The best well thought out article I have read in a long time.
Month: August 2014
The choices in Syria are narrowed
By Karen Leigh This weekend the Syrian government reportedly bombed Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) targets in Raqqa, the group’s eastern stronghold and the base of operations for its summer offensives on Mosul and Iraqi Kurdistan. But ISIS… Read More ›
The Criminalization of Everyday Life
Not the police, mind you, but the campus cops at Ohio State University now possess an MRAP; that is, a $500,000, 18-ton, mine-resistant, ambush-protected armored vehicle of a sort used in the war in Afghanistan and, as Hunter Stuart of the… Read More ›
ALEC Pushes to Force the US to Amend The Constitution
By Jessica Mason The United States could be on the verge of calling its first constitutional convention since 1787, and the American Legislative Exchange Council, or “ALEC,” has been working behind the scenes to make it happen, including through its… Read More ›
Matthew Barber Reports On the Crisis in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region
By Matthew Barber in Syria Comment The calm is slowly unraveling in Kurdistan, and a growing, pervasive anxiety is beginning to afflict us all. We know that the fighting between the Kurdish Peshmerga forces and the Islamic State jihadis continues… Read More ›
The movement that dare not speak its name in Israel
Originally posted on The Progressive Democrat:
Vocal opposition to the war in Gaza can be hard to express in Israel, where campaigner Gideon Levy says people ‘leave their liberalism’ at the 1967 border Thousands of people gathered in Tel Aviv…
I Watch
on a cloudless, blue skyed morning as the eastern sun rises, stretches across the tops of the near buildings brilliant light, glows on leaf, grass, glass the tiny sparkles of nights dew, evaporate quickly snuffed out by the radiant heat… Read More ›
Water and the World’s Food Supply-Part I
Before modern times, water was revered, though probably not thought of as such, water is the Elixir of Life for all living things. The reverance for water has taken many forms, lyrical, musical, poetical, religious and in places both old… Read More ›
Noam Chomsky: The Kind of Anarchism I Believe in, and What’s Wrong with Libertarians
I’ve always been baffled about the misconceptions surrounding the word “anarchism”. I visualize everything into a story (storyartist), and on the word anarchism I picture rich white men like William Randolph Hearst sitting around a carved rich-wood table scheming how… Read More ›
Canadians Can’t Drink Their Water After Massive Keystone XL Spill
A breach in a tailings pond from the open-pit Mount Polley copper and gold mine sent five million cubic meters (1.3 billion gallons) ofslurry gushing into Hazeltine Creek in B.C. That’s the equivalent of 2,000 Olympic swimming pools of waste,… Read More ›
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