Guerilla Garden Installation

To my delight, whilst walking home from work through the Melbourne CBD, I discovered this planting installation outside a major shopping centre.  From recycled cardboard and news paper, the mysterious horticultural propagandists fashioned a honeycomb-like structure in which were placed small plants and seedlings for people to take and plant in a bid to inspire the greening of the world. In coke bottles and chip packets were a number of other plants placed with the message "When you're planting, everything looks like a vase". Niice.
Go forth and propagate!!

Noam Chomski on Iraq, war crimes and levels of radioactivity in US shells found in Iraq.

This is really horrific.. Fallijia, one of the Iraqi areas that had the strongest resistance against American forces, was bombed to pieces by the U.S. and the rubble bulldozed into the river. Now there is such a high incidence of birth defects occurring there that Fallujian women are advised to not have children. This is damning evidence of a war crime and the U.S. must be held accountable.

Iraq - Dispatches documentary

A horrifying documentary analysis of the classified US military documents detailing accounts of significant activities during the US occupation of Iraq that were recently leaked by Wikileaks. In what is biggest classified information leak yet are revealed the full scale of the death toll [ 110,000- 69,00 of which were civilians. The US government had reported 109 Iraqi deaths. ], evidence of the indiscriminate brutality of the US military, and the wide scale torture employed by both the American forces and the Iraqi government and militias.
The US government, in it's typical double-speak rhetoric are

Future Affairs

The VPRO Backlight series of "future affairs" documentaries are an incisive collection of reports on the key social, political, economic, technological and other important issues shaping our times. Well researched, produced and well worth checking out. Excellent cerebral fertilizer.

http://tegenlicht.vpro.nl/backlight.html?currentPage=2