderers give up. Romell ...
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September 11, 2009
- UN AGENCY CALLS ON ISRAEL TO LIFT BOOK BLOCKADE OF GAZA SCHOOLS New York, Sep 10 2009 3:10PM The main United Nations agency caring for Palestinian refugees today called on Israel to lift its blockade of Gaza to allow in educational materials for schools, stressing that these can serve as a major weapon in promoting tolerance and peace."There is a long history of ...
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September 10, 2009
- I found this piece by Nimer Sultany very instructive particularly for students of International and comparative law.http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/08/israel-palestine-law-dissent Israel's laws of persecutionIsrael is using the country's legal system to segregate and penalise its Palestinian citizens and prohibit Arab dissentNimer SultanyTwo cases brought before Israeli courts ...
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August 15, 2009
- A short article describing the basic thesis of Plunder can be found inhttp://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1437530.
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May 9, 2009
- Barack Obama holds a mirror in his hannds. The mirror is all dirty of fresh blood. The face of Barack is surprised, perhaps a little disgusted. Someone might spot a little grim. He is not smiling. The mirror reflects the face of a white man with a very dumb look and a smile in his face. George W Bush and not Barack Obama is what the mirror returns to the latter holding it. Afghanistan: ...
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May 4, 2009
- Avigdor Lieberman has started a tour in Europe. he will be received like a statesman from most chanceries. It started in Italy today. He should be arrested for istigating ratial hate. Hosni Mubarak hase seized the opportunity of the "flue epidemic" to kill 300.000 pigs belonging to the copts, his political opponents and an impoverished group in Egypt. The flue is of course serving as a ...
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April 30, 2009
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Adversary legalism, what Professor Kagan calls in a very giod book, the American way of law is the structural form that the rule of law takes in its worldwide expansion. Plunder finds in this structure its most fertile ground. To resists such expansion we should point at the tragic outcomes of this adversary ideal when aplied in severe power unbalance. The case of Troy Davis, as that of Mumia ...
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April 27, 2009
- This conversation on torture is getting to an important point, that of activism and communication. Ultimately, how to construct consciousness of the kind of issues and of political violence we address in Plunder and in the Plunder Blog. I attach here a note that I eceived from a young Palestinian scholar. Images might make a big difference and perhaps some serius effort in using images as forms ...
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April 25, 2009
- I completely agree with both Michele and John. On the power of ideas and particularly on their power if they can originate some critical thinking that clearly exposes past horrors (which are still current).I really hope that Obama reads Galeano. That book was out there for almost fourty years and it would have been nice if it had already read it! But of course it had the "stigma" of ...
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April 21, 2009
- I received a note from the Center for Justice and Accountability that I wish to share with my readers. I was particularly pleased since in the past I had criticized such kind of human rights activists for only becoming active with torturers and wrongdoers in the "third world" thus participating in the propaganda on the superiority of Western rule of law....So Here is the message. ...
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April 20, 2009
- I wonder what is the position of President Obama on the death penalty. Once I told to some american jurists friends of mine that I was disgusted by Clinton's cynicism when he went to witness the execution of a retarded guy in Arkansas (so retarded that he asked after the lest meal that the desert was put in a doggybag and kept for later). They replied they would vote for Clinton anyway, even ...
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