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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Thursday, April 28, 2011

28 April - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Reminder about the comments policy
    Every so often, over the eight-plus years I've been publishing this blog, waves of hostile forces come in and try to take over the comments boards with their hostility and their rantings. So back in January 2005, I crafted the 'Comments Policy' for the blog, and it has worked pretty well since t ...
  • My CSM oped on need for negotiated transition ...
    People with an interest in escalating tensions and sowing conflict within Middle Eastern countries always say "There is no time!" for diplomacy or negotiation.... and that "If lives are to be saved then we have to take military action..." In mid-March, I was stunned to see how rapidly those ar ...
  • Cordesman on the slippery slope of warmaking
    I generally have broad respect for the military assessments made by Anthony Cordesman, and his latest assessment of the situation in Samantha's War in Libya contains much excellent analysis. Including this opening paragraph: At some point in time, it will be critical to examine the historical ...
  • C.J. Chivers on Libyan rebels' violations of l ...
    Last week, the NYT's military-affairs writer C.J. Chivers was one of the first to do detailed reporting of the use by Libyan government forces of cluster bombs in the heavily populated port city of Misrata. Today, the NYT carries another piece of well researched reporting by him-- this time on ...
  • Applebaum warns Libyan war may weaken NATO
    Anne Applebaum, who is both a columnist for the WaPo and the spouse of the Foreign Minister f NATO member Poland, writes today that when Western leaders talk about the Libyan campaign as a “NATO operation” they are, at the very least, being economical with the truth. She notes that many NATO m ...

frogblog

  • Tories are as Tories do
    I don’t have much interest in the celeb puke-fest that is the marriage of Catherine Middleton and Prince William of Wales (did anyone ever ask the Welsh people if they wanted him to be one of the Princes the English impose on them?) But the list of invitees to the Royal Wedding is interesting: L ...
  • Fuel tax deferral won’t help
    Kiwis are feeling the pain at the pump, and the Government’s grand “solution” is to defer a 1.5c increase in the petrol tax until next year. Let’s put this in perspective. 1.5 cents a litre will save the average driver less than $1 when they fill up their tank. It’s about 0.6% of the total [...]
  • Kayaking the Kaituna
    April 15, 2011 The Kaituna is internationally famous for white-water rafting and kayaking. And having just gone down it, I can see why. A deep gorge with trees overhead, fast flowing, lots of rapids, and a really big waterfall – 7 metres apparently. Iâd like to be able to tell you that I kayaked ...
  • Space Oddity – the David Farrar version
    This is ground control to Major Don, you’ve really made the grade And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear Now it’s time to leave the capsule if you dare If I was a member of the ACT Board, I would be asking why are all these National Party members trying to take [...]
  • Petrobras protest and the Maritime Rules
    I’m more accustomed to splashing around in a freshwater pond than being out on the high seas, but I do know enough about maritime navigation to know that a powered vessel that is underway is normally required to give way to a vessel that is fishing.   That principle is enshrined in both intern ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • The Supreme Court, the Constitution and the Fi ...
    The Supreme Court's First Amendment opinions result not from interpreting the First Amendment but from deliberately and insidiously changing its diction in ways that make the Amendment unrecognizable. The Court's arguments in these opinions are pure cant and do nothing but turn the Justice ...
  • Liberty's Easy Slide into Tyranny
    Huge conspiracies aren't what destroys people's freedom, the accumulation of errors, failed policies, and little and big unfairnesses do. It happens because The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/ Gang aft agley,/ An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain. The FED, CIA, Executive Privilege, The ...
  • What should be done with illegal immigrants?
    That this question is even being asked reveals something about ourselves. How would you answer it if you were an illegal immigrant? Perhaps you've never heard of the Golden Rule. The rule may not be the best guide to moral behavior but asking yourself how you'd answer the question if you wer ...
  • A Revolting World
    Many in many lands are demonstrating against their governments. Some claim that people everywhere are revolting and that a worldwide revolution is imminent. Even both the orthodox and heterodox presses are all atwitter. But it is far easier to bring about a successful revolution than it is t ...
  • Demented Democracy
    An addiction to opinion, each person being entitled to his own, and the unwarranted notion that those who fight for their beliefs are "principled" is the reason that democracies teeter between antagonistic belief systems and are unable to resolve any social problems. Each party strives to re ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Obama Brazenly Lying Once Again
    I see that even our own Tim Murphy has fallen for the White House's "long form birth certificate" scam this morning. How disappointing to see one of MoJo's own being so credulous. This "official" copy has obviously been doctored, as anyone can see clearly by looking at the bottom of the form. S ...
  • Is Obama a Republican?
    Ezra Klein argues today that Barack Obama is, historically speaking, a moderate Republican. On three big issues, he says, Obama has championed approaches that Republicans themselves supported only a couple of decades ago: Take health-care reform. The individual mandate was developed by a ...
  • Skin in the Game, Continued
    The "skin in the game" theory of healthcare says that if people have to pay for medical services out of their own pocket, they'll be more careful about what they do and don't need, and this will drive down healthcare costs. A Rand study several decades ago suggested there was something to th ...
  • Testing For Thee, But Not For Me
    Via Matt Yglesias, here is Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's latest brainstorm: Walker is proposing expanding the voucher program that currently is only available to low-income students in Milwaukee. He wants to expand the program to all of Milwaukee County and phase out the low-income qualif ...
  • The Future of Abortion?
    Anti-abortion groups have been busily working to push the envelope of anti-abortion law for decades, and lately they've decided to stop pushing and just shred the envelope to pieces instead. For example, Kate Sheppard reports that a Louisiana lawmaker flat out wants to make abortion illegal ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 243: Fucking Ninjas
    Topics: Kriss goes into a rant about maiming people Asians know how to fly The woman with the most cosmetic procedures Tyler Perry vs Spike Lee……again Steve Harvey has $10,000 stolen from him Share with your friends:
  • FacePalm of the Week: Let Steve Harvey ‘Locat ...
    So apparently Steve Harvey now has a dating website “Locate Your Love.” I’m not sure if he owns it but I do know he supports and promotes it.  On Wednesdays he even ties it into his radio show where he tries to set people up on dates. No. Just stop it. There’s a section on [...]
  • Activist “Denounce” Obama’s Environmental Inaction
    WASHINGTON — Thousands of young activists gathered at a rally in front of the White House on Monday to demand that the president protect the Clean Air Act, stop taking money from corporate polluters, and invest in a clean energy economy. The rally was the culmination of a three-day climate summi ...
  • IC 242: Fuck Freedom
    Topics: Rod from the ‘Black Guy Who Tips’ has a rough day People are so sensitive these days California GOP lady sends an email with a picture of the President as a monkey…but she’s not racist Successful men don’t like nor want successful women Steve Harvey’s book to be made into a movie Tyler P ...
  • IC 241: We Respect Females
    Topics: You shouldn’t have to announce that you respect “females” Steve Harvey and more dumbass advice for women Maybe he’s (she’s) just not that in to you Cops claim drunk woman consented to sex Cops pepper spray an 8 year old The deal to keep the government from shutting down Government is dys ...

