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 If Not Us, Then Whom?
We face numerous challenges as a peace movement on this cold day in Albany. The US attack on Falluja is nearing an end, but there will be more Fallujas. more >>
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 The Long View: Uranus Uprisings in America
It seems quite likely that the end of the transit of Uranus square to US Mars in February 2009 will signal the end of the hyper-militarism that has colored the tenure of the self-styled War President George W. Bush. more >>
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 Through the Eyes of Abundance
Marin County California is on its way to becoming the first all organic county in the United States. How did they do it? And how can others follow their example? more >>
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 Indexing Humanity, Indian Style
November 5, 2008
117,000 women dead From childbirth, but, take cheer, the market is soaring!
It all happened around the same time. The day the Sensex crossed 19,000, India clocked in 94th in the Global Hunger Index--behind Ethiopia. more >>
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 The Magician
July 18, 2008
In this poem, memory uncovers a child's perspective and restores the magic of everyday life. more >>
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 The Corporate Grip on Food Tightens
July 4, 2008
We have dismantled vital parts of our agriculture and with it, the livelihoods of millions. At a time when debates in India highlight the un-viability of corporate agriculture, giant corporations are betting the opposite. For them, at least, the current food crisis holds the promise of an undying source of super profit. more >>
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 9/11, Deep State Violence and the Hope of Internet Politics
June 17, 2008
The unthinkable — that elements inside the state would conspire with criminals to kill innocent civilians — has become not only thinkable but commonplace in the last century. Is the American "deep state" somehow implicated with al-Qaeda in the atrocity of 9/11? more >>
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 2/08 Global NewsLetter: The Coming Collapse of Globalization
February 8, 2008
We are witnessing the slow motion collapse of “globalization”, which is shorthand for a set of political, economic and social policies, including Reaganomics, free trade and the leveling down of global wages, human rights and environmental protection, financial deregulation and corporate oligarchy. more >>
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 Big Melt Meets Big Empty
November 14, 2007
Since fuel depletion alone will not result in sufficient emission cuts, and since carbon capture and storage is problematic, if nations are serious about climate protection the discussion must center on leaving coal and other low-grade fossil fuels (such as tar sands) in the ground. more >>
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 Cold Fusion: Back on the Menu
October 21, 2007
The implications of cold fusion are enormous. It means that a cheap, much safer and controllable source of nuclear energy is on the horizon. It may be possible to use the same kinds of low energy nuclear reactions to transform existing hazardous radioactive nuclear wastes into more stable, non-radioactive elements. more >>
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 Nine Decades of Non-Violence: The Story of Satyagraha
October 21, 2007
Satyagraha was Gandhi's peaceful protest movement in India that triggered the drive for independence in that country. Here's the story of an old Muslim gentleman who followed Gandhi and has practiced Gandhian precepts for fifty years. more >>
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 Pipeline Through Paradise: Big Oil's Plan to Tap the Arctic
October 20, 2007
One quarter of the world's untapped oil and gas reserves lie in the Arctic. Politicians, oil execs, and the media focus on the Middle East and West Africa but most know that the Arctic is the real prize in the ongoing international struggle to control dwindling energy resources. more >>
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 Impeach Bush Now! Bypass the Corporate Media!
August 1, 2007
About half the American people favor the impeachment of Bush and of Cheney. Such public sentiment is unprecedented in American history, and such numbers demonstrate the potential for an unprecedentedly massive social movement. more >>
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 Mike Gravel: Still Principled After All These Years
July 28, 2007
Commenting that his fellow candidates “frightened” him because they refused to take the nuclear option off the table with regard to Iran, he confronted Obama with the question, “Tell me, Barack, who do you want to nuke?” more >>
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 The Bipartisan SynFuel Con Job
June 1, 2007
Global warming is well on its way to being a godsend for the coal industry.
Lobbyists are busily trying to turn dirty coal into a pleasing green alternative -- walking in the footsteps of Esso and IG Farben. more >>
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 Three 9/11s and the Power of Satyagraha
June 1, 2007
There were three 9/11s in history. New York 2001. The bloody Chilean coup of 1973, and the non-violent one of 1906 —Gandhiji's satyagraha in South Africa. Two brought bloodshed, destruction, misery, and chaos. But the Mahatma's WMD — Weapon of Mass Disobedience — helped change the world for the better. more >>
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 Green Tea, The Elixir of Life?
April 8, 2007
Green tea, the everyday beverage for hundreds of millions in Japan and China has emerged as the latest ‘miracle drug' for preventing just about any ailment humans can suffer from. Here's the science behind the news sensation. more >>
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 Perestroika in the West
April 8, 2007
Western civilization, now arguably the most conservative and ossified force for the status quo on planet Earth, is impeding absolutely essential changes necessary to save the environment and promote social justice, and must be restructured root and branch. There is no alternative. more >>
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 The Challenge of Affluence: A Root of America's Moral Crisis
March 7, 2007
The American ethic of self-indulgence born of our affluence enables people to saddle their descendants with their own debt, running up huge deficits in the national accounts. The habit of yielding to baser impulses makes it easier to support baser policies in the collective realm -- like wars of imperial aggression around the world. more >>
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 Go with the Flow
February 13, 2007
Bush's surge strategy is like trying to force a river to flow backwards by putting a firehose into the onrushing waters and turning on the tap. Failure is assured, and the result could be to flood the Middle East with blood and fire. more >>
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 A Regional MidEast War? Catastrophe Awaits America!
