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Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report
EPA Official Ousted For Offending Dow Chemical; Bush's Misleading Claims About the Arctic Refuge Denied by Federal Officials; Green Construction Could Drastically Slash North American Energy Dependence; Republicans Block Federal Aid to Wind and Solar
May 9, 2008, 5:05pm
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Sixty Years of Palestinian Displacement, Occupation and Suffering
Stephen Lendman: "In December 1947, Jews in Palestine numbered 600,000 compared to 1.3 million Palestinians. Ben-Gurion ordered them removed with commands like: "Every attack has to end with occupation, destruction and expulsion."
May 6, 2008, 11:28am
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The Risk Economy
James Howard Kunstler: "As the West's industrial regime sputters toward a cheap-energy-crackup conclusion, there have been attempts to recast what our economy is actually about, how to account for whatever wealth we manage to produce, and project what our society will actually be organized to do in the years ahead.
May 5, 2008, 11:13am
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Black Hills on Table Again
Once again there is talk by non-Indian lawyers to pursure the allocation of monies awarded the tribes of the Great Sioux Nation for the theft of the Black Hills of South Dakota..."One does not sell one's mother." To the Lakota the Black Hills are considered to be Maka Ina, Mother Earth, or Maka Unci, Grandmother Earth.
May 4, 2008, 12:23pm
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Green Scare State Terrorism
Stephen Lendman: Green Scare - Activists equate it to earlier Red Scare periods after WW I and II when the government used various schemes to incite fear, sanction witch hunt prosecutions, and win widespread public approval for them. (If friends of the earth and animal rights champions are targeted, so can anyone.)
Apr 30, 2008, 3:21pm
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Solidarity Statement for Mumia Abu-Jamal from Leonard Peltier
Perhaps it is destiny that we would find ourselves incarcerated so near, under similar circumstance, by similar forces, using similar excuses, for a similar love of our people. Perhaps it is destiny that we arrived at a similar truth -- that we had to stand in opposition to a similar oppression.
Apr 29, 2008, 11:14am
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Belief System
James Howard Kunstler: "We're in a strange collective psychic bubble...But there's an equally eerie vibe out there that things are seriously out-of-whack. We're on the edge of something. We're at the entrance of a dark passage where some of the ceremonies of daily life meet resistance.
Apr 28, 2008, 4:53pm
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A Million Palestinians Threatened with Starvation by Israel
Juean Cole: The Israelis already have the Gaza Strip under military siege, carefully controlling what and who goes in and out of it. They have now cut off most fuel, and the United Nations has been forced to stop distributing food aid.
This Israeli government action is an unvarnished war crime.
Apr 26, 2008, 12:16pm
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Update from Marty, South Dakota
"I went to jail while standing on a tribal highway by a South Dakota state deputy, while the Bureau of Indian Affairs watched...This is really not about a hog farm! This is about the racist state of south dakota moving in the middle of Indian country and saying, "This is our road!" Tomorrow it will be "this is our land!" We need to fight! We need your help!
Apr 25, 2008, 1:47pm
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Horton Hears a Racist
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar "If our society is willing to tolerate any form of social injustice and discrimination toward any single group, then they have created a breeding ground for injustice throughout society. If we allow sexism, ageism, homophobia, religious intolerance, than racism can only flourish as well.
Apr 17, 2008, 5:12pm
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Truckers Protest, the Resistance Begins
Barbara Ehrenreich: Until the beginning of this month, Americans seemed to have nothing to say about their ongoing economic ruin...on April 1, in a wave of defiance, truck drivers began taking the strongest form of action they can take – inaction... they understand their protest to be part of a larger effort to “take back America”
Apr 13, 2008, 5:17pm
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BBC: Imperial Tool
Stephen Lendman: "At a time of growing public disenchantment with the major media, millions now rely on alternate sources. Many online and print ones are credible. One of the world's most relied on is not - the BBC. (Senior managers are appointed by the government and will be fired if they step out of line and become too critical.)
Apr 10, 2008, 11:38am
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Destroying Public Education in America
Stephen Lendman: Horace Mann, "father of American education" called the public school "the greatest discovery ever made by man" and the "great equalizer". Throughout the country today, privatization schemes target them and threaten to end a 373 year tradition.
Apr 7, 2008, 5:01pm
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Rich, McCain, and the Coming Heartbreak Ridge
Juan Cole: "McCain's vision of Total Victory is likely to profoundly destabilize the eastern Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf for decades to come, endangering US strategic interests and ensuring high fuel costs that endanger the US economy.
Apr 6, 2008, 2:46pm
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Lynne Stewart's Long Struggle for Justice
Stephen Lendman: "Stewart's charges were trumped up, outrageous, and likely first time ever instance of a defense attorney in a terrorism case facing terrorism-related counts - for doing her job as the law requires and that renders attorney-client confidentiality sacrosanct under our criminal justice system.
Apr 5, 2008, 5:25pm
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