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Hellish Fires Threaten Paradise
Martin LeFevre: "For the first time in the 15 years I've lived here, you cannot see the foothills from the edge of town, only a few miles away...The pungent smoke feels like the pall of human consciousness-a thick layer of human separation and sorrow that both oozes from and oozes into people's pores.
Jul 3, 2008, 3:01pm

Blogosphere
A SCENARIO FOR ATTACKING IRAN
"We learned (from Seymour Hersh) the White House has met, considered and is probably working to fabricate a situation that could be used by the United States as a pretext for attacking Iran... which the Republicans can exploit in the campaign." (This describes how it can be done!)
Jul 3, 2008, 11:36am

Commentary
Legal Marriage Obsolete
Paul Campos: "I would now like to propose my own constitutional revision: the Marriage Elimination Amendment. In all seriousness, as a legal - as opposed to a social - institution, marriage is an anachronism we would be better off without.
Jul 2, 2008, 10:40am

Blogosphere
Peace Sign, Pot Leaf, Darwin Fish, Upside Down Flag
We must end wars...Pot should never have been illegal and there is simply no rational or intelligent defense of keeping it illegal...Science is indispensable in learning about our world...We must impeach or otherwise do SOMETHING to hold Bush et al accountable...
Jul 1, 2008, 5:11pm

Commentary
Economic Panic Could Sacrifice The Green Agenda
George Monbiot: "If the world is sliding into recession, it's partly because governments believed that they could choose between economy and ecology...an impending recession could force us to confront the flaws in the global economy.
Jul 1, 2008, 4:16pm

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Dutch smoking ban: For Cafes - No tobacco in your joints
From The Guardian, UK: Dutch coffee shops, long considered as synonymous with the Netherlands as tulips or attacking football, face a new challenge from today when a ban on smoking tobacco in restaurants and cafes comes into effect. (Still can smoke tobacco-free pure cannabis!)
Jul 1, 2008, 3:18pm

Blogosphere
The Question Carlin Left Behind: What is Obscenity?
Danny Schechter: "The recent death of comedian George Carlin reminded us of one of his greatest routines and most bizarre encounters with our media. It led to a Court determination that there were 7 dirty words that could not be used on the airwaves.
Jun 30, 2008, 5:11pm

Articles
Queen of Hawaii demands independence from 'US occupiers'
"The United States is an illegal occupying force that should hand the 132 islands of Hawaii back to the monarchy overthrown more than a century ago, according to members of a Native Hawaiian sovereignty movement.
Jun 30, 2008, 4:59pm

Articles
What We Can Learn From Buckminster Fuller
Sure, he's famous for giving us the geodesic dome - the super-lightweight building that gets stronger as it gets bigger - but Buckminster Fuller's legacy extends way beyond the soccer-ball structure. (Check out "The World Game" which shows there really are enough resources for the planet!)
Jun 28, 2008, 5:40pm

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Will the Last Superpower Recognize In Time What We Must Do to Save the Planet?
Dismantle the obsolete machinery of war that is depleting our national treasure, Convert our war economy of the past to a green economy of the future, Mobilize our human and materials resources to address the real threats to our security, and Work with the other nations of the world to do the same. Visit Website ]
Jun 28, 2008, 4:57pm

News
Exclusive: No ice at the North Pole
The Independent, UK: "Polar scientists reveal dramatic new evidence of climate change..It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year.
Jun 27, 2008, 11:30am

Commentary
Court Rewards Exxon for Valdez Oil Spill
Greg Palast: "The cover story of the Drunken Captain serves the oil industry well...a tale of human frailty...But broken radar, missing equipment, phantom spill teams, faked tests -- the profit-driven disregard of the law -- made the spill an inevitability, not an accident.
Jun 26, 2008, 5:16pm

Commentary
Our infantile search for heroic leaders
Johann Hari: "Every civilising advance in history - from workers' rights to women's rights to gay rights - was won because ordinary people banded together and agitated for it. If we had waited for a good leader to hand it down from above, we would still be waiting today.
Jun 26, 2008, 1:49pm

Articles
Warming Seats at the Hague - John Howard and War Crimes
"The candidates as potential bench warmers for the Hague dock (The International Criminal Court) are of course, President George W. Bush, and ex-Prime Ministers Tony Blair (Britain) and John Howard (Australia), an Anglo-centric, some might even say Anglospheric cabal that is now receiving the attention of innovative jurists and enterprising activists.
Jun 26, 2008, 12:34pm

Blogosphere
Elections, Capitalism, and Democracy
Charles Sullivan: "The problem is that capital, rather than informed citizens interested in democracy, is in control of the electoral process. Capital furthers the interest of capital, rather than the interest of the people, and this creates an irreconcilable conflict with genuine human interests.
Jun 25, 2008, 2:16pm


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