Saturday, May 29, 2010

Millions of displaced Colombians demand US respect human life, not money (3:06m video & script)

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from RT (Russia Today). People in the US often must go to foreign sources in order to find information about some of the most egregious acti...

Guest Workers Inc.: Fraud and Human Trafficking

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from Voltaire. The article examines a temporary program enacted under George Bush in 2004 that is being favored by powerful corporate intere...

Common Security Clubs offer the jobless a lifeline

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from the LA Times. The article reports on a clubs where people are getting together to help each other. The clubs are citizen action groups...

Hopelessness in the Workplace

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from Counterpunch. The article presents hard evidence that reveals a dramatic decline in worker satisfaction among people in 60 countries ov...
Friday, May 28, 2010

Miners and families denounce Massey and government inspectors for West Virginia mine disaster

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from World Socialist Web Site. Miners tell their story of the mine disaster that you likely didn't hear from your boob tube. If anyone ...

Leading the world's green industrial revolution

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from the Denver Post.  A gaping gulf exists today between America's economic collapse, our melting globe, and the lackluster response o...

Thinking the Unthinkable in the Aftermath of Kandahar

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by Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould from Boiling Frogs. The upcoming campaign for the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar will be the crucial...

Time out

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Wall Street's War

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by Matt Taibbi from Rolling Stone. This outstanding investigative reporter has been hanging around the US Congress to find out how it actual...

Resilient gardening - Part I

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by Christine Patton from her blog, Peak Oil Hausfrau. At the same time that gardening is becoming more difficult due to factors such as cli...

Kyrgyzstan’s "Rose Revolution": Washington, Moscow, Beijing and the Geopolitics of Central Asia--Part 2

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by F. William Engdahl from Global Research. The author is an expert on the Great Game that governing classes like to play on the world stage...
Thursday, May 27, 2010

Designing the Future

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from Resurgence.  ...this is where you come in. As planetary citizens we can all now go beyond ‘business as usual’, by pooling our collecti...

Regional, Not Local, Sourcing May be the Solution to Our Broken Food System

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from Politics of the Plate.  It has all but become an article of faith that sourcing food locally is the most sustainable alternative to ou...

Holding Banks Responsible By Community Organizing

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from New America Media. “Our idea is that the congregations and large institutions -- unions, schools, universities, pension funds, local a...

Toronto Police Get 'Sound Cannons' for G20

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from the Toronto Star. The New World Order will make sure that protesters (we, the people) will not interfere with their G20 conference. The...

Iran: Obama's other oil spill

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by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times Online. With its eye on full spectrum dominance, control of Eurasia and regime change in Iran, the Obama ad...

First Person Observation of Oil Leak Impact

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from Naked Capitalism. From an employee of a New Orleans community clinic , some inconvenient truths about how local people are experiencing...

Time out

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US Space Weapon Now Circling the Globe

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from Toward Freedom. The US space weapon X-37 is now circling the globe in relative secrecy....This new weapon poses threats to global peac...

An Interview with Peter North, author of ‘Local Money: how to make it happen in your community’

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by Rob Hopkins from Transition Culture. The author interviews North about his new book and discusses the problems and possibilities of local...