Saturday, November 1, 2014

The Illusion of Democracy

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Click here to access article by Gilbert Mercier from News Junkie Post. Although I differ with Mercier that we have ever had, except for v...

A Small Band of Activists Is Humiliating an Israeli Shipping Giant

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Click here to access article by Murtaza Hussain from The Intercept . Capping a series of victories by a modest band of pro-Palestinian ac...

Positive shopping experience

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Click here if you wish to access the original posting on Max Gustafson's website.  In this cartoon I think the Gustafson is mostly re...

Watch Jon Stewart's hilarious takedown of a Koch ad

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Access this article from The Grist . Jon Stewart has fun with a Koch ad; and while doing so, points to some sad truths about oligarchic con...
Friday, October 31, 2014

Suing the State: The Hidden Rules Within EU-US Trade Deal

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Click here if you wish to access the original posting of this 7:58m video at Raging Bull-Shit .  This short video focuses on the central ...

Zombies Are Us: The Walking Dead in the American Police State

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Click here to access article by John W. Whitehead  from The Rutherford Institute. Whitehead focuses our attention on the significance of ...
Thursday, October 30, 2014

Election Boycott Advocates, rising

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Click here to access article from The Greanville Post. (my comments were amended at 6:30pm Seattle time.) There appears to be substantial...

This non-violent stuff’ll get you killed

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Click here to access this book review by James Robb from his blog A communist at large [New Zealand]. In this article Robb reviews a new ...

Extreme Weather Will Be the New Normal

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Click here to access a 2:29m video from Bloomberg Business News. While viewing a local TV network news report this morning, the news-pers...

An Ill Wind Blows in Antarctica, Threatens Global Flooding

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Click here to access article by John Upton from Climate Central.  Foreboding winds of change are blowing over the already gale-swept Sout...

Ice Watch: Seeking A Determined Roar Before It's Too Late

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Click here to access article by Abby Zimet from Common Dreams. Zimet reports on an useful project created by environmentalists in Denmark...

Scientists Discover Huge ‘Bathtub Ring’ Of Oil On Sea Floor From BP Spill

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Click here to access article by Emily Atkin from ThinkProgress. BP has always declared that their spilled millions of gallons of oil in t...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

The Secret Stupid Saudi-US Deal on Syria

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Click here to access article by William Engdahl from Boiling Frogs Post. Based on evidence that is emerging, this reputable geopolitical ...

ISIL: From Decapitation to Islamophobia

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Click here to access article by Dr Ismail Salami from Boiling Frogs Post. I overlooked this excellent article, posted earlier this month,...

The American Dream Going Bust – in One Chart

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Click here to access article by Wolf Richter from Wolf Street. Richter posts a graph that depicts what most of us already know or suspect...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

The Revolution That Wasn’t: Why the Fracking Phenomenon Will Leave Us High and Dry

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Click here to access article by Asher Miller from Post Carbon Institute. According to a recent research report by this institute, the ...

Washington’s Moderates— From Nazis to Violent Sunni Muslim Fundamentalists

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Click here to access article by Stephen Gowans from The Greanville Post. A story by Eric Lichtblau in The New York Times of October 26, 2...

Snowden filmmaker Laura Poitras: ‘Facebook is a gift to intelligence agencies’

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Click here to access article by Andrea Peterson from Washington Post . In this interview filmmaker Laura Poitras talks about the just rel...

This is Your Ocean on Acid

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Click here to access article by Mickey Z. from World News Trust.  This author clearly understands the environmental emergency that we hum...

Put People Not ‘Empire of Capital’ at Heart of Development

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Click here to access article by Ravi Kanth Devarakonda from Inter Press Service.  The Raul Prebitsch Lectures, which are named after the ...