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Dick Cheney Isn’t the Only One Who Planned Assassinations
When a person repeats precisely the same behaviour over and over again, but expects the result to be different, that is Einstein’s definition of insanity. Americans have been doing the same thing over and over again for 200 years, somehow … Continue reading
Juan Cole on Cheney’s Criminal Irrelevance – II
Truth Commission Needed to Examine Cheney, Assassination Squads, Cover-UpsBy Juan Cole / July 13, 2009 It turns out that the secret CIA program that Leon Panetta cancelled, and which former VP Richard Bruce Cheney ordered hidden from Congress, was in … Continue reading
Obama’s Non-Nuclear World: A Hiroshima Survivor’s Thoughts
Hiroshima: Ten Years Later. “I’m Just Waiting For Death.” Those are the words of Mrs. Yoskio Nishikawa, 43, bedridden “A-Bomb widow” who lives on $22 a month in charity. Yukiko, 15, one of her four children, cools her forehead with … Continue reading
Food Safety Meets Organic Farming: Destroying the Conceptual Foundations by Hyper-Technologizing
Farmworkers harvest organically grown lettuce at Lakeside Organic Gardens Farm in Watsonville. Photo: Paul Chinn/The Chronicle.Crops, ponds destroyed in quest for food safetyBy Carolyn Lochhead / July 13, 2009 Washington — Dick Peixoto planted hedges of fennel and flowering cilantro … Continue reading
Obama’s Nuclear Gambit : Savvy or Softy?
Above, John Bolton: a neocon looks backward. Below, Barack Obama with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev. Photo by Dmitry Astakhov / AFP / Getty Images.Obama’s nuclear gambit:Cold warrior Bolton says he gave too much These views never made much sense during … Continue reading
‘Magic’ Poet, ‘Weed Ambassador’ Simon Vinkenoog Dead at 80
Poet Simon Vinkenoog, a Sixties icon. With the death of Simon Vinkenoog Amsterdam loses one more of its iconic ambassadors of the ‘Swinging Sixties’… when the Dutch capital gained its reputation as a drugs-friendly Magic Centre… By Rob Kievit / … Continue reading
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Tagged Amsterdam, Deaths, Drugs, Marijuana, Poets, Psychedelics, Sixties
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Contempt for Humanity: Increasingly Commonplace
Ad Showing West Bank Barrier Angers PalestiniansJuly 13, 2009 JERUSALEM — An Israeli cell phone commercial showing soldiers playing football near Israel’s West Bank separation barrier has angered Palestinians who say it is in poor taste and exploits their suffering. … Continue reading
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Bhopal: Twenty-Five Years Later, Hundreds of New Victims Born Each Year
Nida, 17 months old Bhopali girl with a congenital birth defect. Photograph: Money Sharma/EPA.Poisoned legacyBy Billy Briggs / July 12, 2009 The Hiroshima of the chemical industry is still claiming victims – babies born 25 years later with serious birth … Continue reading
The Spirit of Humanity: An Interview with Cynthia McKinney
Cynthia McKinney is a former US Representative who served from 1993-2003 and from 2005-2008 . She was the 2008 Green Party presidential nominee and has been an active member of the Free Gaza Movement. In 2004, The Backbone Campaign awarded … Continue reading
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Tagged Crimes Against Humanity, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Palestinian Blockade
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Singin’ on Sunday – Dick Gaughan
Dick Gaughan – Handful of Earth From a 1983 BBC Spectrum Documentary. Dedicated to all the workers out there. Thanks to Erich Seifert / The Rag Blog
