Sunday, March 6th, 2005
Welcome to Doomsday
By Bill Moyers in the NY Review of Books
There are times when what we journalists see and intend to write about dispassionately sends a shiver down the spine, shaking us from our neutrality. This has been happening to me frequently of late as one story after another drives home the fact that the delusional is no longer marginal but has come in from the fringe to influence the seats of power. We are witnessing today a coupling of ideology and theology that threatens our ability to meet the growing ecological crisis. Theology asserts propositions that need not be proven true, while ideologues hold stoutly to a world view despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality. The combination can make it impossible for a democracy to fashion real-world solutions to otherwie intractable challenges.
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Sunday, March 6th, 2005
I was US target – journalist
The Italian journalist wounded by US troops shortly after her month-long kidnap ordeal ended this weekend, on Sunday fanned a growing diplomatic rift between Rome and Washington by suggesting the US soldiers deliberately tried to kill her.
Giuliana Sgrena, wounded when the convoy taking her to safety was riddled with bullets by a US patrol near Baghdad airport on Friday, said she may have been a target because the US opposed negotiations with her kidnappers.
Fabio Sermonti, Italian Correspondent, Independent Television News in an interview with Laura Flanders on Air America Radio said that Giuliana Sgrena was working on a story about the use of illegal weapons by US troops in Fallujah.
BBC interview:
“We had no signal. We were just on the way to the airport. They started to shoot at us without any light or signal. There was no block, there was nothing. It was so immediate. I didn’t know how I was alive after all that attack.”
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Sunday, March 6th, 2005
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Sunday on the Lower East Side.
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Sunday, March 6th, 2005
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Crossing Houston Street from Avenue B to Clinton Street.
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