October 31, 2011
India has a gender ratio at birth of about 110 boys for every 100 girls with large regional variations [AFP] According to the United Nations’ Population Division, the world’s human population hits seven billion on October 31. As always happens whenever we approach such a milestone, this one has produced a spike in conferences, seminars, [...]
Tags: China, India, Population growth, Project Syndicate, Sanjeev Sanyal, Total fertility rate, United Nations, World population
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October 26, 2011
Gross National Product was developed in the 1930s and 1940s as a measure of economic actvity [GALLO/GETTY] Aside from the nation of Bhutan, which strives to maximise Gross National Happiness, virtually all countries in the world single-mindedly pursue endless increases in Gross National Product (GNP), which measures the market value of final goods and services [...]
Tags: Bhutan, Economic, GNP, Gross National Happiness, Gross National Product, OPEC, Simon Kuznets, United States
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October 20, 2011
There has been a large number of new posts added to this site. Some with a preface written by me and an article written by me that looks at the question of consent. On one hand these are exciting times when you look at what is a new level of appreciation of how the rampant [...]
Tags: Earth, History, Human, NESARA, New World Order, United States, Wealth, World War III
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August 25, 2011
Amnesty for the Indefensible White House / Pete Souza By Robert Scheer As Chomsky put it so well crime does not pay unless of course it is backed by the state. That much is all a part of capitalist democracy as much as any other system. It seems that the banks despite an official bail out [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Eric Schneiderman, Federal Housing Administration, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York Attorney General, New York Times, United States Department of Justice, Wall Street
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August 19, 2011
March 14, 2011 Is Egypt the Future IndoTurkeZil? So Many Ways to Strut Your Democratic Stuff in a New World By Pepe Escobar Three mummies were recently found in an underground temple in Luxor, Egypt. Translated hieroglyphs identified them as the Clash of Civilizations, the End of History, and Islamophobia. They ruled in Western domains [...]
Tags: Arab world, Clash of Civilizations, egypt, Egyptian Army, Hassan al-Banna, Hosni Mubarak, middle east, Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation
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August 14, 2011
People who were abroad over the last 10 days will return to a different country from the one they left. England has been changed, perhaps permanently, by what has happened. The confidence we had in the basic success of our society was shattered, together with the idea that we could always muddle through, getting more [...]
Tags: David Cameron, England, Independent Police Complaints Commission, London, Los Angeles, Police station, Riot, Syria, Television, Warfare and Conflict
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August 14, 2011
A protest in Yasuní national park, Ecuador in 2007. The slogan translates as ‘let Yasuní live’. Photograph: Lou Dematteis/Spectral Q/Redux/Eyevine Where the foothills of the Andes meet the vast Amazonian rainforest in eastern Ecuador there is a small town called Shell. It’s a pockmarked, termite-eaten, one-street place which doubles as a missionary centre and a regional [...]
Tags: Alberto Acosta, Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador, Rafael Correa, Shell Oil Company, Taromenane, United States, Yasuni National Park
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August 13, 2011
US postal service trucks. Postmaster general Patrick Donahoe is proposing to cut mail delivery from six days a week to five. Photograph Scott Olson/Getty Images The US Postal Service has announced radical plans to cut one in five jobs, reduce services and water down staff retirement and healthcare deals as the government agency struggles to keep [...]
Tags: Communication Workers Union, Mail, National Association of Letter Carriers, Patrick Donahoe, Royal Mail, United States, United States Congress, United States Postal Service
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July 26, 2011
The discovery that Greece‘s debt-to-GDP ratio is over 100 per cent has caused the government to impose severe austerity measures – leading to many violent riots by its citizens [EPA] Economists like to talk about thresholds that, if crossed, spell trouble. Usually there is an element of truth in what they say. But the public [...]
Tags: Carmen Reinhart, Debt-to-GDP ratio, Greece, Gross domestic product, Kenneth Rogoff, Keynesian economics, Robert J. Shiller, United States
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July 26, 2011
Mike Davis, The Coming Economic Disaster Posted by Mike Davis at 8:15am, July 26, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: A heartfelt thanks to all of you who, in these dog days of summer, contributed $100 or more for a personalized, signed copy of Christian Parenti’s cutting-edge new book, Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography [...]
