The failure of the U.S. government as well as the Israelis to talk with leaders of governments they disagree with underlines the acute paucity of diplomacy being exercised at the current time, which can only jeopardize in the long run the security of ordinary people both in the Middle East and in the United States. It is time for governments to listen to their people, to start talking and stop preaching.

COMMENTS ON DAVID SIROTA'S NEW BOOK - HOSTILE TAKEOVER (tags)

Sirota shows how corporate cash corrupts government at all levels

“Today she is [27] years old. Because of her brave stand in Afghanistan, she has received the support and the love and affection of the majority of Afghan people. Meanwhile, the warlords, this small group of extremist men, have decided that she's a threat to them. So she gets daily death threats.” -- Sonali Kolhatkar, KPFK and Afghan Women’s Mission

Boston IMC Journalist in Baghdad (tags)

Boston IMC journalist is in Jordan, looking to get into Iraq to interview ordinary Iraqi citizens

This Land Is Your Land documnetary screening (tags)

THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND shows that every person can make a difference, even when pitted against the enormous powers of big business. This funny and moving documentary criss-crosses the United States, interviewing experts and individuals about corporate influence on everyday life, hears how people feel their own lives have been affected, and looks at some of the brave, compelling and sometime hilarious ways in which individuals and communities are reacting.

People's Paradise Lost (tags)

At 61, he wears a bouffant hairstyle and elevator shoes to add to his potbellied 5-foot-3-inch frame. In public, he tries to appear majestic, but in private he is said to be a man of carnal appetites, famed for his love of Italian cuisine, rock lobster, French wine and cognac. He once brought in two chefs from Milan to make pizza in Italian-made ovens, and is rumoured to be the world's single biggest buyer of his favourite cognac, Hennessy Paradis, which costs $630 a bottle.

Opinion: who says progressive activists are a mish-mash? (tags)

Progressive activists and supporters have one clear, complete agenda: Trust The People. All power to ordinary folks. This is a massive contrast with the republican slogan of “Distrust the people, trust only a tiny elite, all powers to a tiny elite.”

Whose Disaster? OUR Disaster! (tags)

Operation Topoff - to take place in Seattle and Chicago, Mon, May 12, is designed to test the readiness of our emergency systems to meet a terrorist attack - and possibly to test the docility and credulity of the populace.

Plan B for the Peace Movement (tags)

Persistent protesters need to prepare for some unsettling possibilities

NEW BLACK NOVEL: SURVIVING BROKEN PROMISES (tags)

The story of a single mom, battered wife, and betrayed lover

Deja vu (tags)

Orwell's words are still fresh. . .

George Orwell Exposed Pacifists' Political Motives (tags)

An exposure of the timeless 'peace activist'.

Storm the Media (tags)

I was thinking that maybe the media is very vulnerable to acts of civil disobedience. I was also thinking that major media is the most powerful weapon in the war against everyone.

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