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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
If you know why Guantanamo is still open, thank Wikileaks
Otherwise we'd still be guessing...
BTW the new Chair of Armed Services (a Republican named "Buck") wants to grow Gitmo to 800...
What's the joke about the bucking ears?
BTW the new Chair of Armed Services (a Republican named "Buck") wants to grow Gitmo to 800...
What's the joke about the bucking ears?
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Saturday, January 22, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Micronutrients
Clipped from www.slate.com
The Best Dollar You Will Ever Spend
Nobel laureates have figured out the eight investments that will help the planet most. No. 1: micronutrients.
On the eastern edge of Kolkata, India, Dulu Bibi, a 25-year-old mother of four, worries about the cost of treating her two sick boys. Her husband earns 80-90 rupees ($1.90) a day. The family's basic diet is low in the essential micronutrients that children need to thrive. Dulu's two sons, age 3 and 1, are weak and feverish, lack appetite, and cry a lot. "If I have to spend 150-200 rupees on medicine," she asks, "what will I eat and feed my children with?"
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Sunday, January 16, 2011
Saturday, January 15, 2011
The role of whistleblowers
Clipped from www.truth-out.org
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Monday, January 10, 2011
Free speech just might require a reasonable populace...
What do we stand for, Rush? The Gospel According to Matthew maybe?
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Ain't We Got Fun...
Clipped from www.democracynow.org
Professor, Author Jacob Hacker on "Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class"
On Capitol Hill, Senate Republicans are threatening to filibuster every bill until the Democrats agree to extend the Bush-era tax cuts to all income groups. The Obama administration and many Democrats want to retain the lower rates only for individuals with an annual income of $200,000 or less and married couples earning no more than $250,000 a year. We speak with Jacob Hacker, Yale University professor and co-author of the new book, Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class. [includes rush transcript]
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Sunday, January 2, 2011
The culture of war
Clipped from www.truth-out.org
US at War Since 1950: A New Year's Meditation
Saturday 01 January 2011
by: Michael True, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
US Army Soldiers gather around a fire to stay warm during an operation in Helmand province, Afghanistan in February of 2010. (Photo: The U.S. Army / flickr)
"The same war continues," Denise Levertov wrote in her poem, "Life at War." Her lament is even more appropriate for 2011 than it was when she wrote the poem forty-five years ago.
Columnists and academics, including international relations professor Andrew Bacevich of Boston University, are finally acknowledging facts familiar to anyone "awake" regarding failed US policies, wasted lives and wasted resources during this period. Willfully ignoring such facts, as Bacevich wrote, "is to become complicit in the destruction of what most Americans profess to hold dear."
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
from Kathleen
Clipped from www.yesmagazine.org
Reclaiming Our Freedom to Learn
by
Gustavo Esteva
posted Nov 07, 2007
A primary school in the Zapatista village of Oventic, the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico.
Photo by Aaron Cain.
Years ago, we started to observe in villages and barrios, particularly among indigenous peoples, a radical reaction against education and schools. A few of them closed their schools and expelled their teachers. Most of them avoided this type of political confrontation and started instead to just bypass the school,
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