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Friday, November 6, 2009
Abstraction Without Boundaries, by Donald Kuspit
Frank Stella is an old (20th century) master of abstract art, Martha Russo is a new (21st century) master of abstract art, but they both have something in common: the belief that an abstract work of art has no limits -- that its forms spill and spread into the environment, suggesting its inner abstract character.

Thursday, November 5, 2009
Shut Down This Murderous Racket: Change We Need and Crave
(1 comments) Al Capone is awake in his grave in awe at the criminal racket promulgated by the health care industry: a murderous multi-billion dollar industry that keeps the world's Superpower in the sociological Stone Age.

Thursday, October 22, 2009
Three-Tier Race-Based Wage Scales in Manhattan, by Glen Ford
Racial apartheid has reared its head in New York City's construction industry. State Attorney general Andrew Cuomo has charged a major Manhattan contractor with creating a three-tiered wage scale, with Irish construction workers on top, African Americans a distant second and Latinos at the bottom.

Friday, October 9, 2009
Why Are We in Afghanistan, by Ron Jacobs
If changing the situation in Pakistan is a dominant reason for the current debate over mission and troop numbers in Afghanistan, and the battle in Afghanistan is considered just part of that equation, then there is little doubt that US troops will remain in that country for the foreseeable future.

Monday, September 21, 2009
Our Gigantic Illusion, by Doug Page
Even when presented with facts that challenge our gigantic delusion, being frightened, hypnotized, addicted, and brainwashed, we reject them. The irony is that the delusion is so grandiose that one like me who challenges it runs the risk of seeming to be a grandiose, crazy individual.

Monday, September 14, 2009
Even More Relevant Now Than in 2007?
(1 comments) Linda Milazzo's headline this morning reminds me of the fact that the Iraq Veterans Against the War have been getting arrested at demonstrations against America's wars of aggression in Asia for a long, long time. I've been contributing to IVAW since the summer of 2007.

Saturday, September 12, 2009
Commies in The Art World!!, by Ben Davis
(3 comments) The great Glenn Beck has done it again, electrifying the art world with his criticism. Beck, who channels an end-of-days televangelist from his Fox News perch, has lately been all about exposing the sinister underbelly of contemporary art, taking on the National Endowment of the Arts for spreading San Francisco Values in its recent round of emergency funding.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009
A New Horizon for the News, by Michael Massing
When it comes to mismanagement"the newspaper business seems in a class with Detroit. Unlike GM, though, newspapers offer a product that consumers still value. In April, The Christian Science Monitor became the first nationally circulated newspaper to end its daily print edition and concentrate on the Web.

Thursday, September 3, 2009
Is Universal Health Care "Un-American?" by Rev. Jim Rigby
If an infant is born to poor parents, would we be more ethical to give medicine to that child so he or she does not die prematurely of preventable diseases, or would we be more ethical if we let the child die screaming in his or her parent's arms so we can keep more of our money?

Sunday, August 30, 2009
GLloyd Rowsey Presents: A Link to Astounding Pictures of an Uncontrolled Fire
(5 comments) The Station Fire is above Pasadena, California, and it still raging out of control. This link presents pictures taken by persons very close to the action. Enjoy, enjoy.

Friday, August 28, 2009
Sausalito Native Wins Open-Wheel Racing Event at Sears Point
JR Hildebrand posted his fourth win of the season on Sunday, taking the checkered flag in the Carneros 100 Firestone Indy Lights Series main event. Hildebrand (AFS/Andretti Green Racing) was followed by Felipe Guimaraes (Bryan Herta Autosport) and James Davison (People's Liberation).

Monday, April 27, 2009
Gallery of The Absurd Art Show: Twelve Parodies
(1 comments) "Illustrations that parody celebrity culture with all the subtlety of a mouthful of Red Hots" - Newsday

Tuesday, April 14, 2009
The Red Cross Torture Report: What It Means
(1 comments) An article in the New York Review of Books by Mark Danner.

Monday, April 13, 2009
Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea
(1 comments) Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) is perhaps the least well-known of the Impressionists, but he produced exhilarating paintings that plunge the eye into deep space as effectively as a zoom lens.

