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I am a student of history, religion, exoteric and esoteric, the Humanities in general and a tempered advocate for the ultimate manifestation of peace, justice and the unity of humankind through self-realization and mutual respect, although I am not a pacifist, nor do I believe in peace at any price, which is no peace at all but only delays inevitable conflict. There are times when the world must act. Planetary consciousness is evolving, but there are many retrograde forces that would drag us back down.
I have also written one book, a combination of poetry, photography and essays entitled "Post Katrina Blues", my reflections on the Gulf Coast and New Orleans two years after Katrina struck. Go to the store at http://sanfranciscobaypress.com/ to purchase. And I also have a blog called Plutonian Mac.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 Argentina Gives 12 Ex-Officers Life Terms For Murder, Torture In 'Dirty War'
The long arm of justice: A court sentenced a former navy spy known as "the Angel of Death" and 11 other former Argentine military and police officers to life in prison Wednesday for crimes against humanity committed during the 1976-83 military dictatorship.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 "Thomas Jefferson" Strongly Supports Occupy Wall Street (2 comments)
Our third president, Thomas Jefferson, through his most famous interpreter, the scholar and actor Clay Jenkinson, devotes an hour podcast to expound upon the Occupy Wall Street movement. You may be quite surprised as to his thoughts on protests, the elite and confronting corrupted government.
Saturday, October 15, 2011 Occupy Protests Go Global: 951 Protests Worldwide and Counting (2 comments)
Although it took American protesters awhile to catch up with protesters in the Middle East, North Africa and Europe this past year, now their own Occupy Wall Street movement has spread like a wave around the globe. There are some 950 plus reported protests going on around the world today, Saturday, Oct 15th.
Friday, September 30, 2011 Would You Buy a Used Car from Tony Blair? (3 comments)
Senior political analyst Marwan Bishara of Al Jazeera ponders whether it is time for the world to punt Tony Blair into Outer Mongolia, far away from anything having to do with peace and justice in the Middle East.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 Gaddafi Family Values (Updated) (8 comments)
The storming of the Gaddafi family compound in Tripoli as well as the seizure of some of their other houses and properties by revolutionary forces have brought to light more than ever the opulence and decadence of their lifestyles, but now another term often used in reference to at least some of the Gaddafis is finding new emphasis: sadism.
Thursday, August 25, 2011 The Hidden Things of Muammar Gaddafi (15 comments)
For someone whose core vocabulary in public speeches and broadcasts often consists of nouns like "rats, vermin, snakes and cockroaches", all of whom hide in dark places or burrow underground, it is not surprising that Muammar Gaddafi and his regime have had a propensity for doing the same during his 42-year reign, both literally and figuratively.
Monday, August 22, 2011 Democracy Now on the Battle for Tripoli and the Collapse of the Gaddafi Regime
Most of Amy Goodman's Monday, August 22, 2011 Democracy Now broadcast was devoted to news and discussion on the dramatic events in Tripoli and the end of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, including interviews with Robin Waudo, an International Red Cross spokesperson in Tripoli, Khaled Mattawa, an acclaimed Libyan poet and scholar, Fred Abrahams of Human Rights Watch and Professor Juan Cole, well-known blogger on the Arab World.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 The Arab Spring Transmutes into the Jewish Summer: Welcome to the July 14th Movement (1 comments)
The forces that ignited revolutionary struggle and transformation in the Middle East and North Africa have now spread to Israel, as the common Israeli man and woman take to the streets also to confront the jaded powers that be in their country that are suffocating their rights, freedoms and economic well-being.
Friday, July 22, 2011 The Youth of Libya, Finally Free to Speak Out (30 comments)
As the suffocating era of Gaddafi in Libyan history continues toward its fiery denouement, the youth generation in Libya is now finding its own voice, music, ideas and art, freed from the chains of ideological conformity and political and social servility to an Orwellian state.
Thursday, July 14, 2011 Rally/Demonstration Wars in Libya (17 comments)
Although much has been said lately about pro-Gaddafi rallies in Tripoli, not much has said about pro-rebel rallies in the rest of Libya. What we have here are the "Rally Wars" of Summer.
