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Support the Mothers
Charlie Jackson: "One might think that, despite military propaganda, we would take a break from the “support the troops” tripe - at least on Mother’s Day - a day to remember the one who brought us into this world...How about “Honor Mom. Don’t grow up to be a soldier”?
May 10, 2008, 11:29am
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Is the United States of America Addicted to War?
Walter C. Uhler: Mikhail Gorbachev - "Every US president has to have a war," and "I sometimes have the feeling that the United States is going to wage war against the entire world"...Even worse, many of America's wars were unnecessary.
May 9, 2008, 5:08pm
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The Challenge Of Modern Slavery
Loretta Napoleoni: "Slavery is in our refrigerators. From fruit to beef, from sugar to coffee, slave labor brings food to our tables...Almost every product we consume has a hidden dark history, from slave labor to piracy, from counterfeit to fraud, from theft to money laundering.
May 8, 2008, 3:23pm
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The Bush Family's Bad Latin Real Estate Investment
Dave Lindorff: "Back in late 2006, it was widely reported in the Latin American media that President Bush, or perhaps his old man, had bought a 100,000-acre farm in a remote area of Paraguay (which has no extradition treaty with any nation). But now things have changed in Paraguay...
May 4, 2008, 1:22pm
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The Anti-Empire Report: May 1, 2008
William Blum: "And as long as we're fighting for hopeless causes, let's throw in the demand that corporations involved in driving the cost of oil through the roof - and dragging food costs with it - must either immediately exhibit a conspicuous social conscience or risk being nationalized
May 1, 2008, 1:53pm
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Running on Empty - Era of Endless, Cheap Oil About Over
Mark Hertsgaard: "Some of the transition movement's ideas--printing local currency, forming solar buying clubs, building "cob" houses made of mud--may seem quaint, inconvenient or naive. But nothing is more naive than assuming that the endless oil that modern societies grew addicted to over the past fifty years will last forever.
Apr 29, 2008, 11:42am
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Mothers Know the Cost of War
Marie Marchand: "Once you’ve given birth, your whole perspective on war changes. Once you have laid your baby’s head on your chest and breathed in his fresh-to-the-world sweetness, you learn what you love and what you hate. Mothers know the value of life, thus, we know the cost of war.
Apr 28, 2008, 5:16pm
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Military "Analysts," the Media, and the Selling of Bush's Wars
Max J. Castro: "Much of the mainstream media collaborated...with the manipulation of public opinion by failing to examine dubious administration claims, passing on propaganda as fact, embedding its reporters with American troops, adopting the official language, and shamelessly cheerleading.
Apr 27, 2008, 5:00pm
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Latin America: The Attack on Democracy
John Pilger argues that an unreported war is being waged by the US to restore power to the privileged classes at the expense of the poor...The softening-up for an attack on Venezuela is well under way, with the repetition of similar lies and smears.
Apr 26, 2008, 12:34pm
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McCain's Dangerous Belief - War
Paul Campos: "War is a form of mass psychosis, during which horrifying acts are transformed into heroic deeds, through the magical moral disinfectant of state sanction.
Apr 24, 2008, 12:17pm
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Putting a Check on Corporate Power
Charlie Cray: The ultimate enemy of democracy -- corporate power -- extends far beyond the two major parties and the three major branches of government. (What to do: Public Funding of Elections, Restore Regulatory Integrity, Close Liability Loopholes...)
Apr 24, 2008, 12:10pm
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How to sing like a planet
Mark Morford: Scientists say the Earth is humming. Not just noise, but a deep, astonishing music. Can you hear it? (No mere cacophony, but actually a kind of music, huge, swirling loops of sound, a song so strange you can't really fathom it, so low it can't be heard by human ears)
Apr 23, 2008, 2:28pm
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Censorship - Rupert Murdoch & China
George Monbiot: "A riveting account of two of the world's most powerful forces has been ignored - blame anticipatory compliance". (If you want to know how powerful Rupert Murdoch is, read the reviews of Bruce Dover's book, Rupert's Adventures in China... You can't find any?)
Apr 22, 2008, 9:30am
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José Can You See? Bush’s Trojan Taco
Greg Palast: "The President has snuck back down to New Orleans for a meeting of the NAFTA Three: the Prime Minister of Canada and the President of Mexico...The reason - harmonization - watering down rules – on health, safety, labor rights, oil drilling, polluting and so on
Apr 21, 2008, 1:38pm
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In Praise of Bill Ayers and the Weather Underground
Dave Lindorff: "We could use that kind of courage and militancy today in the anti-war movement--not in the form of another underground bombing campaign, then certainly in the form of a willingness put ourselves on the line to blockade and undermine an American imperial war machine
Apr 18, 2008, 5:04pm
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