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"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake" (Jeanette Rankin). "Every war has two losers" (William Stafford). "You can make fish soup out of an aquarium but can't make an aquarium out of fish soup" (Polish proverb). George Orwell warned that war would become a domestic necessity to divert the people from economic contradiction, from exploding inequality, generalized insecurity or environment destruction....
Posted: Tue, Nov 12, 2013 4:25am PST
KPFA EVENING NEWS, 11.10.2013: U.S. officials and the corporate press have agreed to identify the M23 militia as “Congo rebels,” despite the 2012 UN report that says M23’s chain of command ends in the office of Rwandan Defense Minister James Kabarebe. This week the U.S. said that it is prepared to lift sanctions on Rwanda if it simply “cuts ties” with M23, the militia that it commanded and created, in partnership with Uganda....
Posted: Tue, Nov 12, 2013 3:51am PST
Lt. Warren O. "Wedge" Grimm (March 9, 1888 - November 11, 1919), was born in Lewistown, Pennsylvania. An All-American at the University of Washington and an officer in the United States Army, he served with distinction as part of the American Expeditionary Force Siberia stationed in Russia in 1918-1919. He was assassinated on November 11, 1919, by members of the IWW (Wobblies) during the Centralia Massacre in Washington State....
Posted: Sat, Nov 9, 2013 2:09pm PST
As the army of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is reported to be defeating Rwanda's M23 militia in eastern Congo, ENOUGH Project co-founder John Prendergast steps up to tell the world what's best for Congolese and Rwandan people and their resources now....
Posted: Tue, Nov 5, 2013 1:48am PST
The Saudis and Israelis are fuming. Obama’s talks with Iran’s new President Hassan Rouhani point to a possible new direction in U.S.-Middle East policy. Iran is the regional archrival of the Saudis and Israelis, who for decades have shared the mantle as the main U.S. allies in the Middle East....
Posted: Mon, Nov 4, 2013 6:14pm PST
The Libyan and Syrian wars have demonstrated categorically the very clear commitment of the progressive Western intellectual managerial class to the fundamental neocolonial premises of their NATO governments. In that context, Patrick Cockburn’s article constitutes a masterpiece of evasion. Its publication in numerous progressive alternative media outlets indicates the insidious osmosis between those media and the corporate mainstream, one which has almost entirely destroyed politically effect...
Posted: Sun, Nov 3, 2013 12:08am PDT
Vermont students generally test poorly on math and science, so when new jobs are created when the Air Force forces Vermonters to live with Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets, how can these new jobs go to unqualified dairy farmers with no Phd.s in math, physics and engineering? Goat farmers and maple syrup makers and apple pickers want to know!...
Posted: Thu, Oct 31, 2013 1:44pm PDT
Is Lockheed Martin in California
trying to feed Vermont politicians
magic mushrooms
and expecting them to swallow?
Is the F-35 strike fighter jet, designed to carry
targeted smart nuclear bombs,
a "magic mushroom"?...
Posted: Wed, Oct 30, 2013 11:46am PDT

