Auteur/autrice : Heidi Barathieu-Brun

Added July 13, 2008: Linked also with GoDaddy.com, which is also mentionned on wikipedia, and on Hosting Central. See also: AOL/Microsoft-Hotmail Preventing Delivery of Truthout Communications, UPDATE: 09.20.07 (this is obviously an elite’s struggle against an investigative journalist). See also his article State Department’s Iran Democracy Fund Shrouded In Secrecy, July 11, 2008.

Linked with TruthOut.org.

Read his today’s article: Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me!

Jason Leopold – USA

He says: « … the place to find a scoop is by reading every bit of information contained within documents. For example, if you’re a business reporter assigned to a company or industry you should pore over the company’s past and present SEC filings.

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Linked with Frontal Attack on the UN, and with Norwegian Institute of International Affairs NUPI.

Ms. Torild Skard is currently a researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs in Oslo where she focuses on gender and development issues.

Torild Skard – Norway

She says: « It is part of the picture that the great majority of politicians and providers of socialservices all over the world are men. There are relatively few wom-en and they are usually in subordinate positions. Clients and citi-zens, on the other hand, include 50 per cent or more women. Womenappear to be particularly numerous among the poor. The spotlightin the report on Kerala and Urdah Pradesh (pp. 44–45) has the be-ginnings of a gender analysis that is very interesting, but this is aboutall.

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Linked with Kabir.org – India, and with PARIVARTAN, Fighting Corruption – India.

He says: « I would love to give it all up, if only someone were to assure me of a means of living because Parivartan is not a source for making money. I have to think of something before I bow out of service but I know for sure that I cannot juggle like this forever ». And: « I firmly believe that there is a way out without having to bribe ». And: « I refuse to turn it into an NGO because I want to be accountable to the people, not to the donors ». And « We changed the modus operandi because we began to see ourselves as touts who do not charge. Now we help people do the paperwork and seek their rights ». And: « We helped Ashok Gupta get a new electricity connection that was refused to him for the last three years because he refused to pay a bribe of Rs 5000. Armed with the Right to Information Act, we got the connection in 10 days ». And: « We are living in a society of extortionists where the common man is not allowed to live honestly ». (See all on this site of The Tribune).

Arvind Kejriwal – India

RTE Activist, Kejriwal wins Magsaysay Award. Powai, 13 August 06 – Arvind Kejriwal, head of the NGO Parivartan, has been chosen for this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership.

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Linked with Tiere sind weder Menschen noch Waren, and with Departement of Biblical Studies, Univ. Fribourg (Switzerland).

He says « I wrote someplace that the Bible doesn’t really have that much about sex, despite the obsession of various Christians with trying to stop people from having it. However, there is one book that seems to be about nothing else but, and that is this one. In the history of the church, the erotic elements of this book have been interpreted as being praise of Solomon’s favorite wife, about God’s love of Israel, the relation of a student to wisdom itself, and so on. Over the last 200 years or so, the natural understanding of the text has regained ascendancy ». (see Othmar Keel, The Song of Songs, A Continental Commentary, Fortress Press, 1994, 290 pages).

Othmar Keel – Switzerland

Keel’s contribution is an extensive analysis of love poetry in related cultures as well as an examination of many drawings, carvings, and so on.

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Linked with Droits de l’Homme ou droit du plus fort?, and with Science of Chaos or Chaos in Science?.

Jean Bricmont is a Belgian theoretical physicist and a professor at the Catholic University of Leuven. He works on renormalization group and nonlinear differential equations. He is mostly known to the non-academic audience for co-authoring Fashionable Nonsense [= Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science (ISBN 0312204078; French: Impostures Intellectuelles, published in the UK as Intellectual Impostures, ISBN 1861976313)] with Alan Sokal. Jean Bricmont also collaborates with activist Noam Chomsky and campaigns on a variety of progressive causes. (See more on wikipedia).

Jean Bricmont – Belgium

Research Themes ( on UCL).

His books on Amazon. And on ‘complete review‘.

Son livre ‘Impérialisme Humanitaire’, droits de l’homme, droit d’ingérence, droit du plus fort?, préface de François Houtart: Toute idée, aussi légitime soit-elle, court le risque d’être transformée en idéologie et d’être utilisée par les pouvoirs en place à des fins qui leur sont propres.

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