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elected to five terms (served 20 years) as side judge (sitting in Superior, Family, and Small Claims Courts);
public radio producer, "The Panther Program" -- nationally distributed, three albums (at CD Baby), some runner-up awards;
reporter and columnist (Rutland Herald, Valley News, Vermont Standard, others);
teacher at Woodstock Country School, for which I was commissioned to write the history, "Institutional Denial";
TV writer ("That Was The Week That Was," "Captain Kangaroo," others).
Guiding principle: "nobody really knows anything."
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Monday, October 22, 2012
Nuclear Perceptions Fight Reality Internet scare stories about Fukushima distract from serious continuing nuclear accident.
Monday, October 22, 2012Nuclear Perceptions Fight Reality Internet scare stories about Fukushima distract from serious continuing nuclear accident.
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Thursday, July 11, 2013
Fukushima Spiking All of a Sudden By official measurement, the water coming out of Fukushima is currently 90,000 times more radioactive than officially "safe" drinking water.
Series: Fukushima & nuke world (6 Articles, 127690 views)
Thursday, July 11, 2013Fukushima Spiking All of a Sudden By official measurement, the water coming out of Fukushima is currently 90,000 times more radioactive than officially "safe" drinking water.
Series: Fukushima & nuke world (6 Articles, 127690 views)
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Saturday, January 4, 2014
Fukushima Meltdowns: Global Denial At Work If there is any government or non-government authority in the world that is addressing the disaster at Fukushima openly, directly, honestly, and effectively, it’s not apparent to the outside observer what entity that might be.
Series: Fukushima & nuke world (6 Articles, 127690 views)
Saturday, January 4, 2014Fukushima Meltdowns: Global Denial At Work If there is any government or non-government authority in the world that is addressing the disaster at Fukushima openly, directly, honestly, and effectively, it’s not apparent to the outside observer what entity that might be.
Series: Fukushima & nuke world (6 Articles, 127690 views)
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
Vermont Asks: "What the Fukushima"? Resistance to Vermont Yankee nuclear power continues as Yankee starts trucking rad-waste to Texas.
Thursday, October 11, 2012Vermont Asks: "What the Fukushima"? Resistance to Vermont Yankee nuclear power continues as Yankee starts trucking rad-waste to Texas.
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Friday, January 11, 2013
Military-Industrial Complex Owns Vermont Vermont officials stonewall Vermonters challenging F-35 boondoggle, health threat.
Friday, January 11, 2013Military-Industrial Complex Owns Vermont Vermont officials stonewall Vermonters challenging F-35 boondoggle, health threat.
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Monday, February 25, 2013
Accountability in Vermont? F-35 advocates say F-35 is harmless. So opponents say: then you won't mind promising to compenste anyone hurt, just in case?
Monday, February 25, 2013Accountability in Vermont? F-35 advocates say F-35 is harmless. So opponents say: then you won't mind promising to compenste anyone hurt, just in case?
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
U.S. to America: Be Afraid! The North Koreans Are Coming! The North Koreans Are Coming!
Wednesday, April 10, 2013U.S. to America: Be Afraid! The North Koreans Are Coming! The North Koreans Are Coming!
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Tea Party Welfare Queens Cry IRS Foul IRS "scandal" derives from two Supreme Court decisions that gave money more constitutional importance than individual speech.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013Tea Party Welfare Queens Cry IRS Foul IRS "scandal" derives from two Supreme Court decisions that gave money more constitutional importance than individual speech.
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Character and Rape in Ohio The case of the widely-reported football-player gang rape in Steubenville, Ohio, reaches into many parts of a troubled community.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013Character and Rape in Ohio The case of the widely-reported football-player gang rape in Steubenville, Ohio, reaches into many parts of a troubled community.
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Sunday, February 2, 2014
Progressive Kristallnacht Coming? Wall Street Journal says be afraid When the rich see their enemies everywhere, when the rich see their enemies as lethal, when the rich see the underclasses as Nazis, are they imagining a Poormacht?
Sunday, February 2, 2014Progressive Kristallnacht Coming? Wall Street Journal says be afraid When the rich see their enemies everywhere, when the rich see their enemies as lethal, when the rich see the underclasses as Nazis, are they imagining a Poormacht?
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Ukraine Folly If too many people get sucked in by the current, distorted media coverage of events unfolding now in Ukraine, then there’s a good chance life will get very ugly for a lot of innocent people, since one of the logical end points is the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone in power knows that’s a potential reality, but the urge to demagogue the Russians is presently overwhelming honesty and caution.
Wednesday, March 5, 2014Ukraine Folly If too many people get sucked in by the current, distorted media coverage of events unfolding now in Ukraine, then there’s a good chance life will get very ugly for a lot of innocent people, since one of the logical end points is the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone in power knows that’s a potential reality, but the urge to demagogue the Russians is presently overwhelming honesty and caution.
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Thursday, March 14, 2013
Foggy Bottom Shuck and Jive Climate Change won't hurt pipeline, State Dept says, bringing great relief to oil industry....
Thursday, March 14, 2013Foggy Bottom Shuck and Jive Climate Change won't hurt pipeline, State Dept says, bringing great relief to oil industry....
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Thursday, April 10, 2014
Obama Praises Iraq War Barack Obama at an anti-war rally in Chicago on October 2, 2002, when he was still an Illinois state senator – told the gathering that he favored going after al Qaeda in Afghanistan, but opposed going to war to remove Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Reading that 2002 speech more than eleven years later creates some dissonance: what happened to that guy who was challenging President Bush to finish the fight with bin Laden...
Thursday, April 10, 2014Obama Praises Iraq War Barack Obama at an anti-war rally in Chicago on October 2, 2002, when he was still an Illinois state senator – told the gathering that he favored going after al Qaeda in Afghanistan, but opposed going to war to remove Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Reading that 2002 speech more than eleven years later creates some dissonance: what happened to that guy who was challenging President Bush to finish the fight with bin Laden...
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Monday, November 12, 2012
What Do Americans Care About Most? White House petition site provides unscientific measure of what Americans care about, and it's not war or peace.
Monday, November 12, 2012What Do Americans Care About Most? White House petition site provides unscientific measure of what Americans care about, and it's not war or peace.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Fact-Averse News Media in Vermont When it comes to straight reporting on a military weapons system or the chamber of commerce, Vermont media pretty much avoid distracting or uncomfortable facts.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012Fact-Averse News Media in Vermont When it comes to straight reporting on a military weapons system or the chamber of commerce, Vermont media pretty much avoid distracting or uncomfortable facts.
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Saturday, December 1, 2012
Air Force Stonewalls F-35 Defects Air Force, Pentagon, Vermont "leaders -- lacking honest or credible answers -- continue to push F-35 stealth bomber through stealth campaign that casts Vermonters as the enemy.
Saturday, December 1, 2012Air Force Stonewalls F-35 Defects Air Force, Pentagon, Vermont "leaders -- lacking honest or credible answers -- continue to push F-35 stealth bomber through stealth campaign that casts Vermonters as the enemy.
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Sunday, June 24, 2018
Trump Isn't The Problem, He's the Manifestation of America's Id We are now officially "a nation that tears children from their parents and puts them in cages." We are also a nation that took years to notice our official brutality to immigrants, especially asylum seekers, and most especially those seeking asylum from brutal dictatorships we nurture and support.
Sunday, June 24, 2018Trump Isn't The Problem, He's the Manifestation of America's Id We are now officially "a nation that tears children from their parents and puts them in cages." We are also a nation that took years to notice our official brutality to immigrants, especially asylum seekers, and most especially those seeking asylum from brutal dictatorships we nurture and support.
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Sunday, February 3, 2013
Clothes with Radioactive Zippers? US Department of Energy initiates plan to increase radiation exposure for all Americans.
Sunday, February 3, 2013Clothes with Radioactive Zippers? US Department of Energy initiates plan to increase radiation exposure for all Americans.
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Monday, March 4, 2013
Who Wants War on Iran? Calls for an attack on Iran seem to be increasing -- yet again -- but the path to war does not eem to beckon -- yet?
Monday, March 4, 2013Who Wants War on Iran? Calls for an attack on Iran seem to be increasing -- yet again -- but the path to war does not eem to beckon -- yet?
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Saturday, November 17, 2012
Pentagon Pushes F-35 on Vermonters Vermonters are divided about the value of having their own nuclear-capable bomber base, while Vermont's elected leadership mostly shrugs off facts and consequences.
Saturday, November 17, 2012Pentagon Pushes F-35 on Vermonters Vermonters are divided about the value of having their own nuclear-capable bomber base, while Vermont's elected leadership mostly shrugs off facts and consequences.
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Thursday, January 3, 2013
Court: Evidence Doesn't Matter Ignoring the factual evidence and inventing its own reality, U.S. Appeals Court rules that First Amendment allows publisher to violate labor law.
Thursday, January 3, 2013Court: Evidence Doesn't Matter Ignoring the factual evidence and inventing its own reality, U.S. Appeals Court rules that First Amendment allows publisher to violate labor law.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Ukraine Smoke and Mirrors Just when the U.S. Defense Secretary was in Japan giving indications that the Ukraine “crisis†was over as far as the U.S. was concerned, Ukrainians of all sorts, other Washington officials, and even the Japanese government all pitch in to keep the “crisis†alive, at least as a threat meme.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014Ukraine Smoke and Mirrors Just when the U.S. Defense Secretary was in Japan giving indications that the Ukraine “crisis†was over as far as the U.S. was concerned, Ukrainians of all sorts, other Washington officials, and even the Japanese government all pitch in to keep the “crisis†alive, at least as a threat meme.
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Sunday, January 6, 2013
How to Get a Judicial Reprimand California judge reprimanded for offensive remarks about a rape victim.
Sunday, January 6, 2013How to Get a Judicial Reprimand California judge reprimanded for offensive remarks about a rape victim.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Keeping Obama Off Vermont Ballot? Former Republican Senate candidate sues State of Vermont to keep President Obama off November ballot. Time running out.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012Keeping Obama Off Vermont Ballot? Former Republican Senate candidate sues State of Vermont to keep President Obama off November ballot. Time running out.
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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Terror in the Mirror American terrorism -- how's that working out for us?
Saturday, April 27, 2013Terror in the Mirror American terrorism -- how's that working out for us?
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Monday, November 5, 2012
Race Baiting and Other Scams in Texas When the right wing echo chamber starts resonating a lie, it takes a long time for the truth to catch up.
Monday, November 5, 2012Race Baiting and Other Scams in Texas When the right wing echo chamber starts resonating a lie, it takes a long time for the truth to catch up.
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Sunday, July 6, 2014
WIPP Still Leaks Environmental radiation releases spiked again in mid-June around the surface site of the only U.S. underground, nuclear weapons waste storage facility near Carlsbad, New Mexico. The facility, the Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP), has been shut down since February 14, when its isolation technology failed, releasing unsafe levels of Plutonium, Americium, and other radio-nuclides into the environment around the site.
Sunday, July 6, 2014WIPP Still Leaks Environmental radiation releases spiked again in mid-June around the surface site of the only U.S. underground, nuclear weapons waste storage facility near Carlsbad, New Mexico. The facility, the Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP), has been shut down since February 14, when its isolation technology failed, releasing unsafe levels of Plutonium, Americium, and other radio-nuclides into the environment around the site.
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Sunday, March 30, 2014
Jingo Journalism: Remember the Maine!!! If American media seem filled these days with bellicose, jingoistic, uniform perspectives on a new Cold War, that’s probably because so many news outlets can’t seem to help themselves when it comes to framing new events in the tired terms of the last generation’s ingrained propaganda. At a time that needs fresh contemplation, even people like Amy Goodman on Democracy NOW are talking about....
Sunday, March 30, 2014Jingo Journalism: Remember the Maine!!! If American media seem filled these days with bellicose, jingoistic, uniform perspectives on a new Cold War, that’s probably because so many news outlets can’t seem to help themselves when it comes to framing new events in the tired terms of the last generation’s ingrained propaganda. At a time that needs fresh contemplation, even people like Amy Goodman on Democracy NOW are talking about....
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
The Petraeus Sideshow Questions of FBI surveillance or resignation with honor really seem beside the point when David Petraeus' worst behavior amounts to war crimes.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012The Petraeus Sideshow Questions of FBI surveillance or resignation with honor really seem beside the point when David Petraeus' worst behavior amounts to war crimes.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
What War Does to People Month-long occupation in front of Dept of Veterans Affaira in Washington goes unnoticed, and government won't talk to vets about their joblessness, homelessness, suicides, or anything else.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012What War Does to People Month-long occupation in front of Dept of Veterans Affaira in Washington goes unnoticed, and government won't talk to vets about their joblessness, homelessness, suicides, or anything else.
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Monday, May 6, 2013
Sandra Day O'Connor's Endless Strip Tease Like the Gypsy Rose Lee of Justices, O'Connor performs her version of "Let Me Entertain You" not in minutes, but years, dropping a veiled hint here, trailing an innuendo there, encouraging her audience to think she'll take it off, take it all off, without ever revealing much of anything.
Monday, May 6, 2013Sandra Day O'Connor's Endless Strip Tease Like the Gypsy Rose Lee of Justices, O'Connor performs her version of "Let Me Entertain You" not in minutes, but years, dropping a veiled hint here, trailing an innuendo there, encouraging her audience to think she'll take it off, take it all off, without ever revealing much of anything.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Romney Lies About Chrysler, GM When Mit Romney said Jeep was moving to China, Chrysler called it extravagant fantasy, so Romney said GM was moving jobs to China, too, and GM said Romney was practicing cynical politics in a parallel universe.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012Romney Lies About Chrysler, GM When Mit Romney said Jeep was moving to China, Chrysler called it extravagant fantasy, so Romney said GM was moving jobs to China, too, and GM said Romney was practicing cynical politics in a parallel universe.
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Friday, January 10, 2014
"Nuclear Savage" “Nuclear Savage†is a recent documentary that explores American nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands, 1946-1958, and particularly the secret Project 4.1: an American experiment in exposing Pacific Islanders to overdoses of radiation – deliberate human radiation poisoning – just to get better data on this method of maiming and killing people. Public broadcasting has kept this story off the air since 2011.
Series: Fukushima & nuke world (6 Articles, 127690 views), Injustice (5 Articles, 16119 views)
Friday, January 10, 2014"Nuclear Savage" “Nuclear Savage†is a recent documentary that explores American nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands, 1946-1958, and particularly the secret Project 4.1: an American experiment in exposing Pacific Islanders to overdoses of radiation – deliberate human radiation poisoning – just to get better data on this method of maiming and killing people. Public broadcasting has kept this story off the air since 2011.
Series: Fukushima & nuke world (6 Articles, 127690 views), Injustice (5 Articles, 16119 views)
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Saturday, April 19, 2014
Benghazi Mystery Explained!?! The latest explanation of “Benghazi†comes from a non-partisan reporter, so that’s a start, and it provides a credible framework for most of the anomalies associated with Benghazi. Even better, official spokes-people universally either refused to comment on the story, or denied it flatly. So there’s hope.
Saturday, April 19, 2014Benghazi Mystery Explained!?! The latest explanation of “Benghazi†comes from a non-partisan reporter, so that’s a start, and it provides a credible framework for most of the anomalies associated with Benghazi. Even better, official spokes-people universally either refused to comment on the story, or denied it flatly. So there’s hope.
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Monday, October 29, 2012
The Real Media Benghazi Cover-up Inside the Republican Benghazi Bubble, the attack in Libya is somehow "worse than Watergate" even though reality suggests other dimensions.
Monday, October 29, 2012The Real Media Benghazi Cover-up Inside the Republican Benghazi Bubble, the attack in Libya is somehow "worse than Watergate" even though reality suggests other dimensions.
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Monday, August 5, 2013
Talking About Police States Why is the national conversation on the American police state so limited?
Monday, August 5, 2013Talking About Police States Why is the national conversation on the American police state so limited?
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Friday, September 5, 2014
Fukushima Update, Now in Year 4 Nobody in the world knows how dispose of radioactive waste safely and permanently. That's a given. The Japanese central government is presumably aware that anything it does with still the unmeasured, but vast amount of radioactive waste from Fukushima's six nuclear power generators will be temporary. Leaving it in place is not an option. So Tokyo announced August 29 that the Fukushima waste would be stored...
Series: Fukushima & nuke world (6 Articles, 127690 views)
Friday, September 5, 2014Fukushima Update, Now in Year 4 Nobody in the world knows how dispose of radioactive waste safely and permanently. That's a given. The Japanese central government is presumably aware that anything it does with still the unmeasured, but vast amount of radioactive waste from Fukushima's six nuclear power generators will be temporary. Leaving it in place is not an option. So Tokyo announced August 29 that the Fukushima waste would be stored...
Series: Fukushima & nuke world (6 Articles, 127690 views)
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
Tortured Law in Texas Keystone XL pipeline marches through Texas, winning in court, not slowed by Blockade.
Saturday, September 29, 2012Tortured Law in Texas Keystone XL pipeline marches through Texas, winning in court, not slowed by Blockade.
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Sunday, December 9, 2012
Nuclear Weapons: Who Cares Any More? U.S. reports secret nuclear weapons test, American media ignore the news, only Japanese survivors and Iranian government complain, without much coverage either
Sunday, December 9, 2012Nuclear Weapons: Who Cares Any More? U.S. reports secret nuclear weapons test, American media ignore the news, only Japanese survivors and Iranian government complain, without much coverage either
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Sunday, November 25, 2012
Meet the Bi-Partisan Group of Senators Pressuring Obama to Speed Up Destruction of the Planet The White House is expected to decide whether Keystone XL can be built some time in the next month or so, and all it takes to proceed is a Presidential signature. For President Obama, this decision will be a clear signal defining his real priorities: stopping the rise of the oceans and healing the planet, as he campaigned, or settling for short term economic gains with unknown long term consequences.