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July 26, 2011
This page has been saying for quite some time that voodoo rhythm economics is realy about making those lower in the enforced hierarchy as per the inoculated delusion pay for the lifestyle of the rich and the elite. The contribution to the general fund by the rich is inordinately small and often non-existent, as these [...]
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July 26, 2011
For those interested in the cancer of the voodoo economic rhythm this editorial should be illuminating. But consider this. The US elite that wishes to rule the planet has been putting what it feels is necessary to achieve this goal for at least a century. What has always driven this march to hegemony is that the people [...]
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July 26, 2011
Rupert Murdoch: Intellectual terrorism by PAUL J. BALLES on JULY 25, 2011 The past week’s news has been dominated by reports of scandals in Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. As journalist Ted Newcomen points out, there’s more to the story: The latest revelations in the UK about phone hacking, bribing the police, and frightening political leaders are just [...]
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July 24, 2011
The imperial project as we have seen it unfold on the part of the US and other countries around the world has always come hand in hand with the destruction of any and all existing free, democratic or libertarian institutions that exist in the target countries. In order to strip these countries of the resources [...]
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July 16, 2011
The message below from Anarchists overseas is very consistent with comments this page makes as prefaces to articles, particularly about Greece. With all the disclosure of the thoroughly criminal activities by the Murdoch press it is well to remember that you should not divorce corrupt and illegal conduct from the basically very corrupt system that is the source of it all. Most of the [...]
Tags: Anarchism, Austerity, Capitalism, Greece, Greek government, Ireland, Message-ID, Politics of Greece
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July 13, 2011
Turkish Democracy Gives Rise to Turkish Power By Phyllis Bennis, AlterNet Posted on July 11, 2011 (Selçuk, Turkey) It was election day, June 12, in this small town in Turkey’s heavily secular far west region. Opposition to the governing Justice and Development Party, the Islamic-oriented AKP, runs strong. The manager of the small hotel shook his [...]
Tags: Gross domestic product, Justice and Development Party, middle east, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, New York Times, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey
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July 4, 2011
India‘s economy has been growing quickly, but activists say democracy is suffering because prosperity is being hoarded by a small group of corrupt elites [EPA] 2010 was the year of scams in India – the 2G telecom swindle, Commonwealth Games, Adarsh and plenty of others. 2011 has emerged as the year of the fight against corruption – [...]
Tags: Anna Hazare, Government of India, India, Kapil Sibal, New Delhi, Swami Ramdev, Swimming Pool, Vandana Shiva
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July 4, 2011
A unity deal between Fatah and Hamas has reportedly stalled over Fayyad’s role as prime minister (GALLO/GETTY) The Palestinian Authority can only pay employees half their salaries this month because of a shortfall in foreign aid which it needs for its financial survival, the prime minister said on Sunday. Salam Fayyad appealed to donors to [...]
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July 3, 2011
Prince Charles has held private meetings with several coalition ministers, including George Osborne, Michael Gove and Caroline Spelman. Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP Following the revelation that Tony Blair believed the Prince of Wales meddled in sensitive policy areas during the last Labour government, it has emerged that the prince has had private meetings with at least seven [...]
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June 30, 2011
King George III Won: Happy Fourth of July! By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58333 Preface: It has always been a matter of concern that the US has for so long lived in an deluded state that it had gained its independence from the harsh and odious British rule to replace that with a Grand Dream of Republicanism. In this way the future [...]
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June 29, 2011
Fukushima Spews, Los Alamos Burns, Vermont Rages & We’ve Almost Lost Nebraska By Harvey Wasserman http://warisacrime.org/node/58321 Humankind is now threatened by the simultaneous implosion, explosion, incineration, courtroom contempt and drowning of its most lethal industry. We know only two things for certain: worse is yet to come, and those in charge are lying about [...]
Tags: China Syndrome, Entergy, Government of Japan, Harvey Wasserman, Japan, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Tokyo Electric Power Company, United States
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June 28, 2011
The British always claim to have something in reserve. But what happens when the pedal goes to the metal and there’s nothing there? Perhaps a new election would help the unelected form a proper government perhaps that’s not possible in the capital project where its one for one and all for one. The next [...]