Friday, April 10, 2009
OUR TROOPS AND IRAQIS ARE STILL DYING
An Open Letter to the Peace/Anti-War Movement from Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, and Veterans For Peace

Friday, April 10, 2009
Why Steve Rosen is Suing AIPAC - The Samson Gambit
On March 2 former American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) foreign policy chief Steve Rosen filed a civil lawsuit in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

Thursday, April 9, 2009
Obama Leans Toward War With Iran Option
(4 comments) President Obama sent a near-declaration of war to Iran, all wrapped up in greetings for the Iranian New Year.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Guns: Credit Where Credit Is Doo Doo
In March an Alabama gunner killed eleven. Last Christmas Eve in Los Angeles a lunatic dressed as Santa shot nine people and himself to death. The April 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech, in which 33 people died, still holds the modern record. We can only hope no one will try to break it.

Monday, April 6, 2009
GET PACKIN' ! !
(3 comments) Ban to travel on Cuba may be lifted.

Monday, April 6, 2009
Artnet's online Magazine
(1 comments) This magazine is renewed every day, and you can click on any of the previous seven days, inside the Quick Link. I intend to submit this Quick Link every seven days, most likely on Mondays. Check back each week for news of the art world, covering the previous week.

Friday, April 3, 2009
Israel's Barbarity
(10 comments) Israelis are not inherently worse than other human beings. They behave as they do because they never pay a price for their actions. The American people have paid and will continue to pay the price as targets of hatred and even of terror because their government has made them complicit in Israel's crimes.

Friday, April 3, 2009
Tails of Manhattan, by Woody Allen
(4 comments) Two weeks ago, Abe Moscowitz dropped dead of a heart attack and was reincarnated as a lobster.

Monday, March 30, 2009
DE-FANGING THE PEACE MOVEMENT
This weekend's pitifully small peace demonstration in the nation's capitol reveals a demobilized U.S. Left mired in such timidity and delusion, activists fear to mention Barack Obama's name when denouncing the wars he so aggressively prosecutes. "The new president, who makes no secret of his intention to continue the previous administration's war of terror, escaped serious scrutiny and the condemnation he deserves.

Saturday, March 28, 2009
Barack Obama: Hypocrite
(4 comments) When it comes to health care, Barack Obama is a hater, and a dishonest one at that.

Thursday, March 26, 2009
US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites, by Mark Danner
ICRC Report on the Treatment of Fourteen "High Value Detainees" in CIA Custody by the International Committee of the Red Cross 43 pp., February 2007

Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Among Republicans, Who's The Man? Limbaugh or Steele?
(1 comments) While Democrats stirred the pot "like kids egging on a schoolyard fight," premier right-wing radio propagandist Rush Limbaugh and Michael Steele, the Black chairman of the Republican Party, duked it out over who was the "real" voice of the GOP.

Monday, March 23, 2009
Alice Miller, by Arthur Silber
(3 comments) Arthur Silber has been called the Tom Paine of our times. But his truly deep analyses of Alice Miller's works on child mistreatment and its consequent deformation of character first drew me into his writings, totally. Get ready to be overwhelmed.

Saturday, March 21, 2009
Boycotting Israel: On the Question of One-Sided Boycotts.
By Naomi Klein on 01.21.2009.

Friday, March 20, 2009
So President Obama Is Finally Pissed Off? So What?
(1 comments) The President's public display of anger at AIG is a cover for well-deserved political embarrassment. He and his bankster advisors have dedicated trillions to rescuing the criminal corporations of Wall Street from the consequences of their actions. He acts disappointed that they're still gangsters.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Freedom Rider: White Christian Terrorists With Nuclear Materials Ignored?
(1 comments) by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

Monday, March 16, 2009
America's Search for the "Good Taliban"
(1 comments) Ahhhhh. Remember America's search for the "Good South Vietnamese"? Since that's been continuing all over the world since 1947, and still continues, Marx might say it's only a tragedy.

Monday, March 16, 2009
Who Would Jesus Bomb?
(2 comments) If there was one thing that turned me against the war it was my faith in God.

Sunday, March 15, 2009
The Economic N-Word: What It Means, And What It Doesn't
Corporatists of all kinds are now mouthing the dreaded N-Word - "nationalization" of banks. But they're only talking about a temporary situation, "designed to bring the banking class back from the dead - to temporarily dismember some zombie banks so that most of their body parts can be resurrected, to rule the Earth, once again."

Thursday, March 12, 2009
The Republican Party is Always the Party of the Evil Doers
(4 comments) When they aren't stealing from the public trough to enrich the already rich, they are stealing elections or subverting the Constitution in order to steal our civil liberties.

Saturday, March 7, 2009
"68" by Paco Ignacio Taibo
(2 comments) A Book Review by Chellis Glendinning.

