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 Meditations
Iran: Leaders, Followers, and Global Revolution
Martin LeFevre: "Progressives around the world were transfixed by the brief cri de coeur in Iran. Nearly all coverage and analysis stayed safely within the nation-state box. But there was one aspect of the spontaneous movement that went virtually unreported: it had no real leader.
Jul 3, 2009, 12:10pm
Commentary
Dependence Grows As Independence Day Nears
Danny Schechter: "In order to keep our economy going, we need China to finance that debt by buying our Treasury bills. The truth is: financial infusions from China, and Japan, and some other Middle Eastern nations keep us alive and very much dependent...
Jul 2, 2009, 1:55pm
Articles
Charge of Anti-Semitism
Ira Chernus: "The "pro-Israel" right aims to use the "anti-Semitic" slur to put critics of Israeli policy in a politically powerless group - the true anti-Semitic fanatics, who have no credibility in the US political arena. The charge of anti-Semitism hurts not only because it is so unfair, but because it is so disempowering.
Jul 1, 2009, 2:42pm
Links
Mexico’s Emerging Narco-State
The ironies of the drug war in Mexico are extreme. Los Zetas, for example, widely considered one of the most violent and dangerous factions of the Mexican drug trade, was founded by former members of an elite anti-drug squad of the Mexican Army. The efficient precision and stealth of the Zacatecas prison-break stems from the U.S. military training once received by the group's leadership.
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Jul 1, 2009, 1:25pm
Commentary
The Fourth of July is a Celebration of Agitation
Jim Hightower: "Without agitators battling in politics, on the job, in the marketplace, for the environment, on Wall Street, in education, for civil liberties and rights, and all across our society, democratic progress doesn't just stall, it falls back.
Jul 1, 2009, 1:06pm
Blogosphere
The Slope of Dysfunction
"Peak Oil theorists base their calculations on data from the many oil-producing provinces that have already peaked, such as the United States, which peaked in 1970. The majority of oil-producing provinces and countries are past peak now, providing the theorists with a wealth of precise data.
Jun 30, 2009, 5:36pm
Meditations
Hobbits and Human Evolution
Martin LeFevre: "Most people have heard of the Hobbits, and I don't mean the creatures from Tolkein's imagination. I mean the strange little island hominid in Java that co-existed with modern humans as recently as the Dutch colonial period...this find may change the way we see human evolution.
Jun 29, 2009, 1:01pm
Blogosphere
Color Revolutions, Old and New
Stephen Lendman: "In his new book, "Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order," F. William Engdahl explained a new form of US covert warfare - first played out in Belgrade, Serbia in 2000. What appeared to be "a spontaneous and genuine political 'movement,' (in fact) was the product of techniques" developed in America over decades.
Jun 29, 2009, 11:33am
Blogosphere
Too Poor to Make the News
Barbara Eherenreich: "the outlook is not so cozy when we look at the effects of the recession on a group generally omitted from all the vivid narratives of downward mobility - the already poor, the estimated 20 percent to 30 percent of the population who struggle to get by in the best of times.
Jun 27, 2009, 5:32pm
Off the Grid
Car-Reduced and Car-Free Pedestrian Habitats
"It will take a long time for the US to embrace pedestrians, bicycling, and electric carts as substitutes for cars in our communities. And yet an inevitable change is coming that will significantly increase environmental quality, and restore real community and economic viability.
Jun 26, 2009, 1:36pm
Blogosphere
America's "Bases of Empire"
Stephen Lendman: "Besides waging perpetual wars, nothing better reveals America's imperial agenda than its hundreds of global bases - for offense, not defense at a time the US hasn't had an enemy since the Japanese surrendered in August 1945. (According to the Department of Defense through 2005, it totaled 737 but likely exceeds 1000 today)
Jun 26, 2009, 11:25am
Consider This....
Destroying Indigenous Populations
Dahr Jamail: "The Fort Laramie Treaty once guaranteed the Sioux Nation the right to a large area of their original land, which spanned several states and included their sacred Black Hills, where they were to have "the absolute and undisturbed use and occupation" of the land...But - Most of the Sioux's land has been taken, and what remains has been laid waste by radioactive pollution.
Jun 25, 2009, 5:16pm
Links
Iran Divided and the 'October Suprise'
Robert Parry: "Iran's current political divisions can be traced back to a controversy nearly three decades ago when Iran faced war with Iraq and became entwined with U.S. and Israeli political maneuvers that set all three countries on a dangerous course that continues to this day.
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Jun 25, 2009, 5:10pm
Articles
About Conflict Minerals
T.R. Goldman: "The drumbeats are distant now, but they will grow louder. Soon they will be coming out of your mobile phone, screaming in your ear that by dint of using your cellular device, you are complicit in the murder, torture and rape of millions in the remote eastern edge of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Jun 25, 2009, 12:02pm
Commentary
A fight for the Amazon that should inspire the world
Johann Hari: "The uprising In the Amazon is more urgent than Iran's - it will determine the future of the planet...In the depths of the Amazon rainforest, the poorest people in the world have taken on the richest people in the world to defend a part of the ecosystem none of us can live without.
Jun 24, 2009, 11:01am
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