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June 26, 2011
Michael Klare, The Energy Landscape of 2041 Posted by Michael Klare at 5:55pm, June 26, 2011. Let’s see: today, it’s a story about rising sea levels. Now, close your eyes, take a few seconds, and try to imagine what word or words could possibly go with such a story. Time’s up, and if “faster,” “far faster,” “fastest,” [...]
Tags: Arizona, Earth, Fossil fuel, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Michael Klare, Rising Powers Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy, Thirty Years War, TomDispatch, TomDispatch.com, United States
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June 26, 2011
CAIRO (AFP) – Egypt must “scrap” the most reviled laws of former president Hosni Mubarak‘s era if it wants to ensure free and fair parliamentary elections in September, the secretary general of Amnesty International said on Saturday. Speaking to reporters in Cairo, Salil Shetty expressed concern over the use of military courts to try civilians [...]
Tags: Amnesty International, Arab League, Cairo, egypt, Gamal Mubarak, Hosni Mubarak, Salil Shetty, Supreme Military Council
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June 26, 2011
Libya unveils its latest weapon against Nato: women at arms More than 500 females of various ages armed to the teeth and swearing loyalty are paraded in front of international media Female Libyan supporters of Gaddai celebrate after graduation in weapons training and pose for foreign journalists in Tripoli, during a government guided tour. [...]
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June 26, 2011
Pakistan expels British trainers of anti-Taliban soldiers Pakistan has expelled a team of at least 18 military advisers. Photograph: Warrick Page/Getty Images Pakistan has expelled a team of British military trainers sent to help with the fight against the Taliban and al-Qaida, as the fallout from the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden continues to rock relations between [...]
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June 26, 2011
Treasury urges British banks to take big losses to help Greece avoid meltdown Effort to persuade banks to take hit comes despite David Cameron’s assurance that UK taxpayers will not foot the bill Share121 reddit this Comments (244) Heather Stewart and Toby Helm guardian.co.uk, Saturday 25 June 2011 19.48 BST Article history Demonstrators protest in front [...]
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June 26, 2011
“A Moment in the Sun”: An Extended Interview with Independent Filmmaker, Author John Sayles Share1172 We spend the hour with legendary independent filmmaker and author, John Sayles. Over the past three decades, he has directed 17 feature films, including Return of the Secaucus Seven, Matewan, Lone Star, and Eight Men Out. He has often used [...]
Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Dale Maharidge, Independent film, John Sayles, O. Henry Award, Philippines, Return of the Secaucus 7, United States
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June 26, 2011
An injured protester and his family at a hospital after clashing with police during protests in Juliaca [Reuters] Thousands of protesters opposed to mining and energy projects in southern Peru have taken over a commercial airport as the government struggled to restore calm a day after five died in a clash with police. Officials said [...]
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June 26, 2011
US Vows to Arm Philippines to Fight China Clinton Calls for Restraint, Announces More Weapons Transfers by Jason Ditz, June 24, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum With the disputes over the unpopulated Spratly Islands continuing to grow, the Obama Administration has announced that it is preparing a major increase in arms [...]
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June 22, 2011
US journalist Jose Antonio Vargas: I’m an illegal alien In the New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winner Jose Antonio Vargas reveals his true status. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images One of America’s top journalists has admitted he is an undocumented alien. In a startling first person piece in the New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winner Jose Antonio [...]
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June 22, 2011
Hezbollah and the Arab revolution The group’s leader keeps his ear close to the ground, bonding with the dispossessed and speaking their language. Heralded by millions of fans as ‘the mastermind of the resistance’ – and demonised by the US and Israel as a ’terrorist’, Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah‘s rhetoric towards Syria is equally divisive [GALLO/GETTY] Is [...]
Tags: 2006 Lebanon War, Arab people, Bashar-al Assad, Gamal Mubarak, Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah, Iranian Revolution, Lebanon, Musa Al-Sadr, Ruhollah Khomeini, Syria
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June 22, 2011
Irked by Warnings, British PM Tells Military Leadership to Shut Up About Libya ‘You Do the Fighting and I’ll Do the Talking’ by Jason Ditz, June 21, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Warnings from top British military officials, including Navy Chief Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope have cautioned that the Libyan War [...]
