John Zukowsky, former Art Institute architecture curator, to head Pritzker … ... Read more
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Clinton urges Afghan leader to institute reform
On November - 18 - 2009
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, is welcomed by top U.S. commander Gen. ... Read more
The raid on the homes of 10 leaders of the Karen National Union (KNU) by Thai security forces in the border town of Mae Sot on Tuesday came just one…
On October - 28 - 2009
Burmese Dissidents Worry about Thai Crackdown Thai soldiers and police entered the homes and offices of more than 10 leaders of the KNU and its military wing, the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), around 6 a.m. On Tuesday morning. The wife of Col Ner Dah Mya, the son of late KNU leader Gen Bo Mya, was detained after police found material for making explosives at her house. In September, Thai police raided the offices of several exiled Burmese opposition groups in Chiang Mai including ... Read more
Dandelion Salad’s Tweets
On October - 24 - 2009
Submitted on Buzzflashby Rick Rozoff Featured WriterDandelion SaladStop NATOhttp://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/ October 24, 2009“U.S. efforts in Romania and Bulgaria are part of a global redeployment strategy started in the early years of the Bush administration to shift U.S. forces out of Germany and move them eastward.”“The number of US military men at the two bases is not going to be large, but who can say that it will not be doubled, tripped or quadrupled in the future? Furthermore, the appeara ... Read more
This Day in Geek History: October 23
On October - 23 - 2009
1877 Nicolaus Otto , Francis Crossley, and William Crossley are granted a patent for the first internal-combustion engine to burn gasoline in a piston chamber. (US No. 194,047) View the patent online . 1911 Captain Carlo Piazza of the Italian military flies a Blériot XI monoplane on an hour-long reconnaissance mission of Turkish troop positions, becoming the first pilot to use an airplane for military purposes. Just more nine days later, Italian forces will carry out history’s first ... Read more
Chomsky Banned at Guantanamo
On October - 12 - 2009
Anti-war activist’s works banned at prison campsBY CAROL ROSENBERGcrosenberg@MiamiHerald.comTHE MIAMI HERALDProfessor Noam Chomsky may be among America’s most enduring anti-war activists. But the leftist intellectual’s anthology of post 9/11 commentary is taboo at Guantánamo’s prison camp library, which offers books and videos on Harry Potter, World Cup soccer and Islam.U.S. military censors recently rejected a Pentagon lawyer’s donation of an Arabic-language copy of the political act ... Read more
Flying False Colors (The Sixth Day) [NYC]
On October - 2 - 2009
Flying False Colors (The Sixth Day) by Carlo Zanni :: October 1-31, 2009 :: The Project Room for New Media, Chelsea Art Museum, NYC. Flying False Colors is a multimedia project that loosely refers to the 1975 espionage film Three Days of the Condor , directed by Sydney Pollack, which was one of the first films to suggest a link between covert US military operations and the control of oil production in the Middle East. Like many of Zanni’s past projects, Flying False Colors relies on t ... Read more
