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Nuclear Calendar -- February 20, 2012 (FCNL)

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 American Council, book discussion of ASingle Roll of the Dice: Obama's Diplomacy with Iran. Politics ConnecticutAve., NW, Washington. Feb. 20 Presidents Day (federal holiday). Feb. 21 10...

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 backbone: ...
BOOKS: Imperial Messenger -- Thomas Friedman at Work. By Belen Fernandez (Jim Miles)

Imperial Messenger -- Thomas Friedman at Work. Belen Fernandez. Verso Books, London/New York, 2011. Dec. 12, 2011 (Palestine Chronicle) -- Thomas Friedman is a writer whom I have avoided reading over...
Nuclear Calendar -- February 13, 2012 (FCNL)

Nuclear Calendar -- February 13, 2012 -- Friends Committee On National Legislation Feb. 13 11:15 a.m., Office of Management and Budget releases the annual federal budget. Posted on the Governm...
All Screaming Id, No Brains, No Honor (James Howard Kunstler)

Flying Nuclear Robot. Credit: Irregular Times James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Feb. 8, 2012 -- A Martian psychoanalyst observing the U.S. Superbowl on TV would be shocked by the vicious...
Anti-Semitism and Israel’s Inherent Contradictions (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Feb. 1, 2012 -- In a recent article, columnist Yaniv Halili described British author Ben White as "anti-Semitic." He also denounced Arab K...
Big Brother Internet (Gerald Calente)

Gerald Calente Jan. 30, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Dear friends: I am pleased to bring to you Gerald Celente’s assessment of the threats posed to Internet freedom. Celente’s Trends Journal is one...
BOOKS: Beyond Tribal Loyalties - Personal Stories of Jewish Peace Activists By Avigail Abarbanel (Jim Miles)

Beyond Tribal Loyalties - Personal Stories of Jewish Peace Activists. Ed. Avigail Abarbanel. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, UK, 2012. Jan. 30, 2012 (Palestine Chronicle) -- In her closing ...
Murmuration (James Howard Kunstler)

James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Jan. 23, 2012 -- On last week's podcast, Duncan and I yakked about an important concept introduced by Nicole Foss at The Automatic Earth blog site. Th...
Waiting for False Prophets: The Puzzling Matter of the Israeli Liberals (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Jan. 18, 2012 -- Regardless of who may rule Israel, little change ever occurs in the country’s foreign policy. Winning parties remain obsessed with demographics and...
BOOKS: Palestinian In/Outsiders. By Mustafa Kabha and Dan Caspi (Jim Miles)

The Palestinian Arab In/Outsiders -- Media and Conflict in Israel. Mustafa Kabha and Dan Caspi. Vallentine Mitchell, London/Portland, 2011. Jan. 15, 2012 (Palestine Chronicle) -- “The Palestinian Ara...
BOOKS: Three Books to Stimulate Thought (Paul Craig Roberts)

Jan. 12, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Jan. 11 was the tenth anniversary of amerika’s Guantanamo torture prison. National Public Radio commemorated the anniversary by airing critics and defenders of Wa...
Aljazeera Coverage: The Revolution Will Be Televised, and also Manipulated (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Jan. 11, 2012 -- In the final days of the Libyan conflict, as NATO conducted a nonstop bombing campaign, an Aljazeera Arabic television corresponden...
UC Davis Pepper-Spray Incident Reveals Weakness Up Top (Matt Taibbi)

Nov. 22, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- Was absolutely mesmerized last night watching the viral video of the UC-Davis pepper-spraying. It was totally amazing, simultaneously one of most depressing and insp...
A Master Class in Occupation (Chris Hedges)

Oct. 31, 2011 -- NEW YORK (Truthdig) -- Jon Friesen, 27, tall and lanky with a long, dirty-blond ponytail, a purple scarf and an old green fleece, is sitting on concrete at the edge of Zuccotti Park l...
Rebels on the Street: The Party of Wall Street Meets its Nemesis (David Harvey)

Oct. 28, 2011 (DavidHarvey.org) -- The Party of Wall Street has ruled unchallenged in the United States for far too long. It has totally (as opposed to partially) dominated the policies of Presidents ...
Switching Focus from Iraq to Iran (Ray McGovern)

Ray McGovern Oct. 24, 2011 (Information Clearing House) --You might think that by now I would be so used to infuriating neocon drivel that, to preserve my own sanity, I would avoid looking at the...
The Son of Africa Claims a Continent’s Crown Jewels (John Pilger)

John Pilger Oct. 19, 2011 (Information Clearing House) --On Oct. 14, President Barack Obama announced he was sending United States special forces troops to Uganda to join the civil war there. In ...
The World After Industrial Civilization Goes (Jan Lundberg)

Usher in the "new" economics of local self-sufficiency and community cooperation Imagine no possessionsI wonder if you canNo need for greed or hungerA brotherhood of man*- Imagine, John Len...
We Are Not Your Human Resources (David Michael Green)

Photo: Timothy Krause Oct. 18, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- I was talking with a friend of mine the other day about Occupy Wall Street. She said to me,. “This is what I’ve been waiting for my whole...
A Movement Too Big to Fail (Chris Hedges)

Chris Hedges Oct. 17, 2011 (TruthDig.com) --There is no danger that the protesters who have occupied squares, parks and plazas across the nation in defiance of the corporate state will be co-opte...
BOOKS: Deer Hunting With Jesus -- Dispatches from America's Class War (Joe Bageant)

Joe Bageant -- World News Trust “Well, good lordie, you really was writin a book! I thought it was just some bullshit you spread around when you got drunk.” Aug. 14, 2006 -- That was my friend Fat L...
Nuclear Calendar -- October 3, 2011 (FCNL)

Nuclear Calendar -- October 3, 2011 Oct. 1-8 Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, "Keep Space for Peace Week," with events in numerous cities. Oct. 3 8:30...
Here Come the OWSers! (James Howard Kunstler)

James Howard Kunstler James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Oct. 3, 2011 -- All last week across the media landscape, in pod, blog, flat-screen, and crunkly old newsprint columns, fatuous pr...