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Mescaline CatechismSince I first started commenting on drones, in November, and started the first draft of this post, in early February 2012, the number of articles on drones have increased. So, like many other drafts, it languished on the side. Let’s see if I can get it started, somehow! Pakistan is the silent Iraq. It happens [...]
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United States in Pakistan: The Terminator.
Monday 20 February 2012
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Who is Best for the Planet?
Tuesday 31 January 2012
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With all the brouhaha over Obama and Republican candidates for office of the President of the United States; with the red-meat hoi polloi riled up over their choice among the Republican freak show; and the progressives wondering, once again, what they should do in the absence of choice, hope, change and whatever else Obama let/lured [...]
Obama. Change They Believed In
Wednesday 25 January 2012
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Here we go again. Another US election. In 2008, The Real news had a series of interviews with Ralph Nader, on the eve of Obama’s election. Nader made many prophetic statements, and they remain as relevant today, at the outset of the next election, as they were then. The US public, and so the rest [...]
Sheldon Adelson: AIPAC’s Sugar Daddy
Tuesday 10 January 2012
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Really? Is this it? Is this the guy? Monsieur Moneybags? This is the guy who financially props up AIPAC? AIPAC’s sugar daddy? Is he why US political candidates say what they do? The reason why US policy is so is because of slot machines? So Las Vegas’s Sands casino is why a foreign leader gets [...]
Obama Ain’t No Gorbachev!
Thursday 5 January 2012
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Obama ain’t not Gorbachev. Transformative change, my ass! Listen to Bill Black give his recommendations to the Federal Reserve, for saving [no pun] the system! He, and Paul Jay, know very well that The Fed is not going to do that, any more than Obama is. And yet what is the American electorate to do? [...]
Malcolm X – Who are YOU?
Thursday 29 December 2011
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Somehow I haven’t found some of the Malcolm X speeches which I seem to remember hearing in the past. This one is rightly famous, though. His raw deconstruction is a thing of beauty. It should resonate with any movement: women’s, gays’, or any colonized people’s. As an aside: I remember the scene in his biography [...]
Vietnam: American Holocaust
Monday 26 December 2011
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“…if the wind blew the tree, they chopped down the tree. If the cow moved, the cow got shot…And the chicken, duck, pig–anything alive was murdered.” Quoted in the documentary. The documentary “Vietnam – American Holocaust” is from Linux Beach Production, produced by Clay Claiborne. It is a great documentary, with contemporary relevance, which raises [...]
Bhopal: The World Did not Change!
Thursday 22 December 2011
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The documentary “Bhopali”, directed by Van Maximilian Carlson, now being shown on RT, covers some of the events since the tragedy of Bhopal. Union Carbide has, so far, gotten away with the birth defects, the diseases, the negligence, the disregard for the locals’ lives, and the remaining and increasing ground pollution. IIRC even the Indian [...]
Depleted Uranium: Agent Orange in a Bullet
Wednesday 21 December 2011
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“When you close your eyes, you see unheard pain.” And untold horror. Loss that tears into me, and leaves me empty. The unbearable pain that does not kill. There are creatures which live on our eyelids, and demons which live beneath; every night, they crawl out. We go on, with a full view of each [...]
Alperovitz: The decision to use the atomic bomb
Sunday 18 December 2011
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Years ago, I read the book “The decision to use the atomic bomb and the architecture of an American myth”, by Gar Alperovitz, (Knopf, 1995). Basically, what I was looking for was found right in the Intro– that the massacre of Hiroshima’s people had nothing to do with a supposedly intransigent Imperial Japan, let alone Nagasaki’s. [...]
