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Drug Cartels, Managed Violence and the Russian 9/11, Part 1
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?
Putting Flower Essences on the Map For Peace and Healing
Read about Robina's ongoing project for peace. Her idea is to get as many people as possible putting bottles of flower essences on a map.
Toward an Activist Sprituality
The integration of magic and activism sometimes means bringing magic into an action -- doing a spiral dance in the midst of the tear gas of Quebec City, or in Grand Central station surrounded by riot cops. It might mean starting our strategic planning with a trance or a Tarot reading, or invoking Water as we work against the privatization of water resources.
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.
A New Revolution-Lilipoh Interviews Nicanor Perlas
Today, with the increasing dominance of global economic systems and a few superpowers, both supported by propaganda masquerading as mass media, a revolution can occur without the usual external appearance of a state takeover.
Structure of the Universe
James Bertolino's latest cosmic nature poem, to help you contemplate our Loving Universe.
Follow the Money
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.
Drug Cartels, Managed Violence and the Russian 9/11, Part 2
It would appear that Davidovich and Kosman were in Khashoggi's villa to talk about more than just Chechnya. It seems likely that a drug-route was discussed involving Abkhazia, which has become a key heroin transiting point.
Shady Customers: How S&L Suspects Profit From the Crisis
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.
Who's Spying Now?
Writer Dashiell Hammett could never have dreamed up private investigator Joseph Seanor. Unlike a fast-talking, streetwise gumshoe who spends his nights pounding the pavement, Seanor does his research pounding on a keyboard. Each week he dons a virtual reality headset and spends 100 hours online. . .
A New Meaning for Car Wash
Forget "Miami Vice" and high-speed chases on cigar boats and shootouts with South American thugs armed with semiautomatic weapons.The really heavy federal drug enforcement artillery is now being trained on suburban car salesmen."
BAD COMPANY: Part 1 - How Spooks, Speculators and Con-Men Helped Build the Bush Dynasty
How Speculators, Spooks, and Con Men Helped Build the Bush Dynasty: Bush's legendary talent for moral flexibility and political spinelessness, which surfaced in a career built on professional coattailing, appears to be a family trait, an identifying characteristic--the way the Kennedy clan will always be associated with hot sex and rum-running.