Friday, June 24, 2011 The Indignant: Why Spain's Young People Took to the Streets * UPDATE (2 comments)
In May a TV crew from Televisio de Catalunya filmed the vast social movement now taking place in Spain called, in English, the Indignants. Here is their look inside the movement, as well as some breaking news on a new marathon protest March walking from Barcelona to Madrid.
Thursday, June 16, 2011 Kucinich and Turner Debate the War Powers Act, Amy Goodman Refs (3 comments)
Today's June 16th Democracy Now! program took on a new hot item in the news, the debate as to whether Obama is in defiance of the War Powers Act regarding his decision to take part in implementing UN Chapter 7 Security Council Resolution 1973. Amy Goodman hosted an actual debate between Dennis Kucinich and Robert Turner.
Friday, June 10, 2011 Dr. Dahlia Wasfi and the Tragedy of Iraq, Part 2: We've Got Problems, We've Got Problems (5 comments)
After various delays since my first article on prominent peace activist for Iraq, Dahlia Wasfi, I finally am in a position to share more of my interview with her to you as she explains the background that allowed the invasion of Iraq to happen: decades of stereotyping and dehumanizing Arabs and Moslems in America, something we are only now beginning to rise above against the backdrop of the Arab Spring.
Friday, June 10, 2011 Brutal Gaddafi Army Bombardment of Misrata Outskirts: Scores Dead and Injured (21 comments)
Gaddafi forces have launched their second heavy bombardment and ground assault on the outskirts of Misrata in only three days, resulting in heavy casualties with horrific injuries that have field clinics and Misrata's main hospital overflowing. Although Gaddafi's army is still able to inflict brutal casualties, in combat on the ground they lack the morale of rebel fighters, who have again repelled yet another assault.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 UN Seeks Probe after Torture and Slaying of Syrian Boy
UNICEF called on Syria on Tuesday to investigate reports of "horrific acts" of violence against children detained during the current wave of unrest in the Arab country.
The call came after The New York Times reported on Monday that an online video showed a 13-year-old boy, arrested at a protest on April 29, who it said had been tortured, mutilated and killed before his body was returned to his family.
Sunday, May 29, 2011 Hundreds of Women Report Rapes by Gaddafi forces
Charges that the Gaddafi regime is using mass rape as a weapon of war are increasing, and so is the evidence, which is being presented to the International Criminal Court.
Friday, May 27, 2011 Congress Prostrates Itself Before the Golden Calf yet Again: Interview with Lawrence Wlikerson (1 comments)
Congress's euphoric adoration of Right-wing Israeli zealot Benjamin Netanyahu the other days was a spectacle to behold alright. Well-known pundit Lawrence Wilkerson gives his take on what is clearly an irrational state of affairs in the American body-politic, one that puts American increasingly at odds with the rest of the world.
Monday, May 23, 2011 Aftermath of the Worst of the Misrata Siege
The Siege of Misrata is waning finally after Gaddafi forces have been driven West, block by block and acre by acre in the last few weeks. But the regime has left behind a legacy of destruction against this major Libyan city hard to phantom.
Monday, May 23, 2011 Revolutionary Songs of the Arab Awakening (1 comments)
You cannot understand the revolutionary forces sweeping through the Middle East, North Africa and beyond if you cannot hear their songs, so listen up.
Friday, May 20, 2011 Reigning Chutzpah Champion Tries to Beard Obama in his Own Den! Time to Throw Down, Barack
President Obama's media interview with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu was a battle of wills beneath the thin veneer of official decorum, which Netanyahu wasted no time in trampling over as he "took it to the President", who seemed content to take his "body blows". Round one will likely go to Netanyahu, but this is a fifteen-round fight.
Monday, May 16, 2011 Syrian President "Papa Doc" Assad's Torture State (9 comments)
The reactionary Syrian regime of Bashar Assad has embraced torture whole-heartedly in its attempt to crush the Arab Awakening in Syria. The rest of the world must take a stronger stand against this or live with the sordid consequences.
Monday, May 9, 2011 Human Rights Watch to Gaddafi Regime: End Indiscriminate Attacks in Western Mountain Towns (2 comments)
Libyan government forces have launched what appear to be repeated indiscriminate attacks on mountain towns in western Libya, Human Rights Watch said today.
