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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Still more fluff, lies and radiation from TMI and the new nuke media machine
Like this vast core of green groups, Moody's, Standard & Poor, Citibank and a powerful cohort of financial analysts see atomic power as a horrific investment that can only be described as, well, radioactive. The risks of building a new reactor, says a recent Citibank report, "are so large and variable that individually they could each bring even the largest utility company to its knees."

Tuesday, November 17, 2009
For Obama it's one (term) if by war, two if by peace
(3 comments) Standing down in Afghanistan & Iraq would be truly historic.It could end the epoch-dating to 1492-when Europe continually marched throughout the Third World.More narrowly,it would acknowledge,at last,America's inability to shape every corner of the Earth to its overbearing whim.Perhaps it would finally curb this nation's addiction to squandering blood & treasure on these absurd,hopeless&ultimately suicidal military excursion.

Thursday, October 29, 2009
Is this Tom Friedman's "Walter Cronkite Moment" on Afghanistan?
(7 comments) It's impossible to assign tangible value to Friedman's loss of faith in escalation.But those of us hoping to avoid a catastrophic dive off the Afghani abyss have expected nothing but grief from this mainstay of the Iraqi catastrophe.That a key cheerleader for that war is now waving his editorial pompoms for de-escalation can only be good. Let's make sure the White House gets the message.

Sunday, September 27, 2009
Obama's LBJ Moment
As in Vietnam, the goal would seem to be to install a regime run by the United States and to "pacify" the country into accepting it. The last foreigner to win like that in Afghanistan was Alexander the Great, about 2300 years ago. Since then the British and Soviets have been among the many to crash and burn in this "graveyard of great powers."

Monday, September 14, 2009
Will the Corporate Supremes now dance on democracy's corpse?
(3 comments) While America agonizes over health care,energy and war,Justices Roberts,Scalia,Alito and Thomas could make it all moot. They may now have the 5th Supreme Court vote they need to open the final floodgates on corporate spending in political campaigns.At this point,only an irreversible ban on ALL private campaign money--corporate or otherwise--might save the ability of our common citizenry to be heard.

Sunday, September 6, 2009
Obama Has Fed His Green Jones to King CONG
(2 comments) Van Jones has been fed to King CONG (Coal, Oil, Nukes & Gas). Obama's one serious green bright spot been sacrificed at the McCarthyite altar of the corporate bloviation machine. The brilliant, charismatic Jones was responsible for the administration's single significant accomplishment to date. With clarity and verve Jones finally brought to the mainstream the critical message that what's good for the environment

Monday, June 15, 2009
Facing the Bushes' Iranian Whirlwind
The parallels between the stolen Iranian election of 2009 and the American of 2000 and 2004 are tempting. The histories---and futures---of the two nations are inseparable. Bound up in their tortured half-century of crime and manipulation are the few glimmers of hope for lasting peace in the Middle East.

Monday, February 9, 2009
$50 Billion Debate vs. Pro-Nuker Patrick Moore on Democracy
(5 comments) A coalition of environmental groups are calling on senators to remove a controversial provisions from the $900 billion stimulus bill that could lead to the construction of a new generation of nuclear power plants. We recently hosted a debate between independent journalist and longtime anti-nuclear activist Harvey Wasserman and Patrick Moore, a Greenpeace co-founder and member of the pro-nuclear Clean and Safe Energy Coalition.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009
A Ten-Point Solartopian Starter Agenda for the Age of Obama
" ... the promise of change is not change itself. Inaugurating a brilliant young leader who speaks in complete sentences can only be good. But it is a fatal delusion to think this means we have gotten where we need to go." Wasserman presents a ten point wish list.

Monday, October 6, 2008
Because we fought for them, my daughters have cast paper ballots
(1 comments) But to guarantee a full voter turnout, and a safe reliable, vote count, YOU must get involved. Visit The Free Press and Poll Workers for Democracy.This year, there is no excuse. We know what has happened, and we know the consequences of inaction. See you in the army - of election protection workers.

Monday, November 19, 2007
People Were Killed by Three Mile Island and Other Nuclear Disasters
One of the biggest lies ever told in American industrial history is that "no one died at Three Mile Island." In the frenzy to get public funding for still more nuclear reactors, some industry backers now say no one has ever been killed by the nuclear industry AT ALL. These absurd statements reflect atomic energy's desperate need for federal loan guarantees, which have been slipped into the Energy Bill now before Congress.

