Could women's governance bring truth and peace?

On March 8 we came together to celebrate International Women’s Day, 92 years to the day after Russian women had marched to strike for “bread and peace” in a Russia that had seen 2 million of its soldiers dead (World War One) and with an ongoing famine enveloping parts of the nation. FULL STORY...

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Articulating alternatives to unsustainable hierarchies

“What is the most important challenge facing women in the 21st century, and why?”

That one isn’t easy for anyone to answer, especially in 300 words or less. But that was the assignment from editors of the University of Texas’ web site for faculty members contributing to the “Many Voices of Feminism” collection. FULL STORY...

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Kentucky Windage won’t fix this economy

There is no way for capitalistic adjustments to bring the target to the proper sight, not this “f….d up” economy that thievery and greed helped create. Only truth can take us to the proper path we need to follow, plus a willingness to tighten our belts.  But truth and sacrifice are words deleted long ago from our consumer society’s lexicon. FULL STORY...

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Lying over Iraqi Genocide

The core messages from the WW2 Jewish Holocaust are surely “zero tolerance for racism”, “never again to anyone”, “bear witness” and “zero tolerance for lying”, injunctions ignored by Mainstream media and by Obama in relation to the ongoing Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Genocides. FULL STORY...

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Seven newly released memos from the Bush Justice Department reveal a concerted strategy to cloak the President with power to override the Constitution. The memos provide “legal” rationales for the President to suspend freedom of speech and press; order warrantless searches and seizures, including wiretaps of U.S. citizens; lock up U.S. citizens indefinitely in the United States without criminal charges;.. FULL STORY...

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In Tammany Hall politics there was a saying "vote early and vote often". After 40 days in office, Obama is certainly disappointing early and disappointing often over war, occupation, racism, human rights, genocide, economy, climate disruption, global avoidable mortality, lobbyists and climate genocide. FULL STORY...

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Bailouts and stimuli: A repackaging of America's capitalism

So Bill Clinton wants President Obama to talk optimistically about the US economy!  Little surprise coming from a promoter and cheerleader of a frivolous and disastrous system of economic globalization that has helped bring the nation he led for eight years to its economic knees. FULL STORY...

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Since he took office, President Obama has instituted many changes that break with the policies of the Bush administration. The new president has ordered that no government agency will be allowed to torture, that the U.S. prison at Guantánamo will be shuttered, and that the CIA’s secret black sites will be closed down. FULL STORY... 

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"The Lancet" reveals horrendous Israeli war crimes

The horrendous mortality and morbidity statistics revealed by the paper "The Wounds of Gaza", just published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet  are truly shocking – 1,350 killed (60% children) and 5,450 severely wounded (40% children) in reprisals for zero (0) Israeli deaths from Gaza rockets in the preceding year. FULL STORY...

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Another postponement to peace in Palestine

Israel and the United States are becoming more like two peas in a pod, perhaps not so much in the realm of economics but certainly in politics… and the adhesion to unilateral policies that allow little room for debate and compromise. FULL STORY...

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