Accounts from refugees who fled the conflict say the attacks are killing and injuring civilians and damaging civilian objects, including homes, mosques, and a school. Human Rights Watch called on Libyan forces to cease their indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 Representatives of 61 Tribes from across Libya Call for Gaddafi to Step Down
While trying to tell the world that all Lybians (except for the "rats", he decries) love him while simultaneously slaughtering thousands of them thus far, now we have yet another monkey wrench thrown into his propaganda machine: chiefs or reps from 61 Lybian tribes have signed a document asking him to step down, although some tribes are 100% behind their rep, others only partially, to be exact.
Monday, April 25, 2011 Haitian Winter, Part 8: Hey, Sweet Micky! Let's Clean up Truttier and Haiti's Water (1 comments)
As a new administration takes over in Haiti, let us hope that the first thing that Michel Martelly does is to address the catastrophic lack of clean drinking water in Haiti, which lack will continue you to drive poverty, sickness and particularly cholera.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Not so Happy First BP Oil Disaster Anniversary for the Gulf (Videos)
This week is the anniversary of the worst environmental disaster in history, the BP oil catastrophe and coverup. BP, from the very moment disaster struck the Deepwater Horizon, began to act like a hit and run driver, and what they couldn't run from, they tried to cover up and buy out with all their billions, simultaneously launching a PR campaign to create a Potemkin Gulf, which, however, has nothing to do with reality.
Monday, April 18, 2011 The Libyan "Stasi" of Muammar Gaddafi: Revolutionary Committee Files Recovered in Benghazi (4 comments)
In Jan 1990 protesting Berliners recovered vast quantities of the Stasi secret police files revealing the grim realities within East Germany before they could all be destroyed. In late February of this year, protesters in Benghazi also recovered a good portion of the Revolutionary Committee secret files for Eastern Libya while THEY were in the process of being destroyed, revealing the grim realities of the Libyan state.
Sunday, April 17, 2011 Dr. Dahlia Wasfi and the Tragedy of Iraq, Part 1: Interviewing Ross Caputi, a Marine in Fallujah (2 comments)
Dahlia Wasfi MD, international speaker, author and human rights advocate on and for Iraq, was in Norfolk during the commemoration of the 8th anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq, along with her associate Ross Caputi, ex-Marine who had been in the Nov 2004 assault on Fallujah and later turned peace activist to protest the criminal nature of that war. By providence, one might say, I was able to interview them both.
Friday, April 15, 2011 Channeling Rumsfeld/Bush/Cheney: Now the Gaddafi Regime is Firing Cluster Bombs into Misrata (22 comments)
The New York Times and Human Rights Watch have revealed that the Gaddafi Regime is using cluster bombs indiscriminately in Misrata, weapons that over one hundred nations signed a treaty against in December, 2008. Unfortunately, this did not include countries like Russia, China, the United States, Israel and Libya.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 Ongoing Torment for Civilians as Misrata Becomes a Mini-Stalingrad (7 comments)
On Tuesday Libyan government artillery bombarded Misrata yet again, the only major city in the western half of the country that remains under PARTIAL rebel control while suffering a 24/7 siege that is taking an awful toll on the population.
Monday, April 11, 2011 Haitian Winter, Part Seven: Arts and Artifacts of the Resurrected Iron Market
I left you all off in Part Six last time, at the famous Iron Market in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, promising to return to take you on a little tour of the actual merchant vendors' halls. So today, we will visit the North hall, and step into the surrealistic world of Haitian art and culture.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 Who are the Rebels of Benghazi? An Interview with Reporter Jihan Hafiz (3 comments)
Just who are Libyan rebels? To hear ideologues of both the Left and Right, they are tools of al Qaeda, a propaganda smear that Gaddafi also uses 24/7. Yet conspiracists and much of the Left also damn them as tools of the CIA and Western Imperialism, failing to note the contradiction of branding them as pawns of the West and enemies of the West at the same time. Meanwhile, reporter Jihan Hafiz, sheds real light on the rebels.
