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Eight Years of War: What WikiLeaks Has Revealed on the US Occupation of Iraq  The past year has seen the world learn a great deal about the US war and occupation of Iraq. With the WikiLeaks release of US State Cables, the Iraq War Logs, and a "Collateral Murder" video showing US soldiers firing on journalists and innocent civilians from an Apache helicopter, the criminal nature of the war and occupation has become more evident. By Bill Moyers
In Defense of NPR  For all its flaws, consider an America without public media. Consider a society where the distortions and dissembling would go unchallenged, where fact-based reporting is eliminated, and where the field is abandoned to the likes of James O'Keefe, whose "journalism" relies on lying and deceit. By Bud Goodall
The Liberal Inside of Me
Dr. Timothy Chandler withdrew from a Provost job at Kennesaw State University he had just won after a local newspaper found that a paper he published in 1998 contained a reference to Karl Marx. This is the latest tactic by the right to discredit educators and education. It is also a namecalling propaganda strategy similar to that used by Peter King against Muslims. In America, these outrages cannot be tolerated. By John Little
The Other Tsunami -- worldwide economic pain  What will happen in the world with the current crisis in Japan. By Mac McKinney
Aristide returns to Haiti (Videos)  Here is video documentation of Aristide's return to Haiti after seven long years. Crowds came out en masse to greet him. O'Keefe's Lawyers Seeking to Overturn CA Privacy Rights Law - Koch Money Helping Fund Effort  James O'Keefe has answered a lawsuit brought by Juan Carlos Vera, an ACORN worker fired due to O'Keefe's "deceptive editing" and distortion. O'Keefe is being represented by DC's priciest lawyers, but the tab is being picked up by a legal non-profit funneling donations by radically partisan billionaires such as Koch Industries, Richard Mellon Scaife and the like. What's the defense? They are saying California's law requiring an individual's right to privacy is not Constitutional and secret taping without consent should be the law of the land from here on out. By Mike Whitney
Getting Away With Murder -- Hillary Helps US Mercenary Escape Justice
This is just the tip of the iceberg. The CIA is a lawless, free-wheeling fraternity that operates beyond any ethical or moral code. If Davis was colluding with terrorists or stirring up sectarian antagonism, it would be par for the course. Unfortunately, we'll never know, because Davis has flown the coop and justice has been subverted again. By Joan Brunwasser
Husband and Wife Collaborate on "No Secret Where Elephants Walk"  We were used to operating solo. And we contemplated that the project could go one of two ways:Either it could be good fun.Or it could lead to the end of a 45 year-old marriage.I think the relationship was preserved because it was VERY clear who had ownership of which part.Of course,when it came time to write the intro to the book,that took us about 106 drafts. Arnie: I think the intro only took 104 drafts but I could be wrong. By Elayne Clift
Contemplating a Not So Dear Watson
Are computers getting just a bit too scary? Consider Watson. By Rev. Dan Vojir
Compassion Without Evangelism: What Japan Needs Vs. What Japan Will Get  Is compassion possible without evangelism? Of course it is. Unfortunately, some people see a chance in disasters to evangelize without restraint. When disaster strikes, God's Ambulance Chasers will always be there. By Daniel Geery
Living on Sunshine, Underground & Off the Grid.  This video was done for my third graders about twenty years ago. But it does a decent job showing the home I built (sans power tools, save for a chain saw) and that my family and I lived in for 15 years, circa 1980-1995. By Eric Boehlert
Why Fox News Will Keep Bullying NPR
The brand of radical conservative who has NPR in their sights today is not the same type of conservative critic who tweaked the network's supposedly liberal bias in the past. This new brand of bully is borderline delusional about NPR and sees it as a genuine force of evil; a hub of sinister activity. By Daan Weggemans
Gaddafi's freedom for a people's future?  Today the tense situation in the Middle East and its call for more freedom and democratization dominate our thoughts and conversations. Especially since Gaddafi's brutal attacks on rebellion towns and the UN decision for a no fly zone above Libya. All these events raise several questions. Among them there is one that seems very important for Libya's future, namely: how can the number of casualties be minimized and future... Playboy Interview with Reporter Helen Thomas  Thomas: Where is Obama? How can he continue these Bush policies that were so mean and rotten and unjust? People had this impression that Obama would be a peaceful president, but there he is, as hawkish as any of them. And Hillary Clinton is no liberal either. I thought, naively perhaps, that she and Obama would bring change, that they would be different. I assumed wrongly that they would be liberal because he's black and she's a woman. It's maddening. By Media Matters
Right-Wing Media Livid Over Obama's Economic Growth Trip To Latin America  The right-wing media have continuously attacked President Obama for proceeding with his long-planned trip to Latin America in the wake of the crises in Japan and Libya, often mocking his trip as a "vacation." In fact, the President's trip will be "focused on economic opportunities for the United States and the trade relationship" with Latin American nations. By Esam Al-Amin
Ninety Days of Popular Uproar -- Taking Stock of the Arab Revolutions
It is remarkable how in a relatively short period of time -- three months -- the entire Arab World has been transformed from a static and bleak political status quo to a dynamic and lively force for far-reaching change. Hence, it is prudent to take the time to assess the political sea change across the Arab world in the past few months. By Elayne Clift
In Post-Conflict Countries, Where are the Women?
