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Jan 07 · As the 111th Congress was being sworn in on Tuesday, a seemingly endless line of figures dressed all in black with stark white masks slowly marched single-file around Capitol Hill. Each wore a placard bearing the name of someone who had died in the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine, their age, and the date of their death. This March of the Dead (video) was intended to remind yet another Congress that we elected it to end aggressive wars, and to announce that the peace movement will be a
Jan 07 · And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword….
And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.
From Joshua , King James Version
You are a resident of the oldest continually inhabited community
Jan 06 · “Although the earth is awash with water, the world is facing a global water crisis. Global freshwater supplies are dwindling fast. Climate change, rapid urbanization, environmental degradation, the growth of industries that either pollute water sources or consume vast water volumes… climate change and our very modern lifestyle are contributing to an increase in demand that outstrips supply. For instance, Lake Chad has shrunk to 20% of its size in 1962… It is expected that inter-state violent con
Jan 06 · It's amazing to see Lanny Davis back in the limelight now, giving his opinion through much of the article with Donna Brazile and Kim Gandy having mere one paragraph statements.
Despite minor disagreements with many Democrats, some strategists say the move signals a new path ahead for the party. “Asking Tim Kaine to head our party is an extremely important emblem that we are a different party than we were in 1992,” said Lanny Davis, a Democratic strategist who worked in the Clinton White H
Jan 06 · Let's face it: back in 2000, most of us were pussies. We knew, fucking knew, that the presidential election was being stolen as we watched. And we didn't riot - we didn't explode into the streets in a flare of anger and righteousness and shut shit down, demanding that the Supreme Court and the Republican Party back the fuck off. We didn't head to Miami to block the right wing thugs who were stopping the recount at the canvassing board. We didn't go on a general strike to say, "Count the votes."
Jan 06 ·
Unprecedented Numbers of Americans Question Israel's Actions in Gaza
By Max Blumenthal, Huffington Post. Posted January 6, 2009.
Almost as soon as the first Israeli missile struck the Gaza Strip, a veteran cheering squad suited up to support the home team. "Israel is so scrupulous about civilian life," Charles Krauthammer claimed in the Washington Post. Echoing Krauthammer, Alan Dershowitz called the Israeli attack on Gaza, "Perfectly 'Proportionate.'" And in the New York Times, Israeli
Jan 05 · He is heading there next week. I found this squib accidentally at Radio New Zealand International. He has said he had one place left to fulfill his promise of visiting every state and territory before his term ended.
I was looking for a book by Cato about Australia and New Zealand, and this little post popped up.
Posted at 22:24 on 05 January, 2009 UTC
The chairman of the United States Democratic Party, Howard Dean, will be in American Samoa next week, as part of a plan to visit
Jan 06 · | Ernest Partridge |
Regressives (i.e., self-described “conservatives”) have a nasty disinclination to learn from history, as they routinely promote policies that have failed spectacularly in the past. Today, with the advent of a Barack Obama administration and a solidly Democratic Congress, this is no time for progressives to imitate the regressives. For, as George Santayana famously warned, those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
And what does history teach us?
Jan 06 · | Bernard Weiner |
One definition of mental disease is when someone repeats the same counter-productive behavior again and again and again and expects different results. Which brings us to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. This time it's centered in Gaza, but the ramifications threaten to engulf much of the Arab Middle East, and Iran, and possibly beyond the region.
Each side believes that with just a bit more violent pressure, one more attack, one more mass bombing, one more unleashing of
Jan 06 ·
Civilian deaths increase as Israel moves deeper into Gaza. (Photo: Abid Katib / Getty Images Europe)
The Monstrosity of War
By Dahr Jamail
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Tuesday 06 January 2009
"Foreseen for so many years: these evils, this monstrous violence, these massive agonies: no easier to bear."
-Robinson Jeffers, American poet
Agence France-Presse reports that the first person killed when the Israeli military began to enter Gaza on Saturday was a Palestinian child.
Jan 05 · How did a Democratic challenger defeat a Republican incumbent in an enormous rural district in southern Virginia? A Democratic group in Charlottesville called Left of Center organized a forum on that topic Monday night. Speakers included three staffers on Tom Perriello's victorious campaign: Brian Bills, his personal assistant; Kelli Palmer, who registered African American voters in the southern most part of Virginia's Fifth District; and Rachel Klarman, lead field organizer for the southern c
Jan 04 · Yes, I know he is from VA and must believe that way.
"Promote abstinence; ban partial-birth abortion
I will reduce abortion in Virginia by enforcing current Virginia restrictions, passing an enforceable ban on partial-birth abortion, ensuring women’s access to health care (including legal contraception), and promoting abstinence-focused education and adoption. We should reduce abortion in this manner, rather than by criminalizing women and doctors.
Source: Campaign website www.kaine200
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