Sunday, April 3, 2011 Misrata, a Sea of Misery at Gaddafi's Hands (Video Updates) (3 comments)
The ancient city of Misrata, home to over half a million people when revolution in Libya broke out, is suffering grievously at the hands of the Gaddafi regime for going over to the rebel side, as Gaddafi continues to try to brutally subdue the population. The Turkish government, under cover of its own military contingent, has just brought scores of wounded out of the city on a makeshift hospital ship, the Ankara.
Saturday, April 2, 2011 Chess Games in Libya and London while Rebel Gov't and Army Solidify
What is clear lately is that the Gaddafi regime is showing fissures, with more defections and a state or paranoia setting in against its own officials, while the rebel government is gaining more international recognition as, also, the rebel army, despite setbacks militarily, is slowly overcoming their lack of discipline and training.
Thursday, March 31, 2011 American Boots ARE on the Ground in Libya, Libyan-American Boots that is.
Some Libyan Americans, not to mention Libyans in other countries, after seeing the horrors Muammar Gaddafi has been inflicting upon his own people, are returning to their homeland to join up with the rebels to liberate their country before it is too late, acts of real courage against a regime known to beat, torture and/or execute prisoners.
Thursday, March 31, 2011 More Defections from Gaddafi Inner Circle after Moussa Koussa - Plus, Secret Talks
Not all Libyan officials are Mafia-type thugs. Some are smart and well-educated, indeed apparently smart enough to jump off a runaway freight-train heading for a cliff. Moussa Koussa is the biggest name to flee Gadafi, and now, apparently, there are more. Meanwhile, the Guardian UK states that there are secret talks going on between the Gaddafi regime and London, so what does that portend? Will the train divert itself?
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 Gaddafi in History: From Populist Hero to Isolated Dictator (9 comments)
If you are utterly confused by all the facts and factoids about Libya and Muammar Gaddafi being flung about, then here's a little historical context to add to your understanding.
Sunday, March 27, 2011 Potemkin Tripoli Shows a Crack: Libyan Woman Says Gadhafi Forces Beat, Raped Her (1 comments)
TRIPOLI -- A distraught Libyan woman stormed into a Tripoli hotel Saturday to tell foreign reporters that government troops raped her, setting off a brawl when hotel staff and government minders tried to detain her.
Thursday, March 24, 2011 Ongoing Victims of the Ongoing Gaddafi War Machine (Videos) (2 comments)
We are now seeing the strange phenomenon of some of the so-called Left and so-called Peace Movement both evade or even deny the ongoing slaughter of civilians by Gaddafi's brutal forces, some, furthermore, parroting his 24/7 propaganda machine with the frenzy of true believers, a propaganda mill on the level of the North Korean State if not actually much worse.
Thursday, March 24, 2011 Haitian Winter, Part Six: Soaring into the Sun - the Grand New Iron Market (2 comments)
Time to revisit the famous Iron Market in Port-au-Prince. When last I left it, it was a holy mess, but now, thanks to two guys with the same first name (plus a host of others as well), it is all but a holy shrine to the Phoenix-rising future of Haiti.
Monday, March 21, 2011 Hezbollah Leader Nasrallah Speaks in Solidarity with the Arab Spring, Equates Gaddafi with Israel (1 comments)
Nasrallah gives us a look at the Arab Spring through the eyes of the Shiite Islamic world. Nasrallah is in full solidarity with the aspirations of Arab peoples everywhere, heaping scorn on all tottering tyrannies, ridiculing allegations that any of these revolutions are Western-manufactured.
Sunday, March 20, 2011 Richard Engel on Gaddafi's Options and Propaganda (1 comments)
Richard Engel, chief correspondent for NBC, explains Gaddafi's strategic options as well as propaganda capabilities.
Saturday, March 19, 2011 Aristide returns to Haiti (Videos)
Here is video documentation of Aristide's return to Haiti after seven long years. Crowds came out en masse to greet him.
Thursday, March 17, 2011 LATEST UPDATE: Aristide has Landed! - Jean-Bertrande Aristide is in-Flight for Port-au-Prince (7 comments)
Despite ongoing efforts by the White House and State Department to obstruct his return, exiled former president of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, overthrown in a US-backed coup in 2004 and arguably still the most popular man in Haiti, is airborne and headed back to Port-au-Prince, accompanied by his wife Mildred, Hollywood star Danny Glover, Amy Goodman, co-producer and host of Democracy Now and other notable individuals.