Despite a UN resolution passed in 2000, women in Iraq and Egypt are still not allowed to participate in post-conflict planning. What are men afraid of? By Elayne Clift
Can We Give Troubled Teens Another Chance?
Should youth offenders be charged and sentenced as adults? Elizabeth Lozano who received a life-without-parole sentence for a crime she committed at age 16 may change your mind. By Kurt Stone
Get a Life!
What with all the enormous issues and challenges facing Congress and the American public, what has been consuming the time, efforts and energies of many Tea Party folks? Japan? Libya? Jobs? The deficit? No way! Why its legislation proclaiming that "In God We Trust" should replace "E Pluribus Unum" as the national motto, that's what! By Stephen Lendman
Washington's UN Resolution on Libya
America's drive to war on Libya By Ezili Dantò
Haiti beating back the elite's rabid rage: Against all odds Aristide returns  Despite Barack Obama & UN Ban-Ki Moon's pressures against return of president Aristide, South Africa provided a plane & flew Haiti's first democratically elected president back to Haiti to the exuberant welcome of the poor majority. Beating back the elite's rabid rage, against all odds Aristide returns to Haiti. Ezili's HLLN marks the momentous occasion, remembers the fallen, the legacy to reach, the endless struggle ahead. By Robert Parry
Through the US Media Lens Darkly
As Americans turn to their news media to make sense of the upheavals in the Middle East, it's worth remembering that the bias of the mainstream U.S. press corps is most powerful when covering a Washington-designated villain, especially if he happens to be Muslim. Latest Articles
Questions CNN's Piers Morgan Failed to Ask  I am SMOKIN' over this Orwellian piece of THEATER on CNN's Piers Morgan. Hoarders hurt animals
Animal hoarders--once described as "collectors" whose good intentions had gone awry--are now recognized as individuals whose mental illness or compulsion can cause criminal behavior with horrific consequences. If you suspect animals are being neglected or abused by their caretakers, please contact local authorities. Che in Tobruk?
Tired of movies that trick you with a bullet-proof vest? By From Bangor Daily News
Stephen King Lamblasts Lepage as one of the Three Stooges  Speaking at a rally in Florida, Stephen King Lamblasts both his governors as stooges, calls LePage a "Stone Brain" (as in Petrified). Rural New York Legislators Propose Resurrecting Jim Crow
With the census complete, local and state governments are beginning the redistricting process. This article analyzes how prison-based gerrymandering, counting prisoners where they are locked up, rather than where their homes are, distorts the democratic process. The U.S. and Oil
The world of the future will look much different than the current life structure now in place in the United States. We can do nothing and face an incredible disaster, or we can begin to build a sustainable society, easing the pain of the transition. Why the Jokes about Japan's Tragedy
Over the last three decades, anyone (who has been even nominally conscious) can see how destructive to the health and well-being of the general population of the nation, conservative, "market-driven" economic dominance has been. War, Repealing Child Labor Laws, and Chihuahuas
Can America ever have enough wars? Japan's 9.0 Earthquake Equal to One Million Kiloton Nuclear Weapon  The Japanese nuclear reactor killing Earthquake March 11, 2011 had the Energy of a 1,000,000 Kiloton Nuclear Weapon. Newt the Hoot  Newt Gingrich wants to be President of the United States - and I don't feel too good myself.  Best News Links from the Web
Cruel and usual: US solitary confinement  prisoners can be thrown into the hole for rule violations that range from attacking a guard or a fellow inmate to having banned reading materials or too many postage stamps. In doling out months or even years in solitary, the warden and prison staff usually serve as prosecutor, judge and jury, and unsurprisingly they often abuse that power. The cases are shocking and they abound. Learning From Japan's Nuclear Disaster by Amory Lovins
"Nuclear power is the only energy source where mishap or malice can kill so many people so far away; the only one whose ingredients can help make and hide nuclear bombs; the only climate solution that substitutes proliferation, accident, and high-level radioactive waste dangers. Indeed, nuclear plants are so slow and costly to build that they reduce and retard climate protection." A must, in my opinion. But then, I have long thought that Amory Lovin's mind is our country's most single valuable resource. Physics, geometry explain low radiation risks beyond Fukushima evacuation zone  As radiation fears from the ongoing nuclear drama escalate in Japan -- and even on the West Coast of the United States -- a reality check is in order. State Dept. proposes "Biographical Questionnaire" for passport applicants
The U.S. Department of State is proposing a new Biographical Questionnaire for passport applicants. The proposed new Form DS-5513 asks for all addresses since birth; lifetime employment history including employers' and supervisors names, addresses, and telephone numbers; personal details of all siblings; mother's address one year prior to your birth; any "religious ceremony" around the time of birth; and a variety of other information. According to the proposed form, "failure to provide the information requested may result in " the denial of your U.S. passport application." Sign this Bill and Have Native Americans Kick Mormons Out!