Simple Climate

  • Retreating Arctic coasts show need for careful ...
    Historical records of a quarter of the Arctic coastline show that it is retreating more quickly on average, threatening industry, ecosystems and communities located there. However, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research's Hugues Lantuit emphasises the importance of getting data f ...
  • Climate forces penguin populations into a dive
    “Ice-avoiding” chinstrap penguins previously thought to be likely winners in comparison to “ice-loving” Adélie penguins as climate changes are actually set to be worse affected by declining food supply, George Watters, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Antarctic E ...
  • Patagonian survey reveals tenfold glacier melt ...
    By reconstructing historical ice coverage in South America Neil Glasser from the University of Aberystwyth, UK, and colleagues discover current melt rates are ten times faster than the average since they reached their most recent maximum extent. Repeating the process in the Himalayas could help ...
  • Aeroplanes write their strongest climate impac ...
    Icy “contrails” produced by aircraft that become cirrus clouds heat the planet more than CO2 in their exhaust gases in the short term, find Ulrike Burkhardt and Bernd Kärcher from the German Aerospace Centre.
  • Pinning detailed climate impacts on people cou ...
    Trying to establish a water-tight case proving human-caused effects on plants and animals distracts from preserving biodiversity, say Camille Parmesan and Mike Singer from University of Texas, Austin, and colleagues.

e!Science News

  • Increased metabolic rate may lead to accelerat ...
    A recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM) found that higher metabolic rates predict early natural mortality, indicating that higher energy turnover may accelerate aging in humans. read more
  • New study: Health reform to make health insura ...
    Ninety percent of American families living above the federal poverty level will be able to afford health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report by Jonathan Gruber and Ian Perry of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The report finds that ...
  • Increase in evidence-based treatments followed ...
    In an analysis of data from a coronary care registry in Sweden, between 1996-2007 there was an increase in the prevalence of use of evidence-based invasive procedures and pharmacological therapies for treatment of a certain type of heart attack, and a decrease in the rate of death at 30 days and ...
  • Teen sleep study adds to evidence of a 'neural ...
    Teens are rarely described as stable, so when something about their rapidly changing brains remains placidly unaltered, neuroscientists take notice. Such is the case in a new study of electroencephalography (EEG) readings gathered from dozens of teens while they slept. Despite the major neural o ...
  • Researchers at Brandeis University make stride ...
    Brandeis researchers have made a significant advance in the effort to understand amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) by successfully reversing the toxicity of the mutated protein in the familial type of the disease. read more

