34 Articles

Sunday, November 22, 2009
Planting bio-fuels, in Rwanda, while Rwandans go hungry
Rwanda's greatest natural resource is its fertile agricultural land, but most is centralized in the hands of government elites and planted in export crops, coffee, tea, flowers, and soon, bio-fuels----while Rwandans go hungry.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009
DU weapons use in Iraq; drastic birth defects in Fallujah
(1 comments) On Friday, 11.13.2009, the London Guardian reported a "Huge rise in birth defects in Fallujah," Iraq. I sent the news to KPFA Radio 94.1FM Weekend News Anchor Anthony Fest, along with contact info for Bob Nichols, San Francisco Bay View Newspaper correspondent and winner of a 2004 Project Censored Award, then edited the result and posted to the Youtube.

Sunday, November 15, 2009
TV doc on copper mining in D.R. Congo nominated for investigative reporting award
On 11.09.2009, the PR Newswire announced that this "Dan Rather Report" on Freeport McMoran, an American corporation mining copper in D.R. Congo, has been nominated for an American television Emmy Award for investigative business reporting. Sometimes the corporate media gets part of the story and gets it right.

Sunday, November 15, 2009
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative Group on Rwanda
Rwanda's state/RPF propaganda machine keeps dodging the Commonwealth Human Rights Initative Group's most fundamental objection to Rwanda's admission at the Commonwealth this month: "On Rwanda it should wait for next year's presidential election, send a strong observer group to decide whether they are fair (the last ones were not) and then consider the application at the next CHOGM in 2011."

Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Three Reasons to Support African Greens
Reasons to support the African Greens: 1) Africa has surpassed the Middle East as a source of U.S. oil imports. 2) They stand for LGBT rights, despite homophobic hyseria, whipped up by homophobic U.S. Ambassador Rev. Rick Warren, and 3) they stand for nonviolence amidst the myriad foreign-armed and controlled warring factions.

Monday, November 9, 2009
Rwanda Greens, the Commonwealth, and Rwanda's 2010 elections
The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) group opposes consideration of Rwanda's application until after Rwanda's 2010 election, which Rwanda Greens continue to struggle and continues to oppose Rwanda's acceptance both because of its human rights violations in Rwanda, and, because of its repeated invasions of D.R. Congo.

Monday, November 9, 2009
San Francisco energy policy disconnects from San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi's
(1 comments) San Francisco's new clean, non-nuclear energy policy conflicts with that of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the City's 8th District Congressional Representative, for the past 23 years, and one of the nation's leading advocates of nuclear power.

Friday, November 6, 2009
Greens fight for rights in Kagame's Rwanda
Rwanda Greens were injured and arrested when Rwandan police shut down their fourth attempt to convene on 10.30.2009 in Kigali. Those known to have been arrested have been released, and only one member remains missing. The party now plans another attempt to convene, for the fifth time, on 11.20.2009.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009
No Rule of Law in Rwanda
"There is no rule of law in Rwanda! . . . If you want to keep us out of the elections, and you want to get 99% of the vote, then you have to say it! Enough is enough! We are going forward! We are not going back!" --Interim Rwandan Green Party leader Frank Habineza

Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Broken bones and arrests at Rwandan Green Party convention
The Rwandan Democratic Greens tried, for the fourth time, to hold their founding convention in Kigali, on 10.30.2009, but the police appeared again, this time with security operatives as well. On Friday morning, 10.30,2009 in San Francisco, P.S.T., I called and spoke to Frank Habineza, interim Rwandan Green Party leader, who was by that time in a Kigali hospital trying to aid Rwandan Greens injured in the ensuing chaos.

Monday, October 26, 2009
Peace activism = climate activism
"Militarism is the way corporations maintain their access to their food supply — the planet." --Steve Martinot, Militarism and Global Warming

Saturday, October 24, 2009
MoveOn.org takes the fudge, in Iraq and Afghanistan
(3 comments) MoveOn.org, the Democratic Party's fundraising and PR PAC, is urging all of us to join a global rally, against global warming, on 10.24.2009. In San Francisco, they want us to show up at Justin Herman Plaza, at 3:00 P.M. And, they promise that: "There will even be events in Afghanistan and Iraq."

Thursday, October 22, 2009
Oil for Blood: T. Boone Pickens wants his
(5 comments) Oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens has reversed the anti-war complaint "No blood for oil," He's upset that U.S. energy companies aren't getting enough oil for American blood----and U.S. taxpayer dollars. He complains that it's going to China instead.

Monday, October 12, 2009
Green Party banner over Rwanda
(1 comments) By giving democratic forces in Rwandan an internationally recognizable banner to rally round, the international Greens have helped Rwandan Greens kick a hole in the huge and hugely evil IMF/World Bank/U.S.-U.K. State Department/Rev. Rick Warren lie about Paul Kagame's Rwanda, and, about the covert U.S. War in Central Africa---the most lethal, but least understood, conflict in the world.

Saturday, October 10, 2009
Rwandan Green Party cries foul over sabotage
As of 2:25 P.M., PST, on 10.06.2009, "New Green Party cries foul over possible sabotage," seemed to be the only story about Rwandan state suppression of the Rwandan Democratic Green Party still accessible on the website of the state run Rwandan News Agency (RNA). This is to create a record.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Rwanda's Democratic Greens shut down, for the third time
On October 2nd, 2009, over 900 delegates from every district in Rwanda came to Kigali for a conference of the new Rwandan Democratic Green Party,formed on August 14, 2009. The Mayor of Nyarugenge District, abruptly shut the meeting down,as party delegates looked on in disbelief. Former President Bill Clinton, Reverend Rick Warren, and the Obama/Clinton State Department all point to Rwanda as the hope and future of Africa.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009
San Francisco says yes to war
The City of San Francisco, California now prepares to host Fleet Week and the Blue Angels Air Show, a high tech, all forces, military recruitment drive, from October 8th to 13th, which the City has requested every year since 1981. In April 2009 I spoke with Cindy Sheehan, on Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox Net Radio about San Francisco's choice.

