Justice, peace and well-being... all unconditionally surrendered

Klutziness by Obama in trying to marshal public support for health-care reform is now erasing the last remaining dash of hope held by the true progressive crowd; and even the most loyal and patient among them appear ready to throw in the towel.  FULL STORY...

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Australia is Downunder to Northern Hemisphere folk but when it comes to its pro-coal, pro-pollution climate change policies, world leading per capita greenhouse gas polluter Australia is truly upside-down and anti-science. FULL STORY...

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In less than two weeks, Afghanistan will hold its second presidential elections since the United States occupied that country in November 2001.  Democratic elections, we deem them to be, although many Afghans and foreigners alike consider the process more of an American coronation of another vassal-monarch from that celebrated dynasty: the House of Dollar. FULL STORY...

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Honoring President Obama’s request that the controversy involving a black Harvard University professor and a white Cambridge police officer become “a teachable moment,” here’s my contribution to an old lesson that we white people tend to be slow to learn. FULL STORY...

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The World has been horrified by latest Gaza Massacre inflicted by Apartheid Israel on what the Catholic Church describes as Gaza Concentration Camp - over 1,300 Palestinians killed (one third being children) and over 5,000 wounded in response to zero Israeli deaths from Gaza missiles in the preceding year. FULL STORY...

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Taboos preventing universal health care for Americans

Ten years after World War II had ended, as the US was exercising economic hegemony over much of the world, Will Herberg came out with his book, “Protestant-Catholic-Jew.”  A book which socio-politically went a long way defining the American Way of Life as a recipe of two lofty ingredients mixed in equal parts: democracy and free enterprise.  Something that today we are more inclined to call by its appropriate name: materialism. FULL STORY...

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Occupation and Indigenous Genocide

This week Francophiles celebrated anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, 220 years ago. However freedom for the French quickly became Gulag-style oppression for millions of people around the World that continues today. FULL STORY...

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Quo vadis, Barack Obama…?

Obama is coming home after two difficult summits, Russia and the G-8, to a domestic agenda not likely to yield better results.  If our pessimistic selves paint a world which is economically poisoned and environmentally doomed, Air Force One’s landing at Andrews AFB will bring back this president to the epicenter of it all; for both disasters – economic and environmental – had their start right here, in the good old US of A. FULL STORY...

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Malpracticers of Economic and Foreign Policy

About this time every year I grow a bit philosophical, and melancholic, as we celebrate what this country should be… but isn’t.  Last year, my written words called for a second American revolution, and the year before I underlined the belated realization that the US is not us (the people). FULL STORY...

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Illusory return to economic normalcy

“Everything would be ok if it weren’t for that CNN scaring us out of our wits, giving us all those stories and commentary on the recession and presumed bad economy,” was the statement someone made at the table as we were having breakfast at a delightful B&B of the most charming Victorian-accented town in Washington State: Port Townsend. FULL STORY...

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