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Cindy Sheehan : ‘This is Horseshit"
Cindy Sheehan. Photo by Jim Watson / AFP / Getty.‘This nation is teetering on the precipice of financial ruin and dragging the rest of this planet down with us’By Cindy Sheehan / August 6, 2008 It is not if we … Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, Direct Action, Peace Movement, Social Action, Social Change
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Barack Obama Speaks at Burning Man!
Photo by Declan McCullagh. ‘Festival goers screamed at the top of their lungs, spun in endless circles, and threw up on each other’By Jeff Lieber / August 5, 2008 Standing on the main stage at a world famous gathering of … Continue reading
Drawn and Quartered
R.J. Matson / The New York Observer and Roll Call. Thanks to Harry Edwards / The Rag Blog
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Tagged Cartoon, George W. Bush, Humor, John McCain, Political Cartoon
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India : On the Front Lines of the Global Food Crisis
The courtyard of the home where I stayed.Things that go bump in the nightBy Mira Kamdar / August 4, 2008 JAITU, FARIDKOT DISTRICT, India—Wrapped in a musky blanket under a fan that was frantically trying to beat the air free … Continue reading
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Tagged Food Crisis, Green Revolution, Hunger, India, Poverty, The World
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Nearly Half of all the World’s Primates at Risk of Extinction
The endangered golden lion tamarin. Photo by Anup Shah/Getty Images.Study paints bleak picture for hundreds of species: Loss of habitat and boom in bushmeat trade blamedBy James Randerson / August 5, 2008 Nearly half of all primate species are now … Continue reading
Denver Police Brace for Convention
Security was heavy for the Democratic National Convention in Boston in 2004, including state troopers in riot gear the day before it opened. This year’s convention is in Denver on Aug. 25-28. Photo by Bob Bukaty/Associated Press.Officials ‘fearing that the … Continue reading
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Latest About Obama From Toby Keith, New Darling of the Right
Keith: Obama ‘Talks, Acts, And Carries Himself As A Caucasian’By Max Blumenthal / August 5, 2008 Last week, I reported for the Huffington Post that country singer Toby Keith had performed a pro-lynching anthem on the Colbert Report, and would … Continue reading
Just Another "War on Terror" Conspiracy Theory
Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC NewsBy Glenn Greenwald The FBI’s lead suspect in the September, 2001 anthrax attacks — Bruce E. Ivins — died Tuesday night, apparently by suicide, just as the Justice Department was about to charge him … Continue reading
DEA Uses Blackwater to Raid Medical Marijuana Providers
Blackwater does the DEA’s job in Culver City, Cal.‘I guess none of their usual buddies were available’By Rebecca Saltzman Last week the DEA raided a medical marijuana dispensary in Culver City, Cal., spending hours on site detaining employees and ultimately … Continue reading
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Tagged Blackwater, California, Congress, DEA, Drug War, Drugs, juana, Marijuana, Medical Marijuana
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SCIENCE : Dark Energy’s Fingerprint Found in Distant Galaxies
This image was produced by combining a dozen NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory observations made of a 130 light-year region in the center of the Milky Way. When microwaves created by the Big Bang pass through large galaxies, they appear to … Continue reading
The Compromise ‘Drill Anywhere’ Plan
‘Joe Sixpack will never notice the effect of any oil recovered from these areas’By Dean Baker / August 4, 2008 Senator McCain and the Republicans in Congress are calling Senator Obama and the Democrats environmental wimps for refusing to allow … Continue reading
Tom Hayden : Empire Through the Athens-Sparta Prism
Spartan Warriors by Howard Johnson.Obama-McCain Dilemma: Warriors or Statesman?By Tom Hayden ATHENS — As Barack Obama swept Europe politically this week, my vantage point was the ancient Agora of Athens, where I could muse whether the young conquerer might become … Continue reading
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Tagged Greece, History, McCain, Obama, Presidential Campaign, Tom Hayden
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