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June 22, 2011
NATO Abandons Denial, Admits to Libya Attack That Killed 15 NATO Warplanes Attacked Sorman After All by Jason Ditz, June 21, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum On Sunday, NATO copped to killing at least nine civilians in a strike in Central Tripoli, blaming a “weapons system failure,” but when a second incident [...]
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June 21, 2011
Afghan Withdrawal: Obama Lied, Soon Many Will Have Died By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58232 The United States has about 200,000 military personnel in Afghanistan, half of them troops, half of them contractors. President Barack Obama put over two-thirds of that number there, first with a big escalation in 2009 that everyone refuses to pay the slightest [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, David Swanson, Joe Biden, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, United States, Wall Street Journal
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June 21, 2011
If only Australia had the same number of capable female politicians who could really show the men’s club just how much damage they have done over the decades past. Instead we have Gillard, Wong, Bishop et al to show for what must surely be a very very substantial pool of female talent and motivation to [...]
Tags: Antonio Palocci, Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Palácio do Planalto, Planalto Palace, President of Brazil, Workers' Party
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June 21, 2011
No Savior Salam Fayyad, Palestinian Prime Minister. STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images If Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s political career came to an end today, he could still proudly claim to be Palestine‘s most accomplished prime minister ever. The problem is that all of his predecessors — Ahmad Hilmi, Mahmud Abbas, Ahmad Qurei, and Ismail Haniyya [...]
Tags: Fatah, Hamas, Mahmoud Abbas, Nathan J. Brown, Palestine, Palestinian National Authority, Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority, Salam Fayyad, United States, West Bank
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June 21, 2011
The Stream: Egypt‘s Muslim Brotherhood As the Brotherhood aims for a position in the new government, Egyptian youth discuss the topic of Islamist politics. Egyptian youth have ousted former President Mubarak from leadership, but they now face a new struggle for a fair and democratic election [GALLO/GETTY] “You can’t dictate democracy,” I said to a woman from [...]
Tags: Ahmed Shihab Eldin, egypt, Egyptians, Hosni Mubarak, Islamism, Larbi Sadiki, Muslim Brotherhood, New York City, United States
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June 21, 2011
AMY GOODMAN: The New York Times reported Saturday President Obama rejected the views of top lawyers at the Pentagon and Justice Department when he decided he had the legal authority to continue American military participation in the air war in Libya without congressional authorization. The Obama administration continues to face congressional opposition to the ongoing Libya [...]
Tags: AMY GOODMAN, Barack Obama, John Boehner, New York Times, United States Armed Forces, War Powers Clause, War Powers Resolution, White House
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June 21, 2011
Greek crisis: EU leaders must act decisively or face disaster, says IMF IMF chief tells eurozone leaders to agree Greece‘s bailout or trigger further global crisis as EU ministers delay €12bn lifeline European Council president Herman Van Rompuy (right) and Greece’s prime minister George Papandreou. EU leaders have been warned by the IMF to act [...]
Tags: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, European Central Bank, European Union, George Papandreou, Greece, Herman Van Rompuy, International Monetary Fund, List of Prime Ministers of Greece
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June 20, 2011
Obama’s third war US President Barack Obama’s promises that Libya would be a short war with humanitarian aims have fallen flat. US President Barack Obama now has his country mired in another military quagmire in Libya [GALLO/GETTY] Republicans in the United States Senate held a hearing in early April to discuss the progress of what [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Carter Ham, Iraq, John McCain, Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, NATO, RW Apple, United States, United States Armed Forces
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June 20, 2011
The Doha debates are now available on video at http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6935 This represents a very good opportunity to hear Arabs talk about the recent events in the Arab Spring Related articles Doha, Qatar. (thewriterinparis.wordpress.com) Sunset, sunrise, sunset – Doha, Qatar (travelpod.com) What is the distance between Doha to Washington (wiki.answers.com) Qatar set to reap benefits from Libya [...]
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June 20, 2011
Aung San Suu Kyi tells of Burma’s struggle for freedom and its cost Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks movingly of price of resistance in first of BBC’s Reith lectures Share126 Comments (3) Simon Tisdall guardian.co.uk, Monday 20 June 2011 14.02 BST Article history Aung San Suu Kyi will deliver two of this [...]