I rather like it, and encourage you to both sign and comment. Mother grieves for fallen US soldier
Mother grieves for fallen US soldier God's Wife Edited Out of the Bible -- Almost
God had a wife, Asherah, whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshiped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to an Oxford scholar. The ancient Israelites were polytheists, Brody told Discovery News, "with only a small minority worshiping Yahweh alone before the historic events of 586 B.C." In that year, an elite community within Judea was exiled to Babylon and the Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed. War On The Poor: Minnesota Republicans Want To Bust Poor People Who Carry Cash  Minnesota Republicans are pushing legislation that would make it a crime for people on public assistance to have more $20 in cash in their pockets any given month. This represents a change from their initial proposal, which banned them from having any money at all. Libya, Hypocrisy and Betrayal by the United Nations - Common Dreams  The bombing of Libya will begin on or nearly to the day, of the eighth anniversary of the beginning of the destruction of Iraq, 19th March, in Europe. Libya too will be destroyed - its schools, education system, water, infrastructure, hospitals, municipal buildings. There will be numerous "tragic mistakes", "collateral damage", mothers, fathers, children, babies, grandparents, blind and deaf schools and on and on. And the wonders of the Roman remains and earlier, largely enduring and revered in all history's turmoils as Iraq, the nation's history - and humanity's, again as Iraq and Afghanistan, will be gone, for ever. David Corn -- Libya: Obama Crafts the Anti-Bush Doctrine  The president, with this brief set of remarks, has crafted something of an Obama Doctrine for military intervention: The United States will join in a multilateral fight for democracy and humanitarian aims when it is in the nation's interest and when the locals are involved and desire US participation. In short, the Anti-Bush Doctrine. Libya Says It Will Release Times Journalists
Four New York Times journalists missing in Libya since Tuesday were captured by forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and will be released Friday, his son, Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, told Christiane Amanpour in an ABC News interview. The four had entered the rebel-controlled eastern region of Libya without visas over the Egyptian border to cover the insurrection against Colonel Qaddafi. Ex-Goldman Banker Behind WSJ 'Smear Campaign' Against Elizabeth Warren  A Wall Street Journal editorial writer who has been closely involved with the paper's recent attacks on Elizabeth Warren is a former Goldman Sachs banker. The same editorial writer, Mary Kissel, is readying another piece critical of Warren and the new consumer agency, according to a source familiar with the coming article. C.I.A. Drones Kill Civilians in Pakistan
Several missiles fired from American drone aircraft on Thursday struck a meeting of local people in northwest Pakistan who had gathered with Taliban mediators to settle a dispute over a chromite mine. The attack, a Pakistani intelligence official said, killed 26 of 32 people present, some of them Taliban fighters, but the majority elders and local people not attached to the militants. Amid Uncertainty, Aristide Returns to Cheers in Haiti  Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the former priest who rose to become the nation's first democratically elected president before being forced into exile twice, returned home to an uncertain political climate on Friday. Biden supports union bargaining rights  Vice President Joe Biden said: "We don't see the value of collective bargaining, we see the absolute positive necessity of collective bargaining. Let's get something straight: The only people who have the capacity -- organizational capacity and muscle -- to keep, as they say, the barbarians from the gate, is organized labor. And make no mistake about it, the guys on the other team get it. They know if they cripple labor, the gate is open, man. The gate is wide open. And we know that too." Judge issues temporary order blocking collective bargaining law  A Dane County judge Friday ordered a temporary halt to Gov. Scott Walker's controversial measure curbing collective bargaining for public employees, saying a legislative committee likely violated the state Open Meetings Law when it rushed passage of the bill earlier this month. Eugene Robinson: Inviting a nuclear emergency  The most urgent focus of Japan's worsening nuclear crisis is the threat from radioactive fuel that has already been used in the Fukushima Daiichi reactors and awaits disposal. In the United States, the nuclear industry has amassed about 70,000 tons of such potentially deadly waste material -- and we have nowhere to put it. Libya declares-cease fire after U.N. approves intervention
The Libyan government declared a cease-fire Friday in its battle against rebels seeking to oust longtime leader Moammar Gaddafi, saying it was acting to protect civilians in the wake of a U.N. Security Council resolution that opened the door to military action. Submitted by Dennis Kaiser
Geithner at the 2009 Bilderberger meeting stated the American people will suffer enough to invite a world currency. He should have known. He was in charge.
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