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • Anti-nuclear cartoon book, 1978 – anythi ...
    A few weeks ago, Haydon Manning passed me an interesting book from the more dusty section of his shelf. It was called “Nuclear Power for Beginners“, and the edition I have was published in 1978. (If you do a bit of searching, you can still find old copies for purchase). If you’ve read this post ...
  • Fukushima Daiichi Open and Update Thread #5
    The problems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant continue to be worked on, with no short-term resolution in sight. Here are eight recent notable happenings, compiled from various sources (see list below): 1. Reports indicate that some fuel melted and fell to the lower containment sectio ...
  • Energy debates in Wonderland
    My position on wind energy is quite ambivalent. I really do want it (and solar) to play an effective role in displacing fossil fuels, because to do this, we need every tool at our disposal (witness the Open Science project I kick started in 2009 [and found funding for], in order to investigate t ...
  • Helicopters, tall stories and fantasy journali ...
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous post on BNC was: Chernobyl and Fukushima – measuring our monsters in the midday sun. The biggest problem for people wh ...
  • Open Thread 15
    The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason (see Note below). So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of courtesy apply, and at the very least your chat should relate to the genera ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Invasive Notes: An Invasive Response to Mother ...
    Invasive Notes: An Invasive Response to Mother Nature’s Melting Pot A purposely emotion-ladened essay 'Mother Nature's Melting Pot' [New York Times April 2011] that purports to connect invasion biology to extreme political agenda was recently published by the New York Times in what must only be ...
  • Newark Man Denies Killing Malcolm X - Black Unity
    Newark Man Denies Killing Malcolm X - Black Unity Al-Mustafa Shabazz, above in this 2004 file photo, is named as the chief assassin of Malcolm X in the book "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention" by Columbia University professor Manning Marable. A lawyer representing Al-Mustafa Shabazz today disp ...
  • Now That Rape Matters in Africa...
    Please Note: This editorial was written before Ms. al-Obeidi was released. Raw Replay has a brief story about her First on-camera interview who they describe as a 'Libyan rape victim' without the 'alleged' added as is done with Black African women and others not politically valuable to the inter ...
  • ei: Israel criminalizes commemoration of the Nakba
    ei: Israel criminalizes commemoration of the Nakba: "A bill was passed by the Israeli Knesset (parliament) last week which calls on the government to deny funding to any organization, institution or municipality that commemorates the founding of the Israeli state as a day of mourning. The bill h ...
  • Leonard Weinglass dies at 78 | Free Speech Rad ...
    Leonard Weinglass dies at 78 | Free Speech Radio News: "“People’s defense” lawyer Leonard Weinglass has died. Born in 1933, he spent decades championing civil rights and representing prominent activists including Mumia Abu Jamal, Angela Davis, Jane Fonda and Daniel Ellsberg.� Weinglass contin ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Paul Ryan is Trying to Kill Us
    Get old. Get sick. Insurance company you bought insurance from with your “voucher” denies to pay for your treatment. You die. Pretty simple. So simple a tea bagger can even figure it out.
  • What Happens When Politifact Can’t Get I ...
    Ending Medicare has been a Republican dream for decades Politicrack. Voucherizing single payer is ending it you pro-death panel fake fact checker. I mean come on Politicrack. What could make Republicans more happy than knowing senior citizens are spending their golden years worrying about how th ...
  • 80% of Americans Want the Safety Net Left Alon ...
    Numbers don’t lie. Even the treasonous teabaggers don’t want their social security and medicare voucherized….
  • Republicans Plan to Kill Grandma
    Once grandma runs out of money the “new” medicare voucher system will not cover her treatment. Grandmother will die. Republicans plan on handing more $$ to the wealthy by killing grandma when she gets sick.
  • Dear Eric Cantor You Piece of Shit
    Dear Eric, Social Security, and Medicare will be there when I retire. What won’t be there will be today’s sick evil Republican Party of lying bastards. Once America finally figures out the only objective of your corporate controlled party is to help the rich and powerful steal everything the poo ...

Appalachia Rising

  • Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
    Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...
  • Press Conference to be Held on June 15
    Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304-237-26 ...
  • Press Inquiries
    All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conferen ...
  • New Flier for Appalachia Rising
  • Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalac ...
    Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind co ...

Amped Status

+972

  • American-Israeli bluffs and the success of pal ...
    President Abbas has told Newsweek he is disappointed with Obama, but the American President has actually done a nice job of revealing the American double-standards with regards to Israel. Meanwhile, Jerusalem’s hawks are suggesting that in response to a Palestinian declaration of independence, I ...
  • A.B. Yehoshua and Zionism’s identity politics
    Acclaimed Israeli novelist uses identity politics as a way to absolve Israel of responsibility for its actions A.B. Yehoshua, the acclaimed Israeli fiction author, has an opinion piece in today’s Haaretz where he addresses a fundamental question: why has the Israeli-Palestinian conflict gone on ...
  • When a Palestinian child becomes an enemy
    Last summer I found myself wading around a swimming pool in the middle of the scorching desert on a Kibbutz in the Negev. I had come to this kibbutz to see an old friend from high school. Over the past 12 years we have developed and maintained a close friendship despite clear political differenc ...
  • Treading a fine line between Jaffa and Bat Yam
    Last night I posted one of my “Izzie in HolyLand” pieces. It was about the collective punishment Israel rewarded the West Bank village of Awarta, after the murder of the Fogel family from Itamar. In the post, I made Izzie have a nightmare about the same treatment Bat Yam would have had if a murd ...
  • Egypt: Soldiers planted flowers in Tahrir Square
    Tahrir Square has been cleaned up. One day last week soldiers laid new turf in the central traffic island, and the next day they planted flowers. A day after that they erected a huge banner that confirmed the army’s commitment to the goal of the revolution, but when I returned two days later [...]

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

  • A Gut Wrenching Appellate Loss- Please Share Y ...
    This blog has been a great forum to discuss the occasional triumphs of justice and the victory of the rule of law over the fraud, the deceit and the abject criminality of the banks and their law firms.  It has also been an open forum for me to discuss the frustrations over a legal system [...]
  • THE ULTIMATE SELL OUT- THE BANKS AVOID ALL LIA ...
    We have become a disgusting, lawless and overtly corrupt nation where no rules or laws apply to the banks and institutions.  Dispense with all your naive notions of justice, fairness and law, because in this new era these concepts do not apply if your crimes and conspiracies are big enough. WASH ...
  • The Banks Can’t Count…
    Every single day we receive more and more evidence of the banks and their wrongdoing.  I long ago gave up on any government official to do anything about it and I never had any faith that any of the banks or the industry could self police  I had faith that our courts would do something, [...]
  • The LPS Sanctions Decision- Bankruptcy Court S ...
    The Federal judges are really stepping in and calling all this mess what it really is… Read the In Re Wilson, Order HERE Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • Two Days/Two Summary Judgement Vacated/Two Sal ...
    It’s only Tuesday, but it has been a very good week already…I got two Summary Judgments vacated and two sales canceled! Now mind you, there was no way these two judgments should have been entered in first place, but that’s a whole other story.  The bottom line is we worked very hard, briefed th ...

