A Call for the Audacity of Hopelessness

From time to time, events unfold that are so large in scope, so all-encompassing in their implications that one's initial response is muted by an inability to categorize it all within the realm of experience. Previous reference points prove of little service. FULL STORY...

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Two days after his inauguration, President Obama pledged to close Guantánamo within one year. The Republicans, led by Senators John McCain, Mitch McConnell and Pat Roberts, immediately launched a concerted campaign to assail the new president. FULL STORY...

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Obama: Neither anti-militarist, nor anti-business

For a politician, being articulate and intelligent, even when saying the “right things” to please friends’, foes’ and fence-sitters’ ears, does not imply existence of wisdom or, for that matter, leadership. FULL STORY...

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Accountability, Badge & Credo (ABC) Protocol

The World is acutely threatened by man-made global warming and many scientists now doubt that we can avoid further damaging temperature increases to over 2C above that in 1900. However resolute global action via an Accountability, Badge and Credo (ABC) protocol may yet save Man and the Biosphere. FULL STORY...

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Prospects of a quick economic recovery are but fool’s gold

Hoping for better times – for some, even the return to make-believe “yesterday” – has now become our prescribed daily medicine dispensed through the mainstream media by our government via injections of economic news or commentary. FULL STORY...

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Australia’s pro-coal Emissions Trading Scheme

Australia - the world’s biggest coal exporter, and the OECD’s worst and one of the world’s worst per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) polluters – has just announced a  Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) that will enable continued, “business as usual” (BAU), Planet-threatening  Australian GHG pollution. FULL STORY...

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NOT through the hopefuls’ prism

Fourteen weeks after taking the reins, Barack Obama seems well at ease to receive his first report card… on that artificial measuring target that dates back 76 years as another president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, took over the leadership over an America in economic shambles.  It was an America afflicted by Swine Capitalism flu (affluenza) back in 1933, and it is an America afflicted by a new strain of Swine Capitalism flu in 2009. FULL STORY...

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No doubt Avigdor Lieberman did not hear the news as he blustered recently (Haaretz 4/22/09) that “The Obama administration will put forth new peace initiatives only if Israel wants it to.” Then he added to the Russian daily Moskovskiy Komosolets, “Believe me America accepts all our decisions.” FULL STORY...

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In a case filed with the Pakistan Supreme Court, the petitioner states: “The Americans, like in Musharraf’s time, have also been given a free hand by President Zardari and fundamental rights of the (indigenous) people are being violated daily in tribal areas and (in northern areas of) Dir, Swat and Chitral. FULL STORY...

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Mitigate sentences, not criminality

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