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Yearly Archives: 2008
New Gaza War : The Neighborhood Bully Strikes Again
“A loud-mouthed bully?”: Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem December 21, 2008. Photo by Gali Tibbon / Pool / Reuters.‘Once again, Israel’s violent responses, even if there is justification for them, exceed all proportion … Continue reading
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Tagged Gaza, Gaza War, Hamas, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Palestinian Occupation
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Ron Ridenour : Half-Century of Cuban Revolution: ‘Challenges’
Some Cuban youth have turned to western styles. Here, a young Cuban with a punk hair style watches a tattoo artist apply a tattoo at the Metal City Festival in Santa Clara, Cuba, Oct. 27, 2007. Photo by by Javier … Continue reading
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Tagged Che Guevara, Cuba, Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Imperialism, Socialism
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Henry Kissinger: Criminal Extraordinaire
Well, here’s a story, in his own words, of a criminal who walked away from his crimes scot free. That makes a fairly strong case that all the criminals currently in the White House and other parts of the federal … Continue reading
Passive Solar: Living Without Furnaces in the Cold
This is the kind of innovation that will be required around the world in short order. We love reading our Friends at Earth Family Alpha: they always have a positive outlook and make incredibly imaginative suggestions about how we can … Continue reading
Gaza : The Pictures Tell the Story
An explosion from an Israeli missile strike in the northern Gaza Strip. A Palestinian man cries over the body of his son following an Israeli air strike in Gaza December 27, 2008.In pictures: Massacre in GazaDecember 27, 2008 After announcements … Continue reading
Leaving Las Vegas : Can We Say Goodbye to Catalysmic Consumption and Hedonism?
Lake Mead: Beautiful but shrinking. Photo by Ron Niebrugge / Niebrugge Images.‘Will we finally accept the public policy and lifestyle changes that the real world now requires? Or will “Viva Las Vegas” always be America’s motto?’By David Sirota / December … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Consumer Culture, Ecology, Energy Crisis, Environment, Las Vegas
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American Health Care : A Sucker Born Every Minute
Grand huckster P. T. Barnum: “A sucker born every minute.” ‘The insurance industry and PhARMA are well aware of the TV watcher’s predilection to accept, without question, their lies, distortions, and innuendoes about the nature of and need for single … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Pharma, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Universal Health Care
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Afghanistan Warlords, the CIA and the Little Blue Pill
Illustration by Matt Weems / Afghanistan Watch.‘The grinning chief offered up a bonanza of information about Taliban movements and supply routes — followed by a request for more pills.’ By Joby Warrick / December 26, 2008 The Afghan chieftain looked … Continue reading
Granny D : Fear is a Humbug
‘This society has run its course. We the people have long been ready for fresh growth, greener growth, scaled more to the needs of human beings and their communities.’By Doris “Granny D” Haddock [These remarks are excerpted from a speech … Continue reading
Wanted : Dialogue on the Great Depression of 2009
How prepared are Americans today to cope, adjust, improvise, and to help one another as things really get tough in the coming year or two? Could really bad times that go on and on bring about a forced reset of … Continue reading