Friday, March 6, 2009
Africom's Covert War in Sudan, by Keith Harmon Snow
(1 comments) Posted by GLoyd Rowsey

Thursday, March 5, 2009
Last Rites for the United States, and for Himself
A book review by Walter C. Uhler

Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Women in Prison: Where Do We Draw the Line?
(1 comments) Nancy Lockhart is a Legal Analyst and community organizer, living in South Carolina. She has worked tirelessly - for no pay - on the case of two Black females illegally charged and sentenced to double life. She can be reached at: TheWrongfulConviction (at) gmail.com.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009
The Special Danger from Obamamania
(2 comments) Obamamania is rampant among Obama voters. By this I mean a continuing almost-religious faith that President Obama will give us what we need despite all of the accumulating factual evidence to the contrary. I know of no "mania" that has ever served mankind well, and there is a special danger inherent in Obamamania.

Monday, March 2, 2009
Professing Peace, Raining Death
(7 comments) It is time for the international community to take serious note of what Israel is doing and take effective measures to not only stop such massacres as occurred in Gaza, but put an end to the 40 plus years of occupation of Palestinian territories by Israel.

Saturday, February 28, 2009
Are Palestinians Allowed to Resist? - Part II
(1 comments) For Part I, see: www dissidentvoice org /2009/02/ are-palestinians- allowed-to- resist-2/

Thursday, February 26, 2009
Ah, Those Bush Boys Will Be Boys
Descendants of Geronimo are suing Skull and Bones, Yale's secret society connected with the CIA and other state organizations, for the return of his skull. It was stolen, apparently, by the criminal Prescott Bush, father of the criminal George H.W. Bush, and grandfather of the criminal George W. Bush.

Thursday, February 26, 2009
Are Palestinians Allowed to Resist?
The issue of Palestinian resistance, in terms of its permissibility and types, is a highly inflammatory question for most Western observers.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009
A REAL BUMMER
(1 comments) Measuring carbon dioxide levels from space is important for humans living on earth. And this NASA mission deserves everyone's support, the military's subversion of NASA's other missions notwithstanding.

Saturday, February 21, 2009
Fruit Flies Sick From Mating
Mating can be exhausting. When fruit flies mate, the females' genes are activated to roughly the same extent as when an immune reaction starts. This is shown in a study at Uppsala University that is now appearing in the scientific publication Journal of Evolutionary Biology.

Saturday, February 21, 2009
Prescott Bush Stole Geronomio's Skull for Yale's Skull and Bones?
(5 comments) This just in from the New York Times.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Why Is This Still Timely?
Howard Dean for Secretary of HHS.

Monday, February 16, 2009
The Progressive Magazine Turns 100
(1 comments) A Big Celebration is Planned for May 1-2 in Madison, WI

Sunday, February 15, 2009
What Freedom of Expression?
Javed Iqbal to be Sentenced in New York for Letting Customers Get Station Run by Hezbollah

Saturday, February 14, 2009
As It Was Before Gaza, And Still Is.
(2 comments) The years since 9/11 have been particularly confusing for policy intellectuals. 'America's dominance,' Fareed Zakaria, the former managing editor of Foreign Affairs, asserted in the New Yorker in 2003, 'now seems self-evident.' Reprinting large parts of this article in his new book, The Post-American World, Zakaria adds: 'That was then. America remains the global superpower today, but it is an enfeebled one.'

Thursday, February 12, 2009
In Honor of Chuck's Birthday...
Did Burst of Gene Duplication Set Stage For Human Evolution?

Sunday, February 8, 2009
To America, about Israel: Boycott, Sanction, and Divest
(1 comments) This Naomi Klein article appeared last month.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009
45th and 46th Mersenne Primes Found
(1 comments) .

Friday, January 30, 2009
Dinosaur Fossils Fit Perfectly Into The Evolutionary Tree of Life, Study Finds
ScienceDaily (Jan. 30, 2009) - A recent study by researchers at the University of Bath and London's Natural History Museum has found that scientists' knowledge of the evolution of dinosaurs is remarkably complete.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009
John Updike Dead of Lung Cancer
He wrote graceful prose, and poetry, and his New Yorker piece dated October 22, 1960, about Ted Williams' last home run is a classic.