Sunday, November 25, 2012Meet the Bi-Partisan Group of Senators Pressuring Obama to Speed Up Destruction of the Planet The White House is expected to decide whether Keystone XL can be built some time in the next month or so, and all it takes to proceed is a Presidential signature. For President Obama, this decision will be a clear signal defining his real priorities: stopping the rise of the oceans and healing the planet, as he campaigned, or settling for short term economic gains with unknown long term consequences.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Free Speech in Qatar: "You Can't Talk Everythings" Poetry Can Be Dangerous: Qatari Poet Gets L:ife in Prison for a short poem the state security apparatus in Qatar didn't like
Tuesday, December 11, 2012Free Speech in Qatar: "You Can't Talk Everythings" Poetry Can Be Dangerous: Qatari Poet Gets L:ife in Prison for a short poem the state security apparatus in Qatar didn't like
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Friday, November 9, 2012
Republicans Try to Suppress Facts Faced with more evidence that their economic theories are false, Republicans respond with suppression.
Friday, November 9, 2012Republicans Try to Suppress Facts Faced with more evidence that their economic theories are false, Republicans respond with suppression.
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Saturday, July 26, 2014
Who Shot Down MH17 over Ukraine? The same day that Israeli tanks crossed into Gaza, to continue killing civilians and the occasional Hamas fighter, MSNBC decided to ignore the Israeli invasion in favor of wall-to-wall coverage of the presumed shoot-down of Malaysian Airliner MH17 over eastern Ukraine. Why would MSNBC make a choice that looks so much like propaganda?
Saturday, July 26, 2014Who Shot Down MH17 over Ukraine? The same day that Israeli tanks crossed into Gaza, to continue killing civilians and the occasional Hamas fighter, MSNBC decided to ignore the Israeli invasion in favor of wall-to-wall coverage of the presumed shoot-down of Malaysian Airliner MH17 over eastern Ukraine. Why would MSNBC make a choice that looks so much like propaganda?
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Friday, March 21, 2014
Fuku-Crimea The real stakes here are tiny. Crimea is the size of Vermont taking a deep breath. Crimea is smaller than Haiti, Burundi, Equatorial Guinea, Albania, or the Solomon Islands, and commands about the same geopolitical attention in the real world. Crimea is larger than Rwanda, Macedonia, Belize, El Salvador, or Israel.
Friday, March 21, 2014Fuku-Crimea The real stakes here are tiny. Crimea is the size of Vermont taking a deep breath. Crimea is smaller than Haiti, Burundi, Equatorial Guinea, Albania, or the Solomon Islands, and commands about the same geopolitical attention in the real world. Crimea is larger than Rwanda, Macedonia, Belize, El Salvador, or Israel.
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
TransCanada Pipeline Protest in Fifth Week The tree-sitter blockade of the Keystone pipeline in East Texas slowly gains support despite near media blackout and TransCanada's pressures in court and on the ground.
Thursday, October 25, 2012TransCanada Pipeline Protest in Fifth Week The tree-sitter blockade of the Keystone pipeline in East Texas slowly gains support despite near media blackout and TransCanada's pressures in court and on the ground.
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Monday, November 26, 2012
34 American Fukushimas Possible Whistleblower says Nuclear Regulatory Commission broke law by suppressing staff report that points to danger of as many as 34 "American Fukushimas"
Monday, November 26, 201234 American Fukushimas Possible Whistleblower says Nuclear Regulatory Commission broke law by suppressing staff report that points to danger of as many as 34 "American Fukushimas"
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Sunday, May 11, 2014
Ukraine Crime Against Humanity Gets Ignored "39 anti-government activists have died in a fire at Odessa's Trade Unions House. Some burned to death, while others suffocated or jumped out of windows, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry reported. The building was set ablaze by pro-Kiev radicals."
Sunday, May 11, 2014Ukraine Crime Against Humanity Gets Ignored "39 anti-government activists have died in a fire at Odessa's Trade Unions House. Some burned to death, while others suffocated or jumped out of windows, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry reported. The building was set ablaze by pro-Kiev radicals."
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013
A Day of U.S. "Credibility" At Work Lacking a comprehensive, coherent account of rational beings acting in rational ways to work towards peaceful and reliable solutions to difficult questions, we offer here a fragmentary highlight reel of one day in the life of an American government spinning in all directions toward no known goal in Syria.
Wednesday, September 11, 2013A Day of U.S. "Credibility" At Work Lacking a comprehensive, coherent account of rational beings acting in rational ways to work towards peaceful and reliable solutions to difficult questions, we offer here a fragmentary highlight reel of one day in the life of an American government spinning in all directions toward no known goal in Syria.
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Friday, August 1, 2014
MH17 -What Really Happened? German media have reported variations of this story, focusing on the one or two Su-25s flying near MH17. The evidence for an Su-25 close to MH17 comes from a July 21 briefing by the Russian military that was widely reported at the time, from the Wall Street Journal to Veterans Today. A week later Time, like the Journal, makes no mention of any Su-25
Friday, August 1, 2014MH17 -What Really Happened? German media have reported variations of this story, focusing on the one or two Su-25s flying near MH17. The evidence for an Su-25 close to MH17 comes from a July 21 briefing by the Russian military that was widely reported at the time, from the Wall Street Journal to Veterans Today. A week later Time, like the Journal, makes no mention of any Su-25
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Sunday, November 11, 2012
Will President Obama Get It Right? Pressure from environmentalists and oil companies increases on President Obama as decision of Keystone XL pipeline for tar sands oil approaches.
Sunday, November 11, 2012Will President Obama Get It Right? Pressure from environmentalists and oil companies increases on President Obama as decision of Keystone XL pipeline for tar sands oil approaches.
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Friday, January 17, 2014
Nuclear Japan? Official Japanese policy on nuclear power has swung full circle since the Fukushima disaster of 2011 – from avidly pro-nuclear power then, to rejecting nuclear power as too dangerous, and now back to avidly pushing on to re-start old reactors and build new ones.
Friday, January 17, 2014Nuclear Japan? Official Japanese policy on nuclear power has swung full circle since the Fukushima disaster of 2011 – from avidly pro-nuclear power then, to rejecting nuclear power as too dangerous, and now back to avidly pushing on to re-start old reactors and build new ones.
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Thursday, July 4, 2013
U.S. Has Murderous Bureaucrats In the American justice system, even when a prisoner is not sentenced to be executed, the bureaucrats of the U.S. Justice Department's Federal Bureau of Prisons still have extra-judicial ways of making sure a politically-targeted prisoner will die in jail.
Thursday, July 4, 2013U.S. Has Murderous Bureaucrats In the American justice system, even when a prisoner is not sentenced to be executed, the bureaucrats of the U.S. Justice Department's Federal Bureau of Prisons still have extra-judicial ways of making sure a politically-targeted prisoner will die in jail.
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Saturday, June 29, 2013
If It's All Kosher, Why Lie About Spying? If it doesn't matter to you (1) that your government can maintain a massive data bank on your life and the lives of everyone you know, and (2) that there is no effective control on how the government uses its data, and (3) that your government lies about its capabilities, then there's no point in reading further.
Saturday, June 29, 2013If It's All Kosher, Why Lie About Spying? If it doesn't matter to you (1) that your government can maintain a massive data bank on your life and the lives of everyone you know, and (2) that there is no effective control on how the government uses its data, and (3) that your government lies about its capabilities, then there's no point in reading further.
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Friday, May 30, 2014
SNAFUkushima: Updating Meltdowns Whatever the full truth is about Fukushima, it's probably unknowable at present. And it might remain unknowable even if there was total transparency, even if there were no corporate, institutional, governmental, and other layers of secrecy protecting such enemies of the common good as profit, capital investment, and weapons development.
Friday, May 30, 2014SNAFUkushima: Updating Meltdowns Whatever the full truth is about Fukushima, it's probably unknowable at present. And it might remain unknowable even if there was total transparency, even if there were no corporate, institutional, governmental, and other layers of secrecy protecting such enemies of the common good as profit, capital investment, and weapons development.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
US Air Force Wages Class Warfare Eager to share federal pork, Air Force and Vermont elite wage class warfare on communiites that will feel bombed out by F-35 base.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012US Air Force Wages Class Warfare Eager to share federal pork, Air Force and Vermont elite wage class warfare on communiites that will feel bombed out by F-35 base.
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
Vermont on Both Sides of Nuclear Power The State of Vermont wants to shut down the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant -- so when 6 grandmothers in the Shut It Down Affinity Group tries to shut down the plant, the state prosecutes them fir criminal trespass -- what? wtf?
Thursday, November 29, 2012Vermont on Both Sides of Nuclear Power The State of Vermont wants to shut down the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant -- so when 6 grandmothers in the Shut It Down Affinity Group tries to shut down the plant, the state prosecutes them fir criminal trespass -- what? wtf?
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Monday, November 25, 2013
America's Genocidal Logic At Work Again From Africa to Asia The meaninglessness of the terms "Global War on Terror" and "Long War" (both Bush era coinages without substantive definition) was made clear hilariously, if briefly, in March 2009 when the Obama administration dropped those terms in favor of "Overseas Contingency Operation" (a nicely sanitized coinage with Orwellian opacity, but still without any intellectual import). Regardless of the term describing it, American policy rema
Monday, November 25, 2013America's Genocidal Logic At Work Again From Africa to Asia The meaninglessness of the terms "Global War on Terror" and "Long War" (both Bush era coinages without substantive definition) was made clear hilariously, if briefly, in March 2009 when the Obama administration dropped those terms in favor of "Overseas Contingency Operation" (a nicely sanitized coinage with Orwellian opacity, but still without any intellectual import). Regardless of the term describing it, American policy rema
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Thursday, July 11, 2013
What the Fukushima 2013? The first thing to know about the danger from the radioactive mass remaining on site in the three reactors that melted down at Fukushima is that nobody knows how much radioactive material there is, nobody knows how much uranium and plutonium it contains, and nobody knows how to make it safe -- so no one knows how great the continuing danger is.
Thursday, July 11, 2013What the Fukushima 2013? The first thing to know about the danger from the radioactive mass remaining on site in the three reactors that melted down at Fukushima is that nobody knows how much radioactive material there is, nobody knows how much uranium and plutonium it contains, and nobody knows how to make it safe -- so no one knows how great the continuing danger is.
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Friday, September 20, 2013
What Was The Hurry To Attack Syria? It should be immediately obvious that the United States, with 700 foreign military bases (compared to Russia's 11), is not exactly isolationist, and won't be any time soon. What follows is an attempt at a longer reassurance that no apocalypse is at hand just because we're not bombing Syria or otherwise being exceptionally American.
Friday, September 20, 2013What Was The Hurry To Attack Syria? It should be immediately obvious that the United States, with 700 foreign military bases (compared to Russia's 11), is not exactly isolationist, and won't be any time soon. What follows is an attempt at a longer reassurance that no apocalypse is at hand just because we're not bombing Syria or otherwise being exceptionally American.
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Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Senators Swoon Over Billionaire Pritzker While the fawning millionaire courtiers who populate the United States Senate fall all over themselves to smooth the way for Chicago billionaire Penny Sue Pritzker Traubert to become the next Secretary of Commerce, one might wonder what the country is getting here. In terms of hope and change, for example, what might Pritzker (she goes by her maiden name) portend in light of her public record?
Tuesday, June 4, 2013Senators Swoon Over Billionaire Pritzker While the fawning millionaire courtiers who populate the United States Senate fall all over themselves to smooth the way for Chicago billionaire Penny Sue Pritzker Traubert to become the next Secretary of Commerce, one might wonder what the country is getting here. In terms of hope and change, for example, what might Pritzker (she goes by her maiden name) portend in light of her public record?
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Friday, December 13, 2013
Detroit "Bankruptcy" Distracts from Attack on Constitution Detroit's recent bankruptcy eligibility was achieved in part by the Michigan governor defying a court order, the Detroit czar defying a court order, and a federal bankruptcy court telling other federal and state courts that their orders and the cases before them challenging the constitutionality of state law and state actions simply don't matter.
Series: Injustice (5 Articles, 16119 views)
Friday, December 13, 2013Detroit "Bankruptcy" Distracts from Attack on Constitution Detroit's recent bankruptcy eligibility was achieved in part by the Michigan governor defying a court order, the Detroit czar defying a court order, and a federal bankruptcy court telling other federal and state courts that their orders and the cases before them challenging the constitutionality of state law and state actions simply don't matter.
Series: Injustice (5 Articles, 16119 views)
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Sunday, August 3, 2014
Officially "Safe" Radiation The phrase "considered safe" is key to the issue, since there is no "actually safe" level of radiation exposure. The planet was once naturally radioactive and lifeless. Life emerged only after Earth's radiation levels decayed to the point where life became possible, in spite of a continuing level of natural "background radiation." The reality is that there is no "safe" level of radiation exposure.
Sunday, August 3, 2014Officially "Safe" Radiation The phrase "considered safe" is key to the issue, since there is no "actually safe" level of radiation exposure. The planet was once naturally radioactive and lifeless. Life emerged only after Earth's radiation levels decayed to the point where life became possible, in spite of a continuing level of natural "background radiation." The reality is that there is no "safe" level of radiation exposure.
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Sunday, August 18, 2013
U.S. Shut Embassies Because? If the United States is in an actual war, as generally defined by history and our constitution, then we must have enemies who can be identified, or so one might think. So who are the enemies of the United States? Officially, in the President's words, "the United States is at war with al Qaeda, the Taliban, and their associated forces." But does that make this 'war' legal?
Sunday, August 18, 2013U.S. Shut Embassies Because? If the United States is in an actual war, as generally defined by history and our constitution, then we must have enemies who can be identified, or so one might think. So who are the enemies of the United States? Officially, in the President's words, "the United States is at war with al Qaeda, the Taliban, and their associated forces." But does that make this 'war' legal?
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Saturday, January 26, 2013
"Kids Shooting Kids" (Sort of) When evidence of kids shooting kids surfaced, grown-ups panicked, but the kids stayed calm -- guess who was shooting blanks?
Saturday, January 26, 2013"Kids Shooting Kids" (Sort of) When evidence of kids shooting kids surfaced, grown-ups panicked, but the kids stayed calm -- guess who was shooting blanks?
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Vermont Law vs Nuclear Power National precedent possible -- Vermont Supreme Court asked to sh*t down Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, based on Public Service Board ruling
Wednesday, December 5, 2012Vermont Law vs Nuclear Power National precedent possible -- Vermont Supreme Court asked to sh*t down Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, based on Public Service Board ruling
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Keystone XL: Crime Against Humanity? When all the evidence shows global warming is a real threat, 18 U.S. Senators find that self-interest is enough.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012Keystone XL: Crime Against Humanity? When all the evidence shows global warming is a real threat, 18 U.S. Senators find that self-interest is enough.
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Saturday, July 19, 2014
Rape at College, Then Rape by College In essence, Hobart has voiced a non-denial denial, a non-defense defense. Hobart says the reporter got the story wrong, but offers not one example of error. Hobart provides no corrections, no particulars, no explanation, no contrition, and no effort to atone for its personal and institutional failures.
Saturday, July 19, 2014Rape at College, Then Rape by College In essence, Hobart has voiced a non-denial denial, a non-defense defense. Hobart says the reporter got the story wrong, but offers not one example of error. Hobart provides no corrections, no particulars, no explanation, no contrition, and no effort to atone for its personal and institutional failures.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Third Party Candidates Join Final Debate DemocracyNOW! adds third party candidates Jill Stein (Green Party) and Rocky Anderson (Justice Party) to the Romney-Obama final debate.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012Third Party Candidates Join Final Debate DemocracyNOW! adds third party candidates Jill Stein (Green Party) and Rocky Anderson (Justice Party) to the Romney-Obama final debate.
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Saturday, December 21, 2013
Navy to Sailors: Drop Dead!! First the US Navy negligently placed thousands of sailors at risk from Fukushima radiation exposure. Then, when some of them showed symptoms of radiation poisoning, the Navy cut them loose and set them adrift.
Series: Fukushima & nuke world (6 Articles, 127690 views), Injustice (5 Articles, 16119 views)
Saturday, December 21, 2013Navy to Sailors: Drop Dead!! First the US Navy negligently placed thousands of sailors at risk from Fukushima radiation exposure. Then, when some of them showed symptoms of radiation poisoning, the Navy cut them loose and set them adrift.
Series: Fukushima & nuke world (6 Articles, 127690 views), Injustice (5 Articles, 16119 views)
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Does Syria Make Any Sense? "When Russia's foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, wanted to bolster his argument that rebels had carried out the poison gas attacks near Damascus on Aug. 21, he pointed to the work of a 61-year-old Lebanese-born nun who had concluded that the horrifying videos showing hundreds of dead and choking victims, including many children, had been fabricated ahead of time to provide a pretext for foreign intervention.
Series: Fukushima & nuke world (6 Articles, 127690 views)
Tuesday, November 26, 2013Does Syria Make Any Sense? "When Russia's foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, wanted to bolster his argument that rebels had carried out the poison gas attacks near Damascus on Aug. 21, he pointed to the work of a 61-year-old Lebanese-born nun who had concluded that the horrifying videos showing hundreds of dead and choking victims, including many children, had been fabricated ahead of time to provide a pretext for foreign intervention.
Series: Fukushima & nuke world (6 Articles, 127690 views)
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Saturday, December 15, 2012
F-35 Spooks Honest Discussion Vermont's elected official do dog and pony show to "listen" to the F-35 which is controversial because it will destroy homes in Vermont -- but these same officials won't talk to their affected constituents.
Saturday, December 15, 2012F-35 Spooks Honest Discussion Vermont's elected official do dog and pony show to "listen" to the F-35 which is controversial because it will destroy homes in Vermont -- but these same officials won't talk to their affected constituents.