Tags: Asia, Aung San Suu Kyi, BBC, Burma, Max Weber, National League for Democracy, Nobel Peace Prize, Václav Havel
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June 20, 2011
By SOLOMON MOORE, Associated Press – Sat Jun 18, 4:32 pm ET NAWZAD, Afghanistan – There isn’t much left of this once-violent town center that the U.S. Marines recently pacified — a couple of dusty roads, closed shops with bare mud brick stalls, small boys herding goats through a jigsaw puzzle of ruined houses and dry irrigation canals. Just outside [...]
Tags: Afghan National Army, Afghan National Police, British Army, Helmand Province, John Toolan, Lashkar Gah, Nawzad Afghanistan, United States Marine Corps
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June 19, 2011
Osama al-Najai, the Iraqi parliament speaker, has told Al Jazeera that the amount of Iraqi money unaccounted for by the US is $18.7bn – three times more than the reported $6.6bn. Just before departing for a visit to the US, al-Najai said that he has received a report this week based [...]
Tags: Al Jazeera, Iraq, Iraqi dinar, Jane Arraf, Los Angeles Times, Oil reserves in Iraq, Presidency of George W. Bush, United States
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June 18, 2011
Bottom-up revolution The waves of revolution have had profound effects transforming possibilities into reality. Paul Rosenberg Last Modified: 17 Jun 2011 09:26 ‘Thank you… Egyptian youth of Facebook,’ Social media helped connect many of the youth activists who led fellow citizens – including the army – in uprising and revolution [GALLO/GETTY] In mid-February, the week after [...]
Tags: American Revolution, Arab world, egypt, Egyptian, Hosni Mubarak, Iron Curtain, middle east, Otto von Bismarck, Social media, United States, World War II
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June 18, 2011
Egypt and Tunisia are now officially on the international donor community’s radar. The World Bank and the G8 are already planning different ways to sponsor the so-called Arab Spring. Many Arabs are speaking out against a possible Euro-US “hijacking” or “containment” of the regional movement through this type of ”cheque book diplomacy”. I will argue here that this position is not [...]
Tags: Arab people, egypt, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, European Union, Robert Zoellick, Tunisia, United States, Western world, WikiLeaks, World Bank
Posted in Afghan Youth, Afghanistan, Arab democracy, Arab movements, Arab Spring, Bahrain, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Democracy, Democracy in the Arab World, Dictators, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, Egypt, elections, Elites, Fascism, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Libya, Middle East, Militants, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Mission Creep, Negotiate. It's now or never, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, oil and gas resources, Oil in the USA, Peace Movement, Peak oil, President of the World, Propaganda, Psycopaths, Special Ops, Syria, Syria sanctions, Taliban, UK, UK fascism, UK Foreign Policy, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, USA, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War and economics, War creates misery and despair, War Crimes, War is a crime, War means war, War no reason needed, War on drugs, War on terror | No Comments »
June 18, 2011
As far as Afghanistan is concerned you need to make a start. A start to disseminate information that not only is war a crime but the damage being done to people’s everyday lives by the ridiculous expenditure required to not just fight a war but to remain on a war standing is ruinous. If you [...]
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June 17, 2011
A couple are seen in the middle of the Vancouver riot after the Canucks lost to the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup decider. Photograph: Rich Lam/Getty Images Lying in the street and seemingly locked in a kiss as chaos erupts around them, a young couple appear oblivious to the charging crowds and baton-wielding riot [...]
Tags: 2010 Winter Olympics, Boston Bruins, Canada, Jim Chu, Riot, Stanley Cup, Vancouver, Vancouver Canucks
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June 5, 2011
Climate Denialese: A Phrasebook By Sarah Burnside Tags: sarah burnside martin ferguson green religion george lakoff framing emissions trading climate scepticism Framing those who push for zero emissions as misanthropes addled by ‘green faith’ is a stock tactic of climate change deniers, writes Sarah Burnside During a recent Question Time session in the Federal [...]
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Is this where having a stiff upper lip gets the British?
The British always claim to have something in reserve. But what happens when the pedal goes to the metal and there’s nothing there? Perhaps a new election would help the unelected form a proper government perhaps that’s not possible in the capital project where its one for one and all for one. The next [...]
Tags: Association of Teachers and Lecturers, Brendan Barber, ComRes, Dave Prentis, David Cameron, Local Government Association, National Union of Teachers, Strike action
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