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The Anti-Empire Report: February 3rd, 2012
William Blum: The Lord High Almighty Pooh-Bah of threats. The Grand Ayatollah of nuclear menace - As we all know only too well, the United States and Israel would hate to see Iran possessing nuclear weapons. Being "the only nuclear power in the Middle East" is a great card for Israel to have in its hand...
Feb 3, 2012, 4:34pm
Meditations
A Neuroscientist's Nightmare
Martin LeFevre: "What happens in the brain during higher states of consciousness? Is consciousness no more than the product of the human brain, as neuroscientists believe?
Feb 3, 2012, 10:23am
Commentary
Year one of the Egyptian Revolution
One year ago on January 25, a rebellion began in Egypt that in a matter of 18 days toppled the U.S.-backed dictator Hosni Mubarak after 30 years in power. Egypt has been transformed--but the revolution still faces many challenges...Mostafa Ali, a member of Egypt's Revolutionary Socialists and journalist for Ahram Online, talked about the first year of Egypt's revolution--and what comes next.
Feb 2, 2012, 3:06pm
Articles
In Rediscovered Letter From 1865, Former Slave Tells Old Master To Shove It
In the summer of 1865, a former slave by the name of Jourdan Anderson sent a letter to his former master. And 147 years later, the document reads as richly as it must have back then...The letter is a response to a missive from Colonel P.H. Anderson, Jourdan's former master back in Big Spring, Tennessee...asking him to come on back to the big house to work.
Feb 1, 2012, 5:16pm
Links
The First American Freedom Fighter
A half millennium ago (1512) this Feb. 2, the Spaniards felt they had put an end to the first major resistance to the European/Christian conquest of the Americas by executing Hatuey, an Indigenous freedom fighter who fought them on Hispaniola and Cuba. But Hatuey's spirit of independence survived, as William Loren Katz notes.
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Feb 1, 2012, 12:28pm
Commentary
Occupy the Super Bowl: Now More Than Just a Slogan
Dave Zirin: "The Republican-led state legislature aims to pass a law this week that would make Indiana a "right-to-work" state...In the reality-based community, "right-to-work" means smashing the state's unions and making it harder for nonunion workplaces to get basic job protections...This has drawn peals of protest throughout the state, with the Occupy and labor movement
Jan 31, 2012, 3:57pm
Blogosphere
Targeting AIPAC (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee)
Stephen Lendman: "On January 23, Occupy AIPAC announced plans to confront the powerful Israeli Lobby in Washington from March 2 - 6...Since last September, OWS inspired affiliate groups. Among others they include Occupy Together, Occupy Everything, Occupy Arrests, Occupy Police, Occupy Marines, Occupy Veterans, Occupy Writers, Occupy Filmakers, Occupy Schools, Occupy the World Wide Web, Occupy Freedom, Occupy NATO, Occupy Congress, Occupy the White House, and Occupy Your State Capital America.
Jan 30, 2012, 12:57pm
Blogosphere
Jive Talkin
James Howard Kunstler: "In this particular winter of our discontent, the wispiest nostrums and baldest lies will do. America is not interested in reality...America's soul is so lost that it has disappeared into the same cosmic wilderness that MF Global's client accounts were last seen entering.
Jan 30, 2012, 12:42pm
Commentary
Sundering the Social Contract
In political philosophy, the idea of a social contract is that the individual surrenders some rights for the benefits of living in a civilized society that has reasonable rules for all. However, in recent decades, the greedy rich have torn up that contract, as Danny Schechter explains.
Jan 29, 2012, 1:42pm
OCCUPY
January 28, 2012 - Occupy Denver Photos
Another January day in Denver with cold air but sunny and slightly warm for Saturday and Occupy. No march today but a good day for hanging out, waving signs and hearing the local news including about a protest yesterday at Buckley Air Base where Obama spoke.
Jan 28, 2012, 5:11pm
Meditations
The Juncture of Science and Spirituality
Martin LeFevre: "Many Christians believe that "the false teaching of evolution is simply another of Satan's schemes to lead people away from the truth." Why do people believe such rubbish, and in the literal truth of Genesis? What motivates such intractable ignorance?
Jan 27, 2012, 10:58am
Links
Whitewashing History in Arizona
The dispute over Arizona's shutting down of ethnic studies programs that cite white exploitation of Chicano and Indian communities has focused on the impact on Mexican-American children, but the new policy also affects students from Native American communities, as Bill Means explains to Dennis J. Bernstein..."Arizona has painted themselves into a corner on the issue of human rights, especially as it pertains to censorship, especially as it pertains to restricting the education access of children.
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Jan 26, 2012, 2:03pm
Blogosphere
America's Great Divide Between Rich and Poor
Stephen Lendman: "Political Washington's austerity harshness causes greater harm. Shocking bipartisan indifference to human need and suffering is criminal...In the world's richest ever country, poverty is highest among industrialized nations. Homelessness and hunger levels are unprecedented. Over 20% of US families haven't enough money to buy food and need help.
Jan 25, 2012, 3:24pm
Articles
Consuming Less to Help the Environment and the 99%
"It is no accident that 1% of the richest people in the United States own over 40% of the nation's wealth. It is no accident that we have become a nation of consumption. There is a direct link: the 1% own the businesses that we buy from, we fund them to bombard each and every one of us with thousands of marketing messages everyday, thereby causing us to buy even more "stuff" from them...
Jan 24, 2012, 3:35pm
Meditations
Man's Place in the Universe
Martin LeFevre: "Fog enshrouds the town as I enter the mountain community from the valley below. With a few hundred meters more of elevation, the fog clears, though the skies remain cloudy. Reaching the man-made lake, there is a brightening, and even a small patch or two of blue.
Jan 24, 2012, 10:10am
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