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Israel Coiled for Potential Iran Strike
‘While its preference is to coordinate with the US, defense officials have said Israel is preparing a wide range of options for such an operation.’By Yaakov Katz / December 4, 2008 The IDF (Israel Defense Forces)is drawing up options for … Continue reading
Photo of the Day: Hoot for Peace
What will you be doing when you’re ninety?By Lee Jordan This is Louis, 90 years of age !!!.. it was a freezing night in Bristol city, yet Louis was standing there, waiting for a hoot ! I have a real … Continue reading
Paul Krugman : What to Do
‘Once the recovery effort is well underway, it will be time to turn to prophylactic measures: reforming the system so that the crisis doesn’t happen again.’By Paul Krugman The following article by educator, New York Times columnist and Nobel prize … Continue reading
The Dog Ate It….
Thanks to Harry Edwards / The Rag Blog
Hawaii : Revolutionary New Electric Car System Proposed
The entrepreneur Shai Agassi, right, met with Anders Eldrup, center, a Danish energy executive, in Copenhagen last March. Photo by Jonas Pryner Andersen / Polfoto / AP.‘By using existing electric car technologies, coupled with an Internet-connected web of tens of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Energy, Automobiles, Electric Cars, Hawaii, Transportation
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Odetta : Bid Farewell to Another Legend
Odetta at Radio City Music Hall in New York for a “Salute to the Blues” Benefit concert in 2003Odetta, Voice of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 77. Photo by Nancy Siesel / NYT.‘Her voice plunged deep and soared high, and … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Civil Rights Movement, Deaths, Folk Music, Musicians, Peace Movement, People, Political Activists, Sixties
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Mumbai LeT Terrorists May Have Trained in Iraq
I want to explain my headline. It is now known that the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) are responsible for the Mumbai attacks. It is also know that the LeT have been active in the insurgency in Iraq since 2004. Although specific training … Continue reading
Beyond the Bailout State : Empire of Depression
‘What kind of new administration could actually get beyond Roosevelt’s era as well as our own staggering disaster, leaving “the bailout state” behind us?’By Tom Engelhardt / December 1, 2008 See ‘Roosevelt’s Brain Trust vs Obama’s Brainiacs’ by Steve Fraser, … Continue reading
Michael Moore : Saving the Big 3 for You and Me
‘Congress must save the industrial infrastructure that these companies control and the jobs they create. And it must save the world from the internal combustion engine.’By Michael Moore / December 3, 2008 I drive an American car. It’s a Chrysler. … Continue reading
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Tagged Automobile Bailout, Automobile Industry, Detroit, Economic Crisis, Economic Recovery, Michael Moore, Transportation
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Spain an Accessory to CIA Rendition Flights
Afghan detainees are walked to a Chinook helicopter for transport bySpecial Operation Forces. Photo: Darren McCollester/Getty. “However, if, for unseen reasons, an emergency landing were necessary, the U.S. government would like the Spanish government’s authorization to use one of our … Continue reading
Iraq : KBR Subsidiary Confines Asian Workers in Warehouse
About a thousand men living in warehouses near the Baghdad airport marched out of their compound today to protest what they call broken promises from Najlaa, a Kuwaiti catering company that had offered them jobs in Iraq. Instead, Najlaa’s contracts … Continue reading