Friday, January 23, 2009
Obama to Reverse Abortion Policy
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Sunday, January 18, 2009
Eyeless in Gaza
Roger Cohen (submitted by GLloyd Rowsey)

Saturday, January 10, 2009
U.N. wants to know if war crimes were committed in Gaza
The U.N. high commissioner for human rights Friday called for an investigation of possible Israeli war crimes in Gaza as local residents told more gruesome tales about Israeli troops neglecting wounded civilians and the killing of unarmed Palestinians.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009
What to Do About the Torturers?
"The next administration or the next Congress should at a minimum appoint an independent, bipartisan, blue-ribbon commission to investigate and assess responsibility for the United States' adoption of coercive interrogation policies."

Thursday, January 1, 2009
Grape-seed Extract Kills Laboratory Leukemia Cells, Proving Value Of Natural Compounds
(2 comments) ScienceDaily (Jan. 1, 2009) - An extract from grape seeds forces laboratory leukemia cells to commit cell suicide, according to researchers from the University of Kentucky. They found that within 24 hours, 76 percent of leukemia cells had died after being exposed to the extract.

Monday, December 29, 2008
Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption
(2 comments) Recently Senator Charles Grassley, ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, has been looking into financial ties between the pharmaceutical industry and the academic physicians who largely determine the market value of prescription drugs. He hasn't had to look very hard.

Saturday, December 27, 2008
Genetic Diseases More Complicated: Mechanism Underlying Alternative Splicing Of Premessenger RNA Into Messenger RNA Disc
(1 comments) ScienceDaily (Dec. 26, 2008) - An international research team led by Tim Nilsen, Ph.D., a professor of medicine and biochemistry and the director of Case Western Reserve's School of Medicine's Center for RNA Molecular Biology, has discovered an unexpected mechanism governing alternative splicing, the process by which single genes produce different proteins in different situations.

Thursday, December 25, 2008
From The Monthly Review Foundation
This publication represents the thinking of many of our readers. And I hope this piece doesn't seem untimely. MRF's software evidently precludes OEN from linking to their articles.

Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Chocolate, Wine And Tea Improve Brain Performance
(5 comments) ScienceDaily (Dec. 24, 2008) - All that chocolate might actually help finish the bumper Christmas crossword over the seasonal period. According to Oxford researchers working with colleagues in Norway, chocolate, wine and tea enhance cognitive performance.

Sunday, December 21, 2008
IMF Urges spending to spur growth
More spending by governments will be needed to stimulate worldwide economic growth, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has told the BBC.

Saturday, December 20, 2008
Obama's Unprogressive Foreign Policies
(1 comments) The piece says it all.

Saturday, December 20, 2008
The Truth about Genocide in Rwanda and Congo – From Keith Harmon Snow
(1 comments) The International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda has determined that there was no conspiracy to commit genocide by the leading officials of the former Rwandan government. And the planned genocide that occurred in Rwanda was committed by the Paul Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Army. On December 16, former Clinton Official Herman Cohen acknowledged in the New York Times that the RPA committed genocide against the Hutus in the Congo.

Sunday, December 14, 2008
Obama and the Middle East Oil War
Briefing the President-Elect.

Saturday, December 13, 2008
Unspeakable Narrative: Review of William A. Cook's Tracking Deception
(1 comments) by Edward Jayne, on December 12, 2008. A book for those who dare to think that Israel's behavior vis-a-vis the Palestinians is "insane".

Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Blagojevich scandal will test Obama
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Monday, December 8, 2008
Obama: In the Irony-Free Zone
(1 comments) Joan Didion and Darryl Pinckney. Need I say more?

Saturday, December 6, 2008
Merchants of Death: Exposing Corporate-Financed holocaust in Africa
(6 comments) If you're confused by or tired of reading the propaganda and misinformation in The New York Times about the wars, genocide, and looting of natural resources in East and Central Africaby Western corporations --while being abetted by corrupt African governments and "media" such as the Times and BBC and Western governments-- read brilliant investigative reporter Keith Harmon Snow's expose.

Sunday, November 23, 2008
What It Looks Like Here Is We Got a President Elect Who Doesn't Listen to People...
Just like President George Bush. And we can only hope that, unlike George Bush, he doesn't listen for the right reasons.

Friday, November 21, 2008
Frozen Scandal - You Can't Go Wrong with Mark Danner in the NYR
Scandal is our growth industry. Revelation of wrongdoing leads not to definitive investigation, punishment, and expiation but to more scandal.

Friday, October 31, 2008
OLD NEWS IN THE BIG RED STATE??
As of October 22, this story could only be found in the Chicago Tribune.

Sunday, October 26, 2008
Obama: The Price of Being Black
This is an excellent analysis, and although its Part 1 describes "legalities" uncorrectable only in the long-run, I found Part 1 especially succinct and interesting.