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Baghdad: Life During Wartime / Selling Sex in Siam / More News from Toward Freedom

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New this week from www.TowardFreedom.com:

Baghdad: Life During Wartime: by Brian Conley
Two and a half years into the occupation, war still rages on in Baghdad, Iraq.
Two of the deadliest attacks in the last month occurred at the Palestine Hotel
and the Hamra Hotel. Although Westerners frequent these hotels, the casualties
were almost exclusively Iraqis living and working in the area. Yet just a few hours
after the attacks, citizens were back on the streets, as if nothing had happened.
Read more...


Selling Sex in Siam: by Elayne Clift
Even paradise has its seedy side, a fact that comes through clearly in Louise
Brown’s important book, Sex Slaves: The Trafficking of Women in Asia (Virago, 2000). Examining the region’s sex trade and shedding light on its abuses and exploitations, Brown’s book is a wake-up call and a condemnation. But mostly it
is a chronicle of commodification, filled with very sad stories about the lives of
innocent girls and women forced to sell their bodies as if they were just so much meat.
Read more...


The Revolution May Never Be Televised: by Rob Williams
"I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained
and more mature than most of our industry's program planners believe."
- Edward R. Murrow, 1958

To say that George Clooney’s new film "Good Night and Good Luck" is one of the most important films of this year is to be guilty of significant understatement.
Not since Michael Mann’s 1999 thriller "The Insider" has a Hollywood film director made a media-focused mainstream movie this important or timely.
Read more...


An Interview with 9/11 Truth Activist Carol Brouillet: by Bob Feldman
A co-founder of both the International Media Project, Making Contact alternative
media group and the Northern California 9-11 Truth Alliance, Carol Brouillet is
one of the most energetic, creative and politically productive West Coast-based
anti-war activists.

Toward Freedom: Since October 2001, you've been organizing weekly
"Listening For Peace" anti-war protests in Downtown Palo Alto, California. In what various ways have people in Palo Alto responded to your weekly "Listening For Peace" actions during the last four years?
Read more...


From Between the Lines Radio: In Growing Numbers, Public Opposes Iraq War, While Most Congressional Democrats Play It "Safe"; Cuban American
Associates of Convicted Terrorist Luis Posada-Carriles Arrested in Florida;
Poor New Orleans Residents Struggle to Have Their Say on City's Reconstruction; Underreported News Summary from Around the World
Listen here

Also check out this week's Global Notebook news briefs at
http://www.towardfreedom.com/

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