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Friday, November 22, 2013
Fukushima Funhouse News Fukushima is a continuing disaster, and the Japanese haven't done that great a job keeping it from getting worse, but that's not the bad news. The bad news is that nobody else in the world has a much better idea about what to do, and even less of an idea of how to do it, and that's why the stampede of global rescue workers rushing to Japan isn't happening now and isn't likely to happen soon.
Friday, November 22, 2013Fukushima Funhouse News Fukushima is a continuing disaster, and the Japanese haven't done that great a job keeping it from getting worse, but that's not the bad news. The bad news is that nobody else in the world has a much better idea about what to do, and even less of an idea of how to do it, and that's why the stampede of global rescue workers rushing to Japan isn't happening now and isn't likely to happen soon.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Lynching Adegbile After these seven Democratic quislings had collaborated in stopping Adegbile’s nomination in its tracks, another Democrat switched his vote to join them. The eighth Democratic vote to sustain the filibuster was majority leader Harry Reid of Nevada who changed his vote for tactical reasons. Under Senate rules, only a Senator who has voted against the nomination is entitled to bring it the floor again....
Tuesday, March 18, 2014Lynching Adegbile After these seven Democratic quislings had collaborated in stopping Adegbile’s nomination in its tracks, another Democrat switched his vote to join them. The eighth Democratic vote to sustain the filibuster was majority leader Harry Reid of Nevada who changed his vote for tactical reasons. Under Senate rules, only a Senator who has voted against the nomination is entitled to bring it the floor again....
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Saturday, September 15, 2012
Libya Is In Play London paper says US was warned ahead of attack in Libya but did nothing -- and bases the claim on a single anonymous source.
Saturday, September 15, 2012Libya Is In Play London paper says US was warned ahead of attack in Libya but did nothing -- and bases the claim on a single anonymous source.
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Monday, March 25, 2013
Fraud at State? Why would the State Dept have the oil industry write the report on the Keystone Pipeline?
Monday, March 25, 2013Fraud at State? Why would the State Dept have the oil industry write the report on the Keystone Pipeline?
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Monday, September 10, 2012
Taser Death Autopsy Overdue Last June a Vermont State trooper tasered a 39 year-old unarmed epileptic whompromptly died. The next day, Taser International was advising authorities in two states how to proceed with the case. They are proceeding slowly, if at all.
Monday, September 10, 2012Taser Death Autopsy Overdue Last June a Vermont State trooper tasered a 39 year-old unarmed epileptic whompromptly died. The next day, Taser International was advising authorities in two states how to proceed with the case. They are proceeding slowly, if at all.
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Sunday, May 4, 2014
Is "progressive corporate news" an oxymoron? The central argument of Michael's Arria's lively new book about America's so-called "progressive network" is not that MSNBC is bad at what it does, but that, all too often, even what MSNBC does well doesn't do much good for most Americans. As Arria puts it in the introduction of Medium Blue (a spring 2014 release by CounterPunch Books): "This book doesn't possess a hidden agenda. It's an attack on MSNBC from the left..."
Sunday, May 4, 2014Is "progressive corporate news" an oxymoron? The central argument of Michael's Arria's lively new book about America's so-called "progressive network" is not that MSNBC is bad at what it does, but that, all too often, even what MSNBC does well doesn't do much good for most Americans. As Arria puts it in the introduction of Medium Blue (a spring 2014 release by CounterPunch Books): "This book doesn't possess a hidden agenda. It's an attack on MSNBC from the left..."
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Now the Real Work Can Begin Election 2012 was less a victory than an escape from defeat -- not the real work can begin.
Wednesday, November 7, 2012Now the Real Work Can Begin Election 2012 was less a victory than an escape from defeat -- not the real work can begin.
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Saturday, April 6, 2013
A Lifetime in War Crimes This is one of the great untold stories of the Iraq War, how just over a year after the invasion, the United States funded a sectarian police commando force that set up a network of torture centers to fight the [Sunni] insurgency.
Saturday, April 6, 2013A Lifetime in War Crimes This is one of the great untold stories of the Iraq War, how just over a year after the invasion, the United States funded a sectarian police commando force that set up a network of torture centers to fight the [Sunni] insurgency.
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Friday, May 31, 2013
Kennedy Assassination is All Theory Whatever events are held, whether formal or impromptu, they will all have one thing in common: no one knows the full story of what happened. The official version put out by the Warren Commission, is long since discredited, but independent investigations have yet to present a coherent alternative narrative.
Friday, May 31, 2013Kennedy Assassination is All Theory Whatever events are held, whether formal or impromptu, they will all have one thing in common: no one knows the full story of what happened. The official version put out by the Warren Commission, is long since discredited, but independent investigations have yet to present a coherent alternative narrative.
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Monday, March 3, 2014
IRS "Scandal" Lives On, Still Bogus Whatever you hear about tax exempt, 501(c)(4) organizations these days, someone is probably playing politics, or simply lying (for the sake of playing politics). And even if you’re not hearing about it, they’re still lying about it. This is all about bi-partisan deceit designed to defend the flow of dark money from secret donors.
Monday, March 3, 2014IRS "Scandal" Lives On, Still Bogus Whatever you hear about tax exempt, 501(c)(4) organizations these days, someone is probably playing politics, or simply lying (for the sake of playing politics). And even if you’re not hearing about it, they’re still lying about it. This is all about bi-partisan deceit designed to defend the flow of dark money from secret donors.
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Sunday, January 13, 2013
Unlawful Nuclear Power in Vermont Kind of a truth or dare moment for Vermont Supreme Court handed hot potato of nuclear power plant operating unlawfully.
Sunday, January 13, 2013Unlawful Nuclear Power in Vermont Kind of a truth or dare moment for Vermont Supreme Court handed hot potato of nuclear power plant operating unlawfully.
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Boehner's Treason? Inviting a hostile head of state to challenge the U.S. President from the shelter of the U.S. Congress may not rise to the level of "levying war" in the literal sense. But it is surely an act of virtual war that recklessly raises the stakes of drawing the U.S. into more actual wars from Gaza to Iran.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015Boehner's Treason? Inviting a hostile head of state to challenge the U.S. President from the shelter of the U.S. Congress may not rise to the level of "levying war" in the literal sense. But it is surely an act of virtual war that recklessly raises the stakes of drawing the U.S. into more actual wars from Gaza to Iran.
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Criminalizing Free Speech In Texas last winter, a working 18-year-old was jailed, and is still being held on $500,000 bail, because a Canadian woman reported a single, frivolous Facebook post that he had marked "LOL" (laughing out loud) and "jk" (just kidding). Ignoring those cues, local police went ahead and charged him with "terroristic threatening" -- really? That is darkly humorous even in post-terrified America.
Tuesday, July 16, 2013Criminalizing Free Speech In Texas last winter, a working 18-year-old was jailed, and is still being held on $500,000 bail, because a Canadian woman reported a single, frivolous Facebook post that he had marked "LOL" (laughing out loud) and "jk" (just kidding). Ignoring those cues, local police went ahead and charged him with "terroristic threatening" -- really? That is darkly humorous even in post-terrified America.
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Friday, January 30, 2015
Ukraine Tipping? Pretty much everything about Ukraine is murky and unreliable these days, and that's before you take into consideration any of the meddling by outside powers playing carelessly with their Slavic pawns. Viewed in their darkest light, the events of the past 20 months (and the past 20 years) reflect an East-West death spiral that is now accelerating, and from which none of the engaged parties show any desire to disengage.
Friday, January 30, 2015Ukraine Tipping? Pretty much everything about Ukraine is murky and unreliable these days, and that's before you take into consideration any of the meddling by outside powers playing carelessly with their Slavic pawns. Viewed in their darkest light, the events of the past 20 months (and the past 20 years) reflect an East-West death spiral that is now accelerating, and from which none of the engaged parties show any desire to disengage.
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Sunday, March 3, 2013
F-35 Failures Pile Up Even as some national media like Time bring more attention to the failures of the F-35 program to live up to its promise in performance, cost, or delivery, a group of dedicated Vermonters are fighting their state and federal leadership to prevent hundred of Vermont homes from being destroyed as surely as if the F-35 had bombed them into oblivion.
Sunday, March 3, 2013F-35 Failures Pile Up Even as some national media like Time bring more attention to the failures of the F-35 program to live up to its promise in performance, cost, or delivery, a group of dedicated Vermonters are fighting their state and federal leadership to prevent hundred of Vermont homes from being destroyed as surely as if the F-35 had bombed them into oblivion.
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Saturday, December 13, 2014
Architects of Atrocity Remain at Large, and Unrepentant We know who the torturer-in-chief was, and we know his vice-torturer has said George Bush was as fully informed as he, Dick Cheney, was. Along with everything else we know about these men who still defend their criminality, why isn't that enough for probable cause and a criminal indictment? There's much more to be said about this defining moment in our history.
Saturday, December 13, 2014Architects of Atrocity Remain at Large, and Unrepentant We know who the torturer-in-chief was, and we know his vice-torturer has said George Bush was as fully informed as he, Dick Cheney, was. Along with everything else we know about these men who still defend their criminality, why isn't that enough for probable cause and a criminal indictment? There's much more to be said about this defining moment in our history.
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Monday, May 26, 2014
Condi Rice, Christine Lagarde: Cowardice at Commencement The American Condolleezza Rice, 60, Iraq War architect, and the French Christine Lagarde, 58, International Monetary Fund managing director, have little in common beyond being women of power who have contributed to the misery of millions of people they never cared to meet. And now they have another quality in common, cowardice under fire, albeit only verbal fire after they were invited to speak at college commencements.
Monday, May 26, 2014Condi Rice, Christine Lagarde: Cowardice at Commencement The American Condolleezza Rice, 60, Iraq War architect, and the French Christine Lagarde, 58, International Monetary Fund managing director, have little in common beyond being women of power who have contributed to the misery of millions of people they never cared to meet. And now they have another quality in common, cowardice under fire, albeit only verbal fire after they were invited to speak at college commencements.
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Saturday, October 19, 2013
US vs. Lavabit What follows in an effort to reconstruct at least the outline of a personal nightmare inflicted by our government on a small business owner who had done no wrong, even in the government's eyes -- at least until he started taking his constitutional rights seriously.]
Saturday, October 19, 2013US vs. Lavabit What follows in an effort to reconstruct at least the outline of a personal nightmare inflicted by our government on a small business owner who had done no wrong, even in the government's eyes -- at least until he started taking his constitutional rights seriously.]
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Sunday, July 8, 2012
Taser Death in Vermont: Trooper Zaps Unarmed Epileptic Artist It takes three hours for Vermont troopers to decide to taser an unarmed epileptic artist who had used a suicide hotline that ended up getting him killed.
Sunday, July 8, 2012Taser Death in Vermont: Trooper Zaps Unarmed Epileptic Artist It takes three hours for Vermont troopers to decide to taser an unarmed epileptic artist who had used a suicide hotline that ended up getting him killed.
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Sunday, April 21, 2013
Mitch McConnell's New 9/11 It took less than a day for the Republican Senate minority leader to start leveraging the Boston bombing against the rest of us
Sunday, April 21, 2013Mitch McConnell's New 9/11 It took less than a day for the Republican Senate minority leader to start leveraging the Boston bombing against the rest of us
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Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Indicting Hillary It's not yet clear whether Hillary Clinton will be indicted. It's not even clear in the broader sense whether Hillary Clinton should be indicted. But it's crystal clear that, even on the limited amount of credible evidence now available, Hillary Clinton could be indicted. She could be indicted for what might be characterized as privatizing her government office. That, in effect, is what the Secretary of State did when --
Tuesday, May 17, 2016Indicting Hillary It's not yet clear whether Hillary Clinton will be indicted. It's not even clear in the broader sense whether Hillary Clinton should be indicted. But it's crystal clear that, even on the limited amount of credible evidence now available, Hillary Clinton could be indicted. She could be indicted for what might be characterized as privatizing her government office. That, in effect, is what the Secretary of State did when --
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Friday, July 4, 2014
Early Fireworks from US Air Force -- OOOps! Troubles never seem to end for the F-35 Strike Fighter. Not yet fully operational, the nuclear-capable fighter-bomber recently had different test versions either leak oil in flight or burst into flames on takeoff.
Friday, July 4, 2014Early Fireworks from US Air Force -- OOOps! Troubles never seem to end for the F-35 Strike Fighter. Not yet fully operational, the nuclear-capable fighter-bomber recently had different test versions either leak oil in flight or burst into flames on takeoff.
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Friday, March 13, 2015
Ukraine Peace Threatens US Security? American combat troops deployed in Ukraine will soon number in the hundreds, at least, but US officials claim they're there only as "advisors" or "trainers," not as an in-place threat to Russia. Whatever advising or training they may do, they are also an in-place threat to Russia. US officials are also lobbying to arm Ukraine with "defensive" anti-tank rockets and other lethal weapons in hopes of escalating the fighting, maybe
Friday, March 13, 2015Ukraine Peace Threatens US Security? American combat troops deployed in Ukraine will soon number in the hundreds, at least, but US officials claim they're there only as "advisors" or "trainers," not as an in-place threat to Russia. Whatever advising or training they may do, they are also an in-place threat to Russia. US officials are also lobbying to arm Ukraine with "defensive" anti-tank rockets and other lethal weapons in hopes of escalating the fighting, maybe
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Air Force Hits Flak Over Vermont The latest high-ranking Vermont Democrat to push for prime military pork in her state is Burlington city attorney Eileen Blackwood, who released a slippery legal memo October 17 that is as cleverly political as it is narrowly legal, leading to widespread, obtuse media coverage along the lines of Vermont Public Radio's simply false headline: "City Report: Burlington Can't Block F-35."
Wednesday, October 23, 2013Air Force Hits Flak Over Vermont The latest high-ranking Vermont Democrat to push for prime military pork in her state is Burlington city attorney Eileen Blackwood, who released a slippery legal memo October 17 that is as cleverly political as it is narrowly legal, leading to widespread, obtuse media coverage along the lines of Vermont Public Radio's simply false headline: "City Report: Burlington Can't Block F-35."
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Secret Government in Vermont is Bi-partisan The story from Vermont, of all places, is breath-takingly simple: the elected city council, in a bi-partisan vote, has decided to keep its law-making process secret, rather than openly address the question of whether a draconian no-trespass law it passed last winter is patently unconstitutional.
Tuesday, June 18, 2013Secret Government in Vermont is Bi-partisan The story from Vermont, of all places, is breath-takingly simple: the elected city council, in a bi-partisan vote, has decided to keep its law-making process secret, rather than openly address the question of whether a draconian no-trespass law it passed last winter is patently unconstitutional.
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Thursday, May 30, 2013
Reagan's Chickens Home to Roost? The threat that former Reagan administration officials might be held accountable for genocidal policies of the Reagan administration increased on May 10, when a Guatemalan lower court convicted the country's former president, Gen. Efrain Rios Montt, 86, of genocide and crimes against humanity for his part in the killing of thousands of Guatemalan civilians.
Thursday, May 30, 2013Reagan's Chickens Home to Roost? The threat that former Reagan administration officials might be held accountable for genocidal policies of the Reagan administration increased on May 10, when a Guatemalan lower court convicted the country's former president, Gen. Efrain Rios Montt, 86, of genocide and crimes against humanity for his part in the killing of thousands of Guatemalan civilians.
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Thursday, November 14, 2013
Defense Secretary Preaches to Choir Global security begins in Washington, where the Secretary of Defense says that American isolationism is a bigger threat to the rest of the world than American hubris and that's why "we must remain the world's only global leader." If that sounds confused and contradictory, it's only because that's who we are as a government in the early 21st century.
Thursday, November 14, 2013Defense Secretary Preaches to Choir Global security begins in Washington, where the Secretary of Defense says that American isolationism is a bigger threat to the rest of the world than American hubris and that's why "we must remain the world's only global leader." If that sounds confused and contradictory, it's only because that's who we are as a government in the early 21st century.
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014
American Inhumanity The pictures of thousands of children huddled in shelters are upsetting, and the tales some tell are horrifying, and that is all a real but sentimental distraction from the entrenched American power that created these conditions.
Tuesday, July 15, 2014American Inhumanity The pictures of thousands of children huddled in shelters are upsetting, and the tales some tell are horrifying, and that is all a real but sentimental distraction from the entrenched American power that created these conditions.
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Saturday, January 12, 2019
Court Uses Law's Absurdity to Allow Unfit Kavanaugh to Remain as Justice There was nothing that could be done legally about the 83 misconduct complaints against Judge Kavanaugh for one reason, and one reason only -- because he had become Justice Kavanaugh. That's the whole argument: that Kavanaugh gets to escape judicial accountability, and his getaway car is his seat on the Supreme Court. This is cultural madness and legal absurdity. What were those Tenth Circuit judges thinking?
Saturday, January 12, 2019Court Uses Law's Absurdity to Allow Unfit Kavanaugh to Remain as Justice There was nothing that could be done legally about the 83 misconduct complaints against Judge Kavanaugh for one reason, and one reason only -- because he had become Justice Kavanaugh. That's the whole argument: that Kavanaugh gets to escape judicial accountability, and his getaway car is his seat on the Supreme Court. This is cultural madness and legal absurdity. What were those Tenth Circuit judges thinking?
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Sunday, April 8, 2018
Multi-Millionaire Mass Murderer for Senate -- Have We Hit Bottom Yet? Blankenship's rise is reportedly raising concern among Republican incumbents, who profess to be shocked -- shocked -- to find Republican values so vividly personified. If he gets the nomination, Blankenship will be running against Democrat Joe Manchin, who said after the mine killings that Blankenship had blood on his hands.