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • Preparatory Pruning
    I’ve been asked by a veteran to re-post an earlier entry from this past March – “Beating ‘em in the alley.” It’s about the significant number of senior officials who were let go by the Harper government over the last while. This is what the PM accomplished with a minority government, against the ...
  • Campaign Insider – “Special Guest& ...
    “I want to come down to help,” Bob Rae said over the phone. And, of course, I was glad for his assistance. He knows London well and we share a number of mutual friends here. The visits of special guests is an important part to any campaign, raising the profile of the local candidate and [...]
  • What if …?
    “This is the craziest election I’ve ever witnessed.” I occasionally tell people that I’ve received quite an education in Ottawa, but my real schooling came from London. I learned a lot from 30 years of public service as a firefighter and cut my teeth on community involvement through difficult ye ...
  • A Facebook Message
    The following is a message sent to me on Facebook yesterday by someone I’ve never had the pleasure of meeting. It’s well-written and his own experience speaks volumes as to what Canada requires at this moment.  Thanks Timothy. This is an interesting site – My own riding of Oxford is deemed a sa ...
  • My Day
    For the first time since I was elected four years ago I will finally be home for the birthday of my twin daughters, Abuk and Achan. Both were products of slavery in Sudan and their African mother was killed in a raid when they were four months old. She was holding Abuk in her arms [...]

Vaccine Awakening

  • Whooping Cough Outbreaks & Vaccine Failures
    UPDATE: CLICK HERE TO VIEW NVIC'S PERTUSSIS VACCINE & DISEASE PAGE by Barbara Loe Fisher Reports of whooping cough outbreaks in California1,2 and in other states this summer are nothing new. Every four to five years – no matter how high the vaccination rate is - there are reports of w ...
  • Using Fear & Prejudice to Attack Vaccine Exemp ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher This summer, inaccurate and misleading information about B. pertussis whooping cough and the pertussis vaccine is being put out there by medical doctors, who should know better. Media campaigns designed to create fear about infectious disease are nothing new. This ...
  • Amy Wallace & Yellow Journalism
    by Barbara Loe Fisher On October 17, 2009 I was at the Atlanta airport on my way back to Washington, D.C. when I stopped at a newsstand. Like most weary travelers waiting for a plane, I was looking for something to read that would give me a break from my work, which included, two weeks earl ...
  • Forcing Flu Shots on Health Care Workers: Who ...
    By Barbara Loe Fisher Doctors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia are ordering all employees to get a flu shot every year or be sent home for two weeks without pay to “think about it.” Anyone, who still refuses to get a flu shot after that, is fired.1 60 percent of all U.S. health care p ...
  • Doctors Denying Vaccine Risks: An American Tragedy
    by Barbara Loe Fisher It is a short 15 second public service message on the CBS Jumbotron on Times Square in New York City that encourages everyone to make informed vaccine choices. The message is sponsored by the nonprofit charity, the National Vaccine Information Center, and made possible ...

2020 Science

  • Regulating emerging technologies – Science & P ...
    Cross-posted from The Risk Science Blog: Back in 2007 the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a set of “Principles for Nanotechnology Environmental, Health and Safety Oversight” (no longer available on the OSTP website it seems, but you can read them in this Nanower ...
  • A plug for Risk Science Unplugged. Next up – ...
    OK so this is a shameless plug for the University of Michigan Risk Science Center Unplugged series of discussions (if you’ll forgive the pun) – and specifically the live/webcast event we’re having on the health impacts of the Gulf Oil Spill on April 14. But I actually think the series is good en ...
  • Tracking information on radiation health risks ...
    This past few days I’ve been up to my eyeballs in tracking and responding to the developing crisis in Japan, and have not had much time to think about emerging technologies or this blog.  Much of my time has been spent on brushing up on my health physics (from 25 years ago!), and providing info ...
  • Nanotechnology safety – a new video blog from ...
    Back in December 2009, I rode the Acela Express up to New York from Washington DC for the day to record one of a series of nanotechnology podcasts for the ASME – the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The podcast was to be part of a new educational outreach initiative on all aspects of na ...
  • The Seven Deadly Sins of Techno-Complacency – ...
    I don’t believe it – once again I’ve let myself be talked into doing an event in Second Life.  But this time it’s even worse – I’ll be hosting a combined second life and real-life event, and in effect acting as the medium between physical and virtual realities. The only compensation is that the ...

Reader Supported News

  • Keith Olbermann's Countdown to Return on June 20th
    San Jose Mercury News: "The voice will be silenced no more. Current TV has announced that its new show with Keith Olbermann will debut on June 20 at 8 p.m. The show, to be called 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann,' marks the return to the airwaves for Olbermann, one of journalism's most provocativ ...
  • Was FBI Too Quick to Judge Anthrax Suspect the ...
    The report begins: "Scouring the anthrax-laced mail that took five lives and terrorized the East Coast in 2001, laboratory scientists discovered a unique contaminant - a tiny scientific fingerprint that they hoped would help unmask the killer." FBI photographs of letters that contained anthra ...
  • Guantanamo Files: Massive Leak Reveals Innocen ...
    David Leigh, James Ball, Ian Cobain and Jason Burke report: "The US military dossiers, obtained by the New York Times and the Guardian, reveal how, alongside the so-called 'worst of the worst,' many prisoners were flown to the Guantanamo cages and held captive for years on the flimsiest grounds, ...
  • Fox News Goes Full Birther
    Intro: "Following Donald Trump's lead, Fox News figures have recently embraced or promoted aspects of the birther conspiracy theory by falsely claiming that President Obama has not produced his birth certificate, or by hosting birthers to hype their discredited theories unchallenged." Sarah P ...
  • 'No Humanity Left' in Syria
    Al Jazeera journalist Cal Perry begins: "Every other journalist is trying to get into Syria, but on Saturday I was trying to get out. The government had made it perfectly clear: My visa was expiring and unless I left on April 23, I would 'face the full force of the law.'" A man carries a chil ...

