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We're Weimar
James Howard Kunstler: "As the contest heats up this year between Tea Partydom and the Weimar-like remnant of the party in power expect to see a political vortex form that will suck the little remaining coherence out of American life. Personally, I'd like to see Mr. Obama have a little fun with his adversaries...
Feb 8, 2010, 12:04pm
Blogosphere
Aafia Siddiqui: Victimized by American Injustice
Stephen Lendman: "In 2006, Amnesty International called her one of many of the "disappeared" in America's "war on terror." In 2007, a Ghost Prisoner Human Rights Watch report suggested she was held in secret CIA detention.
In February 2008, the Asian Human Rights Commission said she was brought to Karachi and severely tortured...
Feb 8, 2010, 11:46am
Commentary
Bush, Cheney and the Great Escape
William Rivers Pitt: "With each passing day, it becomes more and more astonishing to encompass the fact that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and their henchmen from the prior administration have managed thus far to escape any accounting whatsoever for the massive battery of criminal activity committed during their time in office...Justice? When it comes to the Bush administration, the word has no meaning.
Feb 7, 2010, 3:18pm
Meditations
Wellsprings of Insight
Martin LeFevre: "Indigenous people felt that the rocks and rivers, clouds and creeks were alive with spirit. In the few native cultures that are still relatively intact, people still do. Science has conditioned modern people to believe this way of seeing is superstition, and to look down on it.
Feb 6, 2010, 5:53pm
Commentary
The Anti-Empire Report: February 6th, 2010
William Blum: Progressive activists and writers continually bemoan the fact that the news they generate and the opinions they express are consistently ignored by the mainstream media, and thus kept from the masses of the American people. This disregard of progressive thought is tantamount to a definition of the mainstream media...
Feb 6, 2010, 5:42pm
Articles
Uranium Mining In The Black Hills
"The planned uranium mine site in the southern Black Hills can impact four aquifers. Powertech, Inc. USA plans to begin uranium extraction in 2011 and operate for 15 years in the permit area of 10,580 acres located in Dewey and Burdock Counties, north of Edgemont, SD. PT plans to drill 4000-8000 wells to a depth of 400-800 feet...
Feb 6, 2010, 3:30pm
Links
Americans Are Learning Medicine the Cuban Way
Cuba began educating American medical students after members of the Congressional Black Caucus met with Fidel Castro in 2000. Congressman Bennie Thompson of Mississippi told Castro about areas in his district that suffer from extreme doctor shortages. The Cuban president responded by promising scholarships for 500 Americans to attend medical school in Cuba...
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Feb 5, 2010, 11:39am
Blogosphere
Human Rights Abuses in Israel and Occupied Palestine
Stephen Lendman: Israeli democracy is flawed and illusory. Its denied entirely to non-Jews, afforded solely to privileged ones, governing how America does for the rich at the expense most others. It mocks the rule of law, and is heading the country for police state-imposed dystopia if the present trend continues.
Feb 5, 2010, 11:25am
Articles
There's real hope from Haiti and it's not what you expect
Johann Hari: "When people are living so close to the edge, even small increases in prices can break them. The IMF systematically disregards the fact that every country that has lifted itself out of poverty has done the opposite of its commands... For the first time, the IMF was stopped from shafting a poor country – by a rebellion here in the rich world.
Feb 5, 2010, 10:47am
Blogosphere
Child Slavery in Haiti
Stephen Lendman "Haiti's Restaveks, (is) a century-old system under which impoverished families, mostly rural and unable to adequately provide for their children, send them to live with wealthier or less poor ones in return for food, shelter, education, and a better life in return for tasks performed as servants - de facto slaves subjected to verbal and physical abuse.
Feb 4, 2010, 11:20am
Meditations
What Comes After Obama, and America?
Martin LeFevre: The day before his annual State of the Union speech, President Obama telegraphed his disillusionment with the job: "I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president." False choice Mr. President. You will either be a really good two-term president...or you will be the last gasp of reason...
Feb 3, 2010, 11:49am
Blogosphere
Israeli Occupation Supportive Companies to Boycott
Stephen Lendman: "To paraphrase Chicago community organizer Saul Alinsky, the way to beat organized oppression is with organized boycotts against Israeli companies and global corporate giants allied with its government's war machine. It's a democratic non-violent weapon of the powerless against the powerful, the tactic Gandhi preferred.
Feb 2, 2010, 4:13pm
Articles
I Call It Murder
Cynthia McKinney: "They shot this Black man in his genitals and in his back. It sounds like a hate crime to me. How else could one describe it? Well, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, it was self-defense. But how many times have we heard self-defense by cops used as a cop out?
Feb 1, 2010, 3:36pm
Blogosphere
The Jive Economy
James Howard Kunstler: "For the moment, we are a nation committed to sustaining the unsustainable, and because this is the case we invite grievous political mischief as it becomes ever more obvious that the populace is being swindled -- and the populace becomes ever more ticked off about it....
Feb 1, 2010, 1:18pm
Blogosphere
Remembering Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010)
Stephen Lendman: "When once asked to name a single admirable president, Zinn said there were none, given their allegiance to privilege, wealth and wars, not ordinary people and real democracy, ours he called "rotten at the root, requir(ing) not just a new president or new laws, but an uprooting of the old order, the introduction of a new kind of society - cooperative, peaceful, egalitarian."
Feb 1, 2010, 1:03pm
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