Sunday, April 8, 2018Multi-Millionaire Mass Murderer for Senate -- Have We Hit Bottom Yet? Blankenship's rise is reportedly raising concern among Republican incumbents, who profess to be shocked -- shocked -- to find Republican values so vividly personified. If he gets the nomination, Blankenship will be running against Democrat Joe Manchin, who said after the mine killings that Blankenship had blood on his hands.
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Thursday, June 5, 2014
Museum Continues 9/11 Mystification Despite that overwhelming ad hominem character, emphasizing the emotional impact of the lives of the living and dead, the Museum defines itself with a contradictory pose of academic detachment: "The National September 11 Memorial Museum serves as the country's principal institution concerned with exploring the implications of the events of 9/11, documenting the impact of those events and exploring 9/11's continuing significan
Thursday, June 5, 2014Museum Continues 9/11 Mystification Despite that overwhelming ad hominem character, emphasizing the emotional impact of the lives of the living and dead, the Museum defines itself with a contradictory pose of academic detachment: "The National September 11 Memorial Museum serves as the country's principal institution concerned with exploring the implications of the events of 9/11, documenting the impact of those events and exploring 9/11's continuing significan
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Saturday, August 25, 2012
Was Romney's Bain Capital Built on Blood Money? Romney raised money for Bain Capital from Salvadoran millionaires tied to death squads in El Salvador.
Saturday, August 25, 2012Was Romney's Bain Capital Built on Blood Money? Romney raised money for Bain Capital from Salvadoran millionaires tied to death squads in El Salvador.
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Roger Pion Becomes a Folk Hero in Jail Farmer who drove tractor over police cruisers is becoming a Vermont folk hero but remains in Jail.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012Roger Pion Becomes a Folk Hero in Jail Farmer who drove tractor over police cruisers is becoming a Vermont folk hero but remains in Jail.
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Thursday, June 19, 2014
GOP Policy: Kill the Poor Whether or not the Millers have touched off a revolution remains to be seen, of course, but it hardly seems likely. And the killing they've done doesn't come close to the scale of the deeper, much more lethal, continuing revolution led by Republicans since 2009. That revolution doesn't use guns to kill people. That's so Bush-era. Post-Bush Republicans prefer to kill people quietly, as in Virginia, by denying them medical care
Thursday, June 19, 2014GOP Policy: Kill the Poor Whether or not the Millers have touched off a revolution remains to be seen, of course, but it hardly seems likely. And the killing they've done doesn't come close to the scale of the deeper, much more lethal, continuing revolution led by Republicans since 2009. That revolution doesn't use guns to kill people. That's so Bush-era. Post-Bush Republicans prefer to kill people quietly, as in Virginia, by denying them medical care
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Republicans' New Benghazi Killer Meme Washington has a new meme in town, trying to give fresh impetus to the Benghazi Blowback Bandwagon still circling the White House in hopes of finding something worse than Watergate, or at least as bad as Iran-Contra.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013Republicans' New Benghazi Killer Meme Washington has a new meme in town, trying to give fresh impetus to the Benghazi Blowback Bandwagon still circling the White House in hopes of finding something worse than Watergate, or at least as bad as Iran-Contra.
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Sunday, June 9, 2013
Ted Cruz Saved Eric Holder? Attorney General Eric Holder, under growing pressure from many in mainstream media and elsewhere for his "attacks" on the First Amendment in general, and reporters in particular, had a lifeline thrown to him awhile back by an unlikely combination -- Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz, on Fox News, May 30.
Sunday, June 9, 2013Ted Cruz Saved Eric Holder? Attorney General Eric Holder, under growing pressure from many in mainstream media and elsewhere for his "attacks" on the First Amendment in general, and reporters in particular, had a lifeline thrown to him awhile back by an unlikely combination -- Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz, on Fox News, May 30.
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Saturday, June 22, 2013
Obama's Watergate? How many people do you know who, hearing that the NSA was busy obliterating privacy, have reacted to the effect of: well, duh, or that's old news, or worse: didn't we make that legal? It's not as though the NSA is carrying out break-ins, is it?
Saturday, June 22, 2013Obama's Watergate? How many people do you know who, hearing that the NSA was busy obliterating privacy, have reacted to the effect of: well, duh, or that's old news, or worse: didn't we make that legal? It's not as though the NSA is carrying out break-ins, is it?
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Saturday, October 5, 2013
Minority Government At Work A real government shutdown would effectively take us back to a state of nature, or at least to an eighteenth century, pre-constitutional governmental structure, enhanced by all the modern conveniences we could keep working without Washington's help. That might provoke a new constitutional convention, which is what a busy minority has been after for a long time, and maybe that's the point of all this, but we're not there yet.
Saturday, October 5, 2013Minority Government At Work A real government shutdown would effectively take us back to a state of nature, or at least to an eighteenth century, pre-constitutional governmental structure, enhanced by all the modern conveniences we could keep working without Washington's help. That might provoke a new constitutional convention, which is what a busy minority has been after for a long time, and maybe that's the point of all this, but we're not there yet.
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Sunday, May 26, 2013
Obama Leads In All Directions Who in a sane state of mind would expect any change of policy when the president gives a speech about counter-terrorism at the National Defense University?
Sunday, May 26, 2013Obama Leads In All Directions Who in a sane state of mind would expect any change of policy when the president gives a speech about counter-terrorism at the National Defense University?
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Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Ohio: Poster Child for Mindless Global Self-Destruction John Kasich is a smart guy who knows better than to be an overt serial killer, so, as Governor of Ohio, he joins with others who prefer to do their mass killing by stealth, maybe spread the carnage out over future generations, who will be unable to hold the Kasiches and the ALECS of this world to account. Ever. However long that turns out to be.
Tuesday, July 8, 2014Ohio: Poster Child for Mindless Global Self-Destruction John Kasich is a smart guy who knows better than to be an overt serial killer, so, as Governor of Ohio, he joins with others who prefer to do their mass killing by stealth, maybe spread the carnage out over future generations, who will be unable to hold the Kasiches and the ALECS of this world to account. Ever. However long that turns out to be.
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Nuclear Power on the Line in Vermont? Vermont Yankee, owned by the second largest nuclear power company in the U.S., is caught in a web of legal, regulatory, and protest actions that may shape the future of nuclear power for the country.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012Nuclear Power on the Line in Vermont? Vermont Yankee, owned by the second largest nuclear power company in the U.S., is caught in a web of legal, regulatory, and protest actions that may shape the future of nuclear power for the country.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Congress Fails En Masse, 100%, Rare Event jabbering jingoes in control of this foreign policy decision, deceitfully selling Aboutalebi’s imagined transgressions, need to get over their exceptionalist self-involvement. Americans desperately need to have a sense of history, a sense of responsibility, a sense of proportion, and real humility. That would be true American exceptionalism.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014Congress Fails En Masse, 100%, Rare Event jabbering jingoes in control of this foreign policy decision, deceitfully selling Aboutalebi’s imagined transgressions, need to get over their exceptionalist self-involvement. Americans desperately need to have a sense of history, a sense of responsibility, a sense of proportion, and real humility. That would be true American exceptionalism.
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Monday, December 30, 2013
Ideological Purity Police in Montpelier When a city employee promotes a point of view that happens to center on an aspect of populist economics that seeks to serve the public good, and the democratically-elected mayor of that city has an opposing ideology that he'd rather not debate openly, why would anyone expect the resolution of this conflict to be anything but ugly?
Series: Injustice (5 Articles, 16119 views), Vermont Life (1 Articles, 2034 views)
Monday, December 30, 2013Ideological Purity Police in Montpelier When a city employee promotes a point of view that happens to center on an aspect of populist economics that seeks to serve the public good, and the democratically-elected mayor of that city has an opposing ideology that he'd rather not debate openly, why would anyone expect the resolution of this conflict to be anything but ugly?
Series: Injustice (5 Articles, 16119 views), Vermont Life (1 Articles, 2034 views)
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Friday, July 13, 2012
Air Force Vet Shoots Down F-35 Plan Retire US Air Force colonel and Pentagon analyst, 30-year career, analyzes Air Force study to shreds, opposes basing F-35 in Vermont.
Friday, July 13, 2012Air Force Vet Shoots Down F-35 Plan Retire US Air Force colonel and Pentagon analyst, 30-year career, analyzes Air Force study to shreds, opposes basing F-35 in Vermont.
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Saturday, June 1, 2013
IRS "Scandal" is a Hoax Almost everything you hear and read in the media about the current IRS "scandal" is based on deliberate falsification of basic facts. Some might call it lying.
Saturday, June 1, 2013IRS "Scandal" is a Hoax Almost everything you hear and read in the media about the current IRS "scandal" is based on deliberate falsification of basic facts. Some might call it lying.
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Was The Fix in For Zimmerman? Listening to the lead prosecutor's final argument in the Zimmerman case, it's hard to believe he really wanted a conviction.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013Was The Fix in For Zimmerman? Listening to the lead prosecutor's final argument in the Zimmerman case, it's hard to believe he really wanted a conviction.
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Friday, June 13, 2014
Bush War Redux By the time you read this, America's next, undeclared war in Iraq may already be under way. Imperial militarists started floating trial balloons for the next American aggression as of June 11 in the Wall Street Journal, quoting "a senior U.S. official who added that no decisions have been made."
Friday, June 13, 2014Bush War Redux By the time you read this, America's next, undeclared war in Iraq may already be under way. Imperial militarists started floating trial balloons for the next American aggression as of June 11 in the Wall Street Journal, quoting "a senior U.S. official who added that no decisions have been made."
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
Torture in Texas TransCanada gets it all in Texas -- easy permitting, eminent domain, even a sheriff to rough up protestors -- and all for the Keystone XL Pipiline
Thursday, September 27, 2012Torture in Texas TransCanada gets it all in Texas -- easy permitting, eminent domain, even a sheriff to rough up protestors -- and all for the Keystone XL Pipiline
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
What if Drone Strikes are War Crimes? Drone warfare has become an American default reaction even though it may be a war crime, unconstitutional, unjust, expensive, and counter-productive, but what candidate ever talks about it?
Wednesday, October 10, 2012What if Drone Strikes are War Crimes? Drone warfare has become an American default reaction even though it may be a war crime, unconstitutional, unjust, expensive, and counter-productive, but what candidate ever talks about it?
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
More Opposition to F-35 in Vermont More and more Vermonters oppose basing the F-35 in Vermont because of its harm to health, property, environment, and quality of life.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012More Opposition to F-35 in Vermont More and more Vermonters oppose basing the F-35 in Vermont because of its harm to health, property, environment, and quality of life.
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Friday, February 21, 2014
Keystone XL vs Lethal Lone Star Threat Meanwhile the 105-day comment period on the State Department’s fraudulent environmental report is running, and it’s not clear whether the Texas court will act within that time. Wait, “fraudulent†report? Well, based on early reporting, the report is...
Friday, February 21, 2014Keystone XL vs Lethal Lone Star Threat Meanwhile the 105-day comment period on the State Department’s fraudulent environmental report is running, and it’s not clear whether the Texas court will act within that time. Wait, “fraudulent†report? Well, based on early reporting, the report is...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015
American Spring in Chicago? Chicago's mayoral election may look like a local event, and the media mostly cover it as a local event, but the presence of a large, diverse, and energized opposition demanding change on basic issues of fairness and justice gives the city's local result a potentially important, totemic meaning for the country. The winner of the April 7 runoff election may signify whether peaceful change is possible, or whether the suffocatin
Tuesday, March 10, 2015American Spring in Chicago? Chicago's mayoral election may look like a local event, and the media mostly cover it as a local event, but the presence of a large, diverse, and energized opposition demanding change on basic issues of fairness and justice gives the city's local result a potentially important, totemic meaning for the country. The winner of the April 7 runoff election may signify whether peaceful change is possible, or whether the suffocatin
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Monday, July 24, 2017
Trump's In-Your-Face Impeachable Offense The political will to impeach this deceitful, destructive President and his administration does not exist despite millions of people, even some in Congress and the media, knowing impeachment is abundantly justified. Every day, with little attention, this administration violates the constitutional duty to faithfully execute the law to protect the environment, to defend the right to vote, and to protect Americans civil rights.
Monday, July 24, 2017Trump's In-Your-Face Impeachable Offense The political will to impeach this deceitful, destructive President and his administration does not exist despite millions of people, even some in Congress and the media, knowing impeachment is abundantly justified. Every day, with little attention, this administration violates the constitutional duty to faithfully execute the law to protect the environment, to defend the right to vote, and to protect Americans civil rights.
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Some Pakistanis Resist U.S. Drone Murder The Pakistani government has done nothing to enforce the Peshawar High Court’s order of May 2013. Even suggesting that the government act to protect its people creates controversy. An uncertain number of other cases are still pending in Pakistani courts. One of those is Kareem Khan’s 2010 wrongful death suit against the CIA for killing innocent people in his house in 2009.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014Some Pakistanis Resist U.S. Drone Murder The Pakistani government has done nothing to enforce the Peshawar High Court’s order of May 2013. Even suggesting that the government act to protect its people creates controversy. An uncertain number of other cases are still pending in Pakistani courts. One of those is Kareem Khan’s 2010 wrongful death suit against the CIA for killing innocent people in his house in 2009.
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Thursday, December 19, 2019
Republicans Defend Trump With "Four Facts" That Are Fake The Republicans' defense of Trump, their ritual recital of "four facts" that are fake, is an unsupportable sham. But for them it doesn't really matter. They've managed to muddy the waters to Trump's benefit.
Thursday, December 19, 2019Republicans Defend Trump With "Four Facts" That Are Fake The Republicans' defense of Trump, their ritual recital of "four facts" that are fake, is an unsupportable sham. But for them it doesn't really matter. They've managed to muddy the waters to Trump's benefit.
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Friday, June 29, 2012
Vermont Yankee Nuke Gets Shutdown Party July 1 Vermonters trying to shut down nuke plant that's aging and breaks down
Friday, June 29, 2012Vermont Yankee Nuke Gets Shutdown Party July 1 Vermonters trying to shut down nuke plant that's aging and breaks down
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Saturday, November 9, 2019
US Policy: Global Climate Crisis Not Our Problem. Really? The two-party system hasn't stepped up on climate issues and shows no likelihood of doing so in the near future unless Democrats somehow nominate a candidate willing to cope with reality. Even then, we face an uphill struggle to save ourselves in opposition to entrenched narrow interests.
Saturday, November 9, 2019US Policy: Global Climate Crisis Not Our Problem. Really? The two-party system hasn't stepped up on climate issues and shows no likelihood of doing so in the near future unless Democrats somehow nominate a candidate willing to cope with reality. Even then, we face an uphill struggle to save ourselves in opposition to entrenched narrow interests.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Iraq "Going Well" Remember L. Paul Bremer, 73, the Bush family caporegime who was the occupastion's Presidential Envoy to Iraq? He was the American Saddam Hussein in 2003 when he had near-dictatorial power and thought it would be a good idea to get rid of virtually every experienced Sunni military officer and every high-ranking Sunni government official so that, as President Bush put it over and over:as the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down
Wednesday, June 25, 2014Iraq "Going Well" Remember L. Paul Bremer, 73, the Bush family caporegime who was the occupastion's Presidential Envoy to Iraq? He was the American Saddam Hussein in 2003 when he had near-dictatorial power and thought it would be a good idea to get rid of virtually every experienced Sunni military officer and every high-ranking Sunni government official so that, as President Bush put it over and over:as the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down
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Friday, August 22, 2014
America Is Here to Help Ferguson, Gaza, and Luhansk bleed all the time these days and the United States does nothing very useful for any of them. Not in out "national interest." Simpler and easier to blame the victims. Can't waste our precious resources. Ferguson, Gaza, and Luhansk have been bleeding for days, for weeks, for years, forever in current and chronic crisis, and what does the United States do to help any of them?
Friday, August 22, 2014America Is Here to Help Ferguson, Gaza, and Luhansk bleed all the time these days and the United States does nothing very useful for any of them. Not in out "national interest." Simpler and easier to blame the victims. Can't waste our precious resources. Ferguson, Gaza, and Luhansk have been bleeding for days, for weeks, for years, forever in current and chronic crisis, and what does the United States do to help any of them?
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Friday, February 20, 2015
Christian War Crimes Prize The American torture president and self-professed Christian, George W. Bush, gratefully accepted an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from the Christian-ideology-based University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, Texas, on February 11, in a "public" event that was closed to most of the public. The only direct media coverage allowed for the event was by Fox News and the college public relations team.
Friday, February 20, 2015Christian War Crimes Prize The American torture president and self-professed Christian, George W. Bush, gratefully accepted an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from the Christian-ideology-based University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, Texas, on February 11, in a "public" event that was closed to most of the public. The only direct media coverage allowed for the event was by Fox News and the college public relations team.
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Monday, February 17, 2014
Grimm News To be more than fair to Rep. Grimm, 44, he made his threat in circumstances when he himself felt threatened by a question from the younger, smaller man he threatened. As a former Marine and a former FBI agent, he also managed to personify the negative Hollywood stereotype of both.
Monday, February 17, 2014Grimm News To be more than fair to Rep. Grimm, 44, he made his threat in circumstances when he himself felt threatened by a question from the younger, smaller man he threatened. As a former Marine and a former FBI agent, he also managed to personify the negative Hollywood stereotype of both.
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Stewing in Steubenville If the rape convictions of two Steubenville, Ohio, juveniles in juvenile court turn out to be the end of the story, as some perhaps hopefully predict, then justice will be only partly served and the Steubenville community cover-up will have proved largely effective, justice will have been mostly obstructed.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013Stewing in Steubenville If the rape convictions of two Steubenville, Ohio, juveniles in juvenile court turn out to be the end of the story, as some perhaps hopefully predict, then justice will be only partly served and the Steubenville community cover-up will have proved largely effective, justice will have been mostly obstructed.