War Resisters League

  • The Broken Rifle in Kabul
    The above photograph, of Scott Schaeffer-Duffy from the Catholic Worker in Worcester, Massachusetts standing beside street art made by local Afghan youth, was taken in Kabul by WRL National Committee and Organizing Task Force member Jim Haber when he was on a recent delegation with Voices for Cr ...
  • WRL Organizers Hit the West Coast
    From February 25th to March 7th,WRL organizing coordinator Kimber Heinz and field organizer Ali Issa began a three-stop trip on the West Coast where they met with WRL locals and affiliates, as well as allied organizations working on GI resistance, civilian support for anti-war veteran organizing ...
  • Iraq/Wisconson Labor Solidarity: Two Statements
    In the wake of the threat posed to what remain of labor rights in Wisconsin, and the public’s powerful response, two Iraqi labor leaders, Hassan Jum’a and Faleh Abood, penned solidarity statements in late February on behalf the 26,000 member strong Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, and the 15,000 ...
  • Stepping up the Resistance to U.S. Islamophobia
    As Peter King, the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, steps up the U.S. government attack against Muslims living in the U.S., saying that he will “rely on Muslims to make his case that American Muslim leaders have failed to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the effo ...
  • Mubarak Ousted! Two Down, Twenty To Go . . .
    “The people have brought down the regime!” was a cry heard around the world when on Friday, February 11th, 18 days of unrelenting non-violent protest finally forced the end of Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year, US backed rule over Egypt. Ecstatic jubilation filled Cairo’s Midan al-Tahrir (Liberation Squar ...

    Blacklisted News

    • Microsoft Collects Locations of Windows Phone ...
      Like Apple and Google, Microsoft collects records of the physical locations of customers who use its mobile operating system.
    • Should You Buy A Home In 2011? Check Out Thes ...
      Has the U.S. housing market reached a “bottom” yet?  Are home prices going to start recovering?  Is the housing crisis going to end at some point?  Today there are millions of American families that would like to buy homes but they are not sure what to do. 
    • Four Stories This Week Prove that the War On ...
      Four stories from the last week confirm what many have been saying for years: the war on terror is a bust.
    • France and Italy in call to close EU borders ...
      France and Italy have thrown down the gauntlet over Europe’s system of passport-free travel, saying a crisis of immigration sparked by the Arab spring was calling into question the borderless regime enjoyed by more than 400 million people in 25 countries.
    • Armed agents invade Maxam Nutraceutics and st ...
      Amidst all the destructive activities taking place in our world today that deserve attention, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has decided instead to make it a personal mission to destroy the businesses and livelihoods of those trying to help people through natural medicine.

    The Intelligence Daily

    My AntiWar

    CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

    • Bahrain in the shadow of Iran, Saudi Arabia an ...
      Summary: Bahrain protestsIt is true that Iran has a vested interest in what is happening in Bahrain and that the country has a degree of cultural and political influence throughout the wider Persian Gulf area. But in Bahrain, as elsewhere in the Arab world, the demonstrations are not driven ...
    • ElBaradei suggests war crimes probe of Bush team
      Summary: Bush-Rice-CheneyNEW YORK (AP) — Former chief U.N. nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei suggests in a new memoir that Bush administration officials should face international criminal investigation for the "shame of a needless war" in Iraq. source: APread more
    • Rats, Roaches and Shiites
      Summary: Bahrain protestsShia-majority Iran, Iraq and the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah have been the most vocal in condemning the outrageous killings, arrests and beatings of Shiites in the Persian Gulf -- but they have had to do so with a muffled voice. Each objection from Iran or He ...
    • ElBaradei: US, Europe Weren’t Interested in Co ...
      Summary: Officials Withheld Key Info From IAEA Chief in Push for Regime Change source: Antiwar.comread more
    • ElBaradei: US and EU3 only interested in regim ...
      Summary: On Iran's nuclear standoff with the West: "I adhere strictly to the facts, and part of that is that the Americans and the Europeans withheld important documents and information from us. They weren't interested in a compromise with the government in Tehran, but regime change -- by an ...

    The Daily Galaxy

    • New Discovery on Origin of the Most Violent Ex ...
      This Chandra image of the Tycho supernova remnant contains new evidence for what triggered the original supernova explosion. Tycho was formed by a Type Ia supernova, a category of stellar explosion used in measuring astronomical distances because of their reliable...
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      Over the past year, there have been big battles in our big State of Texas over Texans’ right to keep the feds out of our business. Governor Perry’s allies in the state’s leadership and his appointed commissioners are fighting the EPA’s Clean Air Act, and the Governor recently released a book cal ...
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    • Robert Redford – Fighting Goliath
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    • Lesbians and Gay Men Considering Parenthood
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    • Body Image in Transgendered People
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    Mountaintop Removal

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    • Forget Chernobyl at our peril
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    • Chernobyl – a poisoned landscape
      In Ukraine, 25 years on from history’s worst nuclear accident, Robin McKie sees dramatic reminders of the reactor explosion’s enduring and harrowing legacy: radioactive soil, abandoned towns and polluted lakes.Yuri Tatarchuk has a disconcerting way of demonstrating Chernobyl’s grim radioactive l ...
    • Deep-running disaster
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    • The conscientious carnivores
      In San Francisco, Ian Monroe sampled a range of vegetarian and vegan food. He and his girlfriend have cut back on meat, hoping they’re improving their -- and the planet’s -- health.There’s certainly a lot green in front of us: glistening mounds of fried Szechuan green beans, steaming Chinese bro ...

