Harper's Weekly Round-Up

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Turkey shelled the village of Dashta Takh in Iraqi Kurdistan and declared plans to send its ground troops to attack outposts of the Kurdish separatist PKK in the north of Iraq; criticized for the announcement, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan pointed out that the United States invaded Iraq without anyone’s permission.

Grandmaster Flash – The Message (Datashat Remix)

Hugo Chavez broadcast his weekly television program, “Aló Presidente,” from Che Guevara’s mausoleum in Santa Clara, Cuba, to honor the fortieth anniversary of the guerilla leader’s death. “We are the Axis of Evil,” said Fidel Castro to Chavez via phone. “You will never die,” said Chavez to Castro. “You remain forever on this continent, and with these nations, and this revolution is more alive today than ever, and Fidel, you know it.”

LCD Soundsystem – North American Scum

Guru Sri Chinmoy, author of 1,500 books and organizer of the Self-Transcendence 3,100, the world’s longest footrace, died of a heart attack.

Alan Braxe and Fred Falke - Rubicon

The Colombian game show “Nothing but the Truth” was canceled after a woman won $25,000 for admitting to have hired a hit man to kill her husband.

The Arcade Fire – Rebellion (Lies) (Junior Sanchez Remix)

Bo Ward, the proprietor of a barbershop near the Army’s Fort Campbell, committed suicide at a town meeting in Clarksville, Tennessee. Ward had requested that his home be rezoned as a commercial property to increase its value and to offset the losses he suffered when most of his regular patrons, among them General David Petraeus, were deployed to Iraq; the City Council refused. “Y’all have put me under,” said the barber before inserting a pistol into his mouth. “I’m out of here.”

Gravediggaz – 1-800-Suicide