Saturday, October 3, 2009
Rwandan President Paul Kagame questions Euro justice
Rwandan President Paul Kagame now questions the fairness of the International Criminal Court, and, says, without naming names and countries, that most people who organized the "Rwandan Genocide" are outside Rwanda's borders.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Obama, Westerwelle, and Afghanistan
Guido Westerwelle, the first openly gay leader of a mainstream German political party, is Germany's most powerful political proponent of ongoing German engagement in the Afghanistan War. As a result of the 09/27/2009 election, he is virtually certain to become the new German Foreign Minister, despite reports that 70% of Germans are demanding immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Saturday, August 29, 2009
Privatizing California: S. B. 792
(7 comments) In their fight against the push to privatize their state park, Bayview Hunters Point activists are fighting the push to privatize all California as hard as anyone I know.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Peace Now? Not without national health care
Where's the peace movement? Confused and in disarray, thanks to the Obama campaign's false promise of peace. Many have joined the battle for universal health care, if still engaged at all. Code Pink is fighting for health care not warfare. Universal health care is a peace issue, and a social justice and environmental issue, because so few speak out or take chances when living in a constant state of anxiety

Thursday, August 13, 2009
Yes we can expand the Africa Command; Hillary channels Barack and Bill
Yes we can expand AFRICOM, the U.S. Africa Command! Yes we can contain China; yes we can secure the oil, natural gas, uranium, biofuels, hydropower, agricultural and mineral wealth of the African Continent. Yes we can! I'll send Hillary!

Monday, August 3, 2009
Don't drink the uranium
(1 comments) On July 21, 2009, Obama Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced a two year "time out" on new uranium mining claims near the Grand Canyon. But, the announcement was straight out of Orwell's 1984, because new claims are not the issue; more than 10,000 claims have already been staked on the edge of the Grand Canyon, since 2006, and if even 1% become mines, they will endanger 30 million people's water supply.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009
California and the Democrats
(2 comments) KMEC Radio interview with California Assembly Majority Leader Alberto Torrico, regarding Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's punish-the-poor State budget, and, Democratic State legislators' response.

Sunday, July 26, 2009
Big Oil in Third World California
(3 comments) How much more of Californians' oil and natural gas, and, what else, does Arnold Schwarzenegger hope to give away, for insignificant revenues, in exchange for his signature on future budgets to keep California running, much as the World Bank or IMF's signature keeps Third World nations running, awhile longer, but each time for a higher price?

Sunday, July 26, 2009
The California Foreclosure Prevention Fraud of 2009
(4 comments) The California Democratic Party Caucus website still proudly proclaims that "Ted Lieu leads the way against California's foreclosure crisis," but ABX 27 (State Senate version SB 27), is as likely to save distressed California homeowners from foreclosure as the California State Lottery, if that.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Havasupi organize protest of Grand Canyon uranium mining
The Native American Havasupi tribe have invited the public to join them, on June 25th and 26th, to protest at Red Bluff, Arizona, a Havasupi sacred site threatened by Denison Mining's plan to reopen its open pit uranium mine, Arizona One, near the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.

Thursday, July 16, 2009
This oil is mine; God gave this oil to me. . .
(1 comments) "God is not a real estate agent," Palestinian scholar Edward Said's responded to Zionists claiming scriptural proof, from the Old Testament, that God had given Palestine to them. Were he still among us,he might now respond, "God is not a commodities broker," because Zion Oil and Natural Gas now claims scriptural proof, Genesis 12:1-3, and 49:25, and, Deuteronomy 33:24, that God gave them all Palestine's oil and gas as well.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Cynthia McKinney, the Israeli Navy, and $4 billion worth of natural gas off Gaza
Upon her release and return from Israel, Cynthia McKinney spoke to WBAIX-New York, from New York's JFK Airport, reporting that the "Spirit of Humanity had been towed to shore on a circuitous route, bypassing he natural gas rich coastal waters off Gaza.

Monday, July 13, 2009
Obama, Ghana, and African oil
Barack Obama's visit to Ghana is, most fundamentally, about West African oil and natural gas, and control of the corridors for transporting it through the Gulf of Guinea, on the West African Coast.

Sunday, July 12, 2009
Arnold Schwarzenegger threatens California like the IMF threatens Africa
(7 comments) California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger now threatens California much as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank threaten debt strangled, resource ransacked, environmentally assaulted, and de facto colonized Africa, and the rest of the Global South.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009
KMEC 105.1FM: Alberto Torrico on Arnold Schwarzenegger's end game
Bond rating agencies have downgraded California debt to one notch above junk bond status, and, California has began issuing IOUs, and generating rules for identifying geniuine vs. counterfeit IOUs, both of which now seem likely to be traded speculatively, on E-Bay and Craigslist. Arnold Schwarzenegger and California Democrats remain in budget deadlock, explained by Assembly Majority Leader Alberto Torrico on KMEC 91.5 FM.

Monday, May 11, 2009
Newsom for a Nuclear California
(3 comments) To be a really big guy, like California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who now aspires to succeed him, or, to be a really big nation, and an international power, you've gotta have nuclear power. And nuclear weapons, the invention which gave rise to nuclear power, and, nuclear power politics. Schwarzenegger and Newsom both know it and support it.

Monday, April 27, 2009
Drilling California's Outer Continental Shelf
More domestic drilling, whether in the Outer Continental Shelf, or the Interior, will only feed the dirty energy infrastructure sustained by perpetual war, in the Middle East and in Africa.