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Monday, July 17, 2017
FBI Nominee Christopher Wray Sure Looks Dirty Wray solemnly told the Senate on July 12: "My loyalty is to the Constitution, to the rule of law, and to the FBI. Nobody asked for any kind of loyalty oath and I sure didn't offer one." Given Wray's career pattern, there was no need for anyone to ask for or offer loyalty. Wherever Wray goes, bad guys get away unscathed while scapegoats suffer the consequences. What more could President Trump ask from his man at the FBI?
Monday, July 17, 2017FBI Nominee Christopher Wray Sure Looks Dirty Wray solemnly told the Senate on July 12: "My loyalty is to the Constitution, to the rule of law, and to the FBI. Nobody asked for any kind of loyalty oath and I sure didn't offer one." Given Wray's career pattern, there was no need for anyone to ask for or offer loyalty. Wherever Wray goes, bad guys get away unscathed while scapegoats suffer the consequences. What more could President Trump ask from his man at the FBI?
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Sunday, June 30, 2013
The Bushes' Court Four members of the United States Supreme Court have shown again in the court's decisions of recent days that they represent the very worst of America when it comes to race or gender, just as they have shucked the constitution in support of money and partisanship in the democratic process.
Sunday, June 30, 2013The Bushes' Court Four members of the United States Supreme Court have shown again in the court's decisions of recent days that they represent the very worst of America when it comes to race or gender, just as they have shucked the constitution in support of money and partisanship in the democratic process.
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Saturday, June 22, 2019
Fukushima's Three Nuclear Meltdowns Are "Under Control" -- That's a Lie The entire Fukushima site remains radioactive at varying levels, from unsafe to lethal, depending on location. The site includes six reactors, three of them in meltdown, and at least as many fuel pools, some of which still contain fuel rods. The site has close to a thousand large storage tanks holding more than a million tons (roughly 264.5 million gallons) of radioactive wastewater.
Saturday, June 22, 2019Fukushima's Three Nuclear Meltdowns Are "Under Control" -- That's a Lie The entire Fukushima site remains radioactive at varying levels, from unsafe to lethal, depending on location. The site includes six reactors, three of them in meltdown, and at least as many fuel pools, some of which still contain fuel rods. The site has close to a thousand large storage tanks holding more than a million tons (roughly 264.5 million gallons) of radioactive wastewater.
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Monday, June 16, 2014
Iran Saves Iraq! Iran can save Iraq and everyone. "A Modest Proposal for Middle East Peace"
Monday, June 16, 2014Iran Saves Iraq! Iran can save Iraq and everyone. "A Modest Proposal for Middle East Peace"
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Saturday, April 20, 2013
Good Bomb, Bad Bomb Does homeland security apply to the whole homeland -- so why did governments let a fertilizer plan blow up?
Saturday, April 20, 2013Good Bomb, Bad Bomb Does homeland security apply to the whole homeland -- so why did governments let a fertilizer plan blow up?
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Sunday, December 27, 2020
Filthy Prison Showers OK for Women, Rules Vermont Judge Vermont's only prison for women is, by all accounts, a ghastly place. The facility was never intended to be a prison or to house women.
Sunday, December 27, 2020Filthy Prison Showers OK for Women, Rules Vermont Judge Vermont's only prison for women is, by all accounts, a ghastly place. The facility was never intended to be a prison or to house women.
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Friday, September 27, 2013
Weapons of Mass Destruction Wanted? With Vermont's highest elected officials still deep in Defense Dept. denial over the disaster that is the Air Force's F-35 strike fighter, a local city council threatens to bring some military sanity to Vermont (but nowhere else) by exercising its landlord right to reject as a tenant a weapon of mass destruction that will wreak havoc on the local neighborhood.
Friday, September 27, 2013Weapons of Mass Destruction Wanted? With Vermont's highest elected officials still deep in Defense Dept. denial over the disaster that is the Air Force's F-35 strike fighter, a local city council threatens to bring some military sanity to Vermont (but nowhere else) by exercising its landlord right to reject as a tenant a weapon of mass destruction that will wreak havoc on the local neighborhood.
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Monday, July 28, 2014
UN against War Crimes, US not so much Weighing the merits of war criminals on any side is a fool's game. But those playing this game include almost everyone involved with the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, as each pretends to ride a moral high horse that no longer exists, if it ever did.
Monday, July 28, 2014UN against War Crimes, US not so much Weighing the merits of war criminals on any side is a fool's game. But those playing this game include almost everyone involved with the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, as each pretends to ride a moral high horse that no longer exists, if it ever did.
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Friday, September 7, 2012
Police State? There's An App For That! It's on;y an Apple patent now, but the "apparatuus and methods" for shutting down mobile devices at a protest rally is under development.
Friday, September 7, 2012Police State? There's An App For That! It's on;y an Apple patent now, but the "apparatuus and methods" for shutting down mobile devices at a protest rally is under development.
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
Climate Change? U.S. Shrugs World Bank says climate change getting worse faster, Canada says have some shale oil, U.S. says sure and let's talk about the problem later
Thursday, December 6, 2012Climate Change? U.S. Shrugs World Bank says climate change getting worse faster, Canada says have some shale oil, U.S. says sure and let's talk about the problem later
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Monday, October 14, 2013
Denial in the Face of Default The Debt Ceiling is a legal fiction, a fantasy, a mindless game the United States has been playing with itself since 1917, for reasons that defy rational comprehension. There is no compelling constitutional basis for this contra-constitutional legalism. The only other democratic country in the world with a Debt Ceiling is Denmark, where it is an empty formality.
Monday, October 14, 2013Denial in the Face of Default The Debt Ceiling is a legal fiction, a fantasy, a mindless game the United States has been playing with itself since 1917, for reasons that defy rational comprehension. There is no compelling constitutional basis for this contra-constitutional legalism. The only other democratic country in the world with a Debt Ceiling is Denmark, where it is an empty formality.
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Monday, June 3, 2013
Air Force Admits F-35 Errors The Air Force has admitted that it's critics in Vermont have been right all along -- that basing the F-35 strike fighter in Burlington, the state's only area with population at urban-concentration levels, will render thousands more homes "unsuitable for residential use" than originally estimate.
Monday, June 3, 2013Air Force Admits F-35 Errors The Air Force has admitted that it's critics in Vermont have been right all along -- that basing the F-35 strike fighter in Burlington, the state's only area with population at urban-concentration levels, will render thousands more homes "unsuitable for residential use" than originally estimate.
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Friday, November 8, 2013
U.S. Is a State Sponsor of Terrorism This is a classic terrorist tactic, sometimes called the "double tap," using the first explosion to draw a crowd of first responders and onlookers as targets for the second explosion. Typically the double tap attack rings up a higher score.
Friday, November 8, 2013U.S. Is a State Sponsor of Terrorism This is a classic terrorist tactic, sometimes called the "double tap," using the first explosion to draw a crowd of first responders and onlookers as targets for the second explosion. Typically the double tap attack rings up a higher score.
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Saturday, December 20, 2014
Top 10 Torturer List Actually Includes Hundreds or More The Obama administration has a moral and legal duty to bring American war criminals of three administrations to justice. Not to do so is to continue to use American exceptionalism as a justification for the worst crimes against humanity. The national precedent is to honor those most responsible for government crimes, but what honor is there in that?
Saturday, December 20, 2014Top 10 Torturer List Actually Includes Hundreds or More The Obama administration has a moral and legal duty to bring American war criminals of three administrations to justice. Not to do so is to continue to use American exceptionalism as a justification for the worst crimes against humanity. The national precedent is to honor those most responsible for government crimes, but what honor is there in that?
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Thursday, October 23, 2014
Cops Freak Out Over Free Speech in Vermont When Mumia Abu-Jamal was the pre-recorded speaker at a Goddard College commencement in Plainfield, Vermont, in 2008, almost no one outside the Goddard community paid any attention. This year, when Goddard announced that students had chosen Mumia to do a return engagement at their graduation, Philadelphia police, politicians, media, and Fox News went crazy with angry rhetoric aimed at curbing free speech.
Thursday, October 23, 2014Cops Freak Out Over Free Speech in Vermont When Mumia Abu-Jamal was the pre-recorded speaker at a Goddard College commencement in Plainfield, Vermont, in 2008, almost no one outside the Goddard community paid any attention. This year, when Goddard announced that students had chosen Mumia to do a return engagement at their graduation, Philadelphia police, politicians, media, and Fox News went crazy with angry rhetoric aimed at curbing free speech.
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Sunday, May 19, 2019
US Constitution Is Now Officially a Joke As Applied to War or Peace Congress has the power, theoretically, to defund any military action it doesn't like. But first it would have to find one. It doesn't have to look far. Now would be the time for a resolution against any military action against Iran without express Congressional approval. That would invite another presidential veto. The Constitution's not in tatters, it's just irrelevant. And there's little sign that the American people care.
Sunday, May 19, 2019US Constitution Is Now Officially a Joke As Applied to War or Peace Congress has the power, theoretically, to defund any military action it doesn't like. But first it would have to find one. It doesn't have to look far. Now would be the time for a resolution against any military action against Iran without express Congressional approval. That would invite another presidential veto. The Constitution's not in tatters, it's just irrelevant. And there's little sign that the American people care.
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Friday, December 7, 2012
U.S. Air Force in Corrupt Practice Vermont Governor plans trip with Air Force, lobbyists and interested parties, wants to make "informed" decision without talking to opponents of an F-35 nuclear fighter base that will destroy thousands of homes.
Friday, December 7, 2012U.S. Air Force in Corrupt Practice Vermont Governor plans trip with Air Force, lobbyists and interested parties, wants to make "informed" decision without talking to opponents of an F-35 nuclear fighter base that will destroy thousands of homes.
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Sunday, October 21, 2012
Do More Combat Helmets Mean More Combat? Combat helmets made in Vermont expected to protect Danish soldiers and Vermont politicians, among others.
Sunday, October 21, 2012Do More Combat Helmets Mean More Combat? Combat helmets made in Vermont expected to protect Danish soldiers and Vermont politicians, among others.
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Sunday, November 17, 2019
Christians vs. Militarists -- In Clash of Religions Over Nuclear War, Militarists Win One stark example of American exceptionalism is the nation's official pride in being the first and only country to drop atomic bombs on civilian targets. There was no Nuremberg tribunal for those 1945 war crimes. The US has maintained ever since that it has the right to obliterate civilians with nuclear weapons any time it feels the need.
Sunday, November 17, 2019Christians vs. Militarists -- In Clash of Religions Over Nuclear War, Militarists Win One stark example of American exceptionalism is the nation's official pride in being the first and only country to drop atomic bombs on civilian targets. There was no Nuremberg tribunal for those 1945 war crimes. The US has maintained ever since that it has the right to obliterate civilians with nuclear weapons any time it feels the need.
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Saturday, July 28, 2012
Lawyers Against Free Speech Lawyers for sitcom "Three's Company" seek to shut down David Adjmi's satire "3C" that makes fun of 1970s generally.
Saturday, July 28, 2012Lawyers Against Free Speech Lawyers for sitcom "Three's Company" seek to shut down David Adjmi's satire "3C" that makes fun of 1970s generally.
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Saturday, June 15, 2013
Military Judge Runs A Shell Game Court-martial judge Col. Denise Lind hasn't exactly banned the public -- or reporters, who are part of the public -- from the courtroom or its extensions, but she has presided over a system that, so far, seems designed to protect the public's right to know as little as possible.
Saturday, June 15, 2013Military Judge Runs A Shell Game Court-martial judge Col. Denise Lind hasn't exactly banned the public -- or reporters, who are part of the public -- from the courtroom or its extensions, but she has presided over a system that, so far, seems designed to protect the public's right to know as little as possible.
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Saturday, September 22, 2012
Philosophy of Public Lying Ayn Rand said government should never lie to the people, and Paul Ryan was an Ayn Rand devotee, until he wasn't.
Saturday, September 22, 2012Philosophy of Public Lying Ayn Rand said government should never lie to the people, and Paul Ryan was an Ayn Rand devotee, until he wasn't.
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Friday, December 14, 2012
Media Mystify Susan Rice Susan Rice withdraws before she's nominated for Secretary of State. Trying to explain what happened, media can't see beyond the nearest Republican.
Friday, December 14, 2012Media Mystify Susan Rice Susan Rice withdraws before she's nominated for Secretary of State. Trying to explain what happened, media can't see beyond the nearest Republican.
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Saturday, August 4, 2012
Vermont Tractor Trasher Trashed Roger Pion drove his parents' ten-ton tractor over seven police cars but he hasn't said why. Police speculate he's mad about a marijuana bust on July 3.
Saturday, August 4, 2012Vermont Tractor Trasher Trashed Roger Pion drove his parents' ten-ton tractor over seven police cars but he hasn't said why. Police speculate he's mad about a marijuana bust on July 3.
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Friday, July 20, 2012
Vermont's F-35 Dogfight Getting Rough Air Force admits errors -- oh there are people there -- and communities step up resistance to F-35 basing in Vermont.
Friday, July 20, 2012Vermont's F-35 Dogfight Getting Rough Air Force admits errors -- oh there are people there -- and communities step up resistance to F-35 basing in Vermont.
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Friday, March 8, 2013
Woodward Cites Obama's "Madness" Why would Washington Post star reporter push for war with Iran?
Friday, March 8, 2013Woodward Cites Obama's "Madness" Why would Washington Post star reporter push for war with Iran?
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Tar Sands Oil Coming to Crunch Time Keystone pipeline keeps rolling through Texas, opposition strives to prevent it from reaching the Gulf.
Tuesday, January 8, 2013Tar Sands Oil Coming to Crunch Time Keystone pipeline keeps rolling through Texas, opposition strives to prevent it from reaching the Gulf.
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Honor and Degrees The destruction of the once great University of California by the forces of commerce and authoritarian politics (led for awhile by Ronald Reagan) is a sad illustration of how the democratic ethos (educate everyone to their capacity, for free) has given way to exploitation (turning students into a profit center that has the serendipitous benefit of feeding inequality).
Tuesday, June 3, 2014Honor and Degrees The destruction of the once great University of California by the forces of commerce and authoritarian politics (led for awhile by Ronald Reagan) is a sad illustration of how the democratic ethos (educate everyone to their capacity, for free) has given way to exploitation (turning students into a profit center that has the serendipitous benefit of feeding inequality).
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Thursday, May 31, 2018
War on Iran Is US Policy Now, According to Secretary of State American aggression has been real and deadly and constant for decades, but because the US is the one keeping score, the US doesn't award itself the prize it so richly deserves year after year as the world's number one state sponsor of terror. This is how it's been since Martin Luther King tried speaking "clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government."
Thursday, May 31, 2018War on Iran Is US Policy Now, According to Secretary of State American aggression has been real and deadly and constant for decades, but because the US is the one keeping score, the US doesn't award itself the prize it so richly deserves year after year as the world's number one state sponsor of terror. This is how it's been since Martin Luther King tried speaking "clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government."
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Saturday, April 20, 2019
US Makes Stuff Up to Grease the Skids for War on Iran With absolutely zero good reasons for waging war on Iran, the Trump administration goes on making stuff up to lie the country into yet another war. The template looks like the Bush administration's successful effort to lie the US into the Iraq War, the catastrophic effects of which keep unfolding.
Saturday, April 20, 2019US Makes Stuff Up to Grease the Skids for War on Iran With absolutely zero good reasons for waging war on Iran, the Trump administration goes on making stuff up to lie the country into yet another war. The template looks like the Bush administration's successful effort to lie the US into the Iraq War, the catastrophic effects of which keep unfolding.
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Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Ukraine War Needs US? Just as NATO allies Germany and France were undertaking a peace initiative with Russia and Ukraine, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry turned up in Kiev at the same time, seeking to poison the talks before they started by spouting yet again the ritual U.S. accusation of "Russian aggression." The incantation is meaningless without context. Its purpose is mesmerize a false consciousness. "Russian aggression" may or may not exist
Wednesday, February 11, 2015Ukraine War Needs US? Just as NATO allies Germany and France were undertaking a peace initiative with Russia and Ukraine, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry turned up in Kiev at the same time, seeking to poison the talks before they started by spouting yet again the ritual U.S. accusation of "Russian aggression." The incantation is meaningless without context. Its purpose is mesmerize a false consciousness. "Russian aggression" may or may not exist
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Thursday, October 31, 2013
A Revolution Led by Russell Brand? Still on the attack, the BBC interviewer presses the comic for a blueprint. of his alternate systems, but this time Brand ridicules the ridiculous question. He points out some of the worst abuses by the current system, noting that the world would be improved merely by stopping these abuses (such as destroying the planet, creating massive economic disparity, or ignoring the needs of the people)...
Thursday, October 31, 2013A Revolution Led by Russell Brand? Still on the attack, the BBC interviewer presses the comic for a blueprint. of his alternate systems, but this time Brand ridicules the ridiculous question. He points out some of the worst abuses by the current system, noting that the world would be improved merely by stopping these abuses (such as destroying the planet, creating massive economic disparity, or ignoring the needs of the people)...
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Friday, August 30, 2013
Jumping the Shark in Syria President Obama is apparently wobbling on the edge of committing an impeachable offense, specifically a military attack on Syria without the authorization of Congress, without the approval of the United Nations Security Council, and without any imminent threat to the United States.
Friday, August 30, 2013Jumping the Shark in Syria President Obama is apparently wobbling on the edge of committing an impeachable offense, specifically a military attack on Syria without the authorization of Congress, without the approval of the United Nations Security Council, and without any imminent threat to the United States.
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Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Failure to Impeach Trump Is a Way to Reaffirm Him With no commanding presidential candidate likely to emerge till well after the Iowa caucus on February 3, 2020, the center of Democratic Power is now in the House of Representatives, largely in the hands of Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi is so determined to give Trump a pass on impeachment that Trump's lawyers cite her position in their court briefs. That seems like a pretty bad place for a opposition party to find itself.
