The difference between wanting to and being able to (tags)
The war has exacted an enormous price in terms of human lives, destruction, economic and political collateral damage in Ukraine, in the EU and worldwide. Its continuation would further increase the horrors.The war has changed shape: it has become a proxy war and a war of world order between the West and Russia.
Does Corona policy threaten our fundamental rights? Scientist warns of "creeping process" (tags)
The state is allowed to restrict citizens in a pandemic so as not to endanger public health. But the state doesn't have the right to harm citizens. It does not get to decide which life is worth protecting and which is not. This article was published in German on 2/22/2021.
On Getting Rid of Standardized Testing (tags)
A comment on a blog post about eliminating standardized testing.
'No Public Option! No Public Option!' (tags)
They don't fight for our rights to be measured fairly in defense - is what it is, to deny the evidence of war crimes to speak as ourselves falling further plundered
KPFK programming: Compliments [for a change] and for changes in programming (tags)
One program on KPFK continues to deliver...Roy Tuckman's "Somethings Happening" show, deep into night, also in archives for day net users.
Steve Murphy Update - Support Needed! (tags)
Steve Needs Your Support!
Project Chanology Shows How It's Done (tags)
Project Chanology was launched edarly this year and already the the collective has become well respected around the world with favorable as well as idiotic news coverage within the increasingly obsolete mainstream media. Chanology shows the world the coming thing in Internet-based anonymous organization of citizens for the opposition of organized crime and unethical corporations.
US may accept Iranian nuclear bomb (tags)
AMERICA is going to have to learn to live with a nuclear Iran, US intelligence analysts have concluded at a secret meeting near Washington.
The fact that George Bush and Tony Blair are cheering Israel might be consolation for Ehud Olmert and the media in Israel, but it is not enough to persuade millions of TV viewers who see the images of destruction and devastation, most of which are not shown to Israeli audiences. The world sees entire neighborhoods that have been destroyed, hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing in panic, homeless, and hundreds of civilians dead and wounded including many children who have nothing to do with Hezbollah.
The Real Disaster: Bush and the Democrats (tags)
If Bush hadn't sent everyone off to war and blown the budget on the military, there'd have been stronger dykes in New Orleans and more troops and equipment to help with the rescue effort.
Another disaster (drill) gone live? That is what concerns me as the commercial media keeps telling us,,, terrorists are plotting plotting plotting while intelligence sources ( usually un-named ) give us detailed responce protocol under martial law. Northcom and Centcom adjusting the riding tack before riding into a future of constant bombings, roundups and terror. By the State.
Why offshore IT outsourcing can't be stopped (tags)
American programmers and other IT people were outstandingly unsympathetic when factory workers' jobs started going overseas, so the Libertarian techie "dog eat dog" creed requires them to be happy whenever the marketplace finds a way to pay IT workers less and increase business owners' profits.
I heard a report that American Soldiers that are forced to fight a war they don't want to, are refusing to fight and would rather be court marshalled.
March 5th! The War on Iraq and the People's Determination to Stop It (tags)
We are in the rapids. Powerful forces in Washington are clearly determined to launch this war. And this moment demands that millions of people respond with an even more powerful determination to resist. The Revolutionary Worker salutes all those who manifest bold resistance to this war on the National Moratorium to Stop the War on March 5 and in the days ahead.
Terrorist Power Always Ignores Its People, Yet... --with art! (tags)
According to Noam Chomsky and others, the USA is the leading terrorist state in the world. Since *Newspeak* is the Name of the Game, "our" government will always try to fool us with hype, and failing that, will *ram through* its policies anyway. One way we can remain vigilant is through a *resistance of consciousness*.
IT'S THE BUSH SING-A-LONG! (tags)
this is an e-mail i received, it is sung to the tune of "if your happy and you know it, clap your hands"
CBS Poll: America Wants Retaliation (tags)
CBS 'news' reports tonight that 66% of the American people demand reetaliation even if innocent people are to be killed in the process. As they offer little context for 'scientifically' conducted poll, nor offer us the parameters of the polling on air, it is almost as if CBS intends to fan the flames of war.
"Worth the Walk" Hollander Strike Settled (tags)
Reason to Celebrate at Hollander Home Fashions