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Richard D. Vogel
Combating Globalization
The Killing Continues
Since the suspension of the death penalty in Japan in September of 2009, the US is the only developed nation in the world that continues to execute its citizens -- but, perhaps, not for long. The unmasking of the political agenda behind state sanctioned killing during the... » read this article
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Neil Young
Pocahontas
Aurora borealis
The icy sky at night
Paddles cut the water
In a long and hurried flight
From the white man
To the fields of green
And the homeland
We've never seen.
They killed us in our tepee
And they cut our women down
They might have left some babies... » read this article
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Bjorn Jorgensen, Norway
Telegraph (UK)
Editor's Note: The northern lights, or aurora borealis, are seen when the solar wind stream hits Earth's magnetic field, sparking bright auroras around the Arctic Circle. The photos and comments beneath them are by photographer Bjorn Jorgensen who lives in Tromso in northern Norway. Kevin, a friend and reader of Axis of Logic... » read this article
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Eva Golinger, Editor
Correo del Orinoco
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HEARTLINES NEEDED
How breezily
most media headlines
spin people's heads in another direction—
one top-story, one-stop-shopping shifting attention
when the questions to ask are:
who decides the headlines?
how many kooks are spoiling the broth?
who's washing the dishes?
what neighbor needs a hand carrying groceries?
what neighbor... » read this article
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Patrick Martin
WSWS
8 February 2010
The three weeks since the special election to the US Senate in Massachusetts have seen a deepening political crisis of the Democratic Party. The party which controls the White House and has huge majorities in both the Senate and the House of Representatives has bowed and... » read this article
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Ron Andreas
Aletho News
In the late 1960’s the US, through conventional hybridization techniques,
succeeded in creating new types of corn dramatically increasing yield per acre
by reducing the space required per plant as well as increasing the number of
ears per stalk. This development was seen as a phenomenal opportunity for the
nation... » read this article
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Kris Hamel in Detroit
Workers World Newspaper
Excerpts from a plenary talk given by Kris Hamel from Detroit at the Nov. 14-15, 2009, Workers World Party national conference in New York.
A revolutionary Party utilizes all methods to try and win the hearts and minds of the working class and the oppressed, so that our class sisters... » read this article
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Gary Wilson
Workers World
Since mid-January, hardly a day has gone by without some report in the big-business-controlled media about China and censorship of the Internet. The primary reports were about Google’s declaration in early January that it may stop complying with Chinese laws that are meant to block illegal Internet activity, including spying.... » read this article
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Sam Daly
It's Getting Hot In Here
Environmental NGO's have been uncritically thumping the green tech
funding plank and they're generating funding that could be harder to
hold onto than a fistful of sand in the Iraqi oilfields.
There's a coup underway in the environmental movement. But the
golpistas (coup-makers) aren't exactly the usual suspects. They're not... » read this article
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Ma'an News Agency
News Article
Ramallah – Ma'an – Attorney of Bil'in local council, Michael Sfard, said on
Saturday that Israeli authorities informed him of the new route of the
separation wall, adjusted according to a decision by the Israeli Supreme Court
of Justice in 2007.
"We were not convinced that it was vital for... » read this article
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Emile Schepers
People's World
The government of Haiti is indefinitely postponing the legislative
elections scheduled for February 28 because the infrastructure of the
country has been so thoroughly wrecked by the January 12 earthquake
that it is impossible to carry out the mechanics of the poll. As
occasional survivors are still being found, the... » read this article
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W.S. Merwin
The Shadow of Sirius
"One of the Butterflies"
(from The Shadow of Sirius)
The trouble with pleasure is the timing
it can overtake me without warning
and be gone before I know it is here
it can stand facing me unrecognized
while I am remembering somewhere else
in another age or someone not seen... » read this article
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Hector Cordon
WSWS
Oregon voters passed two measures late last month that will levy higher taxes
on the wealthy and corporations. Facing a severe recession-driven revenue
shortfall to the state’s General Fund, Measures 66 and 67 measures are intended
to raise an additional $727 million for the 2009-2010 biennium.
Measure 66 raises the... » read this article
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Bill Van Auken
WSWS
6 February 2010
As US and British troops prepare to attack the town of Marjah in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, military commanders and the media are openly comparing the operation to the November 2004 siege of Fallujah, one of the bloodiest war crimes of the Iraq war.
The operation in central... » read this article
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John Carvel
The Guardian
A village on the western fringes of Hampshire is well on the way to becoming the first in England to defy the power of the supermarkets by achieving communal self-sufficiency in food.
The parish of Martin lies on good agricultural land beneath the chalk downs of Cranborne Chase. In past... » read this article
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Bharat Verma, Editor
Indian Defense Review
With the American declaration of an exit from Afghanistan, Beijing and Islamabad are upbeat. This leaves India in the lurch as it is ill prepared to face the threat posed by Islamic fundamentalists and the Chinese Communists argues Bharat Verma.
The creeping invasion by authoritarian regimes will engulf Asia by 2020 as... » read this article
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