Wednesday, July 10, 2019Failure to Impeach Trump Is a Way to Reaffirm Him With no commanding presidential candidate likely to emerge till well after the Iowa caucus on February 3, 2020, the center of Democratic Power is now in the House of Representatives, largely in the hands of Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi is so determined to give Trump a pass on impeachment that Trump's lawyers cite her position in their court briefs. That seems like a pretty bad place for a opposition party to find itself.
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
Republican Lies About Welfare and Obama Covering the Republican convention, a reporter predicts Rick Santorum will lie about welfare. Then he does. And one of the reporter's colleagues misses it and says it didn't happen. (No this is not from "The Newsroom.")
Thursday, August 30, 2012Republican Lies About Welfare and Obama Covering the Republican convention, a reporter predicts Rick Santorum will lie about welfare. Then he does. And one of the reporter's colleagues misses it and says it didn't happen. (No this is not from "The Newsroom.")
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Sunday, September 16, 2012
Occupy/Black Bloc Tactics Debated Tactics for changing the country debated, most media ignore the event.
Sunday, September 16, 2012Occupy/Black Bloc Tactics Debated Tactics for changing the country debated, most media ignore the event.
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
F-35 Plans Attack Civilians While it's too soon, perhaps, to say that the over-budget, overdue, and under-performing F-35 joint strike fighter is in a political tailspin, having its biggest Senate booster accused of pushing for political pork at the expense of his poorer constituents hasn't made the controversial stealth bomber's flight path less bumpy.
Thursday, April 25, 2013F-35 Plans Attack Civilians While it's too soon, perhaps, to say that the over-budget, overdue, and under-performing F-35 joint strike fighter is in a political tailspin, having its biggest Senate booster accused of pushing for political pork at the expense of his poorer constituents hasn't made the controversial stealth bomber's flight path less bumpy.
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Saturday, December 29, 2012
Oil Over People in Texas Compliant court gives TransCanada time to prep[asre its case while denying any relief to landowner, as Keystone XL pipeline construction continues across his land.
Saturday, December 29, 2012Oil Over People in Texas Compliant court gives TransCanada time to prep[asre its case while denying any relief to landowner, as Keystone XL pipeline construction continues across his land.
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Taser Death Still Festers in Vermont Vermont Attorney General finds that when state police killed an unarmed epileptic artist with a taser, nobody did anything wrong. Really.
Thursday, January 31, 2013Taser Death Still Festers in Vermont Vermont Attorney General finds that when state police killed an unarmed epileptic artist with a taser, nobody did anything wrong. Really.
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Friday, August 9, 2013
DREAM 9 Story -- Two Parts The cynic might suspect that the Dream 9 were released because they'll be less of a problem for the government scattered to their homes around the country than they were inside where they were organizing, protesting, gathering stories of other detainees, and shining some light on one of the darker corners of authoritarian America.
Friday, August 9, 2013DREAM 9 Story -- Two Parts The cynic might suspect that the Dream 9 were released because they'll be less of a problem for the government scattered to their homes around the country than they were inside where they were organizing, protesting, gathering stories of other detainees, and shining some light on one of the darker corners of authoritarian America.
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Sunday, December 23, 2018
Climate Crisis Goes Unabated, Nations Most Responsible Still Anti-Future Take the 100 million barrels of oil the world uses every day. Leaving those 100 million barrels in the ground, day after day after day, year after year, would accrue to the health and welfare of billions of people over decades if not centuries.
Sunday, December 23, 2018Climate Crisis Goes Unabated, Nations Most Responsible Still Anti-Future Take the 100 million barrels of oil the world uses every day. Leaving those 100 million barrels in the ground, day after day after day, year after year, would accrue to the health and welfare of billions of people over decades if not centuries.
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Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Dark Foreboding: Is the American Democratic Experiment Over? We head for another election on November 6, bitterly divided as a country. It's a so-called off-year election (no presidential race), but it may be darkly viewed as the last stand for the American democratic republic. Some say that 242-year-old experiment has already failed, and there's logic to that opinion. The decline has been long, slow, relentless and the end will not likely be apocalyptic.
Wednesday, July 11, 2018Dark Foreboding: Is the American Democratic Experiment Over? We head for another election on November 6, bitterly divided as a country. It's a so-called off-year election (no presidential race), but it may be darkly viewed as the last stand for the American democratic republic. Some say that 242-year-old experiment has already failed, and there's logic to that opinion. The decline has been long, slow, relentless and the end will not likely be apocalyptic.
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Thursday, August 9, 2018
Not Safe to Be Black at Smith College Smith has struggled with race issues in the past. President McCartney stakes out an honorable if somewhat bloodless position (smacking of white privilege?). Oumou Kanoute stakes out a heartfelt demand for a humane institutional response that offers an opportunity for meaningful institutional growth, especially in the current presidentially-induced atmosphere of racist pollution.
Thursday, August 9, 2018Not Safe to Be Black at Smith College Smith has struggled with race issues in the past. President McCartney stakes out an honorable if somewhat bloodless position (smacking of white privilege?). Oumou Kanoute stakes out a heartfelt demand for a humane institutional response that offers an opportunity for meaningful institutional growth, especially in the current presidentially-induced atmosphere of racist pollution.
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Sunday, December 7, 2014
Ferguson Killing Illuminates How Sociopaths in Power Act Under his present circumstances, with other possible investigations pending, there is no reason to expect Darren Wilson to display the full range of human emotion on national television. But even just a little apparently real emotion would have helped persuade us of his fundamental mental health and basic humanity.
Sunday, December 7, 2014Ferguson Killing Illuminates How Sociopaths in Power Act Under his present circumstances, with other possible investigations pending, there is no reason to expect Darren Wilson to display the full range of human emotion on national television. But even just a little apparently real emotion would have helped persuade us of his fundamental mental health and basic humanity.
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Thursday, June 4, 2020
Flyovers Demonstrate America's Massive Psychic Numbing Failing to take control of the public health situation, what were they thinking in the White House? How about a whole bunch of flyovers across the nation by military warplanes designed to kill millions in moments? Perfect! And no chance of infection of the pilots!
Thursday, June 4, 2020Flyovers Demonstrate America's Massive Psychic Numbing Failing to take control of the public health situation, what were they thinking in the White House? How about a whole bunch of flyovers across the nation by military warplanes designed to kill millions in moments? Perfect! And no chance of infection of the pilots!
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Friday, January 4, 2019
Afghanistan in 2019: Fewer US Troops, More CIA Torture and Killings The CIA-run death squad campaign isn't new, but it has been seriously expanded during the past two years. Death squad personnel run into the thousands, mostly Afghans, but are recruited, trained, equipped, and controlled by CIA agents or CIA contractors.
Friday, January 4, 2019Afghanistan in 2019: Fewer US Troops, More CIA Torture and Killings The CIA-run death squad campaign isn't new, but it has been seriously expanded during the past two years. Death squad personnel run into the thousands, mostly Afghans, but are recruited, trained, equipped, and controlled by CIA agents or CIA contractors.
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Friday, May 24, 2013
Endless War Is a Real Scandal The United States has been in a permanent state of war ever since. And on May 16, 2013, the Obama Administration's Pentagon officials testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee that they expected this permanent state of war to last another 10 to 20 years.
Friday, May 24, 2013Endless War Is a Real Scandal The United States has been in a permanent state of war ever since. And on May 16, 2013, the Obama Administration's Pentagon officials testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee that they expected this permanent state of war to last another 10 to 20 years.
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Sunday, April 14, 2013
Tar Sands Oil Arkansas, #4 (update) ExxonMobil tar sands oil spilled thousands of barrels through a gash in the pipeline two inches wide and 22 feet long, law firm reveals.
Sunday, April 14, 2013Tar Sands Oil Arkansas, #4 (update) ExxonMobil tar sands oil spilled thousands of barrels through a gash in the pipeline two inches wide and 22 feet long, law firm reveals.
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Saturday, October 20, 2012
Libya Changes Governments Peacefully Republicans hysterically claim Benghazi cover-up of some sort, media wander mindlessly, Libyans calmly change governments while Americans dither.
Saturday, October 20, 2012Libya Changes Governments Peacefully Republicans hysterically claim Benghazi cover-up of some sort, media wander mindlessly, Libyans calmly change governments while Americans dither.
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Saturday, July 7, 2012
Vermont Pushes Smart Meters Vermont environmental agency head kvells over smart meters
Saturday, July 7, 2012Vermont Pushes Smart Meters Vermont environmental agency head kvells over smart meters
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014
John McCain's Big Lie Less defensible, though hardly surprising, is the way the Washington Post and other less well known media outfits picked up the "idiot" story fragment and ran with it as if it was the whole story, without further context, much less identifying Sen. McCain's own idiotic statements and falsehoods in the very same radio interview
Tuesday, October 28, 2014John McCain's Big Lie Less defensible, though hardly surprising, is the way the Washington Post and other less well known media outfits picked up the "idiot" story fragment and ran with it as if it was the whole story, without further context, much less identifying Sen. McCain's own idiotic statements and falsehoods in the very same radio interview
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Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Rampant, Racist Voter Suppression in Georgia Goes to Federal Court Brian Kemp is currently Georgia's secretary of state. Part of the secretary's job, as chair of the State Elections Board, is to make decisions that determine who can vote, where they can vote, when they can vote, and whether their votes will be counted accurately -- in other words, the whole voting process.
Wednesday, October 24, 2018Rampant, Racist Voter Suppression in Georgia Goes to Federal Court Brian Kemp is currently Georgia's secretary of state. Part of the secretary's job, as chair of the State Elections Board, is to make decisions that determine who can vote, where they can vote, when they can vote, and whether their votes will be counted accurately -- in other words, the whole voting process.
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013
U.S. Army Court Martials Constitution Even though Manning pled guilty to 10 of 22 charges last March, the U.S. Government is going ahead with all its charges, without providing a credible rationale. One charge, under the 1913 Espionage Act, could carry the death penalty.
Wednesday, June 12, 2013U.S. Army Court Martials Constitution Even though Manning pled guilty to 10 of 22 charges last March, the U.S. Government is going ahead with all its charges, without providing a credible rationale. One charge, under the 1913 Espionage Act, could carry the death penalty.
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Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Fukushima Meltdowns Turn 10, Still Getting Worse Fukushima Daiichi's multiple nuclear reactor meltdowns started 10 years ago. They are not over. They are not even close to over. Nuclear disasters don't ever end.
Wednesday, March 10, 2021Fukushima Meltdowns Turn 10, Still Getting Worse Fukushima Daiichi's multiple nuclear reactor meltdowns started 10 years ago. They are not over. They are not even close to over. Nuclear disasters don't ever end.
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Tuesday, May 17, 2016
National Mindlessness, Police to POTUS, Threatens Nation onald Trump is the greatest threat to America today, or so the conventional wisdom left and right would have you believe. More realistically, the greatest threat to America today is actually believing that Trump is the greatest threat to America today. To believe that Donald Trump is the greatest threat to America today, one needs to be a little hysterical or dishonest (or both). Actually --
Tuesday, May 17, 2016National Mindlessness, Police to POTUS, Threatens Nation onald Trump is the greatest threat to America today, or so the conventional wisdom left and right would have you believe. More realistically, the greatest threat to America today is actually believing that Trump is the greatest threat to America today. To believe that Donald Trump is the greatest threat to America today, one needs to be a little hysterical or dishonest (or both). Actually --
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Wednesday, September 4, 2013
A Syrian Gulf of Tonkin Resolution When the president asks Congress for a blank check for war, why does the Congress fret about setting a limit on war powers instead of just saying: "NO" to any check? What happened to checks and balances (as if we all didn't know)?
Wednesday, September 4, 2013A Syrian Gulf of Tonkin Resolution When the president asks Congress for a blank check for war, why does the Congress fret about setting a limit on war powers instead of just saying: "NO" to any check? What happened to checks and balances (as if we all didn't know)?
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Sunday, October 14, 2012
Arizona Senate Ad Rooted in Bush Era Fight Arizona Senate Race: Cong. Jeff Flake gets attention with attack ad based on old, unsupported allegations against Dr. Richard Carmona, decorated Viet-Nam war vet and former Surgeon General.
Sunday, October 14, 2012Arizona Senate Ad Rooted in Bush Era Fight Arizona Senate Race: Cong. Jeff Flake gets attention with attack ad based on old, unsupported allegations against Dr. Richard Carmona, decorated Viet-Nam war vet and former Surgeon General.
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Friday, December 8, 2017
Lynch Mob of Democrats Goes After Al Franken in Burst of Cowardice Kirsten Gillibrand is a smart, experienced, thoughtful person -- and the best she can come up with is an invitation to Al Franken to a self-lynching based on skimpy, somewhat disputed evidence? The best she can do is urge fellow Democrats to shoot their wounded?
Friday, December 8, 2017Lynch Mob of Democrats Goes After Al Franken in Burst of Cowardice Kirsten Gillibrand is a smart, experienced, thoughtful person -- and the best she can come up with is an invitation to Al Franken to a self-lynching based on skimpy, somewhat disputed evidence? The best she can do is urge fellow Democrats to shoot their wounded?
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Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Tweets, Leaks, Classified Information, and the Right to Know The issue of "classified information" and "leaks" is largely a meaningless smokescreen designed to protect the power of government secrecy against the public's right to know the truth.
Wednesday, August 9, 2017Tweets, Leaks, Classified Information, and the Right to Know The issue of "classified information" and "leaks" is largely a meaningless smokescreen designed to protect the power of government secrecy against the public's right to know the truth.
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Thursday, June 27, 2019
Trump's Immigration Police State Persistently Violates the Law Committing human rights crimes is the Trump policy for controlling immigration. Not only is it illegal, it's failing. There is outrage over the inhumanity, there are many hands wringing, but where is the outrage at the Perpetrator in Chief? The torture and killing of immigrant children are not only crimes but impeachable offenses.
Thursday, June 27, 2019Trump's Immigration Police State Persistently Violates the Law Committing human rights crimes is the Trump policy for controlling immigration. Not only is it illegal, it's failing. There is outrage over the inhumanity, there are many hands wringing, but where is the outrage at the Perpetrator in Chief? The torture and killing of immigrant children are not only crimes but impeachable offenses.
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Thursday, April 11, 2013
Tar Sands Oil Arkansas #2 (an update, almost all new) Despite ExxonMobil's best efforts, tar sands oil continues to spread in Mayflower, Arkansas. ExxonMobil is having more success, so far, controlling the spread of reliable information.
Thursday, April 11, 2013Tar Sands Oil Arkansas #2 (an update, almost all new) Despite ExxonMobil's best efforts, tar sands oil continues to spread in Mayflower, Arkansas. ExxonMobil is having more success, so far, controlling the spread of reliable information.
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Monday, December 17, 2012
Marine Drags Oil Co into Court Texas chemist, paramedic, former Marine has sued TransCanada over Keystone XL pipeline, charging fraud as well as environmental threat --hearing December 19
Monday, December 17, 2012Marine Drags Oil Co into Court Texas chemist, paramedic, former Marine has sued TransCanada over Keystone XL pipeline, charging fraud as well as environmental threat --hearing December 19
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Thursday, July 5, 2018
FBI Goes Trumpian, Hypes Imaginary Terrorism Threat as Fake News The FBI filings make very clear that no terrorism and no threat of terrorism existed before the FBI decided to pump one up, using a troubled, angry, isolated black man as its pawn to inflate its own institutional ego with fake news. And the news media bought the fake news as presented, uncritically parroting the FBI spin that they stopped an attempted terror attack.
Thursday, July 5, 2018FBI Goes Trumpian, Hypes Imaginary Terrorism Threat as Fake News The FBI filings make very clear that no terrorism and no threat of terrorism existed before the FBI decided to pump one up, using a troubled, angry, isolated black man as its pawn to inflate its own institutional ego with fake news. And the news media bought the fake news as presented, uncritically parroting the FBI spin that they stopped an attempted terror attack.
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Sunday, December 30, 2012
Fear, Congress, and Denial Leaving Congress after 16 years, Dennis Kucinich sees contemporary America as a "nightmare" but stops short of saying: wake up!
Sunday, December 30, 2012Fear, Congress, and Denial Leaving Congress after 16 years, Dennis Kucinich sees contemporary America as a "nightmare" but stops short of saying: wake up!
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Friday, August 16, 2013
Racist Right Wing Propaganda [Consumer warning: when you see the rightwing trope about Joshua Heath Chellew, you are experiencing dishonest discourse intent on misinforming and misleading you, in this case for the sake of racism.]
Friday, August 16, 2013Racist Right Wing Propaganda [Consumer warning: when you see the rightwing trope about Joshua Heath Chellew, you are experiencing dishonest discourse intent on misinforming and misleading you, in this case for the sake of racism.]
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Friday, May 3, 2013
Crucifying Richard Falk for Truth-telling Writing on April 19, four days after the event, Falk was aware that one suspect was dead and the other still at large. His concern was that the president -- and the country -- not over-react to what, although he doesn't put it this way, would be a slow day in Baghdad.
Friday, May 3, 2013Crucifying Richard Falk for Truth-telling Writing on April 19, four days after the event, Falk was aware that one suspect was dead and the other still at large. His concern was that the president -- and the country -- not over-react to what, although he doesn't put it this way, would be a slow day in Baghdad.
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Sunday, November 11, 2018
US Calls for Ceasefire, Keeps Attacking Yemen If the US were actually serious about peace and humanitarian aid for Yemen, the US could exercise leadership in the UN Security Council to force a peace process. The US could unilaterally take immediate and forceful actions to stop the war. US policy in Yemen continues to be based on profound lies with no moral justification.
