Bhopal
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Bhopal gas tragedy-WikiLeaks expose US role
The [Wikileaks] disclosures known as the “Kissinger cables” make the US Administration ethically and morally, if not legally, responsible for the Bhopal Gas Disaster that took thousands of lives, sickened and maimed many more. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 19 April 2013
19 April 2013 — williambowles.info Julian Assange’s secret chat with Google’s chairman CNET Eric Schmidt met with the WikiLeaks founder for five hours in 2011 for material for a book expected to be released next week. Steven Musil. by Steven Musil. April 18, 2013 10:38 PM PDT Follow @stevenmusil. Julian Assange speaks to the public while … Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 3 March 2012: USA’s (no longer) secret plan for criminalising Julian Assange
3 March 2012 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks: New reports detail discontent, fear in Venezuelan military Sacramento Bee The report, which are part of the firm’s more than five million emails that WikiLeaks revealed this week, show Chávez’s concern over the growing signs of discontent coming from the military. “HCF [Hugo Chávez Frías] is worried,” says Continue reading
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Massive Wikileaks Reveals Criminality, Paranoia Amongst Corporate Titans
WikiLeaks begins to publish today over five million e-mails obtained by Anonymous from “global intelligence” company Stratfor. The emails, which reveal everything from sinister spy tactics to an insider trading scheme with Goldman Sachs (see below), also include several discussions of the Yes Men and Bhopal activists. Continue reading
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Capitalism: what a load of rubbish! By William Bowles
The controversy over climate change illustrates the fundamental dilemma that capitalism has when it comes to facing up to the end-product of production purely for the sake of profit. Small-time it’s toxic but tolerable. Global it spells almost certain disaster for us as a species along with countless thousands of others. Continue reading
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Pranksters Fixing the World By Mark Engler
21 October, 2009 — Foreign Policy In Focus Over the past 10 years, the Yes Men have emerged as an infamously daring and creative duo of anti-corporate pranksters. In their new movie, The Yes Men Fix the World, Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno (known in their non-activist lives as Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos) explain Continue reading
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DOW, EXXONMOBIL SLAM NEW YES MEN FILM FOR “INACCURACIES”, “MISREPRESENTATION”; CONCEDE PIC “ENTERTAINING”
ExxonMobil and Dow Chemical spokespersons have lashed out out at award-winning new documentary “The Yes Men Fix the World” in an interview with the Reuters press agency, shortly before the film’s U.K. theatrical opening. Exxon stopped short of calling the Yes Men outright liars, despite a scene in the film where the Yes Men, impersonating… Continue reading
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