“THERE ARE ALWAYS WAYS TO WORK FOR PEACE.“ So says Kathy Kelly, describing some of her work with Afghan Peace Volunteers. Besides urging international action to demand and enforce a cessation of hostilities in the country, APV supports a collective of Afghan women who work to create vital supplies of bedding and warm clothing [...]
DEATH BY “VIDEO GAME” IN PAKISTAN. Human rights attorney in the country has instituted, on behalf of a journalist who lost both his son and brother to drone attacks launched from remote bases in Nevada, law suits against two Pakistani-based C.I.A. agents deemed responsible for calling in air strikes against supposedly “militant” targets, [...]
WHAT IS THE NATURAL HABITAT OF THE CHEETAH? TRY THE WASHINGTON ZOO. (New York Times) Keepers at the Smithsonian zoo in D.C. are resorting to elaborately-prepared “date nights” at the zoo to encourage mating of cheetahs and other wild animals whose habitats in the “wild” are rapidly approaching annihilation with world climate change and other [...]
MEET AMADOU SANOGO, FRUIT OF THE TREE OF UNITED STATES AFRICA COMMAND “TRAINING.” (Black Agenda Report) Sanogo was a Captain in the African country of Mali when he led a coup to overthrow the government. As he continues to rule while suppressing a vicious counter-coup, it is noted that Ganogo was one of a myriad of [...]
TRUST BUT DON’T VERIFY. (Salon) Glenn Greenwald stands on its head Ronald Reagon’s famous admonition to demand evidence of Soviet nuclear disarmament, not to “take their word for it.” Kevin Drum of Mother Jones says—and countless trusting followers of Barack Obama apparently agree—that only a “sociopath” would insist, as did Obama, on the continued imprisonment in [...]
“TOTAL INFORMATION AWARENESS.” IT’S GROWING AGAIN IN THE UTAH DESERT. (Alternet) “Democracy Now!” interviews a columnist for Wired magazine who wrote an expose article on a massive “eye in the sky” facility being built at Bluffdale UT. This piece of cyperspace surveillance will give the government almost unlimited power to record and preserve virtually every [...]
THE BIG PROBLEM AROUND HERE IS THE BIG GOVERNMENT’S WASTEFUL SPENDING. THE OTHER BIG PROBLEM AROUND HERE IS THAT WE DON’T HAVE NEARLY ENOUGH SNOWPLOWS WHEN THE BIG SNOW STORMS HIT. (Tom Dispatch) Christian Parenti observes that, as effects of climate change produce ever more drastic effects with which only large governmental agencies (like FEMA) [...]
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