Sunday, November 11, 2018US Calls for Ceasefire, Keeps Attacking Yemen If the US were actually serious about peace and humanitarian aid for Yemen, the US could exercise leadership in the UN Security Council to force a peace process. The US could unilaterally take immediate and forceful actions to stop the war. US policy in Yemen continues to be based on profound lies with no moral justification.
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Smart Meter Wars Simmer Police bust single mother for resisting smart meter.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013Smart Meter Wars Simmer Police bust single mother for resisting smart meter.
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Thursday, April 18, 2013
Muslim Brotherhood Called Eqypt's Master Race The Muslim Brotherhood is the dominant party in the current Egyptian government, but it does not suffer critics gladly. An example of Egyprian "free expression" and its consequences.
Thursday, April 18, 2013Muslim Brotherhood Called Eqypt's Master Race The Muslim Brotherhood is the dominant party in the current Egyptian government, but it does not suffer critics gladly. An example of Egyprian "free expression" and its consequences.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Strange Senate Race The more Connecticut know about their Senate candidates, the more undecided they become.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012Strange Senate Race The more Connecticut know about their Senate candidates, the more undecided they become.
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Militarization at Issue in Vermont Vermont resists further militarism despite weak-kneed elected officials, even Bernie Sanders.
Tuesday, October 2, 2012Militarization at Issue in Vermont Vermont resists further militarism despite weak-kneed elected officials, even Bernie Sanders.
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Saturday, March 9, 2019
The Sins of Ilhan Omar Start With Challenging Rigid Orthodoxy Boardman writes: Democrats have gone all atwitter (pun intended), scattering ruffled feathers all over the barnyard as if a fox were after them when the only serious threat to their blinkered preconceptions comes from a bird of different plumage.
Saturday, March 9, 2019The Sins of Ilhan Omar Start With Challenging Rigid Orthodoxy Boardman writes: Democrats have gone all atwitter (pun intended), scattering ruffled feathers all over the barnyard as if a fox were after them when the only serious threat to their blinkered preconceptions comes from a bird of different plumage.
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Progressive Runs to Lose, to Help Democrats The chair of the Vermont Progressive Party ran for governor in the party primary, intending to step down when she won, in order to help the incumbent Democratic governor. But now a late write-in candidate is just a recount away from winning the nomination.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012Progressive Runs to Lose, to Help Democrats The chair of the Vermont Progressive Party ran for governor in the party primary, intending to step down when she won, in order to help the incumbent Democratic governor. But now a late write-in candidate is just a recount away from winning the nomination.
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Friday, May 24, 2019
Trump Deserves Impeachment. Does US House Have the Integrity? As it stands now, Trump is forcing the House to choose between impeaching him and caving in to him. Even if the House calls his bluff and impeaches him, Democrats and the country may lose the election. But if the House caves and allows the president to continue on his law-defying dictatorial path, then the election might well be irrelevant.
Friday, May 24, 2019Trump Deserves Impeachment. Does US House Have the Integrity? As it stands now, Trump is forcing the House to choose between impeaching him and caving in to him. Even if the House calls his bluff and impeaches him, Democrats and the country may lose the election. But if the House caves and allows the president to continue on his law-defying dictatorial path, then the election might well be irrelevant.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Escalation Is Escalation Is Escalation: Lesson of Vietnam War Obama has to see a growing wasteland in the metastasizing cancer caused by the toxic Bush years. To judge by the president's military escalations in assorted Bush administration wars, he appears to be responding to the Cheney gang's demand for more war, more torture, more random killing of innocents, and just plain more cold-blooded toughness.
Wednesday, November 18, 2015Escalation Is Escalation Is Escalation: Lesson of Vietnam War Obama has to see a growing wasteland in the metastasizing cancer caused by the toxic Bush years. To judge by the president's military escalations in assorted Bush administration wars, he appears to be responding to the Cheney gang's demand for more war, more torture, more random killing of innocents, and just plain more cold-blooded toughness.
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Monday, March 11, 2013
Is Scalia a Troll? Referring to voting rights as a "racial entitlement," Justice Antonin Scalia raises danger of Supreme Court undermining Americans' right to vote.
Monday, March 11, 2013Is Scalia a Troll? Referring to voting rights as a "racial entitlement," Justice Antonin Scalia raises danger of Supreme Court undermining Americans' right to vote.
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Sunday, July 1, 2018
ICE Is a State-Sponsored Terrorist Organization -- Abolish ICE November is coming and Democrats continue to cling to old notions detached from current reality (the Crowley Democrats). For November to be worth celebrating, the party will have to do much better than that. It will have to find a heart and a soul and a brain and apply them all to the criminal atrocities our government commits daily at home and abroad.
Sunday, July 1, 2018ICE Is a State-Sponsored Terrorist Organization -- Abolish ICE November is coming and Democrats continue to cling to old notions detached from current reality (the Crowley Democrats). For November to be worth celebrating, the party will have to do much better than that. It will have to find a heart and a soul and a brain and apply them all to the criminal atrocities our government commits daily at home and abroad.
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Tar Sands Oil Arkansas #1 ExxonMobil started by saying the spill wasn't tar sands oil from Canada, but it WAS tar sands oil, thousands of barrels of it (at 42 gallons per barrel).
Wednesday, April 10, 2013Tar Sands Oil Arkansas #1 ExxonMobil started by saying the spill wasn't tar sands oil from Canada, but it WAS tar sands oil, thousands of barrels of it (at 42 gallons per barrel).
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Friday, August 24, 2012
Penn. Voter Suppression Is Working Republican Judge leaves Republican voter suppression law in place, appeal filed.
Friday, August 24, 2012Penn. Voter Suppression Is Working Republican Judge leaves Republican voter suppression law in place, appeal filed.
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Sunday, May 5, 2013
Jailing Pregnant War Resister Amnesty International identifies her as a prisoner of conscience, she was the first American woman conscientious objector to flee to Canada, but mainstream media mostly ignore this Iraq war vet with PTSD -- unless they're labeling her a "deserter."
Sunday, May 5, 2013Jailing Pregnant War Resister Amnesty International identifies her as a prisoner of conscience, she was the first American woman conscientious objector to flee to Canada, but mainstream media mostly ignore this Iraq war vet with PTSD -- unless they're labeling her a "deserter."
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Monday, July 23, 2012
Vermont Resists Police Violence In wake of police tasering death, a former governor joins hundreds of other Vermonters in calling for a moratorium on police use of tasers until police have clear policy and procedures, as well as training.
Monday, July 23, 2012Vermont Resists Police Violence In wake of police tasering death, a former governor joins hundreds of other Vermonters in calling for a moratorium on police use of tasers until police have clear policy and procedures, as well as training.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Vermont Blows Off U.S. Constitution This is a story about how easy it is for a city government to run roughshod over an employee's constitutional rights, including free speech under the First Amendment and due process of law under the Fifth Amendment. And it's a story of how hard it is, despite those rights, for that employee to get any kind of justice from the state's judiciary.
Tuesday, September 16, 2014Vermont Blows Off U.S. Constitution This is a story about how easy it is for a city government to run roughshod over an employee's constitutional rights, including free speech under the First Amendment and due process of law under the Fifth Amendment. And it's a story of how hard it is, despite those rights, for that employee to get any kind of justice from the state's judiciary.
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Thursday, September 6, 2012
Romney Goes to Vermont Mitt Romney goes to Vermont for Debate prep, makes news in NH, leaves Vermont unscathed.
Thursday, September 6, 2012Romney Goes to Vermont Mitt Romney goes to Vermont for Debate prep, makes news in NH, leaves Vermont unscathed.
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Sunday, September 14, 2014
Who You Callin' An Organizing Principle?!?! Maybe others have pointed out that this is a pretty stupid statement, but that's far from the conventional wisdom. Think about the levels of stupidity here. Only "Great nations"? What, small nations don't need to get their acts together? And who says the United States is a "great" nation and in what sense is it great and isn't spouting a version of the American exceptionalism cliche just another way of doing stupid stuff?
Sunday, September 14, 2014Who You Callin' An Organizing Principle?!?! Maybe others have pointed out that this is a pretty stupid statement, but that's far from the conventional wisdom. Think about the levels of stupidity here. Only "Great nations"? What, small nations don't need to get their acts together? And who says the United States is a "great" nation and in what sense is it great and isn't spouting a version of the American exceptionalism cliche just another way of doing stupid stuff?
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Monday, July 30, 2012
Vermont Police Violence Police Pepper Spray peaceful demonstrators delaying dignitries on their way to a fancy dinner date.
Monday, July 30, 2012Vermont Police Violence Police Pepper Spray peaceful demonstrators delaying dignitries on their way to a fancy dinner date.
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Faulty Welds in Pipeline Claimed Tar Sands Blockade charges Keystone pipeline has faulty welds, will leak.
Thursday, January 31, 2013Faulty Welds in Pipeline Claimed Tar Sands Blockade charges Keystone pipeline has faulty welds, will leak.
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Thursday, August 29, 2013
To What End Do We Kill? There is no good reason to make a bad situation worse. It's likely to get worse all on its own, and unimaginably worse if the government starts to fall.
Thursday, August 29, 2013To What End Do We Kill? There is no good reason to make a bad situation worse. It's likely to get worse all on its own, and unimaginably worse if the government starts to fall.
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012
What Would Romney Try To Do To The World? Romney foreign policy speech fails to outline foreign policy, but makes some mistakes.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012What Would Romney Try To Do To The World? Romney foreign policy speech fails to outline foreign policy, but makes some mistakes.
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Saturday, March 16, 2013
Drone Strikes & War Crimes Rand Paul's filibuster leave no one un-offended.
Saturday, March 16, 2013Drone Strikes & War Crimes Rand Paul's filibuster leave no one un-offended.
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Friday, April 12, 2013
Tar Sands Oil Arkansas #3 (update) Even those directly affected say they are told little, mostly generalities from ExxonMobil public relations people. As RT.com reported April 7, "Town residents say they are being kept in the dark over compensation and the cleanup by Exxon."
Friday, April 12, 2013Tar Sands Oil Arkansas #3 (update) Even those directly affected say they are told little, mostly generalities from ExxonMobil public relations people. As RT.com reported April 7, "Town residents say they are being kept in the dark over compensation and the cleanup by Exxon."
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015
"Low Life Scum" Considered Would you want to change places with a despised war criminal? Seriously, would you want to live as a guilty monster, unwilling to see yourself clearly even in a mirror, at the end of a career of criminal cruelty that has made you hated by millions if not billions of your fellow humans, never knowing if those who politely fawn on your excellence don't secretly despise you behind your back? Would you really like to change places
Wednesday, February 4, 2015"Low Life Scum" Considered Would you want to change places with a despised war criminal? Seriously, would you want to live as a guilty monster, unwilling to see yourself clearly even in a mirror, at the end of a career of criminal cruelty that has made you hated by millions if not billions of your fellow humans, never knowing if those who politely fawn on your excellence don't secretly despise you behind your back? Would you really like to change places
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Saturday, December 1, 2018
Climate Change Response Pits Trump Against US Government Climate change is a dynamic process, driven by human activity that humans have done little to mitigate for a generation. Climate change is happening, it is irreversible, but there is still time to mitigate its worst effects, to save lives, to preserve habitat, to adjust economies, to sustain a somewhat civilized world.
Saturday, December 1, 2018Climate Change Response Pits Trump Against US Government Climate change is a dynamic process, driven by human activity that humans have done little to mitigate for a generation. Climate change is happening, it is irreversible, but there is still time to mitigate its worst effects, to save lives, to preserve habitat, to adjust economies, to sustain a somewhat civilized world.
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Friday, March 22, 2013
How Government Fails The F-35 is a case study of government failure at all levels -- civilian and military, federal, state, local, even airport authority. Not one critical government agency is meeting its obligation to protect the people it presumably represents. Senator Patrick Leahy, D-VT, who wrote the F-35 critique above, is hardly unique as an illustration of how government fails, but he sees no alternative to failure.
Friday, March 22, 2013How Government Fails The F-35 is a case study of government failure at all levels -- civilian and military, federal, state, local, even airport authority. Not one critical government agency is meeting its obligation to protect the people it presumably represents. Senator Patrick Leahy, D-VT, who wrote the F-35 critique above, is hardly unique as an illustration of how government fails, but he sees no alternative to failure.
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Thursday, November 21, 2013
Iran Talks Still Offer an Opportunity That Some Resist Desperately This could be the moment when the intransigent few destroyed hope for bringing Iran, the world's most significant, scapegoated pariah nation, back into what passes for the international community, preferring to indulge their lust for war in all its unpredictable uselessness.
Thursday, November 21, 2013Iran Talks Still Offer an Opportunity That Some Resist Desperately This could be the moment when the intransigent few destroyed hope for bringing Iran, the world's most significant, scapegoated pariah nation, back into what passes for the international community, preferring to indulge their lust for war in all its unpredictable uselessness.
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Friday, June 14, 2013
Syria Awaits U.S. Intervention Tired of Spying on Americans? Why Not Go Bomb Syria? When a president in his second term is suddenly revealed to be snooping into everyone's business by every electronic means available, the natural reaction might be to try to change the subject
Friday, June 14, 2013Syria Awaits U.S. Intervention Tired of Spying on Americans? Why Not Go Bomb Syria? When a president in his second term is suddenly revealed to be snooping into everyone's business by every electronic means available, the natural reaction might be to try to change the subject
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Ignoring the Global Warming Reality The White House is expected to decide whether Keystone XL can be built sometime in the next month or so, and all it takes to proceed is a presidential signature. For President Obama, this decision will be a clear signal defining his real priorities: stopping the rise of the oceans and healing the planet, as he campaigned, or settling for short-term economic gains with unknown long-term consequences.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012Ignoring the Global Warming Reality The White House is expected to decide whether Keystone XL can be built sometime in the next month or so, and all it takes to proceed is a presidential signature. For President Obama, this decision will be a clear signal defining his real priorities: stopping the rise of the oceans and healing the planet, as he campaigned, or settling for short-term economic gains with unknown long-term consequences.
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Saturday, June 16, 2018
Democratic Senator Schumer Is a Dishonest Putz on Korea, Peace Why do the Chuck Schumers of the world think it's somehow better to rag on Trump for an uncertain peace process rather than confront him on the deliberate, continuous flouting of international and domestic law? Why do the Chuck Schumers of the world tolerate the cruelty and violence inflicted on poor people fleeing from violence and hopelessness?
Saturday, June 16, 2018Democratic Senator Schumer Is a Dishonest Putz on Korea, Peace Why do the Chuck Schumers of the world think it's somehow better to rag on Trump for an uncertain peace process rather than confront him on the deliberate, continuous flouting of international and domestic law? Why do the Chuck Schumers of the world tolerate the cruelty and violence inflicted on poor people fleeing from violence and hopelessness?
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Monday, June 4, 2018
Taboo Word for Vagina Distracts From Inhumane Trump Policy Bee apologized to Trump for calling her a taboo word for vagina, even though that's anatomically correct. But what about "feckless"? Shouldn't she apologize for that, too, since Ivanka Trump, whatever else one may think of her, is hardly feckless as she globe-trots, merchandises out of the White House, and collects Chinese patents at a remarkable rate?
Monday, June 4, 2018Taboo Word for Vagina Distracts From Inhumane Trump Policy Bee apologized to Trump for calling her a taboo word for vagina, even though that's anatomically correct. But what about "feckless"? Shouldn't she apologize for that, too, since Ivanka Trump, whatever else one may think of her, is hardly feckless as she globe-trots, merchandises out of the White House, and collects Chinese patents at a remarkable rate?
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Friday, July 27, 2012
FBI Harasses Vermont Protests planned for regional governors conference, FBI comes to chill free speech.
Friday, July 27, 2012FBI Harasses Vermont Protests planned for regional governors conference, FBI comes to chill free speech.
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Monday, September 11, 2017
Why Expect Justice for Children From a Category 5 Presidency? The legislative history of the DREAM Act's multiple failures to treat innocent children with something like fairness and decency is a story of dysfunctional government now in its third presidency. The standards in the DREAM Act are truly double standards, expecting these forced immigrant children to be paragons of virtue that some native-born citizen children would have a hard time meeting.
Monday, September 11, 2017Why Expect Justice for Children From a Category 5 Presidency? The legislative history of the DREAM Act's multiple failures to treat innocent children with something like fairness and decency is a story of dysfunctional government now in its third presidency. The standards in the DREAM Act are truly double standards, expecting these forced immigrant children to be paragons of virtue that some native-born citizen children would have a hard time meeting.
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Friday, June 10, 2016
"Historic" Empty Suit Visits Hiroshima The sterile language of a detached president illustrates how far we are from facing the reality of our own government's deliberate atrocities. Hiroshima was certainly destroyed, abstractly, with "a terrible force unleashed" -- but by no one? In the president's passive parsing, it's as if he thought it was an "act of God." More honestly told: President Truman approved the atomic bombing of Japan, which was carried out on August
Friday, June 10, 2016"Historic" Empty Suit Visits Hiroshima The sterile language of a detached president illustrates how far we are from facing the reality of our own government's deliberate atrocities. Hiroshima was certainly destroyed, abstractly, with "a terrible force unleashed" -- but by no one? In the president's passive parsing, it's as if he thought it was an "act of God." More honestly told: President Truman approved the atomic bombing of Japan, which was carried out on August
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Thursday, July 11, 2013
Vermont Government Rots from the Top When the city council in a city of just 18,000 people reverses a vote it took a year earlier, it's not usually off national significance, but if the South Burlington City Council votes as expected on July 8, in support of basing the F-35 strike fighter in Vermont, it will illustrate how deep the tentacles of national power reach into local government in this country
Thursday, July 11, 2013Vermont Government Rots from the Top When the city council in a city of just 18,000 people reverses a vote it took a year earlier, it's not usually off national significance, but if the South Burlington City Council votes as expected on July 8, in support of basing the F-35 strike fighter in Vermont, it will illustrate how deep the tentacles of national power reach into local government in this country
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Friday, November 30, 2012
Vermont Nuke Case Cites Risks Aging nuclear power plants present increasing risks to the U.S. environment, because of possible catastrophic events like the one that hit Fukushima, Japan, and storage problems with nuclear waste. A trespassing case in Vermont raised some of these questions.
