Rowan Wolf

                 

Rowan Wolf is an activist and sociologist living in Oregon. She is the founder and principle author of Uncommon Thought Journal, and a Senior Editor for Cyrano's Journal Online with her own page being CJO's Avenger.

www/uncommonthought.com/mtblog/

OpEdNews Member for 57 week(s) and 1 day(s)

56 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 78 Comments, 2 Diaries, 0 Polls

56 Articles

Sunday, June 29, 2008
Tired of Being Lied To
(15 comments) A rant on admitted and unadmitted lies of government and society

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon Wed
(3 comments) Victory for long time activists Lyon and Martin.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008
API: Greenwashing Again or Pure Propaganda?
(2 comments) The American Petroleum Institute is at it again with deceptive advertising framed as information.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
How to Grow Tragedies - Myanmar
(2 comments) Cyclone Nargis and more victims of a fragile global system.

Sunday, May 4, 2008
Cheney Pushes the Boundaries - Again
(5 comments) Cheney argues Congress has no authority over the Vice President.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Thank You ILWU!
(5 comments) ILWU plans May Day stoppage to call for an end to the Iraq occupation.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Defense Department is a Leaky Bucket
No controls, no real oversight, and the DOD weapons programs are $295 BILLION over budget.

Monday, April 7, 2008
Recipe for Catastrophe: Climate, Fuel, and Food
(8 comments) We are heading towards a global-wide starvation event.

Monday, March 31, 2008
Global Warming Still Accelerating
(8 comments) I am tired of deception and comforting lies.

Thursday, March 20, 2008
Economic Meltdown and Crony Capitalism
(1 comments) Bear Stearns, JP Morgan and us.

Monday, March 3, 2008
Bombing Somalia
(3 comments) Not a way to make friends and (positively) influence people.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Keeping an Eye on Turkey
(1 comments) Turkey/Iraq/India - a convoluted version of oil and U.S. interests?

Monday, February 25, 2008
Economy Anyone?
(5 comments) The economic "disturbance" is well past "risky" loans.

Saturday, February 9, 2008
Back to the Israeli Bombing of Syria
(2 comments) Iran is NOT off the table.

Monday, February 4, 2008
The Big News NOT in the U.S. News
(1 comments) Establishing a Taliban "defense" force?

Sunday, February 3, 2008
Three Left Standing
(6 comments) The corporate media subverts democracy ... again.

Sunday, February 3, 2008
Who Wins, Oil or Arctic? It is up to you.
Action needed now to protect our interests - not oil interests.

Saturday, January 19, 2008
The Great Coming Together and the Phantasm of Democracy
(2 comments) The Democratic "race" is an excellent example of shaping public opinion.

Monday, January 14, 2008
BushCo Still Wants to Attack Iran - Weapons Industry Cheers
(1 comments) Huge profits are to be made with continued unrest in the Middle East.

Sunday, January 6, 2008
Cloned Meat (dairy and eggs?) Likely Coming Soon
(4 comments) Corporate interests over public interests - again

Saturday, January 5, 2008
Oil Increases Hit More than Gasoline Prices
(2 comments) It's food not oil we should be watching.

Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Ron Paul: Not a Good Choice
(36 comments) Though a man of principle, Ron Paul is a conservative libertarian.

Friday, December 28, 2007
Going Digital: Who Wins, Who Loses?
(1 comments) Digital and big media hype. It's about money and control.

Thursday, December 27, 2007
Bhutto - a "liberal" - assassinated
(2 comments) Bhutto's assassination means even more chaos for Pakistan.

Sunday, December 16, 2007
Stop Something! Start Something!
(2 comments) The Democratic Leadership Council does not represent us.

Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Spare Me the "Shock" About Credit Card Rates
(4 comments) The current hearings and reporting don't tell the full story.

Saturday, December 1, 2007
Iraqi Returnees: Surge success, failure, problem?
(3 comments) The story of Iraqi refugees has spun itself into the ground moving from surge success to potential surge failure.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Out of Iraq? Outlook Dim.
(1 comments) Bush makes tentative deal with al-Maliki for "enduring" presence.

Sunday, November 25, 2007
The "War," Contractors, and Civilian Deaths
(1 comments) Discussing the deaths in Baghlan, Afghanistan due to "security force" firing into a crowd of children.

Friday, November 23, 2007
Is Impeachment Still Off the Table Pelosi?
(11 comments) Was Plame about Wilson or removing prying eyes?

Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Growing Obfuscation of the Bombing of Syria
(3 comments) The word is that the Syria bombing was part of a conflict between Rice and Cheney.

Sunday, November 18, 2007
Pakistan Struggles Instructive and Frightening
(1 comments) Pakistan emergency and suppression.

Sunday, October 21, 2007
Mercs in a Corporate World
(1 comments) Military contractors are a monster that is growing at a prodigious rate.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007
The Coup Started Before September 11, 2001
(1 comments) Illegal surveillance started shortly after Bush entered office. So much for "national security."

Sunday, October 14, 2007
"TOPOFF 4" and Vigilant Shield: October 15-19
(3 comments) Dirty bomb exercises involving three cities and NORTHCOM. Preparing for disaster, or ?

Thursday, October 4, 2007
Burma: The Back Story
(2 comments) The state of Burma is due to more than a brutal junta. It includes, the IMF, World Bank, corporate and international players, and more.

Saturday, September 29, 2007
Fed Up With Cowardice and Duplicity
(7 comments) I am tired of our representatives voting against our best interests.

Sunday, September 16, 2007
Very Bloody Oil
(2 comments) Greenspan joins Iraq for oil claims believers and 1.2 million Iraqi's are dead as a consequence,

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
So-called Military Contractors Lean More Towards 'Military' than 'Contractor'
(2 comments) Military contractors arming for war with fighter planes ... and more.

Friday, August 24, 2007
What To Do With an Administration that Refuses To Follow the Law?
(18 comments) We have a rogue administration and representatives unwilling to accept their responsibility.

Sunday, August 19, 2007
Transfer of Military Tech To Police. Welcome to the Police State.
(4 comments) Police get use of spy satellites, and Talon weapons platform.

Saturday, August 11, 2007
Emerging Conflict Over the Arctic
(4 comments) Melting ice and the search for oil.

Friday, August 10, 2007
China Barks Back
(1 comments) With stocks tumbling, it would be an opportune time for China to sell off dollars.

Sunday, July 29, 2007
Friend or Foe Business Is Business
(5 comments) Saudi Arabia - does business supercede all considerations?

Saturday, July 28, 2007
Leaning Towards Cover Up
(1 comments) Is the White House obstruction of the investigation into the U.S. Attorney firings covering massive election fraud?

Thursday, July 26, 2007
Refusal to Testify - Hubris or Cover-up?
(2 comments) Do we have a dictatorship or a democracy? That is what is at stake with the hearings on the dismissed attorneys.

Sunday, July 22, 2007
Will Someone Be Our Friend In Iraq?
(2 comments) "Friends" become enemies, while the U.S. tries to make "enemies" friends while the generals call for even more troops, and the Administration asks for a free hand. What is wrong with this picture?

Friday, June 29, 2007
Race(ing) Backwards With Boost From SCOTUS
(2 comments) Discussion of faulty premises of the Supreme Court's decision on school integration.

Saturday, June 23, 2007
Release of 1973 CIA Investigation - A Strategic Move?
(6 comments) Why the new "openness" with the release of 1973 CIA investigation? Why is the government of France banning BlackBerrys?

Sunday, June 17, 2007
They Knew. Lies to Cover a Rogue Administration
(6 comments) General Taguba speaks to Seymour Hersch and a hanging issue may bite back

Thursday, June 14, 2007
Immigrant Crackdown - In Whose Interest?
ICE raid in Portland "nets" 167 undocumented workers. Whose interests are really being served?

Monday, June 11, 2007
Light on the Hill to Eye of Sauron
(1 comments) Extraordinary rendition on trial in Italy, while there is an argument about whether to reinstate habeas corpus. Welcome to the evil empire.

Friday, June 8, 2007
Gas Prices Could Go Up - Way Up
Gas supply could be dramatically impacted by Cyclone Gonu. GOnu is hitting Oman and heading into the Gulf of Oman - a virtually unprecedented event.

Thursday, June 7, 2007
GI (Government Issue) Goes to A New Level
(3 comments) The Pentagon has a three year plan to wire super binoculars into "warfighters" brains. Will the DoD really let modified soldiers out of the military?

Monday, June 4, 2007
Just Say 'No!' to Coal
(3 comments)

Sunday, June 3, 2007
The Growing Economic Divide
(6 comments) Wall Street soars while we crash. The article examines the schizophrenic reporting on the health of the U.S. economy.

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