Sunday, March 13, 2011 The Women of the Libyan Revolution and Why aren't American Women Supporting Them? (11 comments)
The Libyan Revolution is not just a men's revolution but a women's revolution as well, despite the wretched attempts by some on the Left, not to mention certain conspiracists, to misrepresent their common struggle as a Western-controlled proxy-operation. Meanwhile, for Gaddafi to actually triumph will send a message to the remaining tyrannies in the Middle East that the bludgeon, whip, slaughter and torture still work.
Friday, March 11, 2011 The KingFish Schemes to Reignite the National Psychosis
How should we treat Congressman King and his McCarthyite-redux House Committee on Homeland Security, as angst-producing, racist threat to American Moslems or as farce? Or perhaps, as both. Johnathan Swift certainly knew that one of the greatest swords against injustice is political satire.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 Gaddafi Depravity of the Day: Libya BBC Staff Arrested and Tortured by his Forces
Muammar Gaddafi has crossed so many lines defining civilized bahavior and human rights that he and his regime are capable of almost anything now, including beating and mock-executing foreign journalists. What will be the next barbaric outrage from this demented despot who apparently thinks he can con and brutalize the entire world?
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 Gaddafi Pulling a Fallujah on Zawiya: Tanks and Planes Reportedly Hammering Everything (with VIDEO)
From the BBC, Sky News and the Guardian UK: Gaddafi has launched a ruthless assault on rebel-held Zawiya, according to eyewitnesses, with one saying it had been reduced to ashes.
Gaddafi's tanks, planes, artillery are pounding Zawiya, as trapped residents cower from the onslaught.
A witness told BBC News that it seemed every building was being hit by a shower of bullets. Mosques and hospitals have reportedly been hit.
Sunday, March 6, 2011 Gaddafi's Libya: A State of Terror and Breaking the Silence (1 comments)
For decades, Colonel Gaddafi has been able to keep the lid on the horrors that his death squad/torture-state repressive apparatus has visited on the Libyan people so that he can maintain de facto absolute power and full access to the wealth of the Libyan people. But now Libyans around the world have found the courage to expose Gaddafi's lies and tell the shocking truth.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 Inside Gaddafi's Torture Chambers - in Tandem with the al Qaeda Canard
Al Jazeera has just released a video documenting Gaddafi's torture chambers, while, meanwhile, Gaddafi tries to pull a propaganda rabbit out of his swollen hat with the same al Qaeda canard that the US has used to justify its endless "War on Terror". So now we have a unique moment to observe and ponder the parallels between the delusional propaganda of Gaddafi and that of the American Warfare State.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 Gaddafi: Megalomania Devolving into Evil as Rebellion Heightens (Videos Updated) (2 comments)
Muammar al-Gaddafi is degenerating into megalomania, madness and pure evil, all the while he sits on a massive array of Western provided weaponry and ordnance with billions to spend on mercenaries, murderers and torturers. And yet his fall is inevitable. Godspeed the revolution to overthrow such a perverse tyrant.
Saturday, February 19, 2011 A Message to You from the Divine Cosmos via Kirk Nugent (3 comments)
Have Faith, persevere! What started in Egypt will even come here. The tyrants of darkness are beginning to fall, so stay focused on Oneness. Know that God and Goddess are all.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 Haitian Winter, Part 2: From C to Shining C, Handy Around the Clinic (Photo Essay) (3 comments)
Our first investigative target in Haiti after leaving the airport was a new women's clinic made possible through the efforts of many people collaborating from San Francisco to Boston to some wonderful Haitians themselves, including one very cool Haitian movie star.