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    • Turning in Circles in Afghanistan
      Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters late last week that he thinks we may turn the corner at the end of this year in Afghanistan. Again. Turning the corner, or the tide, or the momentum, or what have you, has become a semi-annual ritual in the failing U.S. war in Afghanistan. While all ...
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    • Feds Drop Probe of NSA Wiretapping Whistle Blower
      The government has dropped its criminal investigation of the whistle blower who exposed the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program to the New York Times in 2004, and will evidently not be filing criminal charges for the historic leak. Thomas Tamm, a former Justice Department atto ...
    • WikiLeaks Donations Topped $1.9 Million in 2010
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      Toho, the owner of all things Godzilla, claims a menacing-looking human index finger with monster-like scales pictured over a skyline is treading on the Japanese company’s intellectual-property rights. With that belief, the Japanese monster-maker is demanding that the producer of an Apple iOS ap ...
    • FBI v. Coreflood Botnet: Round One Goes to the ...
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      TOKYO, April 27 (Reuters) - Japanese engineers are struggling to gain control of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo, which was seriously damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
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      TOKYO, April 27 (Reuters) - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said on Wednesday that placing a cap on a compensation scheme for those affected by problems at a stricken nuclear plant in Fukushima was inconceivable.
    • Gold inches up, silver rebounds as Fed decisio ...
      SINGAPORE (Reuters) - - Silver rebounded on Wednesday from sharp falls in the previous session and gold inched upwards as investors cautiously awaited the conclusion of the U.S. Federal Reserve's policy meeting while feeble sentiment in the dollar lent support.

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    • Afghanistan War Weekly: April 26, 2011
      By Sharon Miller DEVELOPMENTS IN AFGHANISTAN “Hundreds of Taliban Escape from Kandahar Jail” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/8472419/Hundr... Hundreds of Taliban prisoners escaped through an underground tunnel from Sarpoza Prison in Kandahar. The escape calls the disci ...
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    • Iraq to Search for Missing Since 2003
      Fresh effort to trace missing persons Photo: Afif Sarhan/IRIN: Rayhan Nasir, 24, is losing hope after two years spent searching for his father (file photo) 27 April 2011 (IRIN) - The government has set up a committee to trace thousands of Iraqis missing since the 2003 US-led invasion that topple ...
    • Vermont Gets Closer to Feds Blocking Its Singl ...
      The Vermont Senate is on board with single-payer healthcare. Too bad Washington, D.C., isn't, and Obama insisted that last year's healthcare bill effectively block state initiatives.
    • Libya: It’s Not About Oil, It’s About Currency ...
      By John Perkins "Information Clearing House" -- WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- World Bank President Robert Zoellick Thursday said he hopes the institution will have a role rebuilding Libya as it emerges from current unrest. Zoellick at a panel discussion noted the bank's early role in the reconstructi ...

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    • 10 non-boring ideas about the environment
      by Jess Zimmerman. Climate alarmism is counterproductive, and rah-rah Earth fandom is boring. But there are still some fresh perspectives out there -- some are a little nutty, sure, but they're a change from the standard fare. Alexis Madrigal at the Atlantic has rounded up ten interesting ...
    • Rupert Murdoch is totally against the global w ...
      by Jess Zimmerman. It's probably not the first time Rupert Murdoch has been on a list with Charles Manson and Osama bin Laden. Turns out that media mogul/plutocrat Murdoch's company, News Corporation, is deeply and explicitly committed to reducing its carbon footprint, combating global wa ...
    • Yesterday’s fracking blowout: What happe ...
      by Jess Zimmerman. Yesterday, on the one-year anniversary of the BP oil spill, a natural gas well in Bradford County, Pennsylvania -- perhaps suffering from an overload of irony -- ruptured and leaked "thousands and thousands of gallons" of fracking fluid over the surrounding farmland and ...
    • The future of green computing is dunking your ...
      by Christopher Mims. As seemingly every aspect of our lives moves online, the giant building-size computers that power the web suck up ever more energy. Cooling can eat as much as a third of the energy required to run these "data centers," so fixing their heat problem (modern processor ...
    • How much could climate change cost your state?
      by Jess Zimmerman. No idea why they got someone's dad to narrate this video, but the information in it is pretty startling. According to this group, the American Security Project, costs racked up by climate change could include: $9.3 billion a year in lost agriculture revenues in ...

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    • From Reactor to Plate
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    • The American War Machine
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    • Quote du Jour
      “Focusing the mindâs eye is for determining impending perils. Events have natural courses, people have successes and failures: it is imperative to examine movements signalling impending perils.” - Thomas Cleary, translator, Thunder in the Sky: On the Acquisition and Exercise of Power

    Insurgency Watch - Newswire

    • Times Scare
      ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
    • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
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    AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

    Sideways News

    • Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
      The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
    • Brit mums strict about eco-chores
      Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
    • UK venue offers rainforest weddings
      Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
    • Battery recycling 'too difficult'
      The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
    • 10 green resolutions to save you money
      By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...

