Lebowskiana

Information is collected, knowledge is constructed

A Russian diary by Anna

Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow in October 2006. She was the thirteenth journalist to be killed in a contract style killing since Putin came to power in 2000.
A Russian diary is her last book, the one she had recently completed. The book is full of interviews of people whose lives have been devastated by Putins policies, including the mothers of children who died in the Beslan siege, those of Russian soldiers maimed in Chechnya then abandoned by the state, and of disappeared young men and women.

Anna’s sister, Elena Kudimova, talks here about Anna and the book

9th of June: George in Rome, Francesca in Warwick

George W.Bush is coming to Italy on the 9th of June. That day I won’t be in Rome, I will be in Warwick trying to end the draft of my doctoral thesis, due to my Italian supervisor the 20th of June. Anyway I post some links on the visit of the US president.

9th of June everyone in Rome for No Bush No War Day

Contro Bush il 9 giugno a Roma 

Last but not least, that day will be also my birthday…

Wolfowitz resigns!!!

Let’s have a look here

Sandra Braman on line!

I didn’t go to the seminar at OII ‘cause I had an appointment with my supervisor in Warwick. But the seminar’s video is on line! Thanks to the Staff of the Oxford Internet Institute.

Information, Policy, and Power in the Informational State

Blair & Sarkozy

Nicholas Sarkozy ha vinto le elezioni e Blair si congratula su Downing St., il channel su YouTube. C’è ancheun’altra versione in francese, ma i commenti sono disabilitati…

Top story: Wolf & Shaha

Il salario di Shaha Riza, partner del presidente della World Bank Wolfowitz, è sotto osservazione. Wolf è under attack, lo Staff dell’organizzazione chiede le sue dimissioni. La crociata anti-corruzione subisce un grave colpo. Il Financial Times aveva rivelato il coinvolgimento di Wolf in questo brutto affare. Sembra che il presidente abbia ordinato l’approvazione di un aumento cospicuo di stipendio per la sua donna direttamente al dipartimento risorse umane. Wolf avrebbe ammesso l’errore, ma la sua testa sta per cadere, la chiedono tutti. Qui c’è una sua dichiarazione, direttamente dal sito del gruppo. Ma vi rendete conto?

Ecco qualche altro link.

To be continued…