Saturday, February 12, 2011 Haitian Winter, Part 1: Fire and Ice, How Not to Return to Haiti (1 comments)
How a theoretically uneventful flight to Miami, 1st leg of a new trip to Haiti, became a nightmare in the hyperborean wilds of the snow-bound North, better known as Kennedy Airport in NYC, and how I went from ice to fire (metaphorically speaking) to reach Port-au-Prince.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 Set/Mubarak: Attack! Attack! My children of the Night (8 comments)
Dictator Hosni Mubarak really is deciding to end his thirty year reign of repression, tyranny and torture with a grim finale evocative not only of a Grade-B horror movie, but of an ancient Egyptian myth. Which myth, you may wonder? Read on.
Friday, January 28, 2011 Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Hosni Mubarak has GOT to GO! (1 comments)
A video montage of events, past and present, that have led to revolution in Egypt in late January, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 Tuesday's Palestine Papers: Vichy Palestinian Authority Conspired w/Israel to Kill Palestinians
The shocking revelations in the Palestine Papers continue for a third day, as we learn just how far the Palestinian Authority is willing to go in collaborating with the Israelis against their fellow Palestinians. And even Wikileaks gets in on the act with its own cables.
Sunday, January 23, 2011 Earth-Shaker Cable Leaks: the Palestine Papers (Updated) (4 comments)
Over the last several months, Al Jazeera has been given unhindered access to the largest-ever leak of confidential documents related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There are nearly 1,700 files, thousands of pages of diplomatic correspondence detailing the inner workings of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Monday, January 17, 2011 Life Imitating Art in Haiti? Pontecorvo's Movie Queimada (Burn!) as Presage for What May Go Down Next
Is life imitating art in Haiti right now with the return of Baby Doc Duvalier to Port-au-Prince? Is a plan underway to sweep him or, more likely, his faction of the Haitian oligarchy back into back into power on the wings of revolutionary upheaval. It wouldn't be the first time, a fact that did not escape the attention of Gillo Pontecorvo when he made his unsung and underrated movie Burn! or Queimada.
Saturday, January 15, 2011 Iceland and Birgitta Jonsdottir, the Tip of the Spear against Global Orwellian Kleptocracy (3 comments)
Time to take a good look at Birgitta Jónsdóttir, famous for helping to rally the people of Iceland against the depredations of the International Bankers (Banksters) who were bankrupting Iceland through their sleazy derivatives and other Ponzi schemes. She is also in the global spotlight as one of the five people whose Twitter accounts have been subpoenaed by the US Gov't as it goes after Julian Assange.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010 Science and Islam: How Islamic Culture Advanced Science and Civilization (7 comments)
As we read about jaded, so-called "security experts" giving our police departments training lectures extolling the murder of Islamic "militants" AND their children, it is time to say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH to the hate-mongers and propagandists before we slide into a national Fascist nightmare. One of the first things we can do is educate ourselves about the many positive contributions of Islam to the world.
Monday, December 27, 2010 Photo Essay: Christmas Snow Storm Hits Norfolk, Virginia (3 comments)
Many of us wanted a White Christmas, but Norfolk and much of the South got it in spades on Christmas weekend. What is going on with the weather, not just here but in Europe and elsewhere? Is it global warming, global cooling, the BP oil spill, even all three, leading to the slowdown, shutdown or diversion of the Gulf Loop Current, the Northern Atlantic Stream, the Gulf Stream? There is much speculation out there.
Saturday, December 18, 2010 Jesse Ventura Hammers The 9/11 Official Pentagon Attack Scenario (149 comments)
Episode 8 of Conspiracy Theory with Jess Ventura takes a hard look at the sacred myth of the 9/11 assault on the Pentagon by al Qaeda. I call it a sacred myth for 2 reasons, because to question it is considered blasphemy in official circles, while the facts the myth are built upon are as solid as the images from a hall of distorted mirrors in an amusement park, each mirror designed to give you a false view of reality.
Saturday, December 11, 2010 JESSE VENTURA RAISES THE QUESTION: DID BP, TRANSOCEAN, HALLIBURTON KNOW THE DEEPWATER HORIZON WOULD BLOW? (22 comments)
In Episode 7, Season Two of his widely popular TruTV hit series, Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura, Jesse takes on BP, Halliburton, the Army Corps of Engineeers and others as he travels to the Gulf to ask the question, was the Gulf oil disaster actually a conspiracy, as in disaster capitalism, or even worse?