Friday, November 30, 2012Vermont Nuke Case Cites Risks Aging nuclear power plants present increasing risks to the U.S. environment, because of possible catastrophic events like the one that hit Fukushima, Japan, and storage problems with nuclear waste. A trespassing case in Vermont raised some of these questions.
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Sunday, September 9, 2012
Race for Vermont Governor Could be Three-Way Progressive Party poobahs had planned to give the incumbent governor, Democrat Peter Shumlin, a pass in his run for re-election. Now an insurgemt wrote-in candidate is 2 votes from winning the nomination during the statewide recount September 13.
Sunday, September 9, 2012Race for Vermont Governor Could be Three-Way Progressive Party poobahs had planned to give the incumbent governor, Democrat Peter Shumlin, a pass in his run for re-election. Now an insurgemt wrote-in candidate is 2 votes from winning the nomination during the statewide recount September 13.
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Tuesday, October 7, 2014
American War Cries A Nobel Peace Prize recipient is among the loudest voices for war nowadays. Better, this Nobel Peace prize recipient has unchecked power to wage war and uses it willfully in a variety of nations. Perhaps best, this prize-winning peace president has set out to a plan to make a desert and call it peace, for which a grateful power structure might well give him yet another prize.
Tuesday, October 7, 2014American War Cries A Nobel Peace Prize recipient is among the loudest voices for war nowadays. Better, this Nobel Peace prize recipient has unchecked power to wage war and uses it willfully in a variety of nations. Perhaps best, this prize-winning peace president has set out to a plan to make a desert and call it peace, for which a grateful power structure might well give him yet another prize.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Killing Keystone Is Just a Start Killing the Keystone would be good for mitigating climate change, but much more will be needed to preserve a habitable planet.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013Killing Keystone Is Just a Start Killing the Keystone would be good for mitigating climate change, but much more will be needed to preserve a habitable planet.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Hillary "Wins" Benghazi Bipartisan Bad Faith Boogaloo "Benghazi," Washington's long-running kabuki circus, is reali=ly about the US imperial right to wage war on anyone anywhere.
Tuesday, October 27, 2015Hillary "Wins" Benghazi Bipartisan Bad Faith Boogaloo "Benghazi," Washington's long-running kabuki circus, is reali=ly about the US imperial right to wage war on anyone anywhere.
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Artists Fight State of Vermont for Mountaintop Studio/Home Challenged by a Vermont ower copmpany and the state's Public Service Board, two Russian-born ceramic artists have been fighting for years to keep their mountaintop studio/home.
Wednesday, August 8, 2012Artists Fight State of Vermont for Mountaintop Studio/Home Challenged by a Vermont ower copmpany and the state's Public Service Board, two Russian-born ceramic artists have been fighting for years to keep their mountaintop studio/home.
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Saturday, October 20, 2012
Thanks For Our Wonderful System ;-)))) Let's be grateful for our modern capitalist democracy for keeping things simple.
Saturday, October 20, 2012Thanks For Our Wonderful System ;-)))) Let's be grateful for our modern capitalist democracy for keeping things simple.
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Friday, March 24, 2017
Russians Hit Democracy Already Damaged FBI Director Comey let loose the mechanical rabbit of Russian interference and now all the political greyhounds are chasing it around a circular track is if it were a real quarry worth catching. That gives them all deniability for ignoring the bigger, fatter elephants in the room that actually need to be addressed.
Friday, March 24, 2017Russians Hit Democracy Already Damaged FBI Director Comey let loose the mechanical rabbit of Russian interference and now all the political greyhounds are chasing it around a circular track is if it were a real quarry worth catching. That gives them all deniability for ignoring the bigger, fatter elephants in the room that actually need to be addressed.
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Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Expanded War, Hunger, Disease, Death in Yemen No Big Deal to US The US has participated in Saudi Arabia's genocidal air war on Yemen since 2015 and now offers no objection to a UAE-led military offensive to raise the death toll in ground combat. Unacceptable as international criminality has been in Yemen, it could be worse, since the US recently suggested adding more American forces on the ground to support the UAE current attack plans.
Wednesday, June 13, 2018Expanded War, Hunger, Disease, Death in Yemen No Big Deal to US The US has participated in Saudi Arabia's genocidal air war on Yemen since 2015 and now offers no objection to a UAE-led military offensive to raise the death toll in ground combat. Unacceptable as international criminality has been in Yemen, it could be worse, since the US recently suggested adding more American forces on the ground to support the UAE current attack plans.
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Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Stupid Stuff on Steroids Our hysteria is usually obvious in retrospect, whether the freak-out is over witches, labor unions, or communists. Hysteria is not always so easy to perceive as it happens or, in this case, as it is happening right now with ISIS-centric Islamophobia running rampant around the nation's terror-drenched reptilian brain.
Tuesday, September 30, 2014Stupid Stuff on Steroids Our hysteria is usually obvious in retrospect, whether the freak-out is over witches, labor unions, or communists. Hysteria is not always so easy to perceive as it happens or, in this case, as it is happening right now with ISIS-centric Islamophobia running rampant around the nation's terror-drenched reptilian brain.
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Benghazi Emails Reveal... Not Much The strangest thing about the public release on May 15 of 100 or so emails relating to Benghazi talking points was that the White House had already made these same emails available to Congress roughly two months earlier.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013Benghazi Emails Reveal... Not Much The strangest thing about the public release on May 15 of 100 or so emails relating to Benghazi talking points was that the White House had already made these same emails available to Congress roughly two months earlier.
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Thursday, June 7, 2018
Trump Weaponizes Pardon Power: Scorched Earth Campaign Against Law In March, President Trump pardoned Kristian Saucier, convicted of breaching military security by taking and mishandling photos of the reactor room of the nuclear submarine he served on. In June, Kristian Saucier has decided to sue former president Barack Obama and former FBI director James Comey for violating his right to equal protection under the law.
Thursday, June 7, 2018Trump Weaponizes Pardon Power: Scorched Earth Campaign Against Law In March, President Trump pardoned Kristian Saucier, convicted of breaching military security by taking and mishandling photos of the reactor room of the nuclear submarine he served on. In June, Kristian Saucier has decided to sue former president Barack Obama and former FBI director James Comey for violating his right to equal protection under the law.
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Monday, August 20, 2012
Vermont Protests Are Widespread Vermonters in all parts of the state have something to protest from police brutality to nuclear power, from oil pipelines to a taser fatality, and more.
Monday, August 20, 2012Vermont Protests Are Widespread Vermonters in all parts of the state have something to protest from police brutality to nuclear power, from oil pipelines to a taser fatality, and more.
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Sunday, November 4, 2018
The Fire This Time -- It Will Keep Burning Long After November 6 Whatever happens November 6, the fires of political fascism and capitalist authoritarianism will continue to rage out of control. The conniving right has been feeding these flames for decades and it's likely to take more decades to extinguish them, if that's even possible. The Long March of the right from the debacle of Goldwater in 1964 to the triumph of Trump in 2016 has been astonishingly Maoist in its determination.
Sunday, November 4, 2018The Fire This Time -- It Will Keep Burning Long After November 6 Whatever happens November 6, the fires of political fascism and capitalist authoritarianism will continue to rage out of control. The conniving right has been feeding these flames for decades and it's likely to take more decades to extinguish them, if that's even possible. The Long March of the right from the debacle of Goldwater in 1964 to the triumph of Trump in 2016 has been astonishingly Maoist in its determination.
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Monday, July 9, 2012
Protests in Scotland and Vermont target Trident submarines and Yankee power plant Protestors sing to security at nuclear sub base in Scotland and nuclear power plant in Vermont.
Monday, July 9, 2012Protests in Scotland and Vermont target Trident submarines and Yankee power plant Protestors sing to security at nuclear sub base in Scotland and nuclear power plant in Vermont.
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Saturday, April 13, 2013
Mitch McConnell Goes Nixonian Found naked in the depths of his political depravity, Sen. Mitch McConnell says it's everybody else's fault for looking at him.
Saturday, April 13, 2013Mitch McConnell Goes Nixonian Found naked in the depths of his political depravity, Sen. Mitch McConnell says it's everybody else's fault for looking at him.
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Thursday, August 9, 2012
Reefer Madness in Vermont Republican candidate for governor uses false assertions to raise marijuana as an election issue in Vermont. Yes, Vermont!
Thursday, August 9, 2012Reefer Madness in Vermont Republican candidate for governor uses false assertions to raise marijuana as an election issue in Vermont. Yes, Vermont!
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Friday, July 20, 2018
Beyond Any Treasonable Doubt -- Isn't the President There Yet? Since his first moment in office, President Trump has been guilty of impeachable offenses, most obviously by violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution: using the office of the presidency for personal profit for himself, his family, and his friends. At least some of the corruption of the Trump administration has been widely reported and even resulted in a few official resignations.
Friday, July 20, 2018Beyond Any Treasonable Doubt -- Isn't the President There Yet? Since his first moment in office, President Trump has been guilty of impeachable offenses, most obviously by violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution: using the office of the presidency for personal profit for himself, his family, and his friends. At least some of the corruption of the Trump administration has been widely reported and even resulted in a few official resignations.
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013
United States of Zimmerman The verdict demonstrates that, despite the protestations of the law that it is about justice, that's only a pretense to cover the reality: that when the law produces justice, it's a fluke, an accident, a surprise. The law is only about the law. And it's no wonder, when you stop to think about who makes laws and why. Justice is one of the last things on the legislative mind, if it ever gets there at all.
Tuesday, July 16, 2013United States of Zimmerman The verdict demonstrates that, despite the protestations of the law that it is about justice, that's only a pretense to cover the reality: that when the law produces justice, it's a fluke, an accident, a surprise. The law is only about the law. And it's no wonder, when you stop to think about who makes laws and why. Justice is one of the last things on the legislative mind, if it ever gets there at all.
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Monday, September 3, 2012
Eastwood Gets Unemployment Wrong Clint Eastwood give an unemployment number that has never been reached, media and politicians do little to restore perspective.
Monday, September 3, 2012Eastwood Gets Unemployment Wrong Clint Eastwood give an unemployment number that has never been reached, media and politicians do little to restore perspective.
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Monday, July 16, 2012
Republican Argument Supports Democratic Opponent -- Ooops! Vermont Republican candidate Randy Brkck touts Breitbart "study" that actually supports his opponent, incumbent Democrat Peter Shumlin.
Monday, July 16, 2012Republican Argument Supports Democratic Opponent -- Ooops! Vermont Republican candidate Randy Brkck touts Breitbart "study" that actually supports his opponent, incumbent Democrat Peter Shumlin.
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Penn. Resists Voter Suppression Legal challenges to Penn. voter suppression go forward on three fronts.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012Penn. Resists Voter Suppression Legal challenges to Penn. voter suppression go forward on three fronts.
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Friday, June 10, 2016
Ali's Biggest Win: As Clay v. United States in Supreme Court Much of the coverage of Muhammad Ali's death kind of ducks how polarizing his life was in the 1960s as a brash young black man who loudly touted his own talents and called out the world for what it was. He was loved and he was hated, and he was especially hated by mindless sports writers reflecting themindless prejudices of their (and our) time (with some courageous exceptions ...
Friday, June 10, 2016Ali's Biggest Win: As Clay v. United States in Supreme Court Much of the coverage of Muhammad Ali's death kind of ducks how polarizing his life was in the 1960s as a brash young black man who loudly touted his own talents and called out the world for what it was. He was loved and he was hated, and he was especially hated by mindless sports writers reflecting themindless prejudices of their (and our) time (with some courageous exceptions ...
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Friday, August 31, 2012
Crushed Cop Cars Touch Nerves Vermont farmer who drove tractor over police cars, touched many nerves, not free on baikl.
Friday, August 31, 2012Crushed Cop Cars Touch Nerves Vermont farmer who drove tractor over police cars, touched many nerves, not free on baikl.
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Monday, October 8, 2012
Vermonters Push for Police Accountability Public demand for accountability over police violence meets official stonewall.
Monday, October 8, 2012Vermonters Push for Police Accountability Public demand for accountability over police violence meets official stonewall.
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Sunday, August 12, 2012
Democrat Is Biggest Threat to Democrat Vermont Democrats can choose generational shift in state prosecution power as primary pits 15-year incimbent against challengers from state's largest county.
Sunday, August 12, 2012Democrat Is Biggest Threat to Democrat Vermont Democrats can choose generational shift in state prosecution power as primary pits 15-year incimbent against challengers from state's largest county.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
"We're Here to Defend Your Vote" Obama Campaign baits news hook with bogus claim, Vermont media swallow it whole.
Wednesday, September 26, 2012"We're Here to Defend Your Vote" Obama Campaign baits news hook with bogus claim, Vermont media swallow it whole.
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Saturday, January 16, 2021
Liz Cheney Has a World Class Sense of Dark Humor When Cheney, the third ranking member of the House Republican leadership, announced that she would vote to impeach President Trump, she went against higher ranking Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Minority Whip Steve Scalise, who continue to hold the president above reproach.
Saturday, January 16, 2021Liz Cheney Has a World Class Sense of Dark Humor When Cheney, the third ranking member of the House Republican leadership, announced that she would vote to impeach President Trump, she went against higher ranking Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Minority Whip Steve Scalise, who continue to hold the president above reproach.
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Saturday, June 23, 2012
War & Vermont #1 F-35 Base Threatens 1300 Homes in Vermont
Saturday, June 23, 2012War & Vermont #1 F-35 Base Threatens 1300 Homes in Vermont
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Wednesday, April 4, 2018
President's Blatant Bigotry May Save DREAMERS in Federal Court Bigotry is soul-destroying for everyone, as our bigot-in-chief in the White House demonstrates almost daily. To be a decent nation within the norms of common decency and the intent of the US Constitution, we must resist and reject bigotry in all its forms. But for hope to be realized, a lot more of us need to bring the callous politics of bipartisan cruelty to an end.
Wednesday, April 4, 2018President's Blatant Bigotry May Save DREAMERS in Federal Court Bigotry is soul-destroying for everyone, as our bigot-in-chief in the White House demonstrates almost daily. To be a decent nation within the norms of common decency and the intent of the US Constitution, we must resist and reject bigotry in all its forms. But for hope to be realized, a lot more of us need to bring the callous politics of bipartisan cruelty to an end.
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Friday, July 20, 2012
Why Does US Bail Out British-Owned Bank ? Vermonters want to shut bailed out bank permanently -- especially since the bailout went to the British government.
Friday, July 20, 2012Why Does US Bail Out British-Owned Bank ? Vermonters want to shut bailed out bank permanently -- especially since the bailout went to the British government.
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Monday, April 29, 2019
NO Biden -- Some of the Reasons Why NOT Biden Biden can only fake gravitas. He goes on and on about "American values" and "who we are" without naming a specific value or saying who he thinks we are. This is political pandering in the form of a Rorschach blot. This is crude demagoguery that boils down to an appeal to elect a familiar under-achiever just because he's NOT Trump.
Monday, April 29, 2019NO Biden -- Some of the Reasons Why NOT Biden Biden can only fake gravitas. He goes on and on about "American values" and "who we are" without naming a specific value or saying who he thinks we are. This is political pandering in the form of a Rorschach blot. This is crude demagoguery that boils down to an appeal to elect a familiar under-achiever just because he's NOT Trump.
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
Word Police Strike Vermont Vermont bureaucrat says 12-year-old law prohibits 75-year-old Credit Union from saying it offers "banking" services. Appeal lodged.
Thursday, August 30, 2012Word Police Strike Vermont Vermont bureaucrat says 12-year-old law prohibits 75-year-old Credit Union from saying it offers "banking" services. Appeal lodged.
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Friday, April 22, 2016
US/Saudi aggression in Yemen celebrated by co-aggressor UAE On March 26, the first anniversary of the UAE's unprovoked attack on Yemen as part of the Saudi-led coalition of mostly Arab states, the UAE's official media published a document about the carnage in Yemen illustrative of George Orwell's observation: "If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself." The truth about the war in Yemen is a largely unreported secret.
Friday, April 22, 2016US/Saudi aggression in Yemen celebrated by co-aggressor UAE On March 26, the first anniversary of the UAE's unprovoked attack on Yemen as part of the Saudi-led coalition of mostly Arab states, the UAE's official media published a document about the carnage in Yemen illustrative of George Orwell's observation: "If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself." The truth about the war in Yemen is a largely unreported secret.
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Fiscal Conservatism Is What? If Paul Ryan says one thing but does another, which is he?
Wednesday, August 22, 2012Fiscal Conservatism Is What? If Paul Ryan says one thing but does another, which is he?
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Police Report Acquits Police Police report assesses police violence in Vermont last July, finds police acted with real professionalism. Four Burlington city councillors call for independent probe.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012Police Report Acquits Police Police report assesses police violence in Vermont last July, finds police acted with real professionalism. Four Burlington city councillors call for independent probe.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
For-Profit Colleges Take The Money and Run For-Profit Colleges get paid whether kids get educated or not.
Tuesday, August 21, 2012For-Profit Colleges Take The Money and Run For-Profit Colleges get paid whether kids get educated or not.
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Tar Sands Blockade Enters Third Week Resistance to Keystone XL pipeline slows TransCanada's construction assault on East Texas, not to mention the planet.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012Tar Sands Blockade Enters Third Week Resistance to Keystone XL pipeline slows TransCanada's construction assault on East Texas, not to mention the planet.
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