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The Business of Water: Privatizing An Essential Resource
Stephen Lendman: In her 2002 book titled, "Water Wars," noted author, social activist, and ecologist Vandana Shiva called privatizing water: ecological terrorism; a global water crisis; along with overuse, waste and pollution, it can cause "the most pervasive, most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth;"...
Mar 9, 2010, 2:57pm
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The Russell Tribunal on Palestine - Barcelona Session
Stephen Lendman: "Launched on March 4, 2009, "The Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RTP) seeks to reaffirm the primacy of international law (to settle) the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (by focusing on) the enunciation of law by authoritative bodies (and) address(ing) the failure of application of law even though it has been so clearly identified.
Mar 8, 2010, 2:10pm
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Then All At Once
James Howard Kunstler: "Whatever else one thinks of how we live these days, it's hard to not see it as temporary, historically anomalous, a peculiar blip in human experience...now hardly a moment goes by when I don't feel tremors of massive change in these things, as though all life's comforts and structural certainties rested on a groaning fault line...
Mar 8, 2010, 2:03pm
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Barry C. Lynn's "Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and Economics of Destruction"
Stephen Lendman: "Omnipotent, they plunder recklessly, ruthlessly at our expense. They're private tryannies, endangering humanity, basic freedoms, environmental sustainability, and planetary survival. Without exaggeration, they're unaccountable, unchecked "weapons of mass destruction."
Mar 4, 2010, 1:19pm
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Funding Israeli Militarism, Belligerence and Occupation
Stephen Lendman: "From birth, Israel was a regional menace until America became its benefactor in the late 1960s. Now it's a global one, powerful with a large standing army and the latest weapons and technology, nuclear armed and ready to use them. It's belligerent on the slightest pretext or none at all, and a threat to world peace and security...
Mar 2, 2010, 1:26pm
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America's Permanent War Agenda
Stephen Lendman: "Post-9/11, Dick Cheney warned of wars that won't end in our lifetime...The Pentagon called it the "long war" in its 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), what past administrations waged every year without exception since the republic's birth, at home and abroad..."Shall we put an end to the human race, or shall mankind renounce war" and live in peace, because we have no other choice. (Bertrand Russell)
Mar 1, 2010, 11:20am
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Winter Mind Games
James Howard Kunstler: "We are left, finally, with a so-called health care system so cruel and unjust that the Devil himself in consultation with the most demonic lobbyists, and perhaps a little input from historical politicians such as Caligula, Ivan the Terrible, Heinrich Himmler, and Pol Pot could not construct a worse way of deploying the fruits of modern science...
Mar 1, 2010, 10:57am
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America's Supremes: Court Over Constitution
Stephen Lendman: "The notion of "government of the people, by the people and for the people" is bogus on its face. People don't govern directly or through representatives. They are governed by the rich and well-born...It's how America always worked, including the High Court...
Feb 26, 2010, 12:17pm
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Global Sweatshop Wage Slavery
Stephen Lendman: "Because Transnational corporations (TNCs) are unaccountable, a dehumanized global workforce is ruthlessly exploited, denied their civil liberties, a living wage, and the right to work in dignity in healthy safe environments...In America...half or more of the nation's 22,000 garment factories are sweatshops
Feb 25, 2010, 5:34pm
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Rehearsals for a Civil War
James Howard Kunstler: "Amid the general incoherence of the Tea Party rebels and the failure of progressives to recognize the structural changes underway in a peak oil world, lies a deadly swamp of paradox where all parties may drown in the quicksand of their own muddled intentions....
Feb 22, 2010, 11:27am
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American Genocides: Is Haiti Next?
Stephen Lendman: "We waged war against Native Americans, African-Americans, ordinary Americans, the poor, disadvantaged and women. Since inception, we committed "genocide," according to Howard Zinn: "brutally and purposefully....by our rulers in the name of progress, (who then buried ugly truths) in a mass of other facts, as radioactive wastes are buried in containers in the earth."
Feb 22, 2010, 11:16am
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Selling Out America to Wall Street
Stephen Lendman: Project Censored's top 2010 story was "US Congress Sells Out to Wall Street," highlighting that since 2001, "eight of the most troubled firms have donated $64.2 million to congressional candidates, presidential candidates and the Republican and Democratic parties." It's no surprise that they own them...
Feb 19, 2010, 12:07pm
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Guantanamo Detainee Deaths: Responding to the Defense Department's Whitewash
Stephen Lendman: "On December 7, 2009, under the direction of Professor Mark Denbeaux, Seton Hall University School of Law's Center for Policy & Research (CP&R) published its 15th GITMO report titled, "Death in Camp Delta," covering three simultaneous deaths on June 9, 2006 in the maximum security Alpha Block. The detainees were found hanged in separate cells...
Feb 11, 2010, 12:17pm
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Growing Hunger in America
Stephen Lendman: "About 5.7 million people (or 1 in 50) get emergency food aid from the system in any given week, an increase of 27% since 2005, and one in eight Americans (37 million people, including 14 million children and three million seniors) are food insecure, meaning they don't get enough to eat...
Feb 10, 2010, 11:31am
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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
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