On Intervention by Polly Mann June 4, 2012 The title of a recent article in The Guardian Weekly caught my attention – “It is not always wrong to intervene” and I could go no farther in perusing the news magazine, my principal source of news, both national and international. “Intervening” meant to me one More
On Intervention by Polly Mann June 4, 2012 The title of a recent article in The Guardian Weekly caught my attention – “It is not always wrong to intervene” and I could go no farther in perusing the news magazine, my principal source of news, both national and international. “Intervening” meant to me one More
Polly Mann> Syria: The Next Move on the Chess Board By Polly Mann WAMM Newsletter May 2012 Although it would seem unlikely that in international affairs the US government would operate with one set strategy, its behavior indicates it does. So while it might appear that the recent conflict in Libya More
Polly Mann> Syria: The Next Move on the Chess Board By Polly Mann WAMM Newsletter May 2012 Although it would seem unlikely that in international affairs the US government would operate with one set strategy, its behavior indicates it does. So while it might appear that the recent conflict in Libya More
Where Are They? By Polly Mann WAMM Newsletter March 2012 Hey, hey 9,000 U.S. troops were sent to Israel—or so they say. Or were they? And, if they weren’t, where are they? I guess they're there. But you'd never know it if you depended on the mainstream corporate press to tell us; I More
Five Minutes to Midnight By Polly Mann WAMM Newsletter February 2012 The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has moved the hands of its Doomsday Clock to five minutes to midnight, due to inadequate progress on nuclear weapons reduction and proliferation. Are we doomed, or can we turn back the hands of time? As the More
Cuban doctors heroic work in Haiti by Polly Mann Published February 5, 2012 Cuba is still under U.S. applied sanctions, but this hasn't prevented its doctors from saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. A particularly spectacular operation has been in Haiti, a victim of hurricane Katrina as well as a victim More
That’s No Harvest Moon in the Sky, Honey By Polly Mann WAMM Newsletter December/January 2011/2012 That’s a predator drone. Those objects in the sky are what you might be seeing if you’re somewhere near the Canadian or Mexican borders. They’re out scouting for illegal immigrants, drug runners or terrorists. They can remain airborne More
OccupationMN: We Love You! By Polly Mann WAMM Newsletter Dec 2011/Jan 2012 What does it stand for? Where is its mission statement? Where did it come from? None of this matters. What does matter is that the occupiers are asking the right questions. Their signs express their dissatisfaction at the inequities existing in this More
The Art of Non-Communication By Polly Mann August 1, 2011 What else could you call them – these letters designed not to communicate but rather to obfuscate? Designed not only to obfuscate but also to inculcate a feeling of good-will in the recipient without imparting any real information or revealing the letter writer’s feelings. More
Million Dollar Metaphors By Polly Mann One of the reasons that I subscribe to the British “Guardian Weekly” is that it covers a lot of news that the U.S.mainstream media does not. For example in its June 17th edition is an account of a project of the Intelligence Research Projects Activity, IARPA, into which the More
