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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Franklin Rosemont, Surrealist Author, Artist and Activist, 1943-2009
Franklin Rosemont at Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS) National Convergence in Chicago, November 9-11, 2007. Photo by Thomas Good / Next Left Notes.Franklin Rosemont, surrealist revolutionary, died Sunday, April 12, at the age of 65. Franklin, 65, came from … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, Deaths, IWW, MDS, SDS, Sixties, Social Activism, Surrealism, The Left
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Health Care : ‘I Was Sick and Ye Visited Me’
‘Country Doctor Ernest Ceriani Making House Call on Foot in Small Town.’ Photo by W. Eugene Smith / Life Magazine Archives. Here we are in 21st Century America and health care must be rationed out to the population by money-driven … Continue reading
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Tagged Health Care Reform, Medicine, Single Payer, Universal Health Care
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Roger Baker : The Reality of ‘Peak Oil,’ Part 2
ASPO USA. Peak Oil is the point at which the total world oil production reaches its high point and finally starts to decline… We at last have some pretty convincing data to indicate that world oil production probably peaked forever … Continue reading
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Tagged Financial Crisis, Fossil Fuels, Oil Production, Peak Oil, World Economy
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Dick Cheney : A Political Madness
Graphic by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog. (Thanks to Hieronymus Bosch for the look into Dick’s Dark Brain.) Dick Cheney is sadly childlike in his petulant public outbursts. There is a mad gleam in his eye as he insists … Continue reading
Drone Attacks: Killing Civilians at the Rate of Fifty to One
60 drone hits kill 14 al-Qaeda men, 687 civiliansBy Amir Mir / April 10, 2009 LAHORE — Of the 60 cross-border predator strikes carried out by the Afghanistan-based American drones in Pakistan between January 14, 2006 and April 8, 2009, … Continue reading
Dennis Kucinich: Get Out of Afghanistan, Too
Obama has proposed an $82 trillion dollar WAR SUPPLEMENT to the budget. I do not believe in war, whether in Afghanistan or along the Mexican border, where a huge chunk of this money is also destined. I am hearing that … Continue reading
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Tagged Dennis Kucinich, Military Budget, Peace Activists, Peace Movement, U.S. Government
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The Meaningful Way to Combat Terrorism
Greg Mortenson, shown with students from the Sitara School he established in northeast Afghanistan in 2005, says education is the best ammunition against misogynistic terrorist regimes like the Taliban. Photo: Greg Mortenson.Build relationships, author tells cadetsBy Alexa James Recommends ‘3 … Continue reading
Somali Pirates: Other Than What We Are Told?
Johann Hari: You are being lied to about piratesBy Johann Hari Some are clearly just gangsters. But others are trying to stop illegal dumping and trawling Who imagined that in 2009, the world’s governments would be declaring a new War … Continue reading
Wall Street and the Pentagon : Greed and its Delusions
Greed and its requisite delusions. Art by Tom Payne / Eyeball Press. At the heart of both scams is the deliberate corruption of information on such a vast scale that it overwhelms the mind of the educated layman to make … Continue reading
Religious Right Concedes Defeat!
‘Armageddon for the Religious Right.’ Art by Matthew Bors / Orlando Weekly. America’s religious Right has conceded that the election of US President Barack Obama has sealed its defeat in the cultural war with permissiveness and secularism. By Alex Spillius … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Evangelical Christians, Obama Presidency, Religious Right
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Republicans’ New Line : Obama a Dangerous Polarizer
Republicans dig up Newt Gingrich playbook: Turning back the clock. Now that Obama has been in office over seventy days, the second phase of the strategy has been unveiled as Republicans across the board suggest that he is a divider … Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, Obama Administration, Republican Party, Right Wing
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Mad at Michele : Pesticide Companies Miffed at White House For Organic Garden
After President Obama was elected, and even before the magnitude of the recession became apparent, there was a push from community food activists to plant a “Victory Garden” on the South Lawn of the White House. Led by Roger Doiron, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Locklear, Michele Obama, Organic Gardening, Sustainability
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