January 20, 2007
American politicians and elite opinion-makers are hypnotized by their own arrogance into believing they can win a wider war in the MidEast. It may seen counter-intuitive but peace in the region depends upon political change -- in Israel. more >>
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 Save our Seas Part 1: Oceans and Global Warming
January 20, 2007
Global warming disrupts the oceanic web of life, and could result in die-off of the phytoplankton that sustain all oceanic life, releasing huge amounts of carbon and accelerating global warming even more. more >>
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 Save Our Seas Part 3: Acid Oceans
January 20, 2007
Global warming and acidification are damaging the phytoplankton at the basis of the oceans’ enormous food web, putting the entire biosphere in jeopardy. more >>
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 Understanding the Iran Crisis
January 20, 2007
George Bush's plan to "surge" more troops into Iraq could be the perfect way to preposition troops along the Iranian border in preparation for an Israeli air assault on targets in Iran.
Palden dissects this complex chessgame for us. more >>
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 Oceans in Distress
November 1, 2006
Save our oceans, save our planet. Pollution, destructive overfishing and increasing commercial exploitation are threatening the planet’s cradle of life. Learn how you can become an Ocean Defender. Take action now! more >>
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 Wanted: Fifty Million Farmers
November 1, 2006
The de-industrialization of agriculture in an era of expensive oil could be managed without catastrophes and could substantially benefit society and the environment in the long run. Here's how. more >>
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 Bush Has Achieved America's Demise
October 13, 2006
When does "collateral damage" so dwarf combatant deaths that war becomes genocide? Bush's illegal invasion of Iraq has cost 655,000 Iraqis their lives -- and arguably ended America's 200 year experiment with Constitutional law.
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 Me and My Shadow: The Aftermath of the Lebanon War
October 11, 2006
There are so many global questions to sort out that the international community doesn't know where to start. So it holds necessary changes to a manageable, damage-limiting trickle, applying band-aids where possible. more >>
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 A New Middle East
August 30, 2006
The talk is of a new Middle East. But what new Middle East? A Middle East designed in Washington DC or Teheran, built to suit the needs of foreigners? Or a Middle East evolved by the locals, built to suit their needs? more >>
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 Words for Children
August 30, 2006
Poet Jed Myers shares a heartbreaking new poem that surfaces the pain of righteous rhetoric transformed into bullets, bombs and polarization in the Middle East. more >>
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 America's Moral Crisis
July 26, 2006
This presidency should be seen as a manifestation of the success of a set of amoral forces that have worked for a generation to take over the county. The success of these unscrupulous forces –arising from the political right– is due in part to a more general unraveling of the moral fabric of America. more >>
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 Give Peace a Chance: Noone Can Win the Arab-Israeli Wars
July 26, 2006
Only one kind of disarmament is possible: complete, comprehensive, global disarmament. Owing to the dominance of the strongest and the vulnerability of the weakest, the strongest countries need to take the initiative - ratchet down first, to convince the small guys that they can be trusted not to take advantage. more >>
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 The Shame of Being American
July 26, 2006
One-third of the Lebanese civilians murdered by Israel’s attacks on civilian residential districts are children. It is impossible for help to reach the wounded and those buried in rubble, because Israeli air strikes have blown up all the bridges and roads. more >>
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 Bush & Brezhnev: Separated at Birth?
June 1, 2006
America is Losing The Great Game of Imperial Conquest. The Reign of Bush the Younger Resembles the Last Days of the Soviet Empire. Seemingly Impregnable and Destined to Rule Forever, Despots Always Fall. more >>
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 Global Food Trade & The New Slave Labour
February 24, 2006
South African farmers pay labourers in part or in full with alcohol. A steady stream of alcohol is given to the workers throughout the day. Not too much to make them drunk, but enough to make them dependent. more >>
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 Our Collapsing Food System -- And How to Fix It
February 24, 2006
The global agricultural-industrial complex is destroying the environment, exploiting farmers around the world, and delivering low-quality, high-cost food to unwary consumers. But a host of alternatives are springing up to provide nutritious food from sustainable farm communities. more >>
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 Drug Cartels, Managed Violence and the Russian 9/11, Part 1
January 11, 2006
Drug trafficking from Afghanistan is the main source of support for international terrorism today. Did an international drug cartel affiliated with a Saudi billionaire, Russian banks, and US and Russian intelligence services conspire in the Moscow bombings of 1999? more >>
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 Rescuing a Planet Under Stress
December 13, 2005
Environmental Guru Lester Brown offers a comprehensive vision for a new, sustainable global society -- but we must transform our throwaway economy of overconsumption before we are overtaken by war, economic collapse and environmental catastrophe. more >>
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 Bug Power
November 13, 2005
Waste-gobbling bacteria may be our dream ticket to clean renewable energy. Will the elusive hydrogen economy run on potato waste? more >>
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 The Road to 9/11
November 13, 2005
How covert US Asian operations financed by heroin trafficking empowered radical Islam. How big oil entangled America in unsavory alliances to control Asian pipelines. How it all led to 9/11. Discover the role of the CIA, Big Oil and the Shadow Government. more >>
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 Is Social Security Broke?
May 9, 2005
The answer is a resounding NO, contrary to what the right-wing spin doctors say. Look at the system's birthchart. Social Security is more stable than the NY Stock Exchange. more >>
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 Global Warming: The Boiling Point
April 1, 2005
I believe that if the U.S. people knew the imminent danger, they would insist on change. This is exactly what the oil and coal industries fear, and so with their powerful crony, GW Bush, they are keeping this crucial information from the American public. more >>
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 Haiti After Aristide: A Failed Occupation
March 1, 2005
UN forces are allowing political assassination attempts on former Aristide officials and police massacres in Port au Prince's poorest neighborhoods. The poor eat mud cakes while rape and pillage proliferate. more >>
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