    Fabius Maximus

    • We can learn an important lesson about ourselv ...
      Summary:   The Three Cups of Tea fable is symptomatic of a deeper flaw in the way we conduct foreign policy.  To believe in fairies makes for a fun children’s story, but wars require tight grip on an often harsh reality.  We’ve made this mistake in the past and will gain — unless we learn a ...
    • We can learn an important lesson about ourselv ...
      Summary:  Like all cons, the “Three Cups of Tea” affair reveals more about us than its author.  Like all marks, we seek simple sure-fire solutions, no matter how implausible.  And we prefer the fables of conmen than the complex and often discouraging advice from experts.  As any cop on the ...
    • Child-like credulity – a requirement to ...
      Summary:  It’s amusing — in a gallows-humor way — to read our geopolitical experts attempting to explain our strategy in the Libyan War.  It requires having (or pretending to have) a child-like credulity to believe our government’s statements, no matter how often they’re proven duplicitous ...
    • Important history on Earth Day
      Summary:   Exaggerated, often wildly inaccurate, warnings by greens diminish our ability to cope with future shockwaves (high impact, low probability scenarios).  We have to plan for them, since eventually one will hit us.  Hysterical single-issue advocacy groups are part of the problem, not the ...
    • A note about the obvious that’s seldom m ...
      Summary:   We could publish a newspaper with nothing but old analysis that would tell us more about the world than does the New York Times, because our intelligensia has become lost in its myths — unable to see obvious trends in the world.  Here’s a brief example from the always insightful Er ...

    Open Your Eyes News

    • Vatican kicks out Roma on Easter
      Press TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported.  Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, calle ...
    • Euro strikes 16-month high against dollar
      Breitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point since mid-Dece ...
    • British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrs
      PressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
    • Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’
      IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 ...
    • Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...
      Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. A conf ...

    The Progressive Realist

    • Party Like It’s 2002: Pawlenty Attacks Obama F ...
      Right wing war hawks recently had some fun mocking part of President Obama’s theory of leadership which a top aide described as “leading from behind.” (Nelson Mandela also espoused this particular idea of leadership, although it’s unclear if these same war hawks mocked him for it as well.) It’s ...
    • Iran and Bahrain: Fairly Obvious What He Meant ...
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    • Jackson Diehl’s Afghanistan and the State of J ...
      Jackson Diehl’s Op-Ed Sunday morning deserves a comprehensive critique, but for now let us focus on his opening statement: “As warmer weather brings back both the war and the debate over policy in Washington, the starting point could be summarized this way: Thanks to the U.S. military, the Ta ...
    • Iraq’s Parliament Repeals Article Used To Bloc ...
      In April 2011 Iraq’s parliament ended one of the main barriers to fighting corruption in the country. That is Article 136B of the Iraqi Criminal Code. The article allows ministers to stop investigations, and has been used more and more in recent times. It’s yet to be seen whether this is part of ...
    • Iranian Commander Urges Direct Intervention in ...
      While Bahrain expelled a senior Iranian diplomat on April 26, and Iran threatens to do the same in return, calls from Iranâs militias for direct involvement in the tiny island kingdom are intensifying. Iranâs Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast promised that Iran will consider the exp ...

    TAPPED - The American Prospect

    • The Birther Conspiracy Deepens
      In case you've been too busy painting your tribute Will & Kate figurines to notice, this morning the White House released the famous "long-form" version of Barack Obama's birth certificate. Briefly: when you ask Hawaii for your birth certificate, they generate and send to you a legally valid, of ...
    • Some People Never Change
      (Flickr/Gage Skidmore) Future failed presidential candidate Rick Santorum knows what Republicans in Iowa want: Death panels! And could he throw in some shameless exploitation of his children? Yes he can: Santorum, a father of seven and a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, said he wrestles ...
    • Little Picture: 25 Years Later
      Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Chernobyl has re-entered the global media cycle as the now six week old Fukushima nuclear disaster unfolds in its shadow, a comparison which AFP reports are "different in nature" according to Japanese officials. Above is a pan ...
    • Prop. 8 Defenders Get Desperate
      Remember the Prop. 8 trial? It's still wending its slow way up the judicial ladder, and here's the latest: Supporters of Proposition 8, California's ballot-approved ban on same-sex marriage, filed a motion this week contesting Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling that the ban is unconstitutional, becau ...
    • Chart of the Day
      Republicans are fond of describing the Obama administration's policies as a "record spending binge," unprecedented in the modern era. On the face of it, given our $1.5 trillion deficit, that seems accurate. But as Paul Krugman shows, this is far from true; our current deficits are a product of e ...

    Buzzflash

    • Dick Cheney's Legacy of Fracking America to Death
      MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Are natural gas companies "fracking" some Americans to death, thanks to Dick Cheney? If you review a recent report by a Congressional committee and watch the documentary "Gasland," (available as a premium with a minimum contribution to Truthout/BuzzF ...
    • Tim Pawlenty’s New Campaign Manager on a Missi ...
      BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Meet Nick Ayers, the 28-year-old 'wunderkind' who apparently believes he's received a directive from God to help lead Pawlenty to the Promised Land. While Donald Trump has been making the most buzz-nutty moves, Mitt Romney the most predictable, Mike Hucka ...
    • We Are Fed a Starvation Diet of News That Is E ...
      Body   It isn't always that politicians deliver a pack of lies when they appear in public, though they may. And it isn't that there is a lack of information available. Rather we are fed a starvation diet of news that is easily digested but not very nourishing. What seems to att ...
    • The "Glory Days" of Scott Walker May Already ...
      MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH FOR TRUTHOUT These are not the glory days that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was envisioning as he assumed his Napoleonic reign. Walker, for instance, is openly complaining that the apparently successful effort to initiate recall elections for at least five (now ...
    • Sen. Bernie Sanders: Banks Play Shell Game wit ...
      BERNIE SANDERS ON BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The following April 26 news release is from the office of Sen. Bernie Sanders (Independent-Vermont): A study requested by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) found numerous instances during the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 when banks took near zero-interes ...

