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Public opinion and Chilcot

A summary of three British public opinion polls released while the Chilcot Inquiry in to the Iraq war has been taking evidence... (More) Comments (0)

Current Greek Crisis

The current situation is marked by two notable factors…... (More) Comments (0)

Branding Progress to Death

In the new introduction for the tenth anniversayr of her book, No Logo, Naomi Klein writes about how when she wrote the book she didn't imagine the Bush administration and Brand Obama would make it so timeless.... (More) Comments (0)

Open Letter on the Open Letter on Iran

I'd like to ask the 44 Nobel laureates who added their names and endorsements to the Open Letter on Iran published in the New York Times on February 7, 2010 ... (More) Comments (3)

Howard Zinn Presente

A brief account of a memorial we did for Howard Zinn in Olympia, WA on Feb 6th. I am also including my comments, which are slightly revised form my earlier comments of Jan. 28, 2009... (More) Comments (0)

Vegetarian Myth review

Book review of The Vegetarian Myth. Food, justice and sustainability by Lierre Keith ... (More) Comments (0)

Obama foreign policy

The foreign policy segments of Obama's State of the Union address were striking both in terms of their brevity and his failure to link the economic problems at home with imperial overreach abroad. While an improvement over the neoconservative orientation... (More) Comments (0)

The Constraints of Freedom

That’s often been the reality of life: to get anywhere you got to struggle against opposing forces, whether it’s gravity or the Whitehouse. The right thing to do is, more often than not, the hardest thing to do. That is what King was getting at. He used Jesus as a parable. Even for unbeliefables like me we can’t deny that if redemption is what we seek then crosses are what we must bear.... (More) Comments (0)

The U.S. & Yemen

As it has in the past, the United States appears to be focusing on a military solution to complex social, political and economic problems. The result may be to exacerbate the very problem of extremism the Obama administration hopes to suppress.... (More) Comments (0)

Howard Zinn Presente

The significance of a great human being who influenced and inspired and continues toinfluence and inspire so many! ... (More) Comments (0)