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 Angels Over Babylon
Sennacherib has returned
To haunt the empty halls of Ninevah.
Archaeologists have peeled his face
From palace walls and sent
His lion victories to London. . . more >>
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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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 Spirit or Empire? The 21st Century Revolution
I am introducing the discourse of “spirit” back into social activism because the problems we face, dear friends, cannot be solved by the same kind of mind and heart that created these problems in the first place. more >>
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 The Concept of Evil
The concept of evil is intellectually valid and spiritually important, and crucial to understanding the current state of political affairs in America and around the world. 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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 The Warrior God Changes Direction
A more circumspect foreign policy waits until Bush is out of office, although the mood of the country is clearly already shifting. Unfortunately, planetary indications for 2007 and 2008 suggest a strong potential for Bush to unleash the aggressive Martial impulses writ large in the stars. 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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 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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 Peering Into the Future: An Agenda for the 21st Century
February 8, 2008
It's 2008, but we are at the first dawning of the 21st century, and much of the world seems to be focused firmly on what can be seen in their rear view mirror. Our problems are global problems, and so are the solutions for a better world. 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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 Snatched from the Jaws of Victory
May 9, 2007
The Women's Liberation Movement I remember argued for the need for a radical transformation of all our institutions. It urged women to rethink every aspect of our lives, always asking us to reflect on whose interests were served by the ways in which society was organized and by the values we had been taught to embrace. 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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 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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 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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 Lammas 2006: Harvest of Peace and War
July 28, 2006
Let us plant seeds of peace in a world at war. Let us light a flame of brotherhood and sisterhood in a world where religion is at war with religion and nation with nation. Let us celebrate our common link to the Great Mother and to the bounty of her first harvest this high summer season. 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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 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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 Lopez Obrador: Will He Transform Mexico?
September 22, 2005
The popular left-wing Mayor of Mexico City is running for President on a platform of people power. Will Mexico join the South American revolt against globalization? The stars favor change --and they favor Obrador. more >>
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 The London Bombings
August 31, 2005
The British people will not be terrorized. We do not seek war. There is a public recognition of the multicultural nature of our country, and we accept and include Muslims and all others as part of our society. more >>
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 How to Avoid Oil Wars, Terrorism, and Economic Collapse
August 30, 2005
In the near future insufficient oil supplies will lead to extreme price shocks, price volatility, acute shortages, geo-strategic conflicts and dislocations in the global economy. The Oil Depletion Protocol provides a global management tool to help the world community cope with earth-shaking changes. 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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 Follow the Money
February 10, 2005
Eliot Spitzer’s insurance probe promises to shake up business as usual in the $1 trillion industry -- and in Albany, where campaign finance reform may be the only solution to the problem. more >>
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 Bush Policy Wonks Will Move Markets – and the Economy
January 15, 2001
No one expects Dubya to put on his thinking cap, network with policy wonks and forge a set of priorities for his new administration that will rock our collective world. That was Bill Clinton's modus operandi.
Ideas for Bush policies will be coming from a handful of big think tanks in Washington. As in the Reagan era, the most important is the Heritage Foundation.
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 Dance of Oil
December 7, 2000
It looks as if oil politics could be the vehicle for George W. Bush to define his administration's geo-strategic principles, solidify support in Congress, reward his supporters in the energy "bidness" and unify the country behind his foreign policy, just as it was for his father. That does not necessarily mean a repeat of the Persian Gulf War, but oil provides an ideal vehicle for restating the imperial American policy abroad. more >>
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 A Depleted Legacy
November 19, 1995
The story of the long twilight struggle that ended government subsidized housing in Houston. more >>
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The Clipper Threat
June 3, 1994
Bill Clinton promised voters in 1992 that he would shrink the defense budget, reorder Cold War priorities and rein in America's undercover warriors who had sold guns to the Ayatollah, supported an illegal Nicaraguan war, bankrolled Manuel Noriega and secretly armed Saddam Hussein. more >>
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 Privacy in the Digital Age
March 31, 1994
Welcome to the digital frontier, where network by network, metaphor by metaphor, a splendid, global, multimedia palace is being built through trial and error. more >>
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 BAD COMPANY: Part 2
May 4, 1992
Making Money the Old-fashioned Way--
Dealing With the Yakuza and Building
Golf Courses in China
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 Have Guns, Will Travel
July 22, 1991
Who Is Richard Brenneke and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About George Bush and the October Surprise?
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 Shady Customers: How S&L Suspects Profit From the Crisis
July 30, 1990
The same unscrupulous real estate developers and high‑flying financiers who built low‑quality, see‑through office buildings and unneeded condos across the country are now poised to buy foreclosed properties from the government at fire‑sale prices.
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