Thursday, December 9, 2010 PHOTO-POEM: If Tiger Woods Lived in Sweden (1 comments)
Imagine if Tiger Woods had been sowing his wild oats in Sweden. Not only would he not get to swing any big phallic golf clubs for quite a while, but he might never even get out of prison if the same level of severity were to be applied to him as to Julian Assange!
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 The Ongoing Disaster in and along the Gulf of Mexico: New Citizens' Video Testimonies
Here are more testimonies, in words, song and images, of the continuing disaster in the Gulf that much of the media and the powers-that-be are trying to ignore and deny. However, nothing is going away, not the people, who are fighting mad, and not the oil.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 Time to HOWL Again: A Movie Review (1 comments)
A new movie about Allen Ginsberg, named after his most famous poem, Howl, is out, and it is attracting kudos and making waves wherever it opens. Starring James Franco in the title role, this movie will educate and open the minds of a new generation, if enough people see it, in the search for self-expression, freedom and a higher vision of humanity in a world rapidly degenerating into an Orwellian nightmare.
Sunday, November 21, 2010 Jesse Ventura Exposes the JFK Assassination Conspiracy Nationally (26 comments)
Jesse Ventura's Episode 5 of his wildly popular Conspiracy Theory TV series takes a hard look at the JFK assassination, providing yet more logic and proof that there was indeed a conspiracy to take out Kennedy, and that it emanated from the bowels of the Shadow side of the U.S. Government.
Friday, November 19, 2010 Why Haitians Don't Like UN "Peacekeepers" (UN MINUSTAH) in their Country: Video Testimonies (1 comments)
There is a common misconception among a great many people in the world that the UN military presence is benign, selfless and humanitarian, but in reality MINUSTAH was sent in to "stabilize" the Haitian people shortly after a coup d'etat against popular and progressive President Bertrand Aristide in 2004 that Aristide says the US abetted. In otherwords, the defacto UN Mission was to solidify a Right-wing coup d'etat!
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 The Face of Cholera in Mirebalais, Haiti, a Photo-Essay by Leah Millis (2 comments)
Haiti is in the throes of another crisis, the horrors of a growing cholera epidemic that much of the world seems oh so blase about, if not downright condescending, some cynics invoking sordid Malthusian theories or even subtle eugenics. But funny how the universe responds in kind sometimes, as a young photographer, Leah Millis, puts a human face right before your eyes to challenge your own humanity, or lack thereof.
Sunday, October 17, 2010 Eyewitnesses to BP's Handiwork Who Won't Stay Silent (3 comments)
Check out these eyewitness videos and podcasts from real, everyday citizens from the Gulf Coast, not advertisers, government zombies hoodooed by BP Voodoo, or Amity-style mayors (from the movie Jaws, remember) who will feed you to the sharks to make tourist bucks. Their stories are riveting and painful.
Sunday, October 10, 2010 Photo-Essay: Haiti After the Earthquake, Part 14: Not Your Hollywood Movie Bel Air
Follow us to Bel Air, Haiti that is. It was the most heavily damaged area of Port-au-Prince after the earthquake. And it had been "red-zoned" by the authorities in the past for too much "violence". Or was that insurrection against the power structure that overthrew President Bertrand Aristide? You never know for sure in Haiti because authorities skew semantics to suit their purposes.
Sunday, October 3, 2010 VIDEO: At the Lincoln Memorial: The One Nation Working Together Rally on 10-2-10, Washington DC (7 comments)
With a 187 or so photos, two video segments, one of them of Harry Belafonte, and the excerpts from four other speeches, I have put together a ten minute audio/photo montage for you of the October 2nd, 2010, One Nation Working Together Rally in the shade of the Lincoln Monument on the National Mall. Enjoy!
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 Still Hidden in the Bayous: BP Does Ocean Springs, Mississippi. (4 comments)
The jaded powers-that-be who are interested only in the bottom line and covering their own rears in the ongoing BP disaster in and along the Gulf of Mexico depend upon the remoteness of the bayous and marshes from the public eye to maintain the fiction and myth that everything is suddenly OK in the Gulf. But they hadn't counted on everyday people like Lorrie Williams and many others exposing the awful truth.
