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Singin’ on Sunday – David Rovics
Another doctor who provided abortions has been murdered in the US, this time in Kansas. He had already been shot back in 1993. Google Dr. George Tiller and you’ll find out lots more. In the Name of God I woke … Continue reading
Canadian Mayors: Don’t Get Mad, Get Even
Canadian mayors pass anti-‘Buy American’ resolutionJune 6, 2009 In response to the ‘Buy American’ provisions of the U.S. stimulus package, Canada’s mayors narrowly passed a resolution Saturday that could potentially block U.S. companies from bidding on city contracts. The resolution … Continue reading
Wars: Not Glorious, Ever
Revisionists challenge D-Day storyBy Hugh Schofield / June 5, 2009 A revisionist theme seems to have settled on this year’s 65th anniversary commemoration of the Normandy landings. The tone was set in Antony’s Beevor’s new book, D-Day, which tries to … Continue reading
Robert Reich : Big Pharma and Big Insurance Vs. Health Care ‘Public Option’
Sen. Olympia Snowe: diluting the “public option.” Photo by Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images.How Pharma and Insurance intend to kill the public option, and what Obama and the rest of us must do By Robert Reich / June 5, 2009 … Continue reading
Steve Weissman : Obama Speaks. Will Palestine or Pakistan Decide?
Barack Obama’s speech drew huge audiences in the Muslim world. Photo by EPA / Telegraph, U.K. A bigger problem for Obama’s relations with the world’s Muslims will be his military escalation in Afghanistan and his ever-deepening involvement in Pakistan. By … Continue reading
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Small Changes in Behavior Can Yield Meaningful Results to Slow Global Warming
Some of the 75 dairy cows at Guy Choiniere’s farm in Highgate, Vt., where feed has been changed to plants like alfalfa and flaxseed to reduce the methane emitted when they belch. Photo: Cheryl Senter for The New York Times.Greening … Continue reading
Global Peace Index : Nations With More Atheism are More Peaceful
Graphic from Epiphenom.‘It’s another blow to the idea that secularization leads to social meltdown. Atheist countries are, in fact more peaceful.’ By Tom Rees / June 4, 2009 The 2009 Global Peace Index has just been released. It’s basically a … Continue reading
Only In America: The Rebecca Rubin Doll
One Rebecca Rubin has an FBI wanted poster and the other comes with toy challah bread. Newly Marketed ‘American Girl’ Doll Accidently Named After Alleged Eco-TerroristBy Tara Lohan / June 2, 2009 Apparently hoping to expand their marketing reach, Mattel … Continue reading
Spending on Peace Is More Cost Effective
Military spending is set to rise 34% by 2012.The purchasing power of peaceBy Jorn Madslien / June 3, 2009 Purchasing power long ago overtook manpower as the most important lever in the race towards military might. Currently, personnel expenditure accounts … Continue reading
Barbara Ehrenreich to Journalism Grads : Welcome to the Working Class
Drop your sense of entitlement, Ehrenreich tells a graduating class of media makers, journalists are now ‘part of the working class.’ By Barbara Ehrenreich / June 4, 2009. [The following is the text of Barbara Ehrenreich’s commencement address on May … Continue reading
Guantanamo Prisoners Shaming Washington
I can think of very little that is more disgusting than the words of a former commander of the Guantanamo facility (which I missed when they were uttered in June 2006). He said that three detainee suicides were not acts … Continue reading
Capable of Learning Nothing from Almost Any Experience
Graceful Reprieve – art by William O’Connor.Happy Days: ReprieveBy Tim Kreider / June 2, 2009 Fourteen years ago I was stabbed in the throat. This is kind of a long story and it’s not the point of this essay. The … Continue reading
