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The planet is taking a hit from unsustainable industrial agriculture
By K�llia Ramares
Have you ever considered how
much energy it takes to get food from the farm to your table? Or how many miles
the food has traveled to reach you? These are two of the questions raised by
Dale Allen Pfeiffer in Eating Fossil Fuels, a ringing indictment of
industrial agriculture.
Dec 1, 2006, 00:46
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Strange liberators indeed: Imperialism and rogue states you want to hate
By Macdonald Stainsby
In the era of �humanitarian imperialism� the discourse
of the ruling class has unfortunately had a �trickle down� effect on far too
many of those who ought to know better. Rather than moralizing about the form
painted onto a people by the imperialist media looking to subjugate small
nations, Gregory Elich does a deeply researched and personally encountered
accounting of imperialism�s misdeeds in the places where the saturation of vile
propaganda has been the most thorough.
Nov 15, 2006, 00:27
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The Case for Impeachment: A thunderous cry for Bush�s removal and why
By Frank J. Ranelli
Richard M. Nixon, a president with imperial
conquests of his own, once stated in 1973 that he failed to notice the 400,000
plus protesters outside the White House while he watched a ball game. Arrogance
and an infallible belief that he was beyond the reach of not only those
patriotic citizen�s redresses and grievances, but the laws of this nation
proved his political demise. Thirteen months later, amid lies, spying and
scandal, Nixon resigned in order to stave off an inevitable impeachment that
had already begun in the House Judiciary Committee.
Oct 11, 2006, 01:02
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Stealing America...Vote by Vote
By Harvey
Wasserman
Dorothy Fadiman's powerful, moving, infuriating,
comprehensive and brilliant new film might well be re-named "The Crime of
the Century."
Sep 28, 2006, 00:55
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Disseminating truth is a perilous endeavor
By K�llia
Ramares
I read little fiction and review even less of it. So
when I started reading the political novel �Looking for Bigfoot,� my first
thought was that when a political message is conveyed in an art form, be it novel,
play, poem, stand-up comedy, musical piece, or painting, the art form has to
first work as art. Otherwise, you just have propaganda masquerading as art.
Mar 1, 2006, 00:26
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Spooks, the Godfather and JFK
By Natylie Baldwin
My mother and I used to engage in the requisite
family debates about who was behind the Kennedy assassination. For me it was
important to know what happened from an historical standpoint. But for her it
was less academic. She vividly remembers being sent home early from her
fourth-grade class one autumn day without explanation only to find her mother,
who never had a kind word for a Democrat, in tears as she opened the door.
Feb 3, 2006, 15:52
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Spychips make Orwell's Big Brother seem relatively harmless
By K�llia Ramares
RFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification.
Organizations that promote RFID, which include companies whose names and brands
you recognize, such as Wal-Mart, Gillette, Procter & Gamble, Intel, UPS and
Benneton, as well as government agencies such as the Department of Defense and
the Department of Homeland Security, want to implant an RFID tag on every item
on earth.
Jan 17, 2006, 00:44
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The Saudis' approaching twilight
By K�llia Ramares
Matthew R. Simmons is the founder and CEO of Simmons
& Co., International, a Houston-based investment bank for the energy
industry. Although Simmons is not himself a petroleum geologist or petroleum
engineer, he has learned much about how and where oil and natural gas are
produced in his more than 35 years of involvement with the industry as a
financial advisor.
Jan 9, 2006, 02:20
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The case against putting radical right-wingers on the bench
By Bev Conover
Ironically, James Madison envisioned the Supreme Court
as the people's protectors, but it hasn't worked out that way. And, with Judge
Samuel Alito's confirmation hearings for a seat on the highest court looming,
unless a majority in the US Senate have a stroke of decency and conscience to
reject him, this is the perfect time to review Cass R. Sunstein's book,
"Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts Are Wrong for
America."
Jan 6, 2006, 01:24
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Film review: The Last Assyrians (Les Derniers Assyriens)
By Sonia Nettnin
"The Last Assyrians" (Les Derniers
Assyriens) is an amazing documentary about the history of the Aramaic-speaking
Christians from ancient Mesopotamia until their present-day existence in the
Middle East.
Jan 6, 2006, 00:45
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