    Glenn Greenwald - Salon

    The BiPartisan Report

    Sciencebase

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      Crowdsourcing a clinical trial to treat ALS – Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a pretty grim disease. Victims experience progressive muscle weakness, leading to death; patients survive a median of only two to five years following the onset of symptoms. Currently, there are no effective the ...
    • Five feisty science books on David’s desk
      Five super science books landed on my desk during the last week or two, everything from a Haynes manual for the Space Shuttle to hacking life and from astrobiology to the discovery of Lucy by way of the fact of evolution. The Fact of Evolution – Opponents of evolution are wont to say it's "just" ...
    • Recent science news roundup
      Optical catapulting for explosive fingerprint detection – Optical catapulting-laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy has been used to successfully detect residues of common explosives in human fingerprints, according to researchers from Egypt and Spain.Recent science news roundup is a post from: S ...
    • Five more science stories
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    • Comical rhyming history of life, free ebook
      Last year, James Dunbar researched and wrote a scientifically accurate, rhyming comic book about the origin of the universe. This year, he’s back with part 2 of the trilogy: “It’s Alive! The Universe Verse: Book 2″ Dunbar’s new tome, available digitally or in paper tells the story of life on Ear ...

    Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

    • Syria: Arab States Should Push for End to Killings
      Arab countries should join international efforts to establish an independent international inquiry into the Syrian government's use of lethal force against peaceful protesters, Human Rights Watch said today. Egypt and Tunisia should lead in advocating sanctions against those leaders responsible ...
    • Blue Revolution Key to Getting "More Crop per ...
      Increasing demand for water continues to threaten the livelihood of millions of small-scale farmers who depend on water for their crops.read more
    • Cost of Medicare Equivalent Insurance Skyrocke ...
      The budget plan put forth by Representative Paul Ryan has been described by some as a serious, smart plan that will help reinvigorate the economy and reduce the deficit. Ryan’s plan, to revamp Medicare has been described as shifting costs from the government to beneficiaries. A new report from t ...
    • Kucinich Plan to Lower Gas Prices: Windfall Pr ...
      As the summer peak driving period begins and as oil companies are expected to announce record profits again while gas prices continue to rise, Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) announced today that he will reintroduce the Gas Price Spike Act, which would reduce the price of gasoline. The bil ...
    • Twenty-Five Years After Chernobyl Disaster, Hi ...
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    Common Dreams-Views

    • The African 'Star Wars'
      Pepe Escobar From energy wars to water wars, the 21st century will be determined by a fierce battle for the world's remaining natural resources. The chessboard is global. The stakes are tremendous. Most battles will be invisible. All will ...
    • Until Death Us Do Part: Wedded to Wealth We D ...
      Donna Smith Perhaps it’s the media fever over the Royal wedding in Great Britain or perhaps it’s my own disgust about hearing that Exxon Mobil makes $100M a day in profits, but either way I am pretty certain many Americans would rather go ...
    • It’s Time to Revive an Old Rallying Cry: Labor ...
      Joe Burns During last year’s strike against Mott's, the apple juice maker, Tim Budd, an employee on the bargaining team, heard a plant manager say across the bargaining table that employees were “a commodity like soybeans and oil, and the ...
    • Wall Street Tames Washington
      Jim Hightower They came, they saw, they conquered. This line pretty well sums up a little-reported but important story about the new tea partiers in the U.S. House of Representatives. No sooner had they arrived than the corporate lobbying ...
    • Cheney Was Right About One Thing: Deficits Don ...
      Ellen Brown “Deficit terrorists” are gutting governments and forcing the privatization of public assets, all in the name of “deficit reduction.”  But deficits aren’t actually a bad thing.  In today’s monetary scheme, in which most money co ...

    Newshoggers - AfPak

    Water Wars

    • The African 'Star Wars'
      It is the Pentagon's Africom versus China's web of investments - the ultimate prize: Africa's natural resources.
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      The next time you go to the vending machine for a bottle of water (costing 6 cents an ounce) or, instead, sip from the drinking fountain (free), you will be taking part in a debate that touches on the fate of humankind.
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    • Water wars? Thirsty, energy-short China stirs fear
      The wall of water raced through narrow Himalayan gorges in northeast India, gathering speed as it raked the banks of towering trees and boulders. When the torrent struck their island in the Brahmaputra river, the villagers remember, it took only moments to obliterate their houses, possessions an ...

    WordPress | Economics

    Electronic Intifada

    • Nablus, beautiful and unvisited
      Ray SmithThe Electronic IntifadaNablus Few visitors make it to the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, causing the city’s tourism sector to suffer.
    • Arab league's double standard
      Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-OmraniThe Electronic Intifada As the Cairo-based Arab League continues to back western military intervention in support of the popular rebellion in Libya, the League’s failure to back similar uprisings in other Arab countries — most notably Bahrain — has led to c ...
    • "For as long as I can, I will continue": Hajo ...
      Adri NieuwhofThe Electronic Intifada Since being interviewed by The Electronic Intifada in 2009, Auschwitz survivor Hajo Meyer has toured numerous countries to speak about his efforts to combat Zionism and his support for the struggle of the Palestinian people for freedom and�equality.
    • Costs of arming Israel can no longer be ignored
      Josh RuebnerThe Electronic Intifada Israel may be forgiven for failing to realize the current fiscal woes of the United States. After all, US military aid to Israel not only sailed unscathed through this month’s passage of the 2011 budget, but reached the record level of $3 billion. Josh Reubner ...
    • Interview: Raja Khalidi on the neoliberal cons ...
      Ray SmithThe Electronic Intifada The Electronic Intifada contributor Ray Smith interviews Raja Khalidi, a senior economist with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, about the PA’s economic policies and its implications for statehood.

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