Monday, July 30, 2007
Will Bush cancel the 2008 election?
(14 comments) But we must also assume that if it appears to Team Bush/Cheney/Rove that the GOP will lose the 2008 election anyway (as it lost in Ohio 2006) we cannot ignore the possibility that they would simply cancel the election. Those who think this crew will quietly walk away from power are simply not paying attention.The real question is not how or when they might do it.It's how, realistically,we can stop them.

Sunday, April 15, 2007
Peace Be With You, Kurt Vonnegut
As the media fills with whimsical good-byes to one of America's greatest writers, lets not forget one of the great engines driving this wonderful man-he HATED war. Including this one in Iraq. And he had utter contempt for the men who brought it about.

Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Will a shocking new GOP court victory and Karl Rove's attack on Ohio '06 doom the Democrats nationwide?
(11 comments) HB3 and Blackwell's arbitrary directives have already devastated Democratic voter registration drives and caused thousands of mostly Democratic potential voters to wonder about their true eligibility to cast a ballot on November 7.The mainstream media is portraying this latest episode as a blood feud between Petro and Blackwell.But the real winner is the Bush White House,which has every reason to suppress the vote November 7.

Thursday, October 26, 2006
Will Ken Blackwell find the ways to steal Ohio 2006 as he did in 2004?
Since 2000, under Blackwell's supervision, Boards of Elections in Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland and Toledo have eliminated some 500,000 voters from their registration rolls. Nearly all are in heavily Democratic urban areas. In a state where some 5.6 million people voted for president in 2004, this represents nearly 10% of the electorate. George W. Bush's alleged majority in Ohio 2004 was roughly 118,000 votes.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006
A loaves & fishes/Holy Ghost victory for the GOP in November?
(4 comments) It will take just two Biblical fixes for the GOP to keep the Congress, and thus solidify their power in this country, possibly forever: a loaves and fishes vote count, a Holy Ghost turnout. The Republicans honed their skills for stealing elections in 2004, and have institutionalized the mechanisms in the intervening months. Democrats won't speak the name of this crime, and cry 'conspiracy theory!' when anyone else does.

Monday, September 25, 2006
Court victory lets preserved Ohio 2004 ballots tell new tales of theft and fraud as indictments and convictions mount
So far, even the limited inspection of ballots has yielded astonishing results. Three precincts in two counties have shown consecutive runs of Bush votes that qualify as "virtual statistical impossibilities."Only a fraction of 88 counties have received even passing scrutiny. But the early indicators are that Ohio 2004 may ultimately prove out to have been the dirtiest and most obviously stolen election in US history.

Sunday, September 24, 2006
Movie Review: Stealing America...Vote by Vote (or The Crime of the Century)
The sum effect of STEALING AMERICA: Vote by Vote is to enable us to understand in no uncertain terms that we either act on this issue, or we lose what few threads remain of our precious democracy. Fadiman wisely ends STEALING AMERICA with first-person testimonials of citizens who have taken the issue into their own hands, as did our nation's founders more than 200 years ago, in opposition to another George.

Sunday, September 3, 2006
Saving the ballot evidence from Ohio 2004
The 2004 Ohio presidential electoral college slate became the first ever challenged in its entirety, leading to a historical debate in the U.S. Congress in January 2005. These ballots are essential to political scientists, historians and other interested parties that wish to sort out the controversies and irregularities that surrounded Ohio's 2004 election.

Sunday, August 6, 2006
Tom Friedman's Walter Cronkite moment
The tragedy now is that George W. Bush has neither the intelligence nor the integrity nor the heart to call a halt to the slaughter. And if the GOP stranglehold on the machinery of the American vote count is left unchallenged, the next occupant of the White House will certainly be no better.

Sunday, June 4, 2006
RFK and Rolling Stone nail Ohio's stolen 2004 election, but much more must be done
Now we'll see if there's any further media follow-up. And if the Democratic Party actually DOES SOMETHING about the fact that America is about to be hijacked again in 2006, and then for the third straight presidential race in 2008.

Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Freaked-out fundamentalists fear DAVINCI for its fierce feminism
(2 comments) Was Jesus married to Mary Magdalene? Did they have a daughter? Questions about Christ's love life will dominate debate over the release of the DAVINCI CODE this weekend. The answers do matter. But what really counts is the story's pagan/feminist core, and its role in the Culture War.