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Canadian Parliament Defies Prime Minister and Votes to Allow US War Resisters to Stay
War resisters spoke in conversation with Andy Barrie, CBC radio host and Vietnam war resister, at a public forum at the University of Toronto on May 21, 2008. Photo: Source.I’ll have a ‘Draught Dodger!’ Canadian Parliament votes again to let … Continue reading
UofM Students: It’s About the First Amendment
Porn Flick Screening at U-Md. Still On, as Is Funding ThreatBy Maria Glod / April 5, 2009 Neither side is prepared to lay down its sword. University of Maryland students — protesting what they see as an intrusion by Big … Continue reading
We Suffer Under a Mass National Hallucination
Zombie Apocafest 2008. This is “Best Zombified Building” forPaul Hetherington’s “Casa Baron.” Photo: Source.Escape from the Zombie Food CourtBy Joe Bageant / April 3, 2009 [Joe Bageant recently spoke at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University at Lexington, … Continue reading
Ground the Drones … Lest You Reap the Whirlwind
The MQ-9 Reaper taxies into Creech Air Force Base, Nev., home to the newly reactivated 432nd Wing. U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Larry E. Reid Jr.Source: USAF.Down Where the Predators Live: Getting a Closer Look at the Killer DronesBy Kathy … Continue reading
Jim Hightower : ‘Too Big to Fail’ Is Too Big, Period.
Too big to fail. Photo by Jennifer Szymaszek / AP / Noise Between Stations. The ‘too big’ claim forms the rationale for the diversion of regular people’s money into rich people’s pockets. By Jim Hightower / April 4, 2009. As … Continue reading
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A Cuban Revolutionary and a Cuban Exile Reunite
Coqui Salazar. Photo by Michael D. Nolan / The Rag Blog.Dos Hermanos – Reunifying Two Cuban BrothersBy Michael D. Nolan / The Rag Blog / April 4, 2009 Toward the end of our week in Havana, Coqui took us on … Continue reading
Dems Are Complicit If They Don’t Prosecute
Read the Nuremburg Principles !! The Democrats and anyone who is unwilling to condemn and prosecute those responsible for what has happened at US hands are complicit in the crime. Give us justice, you immoral cretins politicians !! Richard Jehn … Continue reading
I Only Read the First 140 Characters. I’m Posting This on My Facebook Wall. Snob.
Nit-twits!! If You Twitter, You May Be a TwitBy Dorian Snow / April 1, 2009 I have an aversion to blogging about my personal life on public websites. I just don’t think I’m that interesting. And it gives me the … Continue reading
Death at Three Mile Island : The Corporate Media’s Iron Curtain
Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station, 1979. Thirty years after the Pennsylvania melt-down, a Soviet-style Iron Curtain has formed between the corporate media and the alternatives, with nuclear power at its center. By Harvey Wasserman / April 1, 2009 Chernobyl … Continue reading
Lest We Forget That There Is Unfinished Business with a Few Stray War Criminals
Fake Faith and Epic CrimesBy John Pilger / April 2, 2009 These are extraordinary times. With the United States and Britain on the verge of bankruptcy and committing to an endless colonial war, pressure is building for their crimes to … Continue reading
