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‘For oil companies, our rights are just another obstacle’
Human Wrongs Watch By Martin L., Joris T., Leon V. and Faiza O.*, 21 November, 2014 – Once upon a time fossil fuel exploration took place far away, out of sight and out of mind. But as oil and gas giants become…
Anti-corruption needs to be among UN’s development goals
“I think that an honest and responsive government should be one of the new UN goals. More transparency and less corruption is what is really needed to create a better and more just world,” says Mushfiqul Haque Mukit, a young…
Occupy Democracy back in Parliament Square, London
Republished from Occupy London Donnachadh McCarthy, author of ‘The Prostitute State’, former Deputy Chair of the Lib Dems and supporter of Occupy, was arrested last night at the protests at Parliament Square. The arrest happened when more than 200 #occupydemocracy demonstrators…
Uncomplicated, in Afghanistan
By Kathy Kelly On November 7, 2014, while visiting Kabul, the Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg noted that NATO will soon launch a new chapter, a new non-combat mission in Afghanistan. But it’s difficult to spot the new method…
Swedish Court Rejects Assange Appeal, but Prods Prosecutor to Resolve Standoff
A Swedish court has rejected an appeal of the arrest warrant that’s kept WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange confined in Ecuador’s London Embassy for over two years. Assange is wanted in Sweden for questioning on allegations of sexual misconduct, though no…
…the vastness of it: Inmensidad – by Andres Koryzma
I noticed a simple announcement on the Facebook page of friend Andres Koryzma, “Inmensidad by Andres Koryzma, for free on Grooveshark. So I got in touch to find out more. “I want to share with my friends a little bit…
Mourning John F. Kennedy and a half-century of degraded arts and culture
Fifty-one years after the event, circumstances had conspired so, I found myself in the political capital of the Global Empire, walking beside an infantry of weeping willows, and,—across Rock Creek Parkway and a sliver of greensward—the meandering Potomac. Between the…
Speaking with forked tongues can win you an election
What better allegory than the Native Americans’ to describe Orwell’s “double speak” or the semantic violence of those who steal the discourse of the opposite view to increase their appeal amongst those who normally would not agree with or vote…
No More Weapons-Grade Uranium for Medical Use as Canada ships first synchrotron isotopes
Gordon Edwards placed a clarifying forward online regarding the article, “No More Weapons-Grade Uranium for Medical Use?: Canada ships first synchrotron isotopes”. We reproduce same here for readers technical reference. 1. The old messy way of getting medical isotopes using…
A few words about the “F” word
“ Fascism” is a particular political response to a perceived national crisis. To fascist practitioners, the root cause of the crisis is identified as contamination of a pure, virtuous national polity by alien elements, maybe ethnic, maybe religious, maybe cultural,…
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