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Romney, Severely Awful

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Updated: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:13:55 -0500
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#OccupyHemp: Don’t let the truth go up in smoke (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desp...
The Choices We Make (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Feb. 20, 1012 -- The misalignment of politics and reality threatens to scuttle both major parties, but it's especially gratifying to see the Republicans sail...
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Occupy for All Abilities: #PissOnPity (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “While they were saying it couldn’t be done, it was done.” --Helen Keller Feb. 19, 2012 -- One Sunday afternoon last November -- in the pre-eviction Liberty Squar...
Nuclear Calendar -- February 20, 2012 -- Friends Committee On National Legislation Feb. 18-26 House and Senate Presidents Day recess. Feb. 20 7:00 p.m., Trita Parsi, National Iranian Ame...
PILLOW TALK: Green Screen Girls (Deborah Goodwin)
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Romney, Severely Awful (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
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Washington’s Insouciance Has No Rival (Paul Craig Roberts)
Feb. 15, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Is Obama a hypocrite or merely insouciant? Or is he an idiot? According to news reports, Obama’s White House meeting on Valentine’s day with China’s Vice Pre...
Corporate Power vs. Animal Rights: #DeOccupyAETA (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them -- exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting a...
Is Western Democracy Real or a Facade? (Paul Craig Roberts)
Feb. 14, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- The United States government and its NATO puppets have been killing Muslim men, women and children for a decade in the name of bringing them democracy. But is the W...
BDS: Power of the People at Work (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 15, 2012 -- The issue is not about hummus, chocolate bars or Dead Sea vacations. It is about civil society taking full responsibility for its own action (or lack...
BOOKS: The Anatomy of Israel’s Survival, By Hirsh Goodman (Jim Miles)
The Anatomy of Israel’s Survival. Hirsh Goodman. Signal/McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 2011. Dec. 30, 2011 (Palestine Chronicle) -- The “Anatomy of Israel’s Survival” rests on a single backbo...