As a pure story, it’s tough to beat the Snowden saga. Man of intrigue? Roger. Crusading reporter? Check. A powerful government in hot pursuit? Yessir. Unclear agendas by foreign countries? Most certainly. By DAVID CARR Published: June 24, 2013 New York Times And as Edward J. Snowden made his way across the globe with a disintegrating passport More
By Ann Wright (about the author) 6/22/2013 opednews.com *By Charley Bowman In mid-June, 2013, Western New York Peace Center board member Valerie Niederhoffer was stopped and interrogated for several hours at the U.S.-Canadian border when returning to the US from an afternoon doing Tai Chi in Canada with friends. The U.S. immigration and customs officer entered Val's name into More
By Ann Wright (about the author) 6/22/2013 opednews.com *By Charley Bowman In mid-June, 2013, Western New York Peace Center board member Valerie Niederhoffer was stopped and interrogated for several hours at the U.S.-Canadian border when returning to the US from an afternoon doing Tai Chi in Canada with friends. The U.S. immigration and customs officer entered Val's name into More
[youtube=http://youtu.be/lj6RmxdTpPQ] Here are two items from the Afghan Peace Volunteers in Kabul. Access to internet is sporadic there, so I wanted to send these items out on their behalf. —Kathy Kathy Kelly June 18, 2013 From Dr. Hakim and the Afghan Peace Volunteers Recognition that 95 million human beings were killed in World More
[youtube=http://youtu.be/lj6RmxdTpPQ] Here are two items from the Afghan Peace Volunteers in Kabul. Access to internet is sporadic there, so I wanted to send these items out on their behalf. —Kathy Kathy Kelly June 18, 2013 From Dr. Hakim and the Afghan Peace Volunteers Recognition that 95 million human beings were killed in World More
Video: NSA spying justified as preventing terrorism, when it is the administration's policies that are ensuring terrorism. GRITtv / June 19, 2013 By Laura Flanders via alternet.org If ever you accused Barack Obama of fearing to offend or suffering from lack of spine, you have to hand it to him now: President Obama is acting more and more like More
Video: NSA spying justified as preventing terrorism, when it is the administration's policies that are ensuring terrorism. GRITtv / June 19, 2013 By Laura Flanders via alternet.org If ever you accused Barack Obama of fearing to offend or suffering from lack of spine, you have to hand it to him now: President Obama is acting more and more like More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jIiRvFRj18&w=560&h=315] Editor's comment: I find myself remembering and thinking more and more often of the words of poet Carolyn Forche as I watch the news: Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Yeman, Pakistan, Afghanistan: half a world away and almost unreal as I watch and hear of the suffering of others in war-torn parts of the world More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jIiRvFRj18&w=560&h=315] Editor's comment: I find myself remembering and thinking more and more often of the words of poet Carolyn Forche as I watch the news: Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Yeman, Pakistan, Afghanistan: half a world away and almost unreal as I watch and hear of the suffering of others in war-torn parts of the world More
Gently, gently on tippy toes we test the blood stained water of war .... money to be made, deficits to be reduced, ready steady go (comment by nemossister on Guardian website, 14 June 2013) Cartoon by Martin Rowson
Tomgram: Noam Chomsky, The Eve of Destruction Posted by Noam Chomsky at 9:02am, June 4, 2013 TomDispatch.com It didn’t take long. In the immediate aftermath of the dropping of the “victory weapon,” the atomic bomb, on two Japanese cities in August 1945, American fears and fantasies ran wild. Almost immediately, Americans began to reconceive themselves as potential victims More
Tomgram: Noam Chomsky, The Eve of Destruction Posted by Noam Chomsky at 9:02am, June 4, 2013 TomDispatch.com It didn’t take long. In the immediate aftermath of the dropping of the “victory weapon,” the atomic bomb, on two Japanese cities in August 1945, American fears and fantasies ran wild. Almost immediately, Americans began to reconceive themselves as potential victims More
