Jun 18 2013 - 3:16pm
If you're like me you've read several books that list inspiring examples of worker-owned businesses and co-ops, suggesting that expanding on such models might begin to right the wrongs of an incredibly unequal society that is growing even more unequal by the day.
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Jun 18 2013 - 10:25am
Recently at Dad Chat, we “took on” sexual abuse as our topic. It was a powerful chat with a powerful co-host in Rachel Thompson, author of http://www.amazon.com/Broken-Pieces-ebook/dp/B00AR0T74S/ref=pd_sim_kstore_2 Broken Pieces, her very open and personal story about her own painful experience with sexual abuse. Rachel is not bashful or shy about attacking this subject. She is also not afraid to be frank. Consequently, this particular Dad Chat hit home for many participants and provided some great takeaways. Read more
Jun 18 2013 - 8:29am
LIBERTY UNIVERSITY in Lynchburg, Va., was founded by televangelist Jerry Falwell. Its publications carry the slogan “Training Champions for Christ since 1971”. Some of those champions are now being trained to pilot armed drones, and others to pilot more traditional aircraft, in U.S. wars. For Christ. Read more
Jun 17 2013 - 8:39am
The state of the Jamaican economy and the increasing hostility to trade with Trinidad and Tobago by Jamaican manufacturers are matters that should concern all of the other 13 member countries of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM).
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Jun 16 2013 - 8:53am
Updated 2 days ago
Earlier this week I wrote an editorial proposing a 28th constitutional amendment to abolish war. The NSA scandal, I argue, is tied to the more pervasive problem of violent foreign (and domestic) policy, and we’ll continue to see government abuses so long as war and inter-state military violence are the acceptable choices for conflict management.
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Jun 14 2013 - 3:26pm
By Robert C. Koehler
We can end war.
Please, before you read on, let those four words float in silence for half a minute until you actually hear them — until they come alive with meaning as insistent as a hatching egg. Read more
Jun 13 2013 - 4:18pm
Is there any more entertainment potential for comic opera than the current assaults on cyberwarfare and alleged NSA monitoring intelligence?
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Jun 13 2013 - 4:09pm
On June 4, 2013, London-based news source The Guardian reported, “Fukushima tuna safe to eat – study.” The day before, the Los Angeles Times reported, “Scientists to eaters: Don’t freak out over Fukushima fish.” The San Diego Union-Tribune was emphatic: “Tuna Pose No Risk after Nuke Disaster,” and online, “Fukushima seafood radiation risk nil, study says.” The BBC ran with, “Fukushima tuna pose little health risk.” And CNN declared, “Fukushima tuna study finds minuscule health risks.”
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Jun 13 2013 - 1:09pm
The state of the Jamaican economy and the increasing hostility to trade with Trinidad and Tobago by Jamaican manufacturers, are matters that should concern all of the other 13 member countries of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM).
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Jun 13 2013 - 12:57pm
No, not number one in military spending (which we are). Not number one in incarceration rates (which we are as well). What if, instead of these things, the U.S. became hyper-focused on becoming the most peaceful nation on earth?
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Jun 12 2013 - 2:56pm
On July 1, 2007, I posted the following report on a then-new NSA whistleblower, a story later repeatedly "broken" by ABC News, Democracy Now!, James Bamford, and others. Thomas Drake, Edward Snowden, and NSA whistleblowers whose names we've learned are part of a rich and, I hope, growing tradition: Read more
Jun 12 2013 - 2:22pm
When 28 year-old Pittsburgh film director David Altrogge started looking into a story about a Philadelphia abortion provider named Dr. Kermit Gosnell, he could not have known what awaited him.
First there were the astonishing revelations surrounding Dr. Gosnell's decidedly shoddy operation which both provided late term abortions and victimized several of the doctor's clients. Regardless of one's position in the pro-life/pro-choice debate, all could agree that the conditions discovered in Dr. Gosnell's clinic were horrific.
Medical instruments were used from one woman's procedure to another, transmitting STDs. Heavy meds were used to sedate women, with one woman dying from overmedication. Evidence of babies born alive only to have their spinal cord snipped was found. Read more
Jun 12 2013 - 10:20am
by Lisa Savage and Janet Weil
The omnibus military spending bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) rolled out of the House Armed Services Committee pulling a trailer load of amendments and barreling down an increasingly potholed road. In the same week as news broke of massive school closings in Chicago and Philadelphia for lack of funding, only two members of the committee, California representatives Jackie Speier and John Garamendi, had the presence of mind to vote “no” on $637.5 billion more for drones, nukes, and missile “defense” in FY2014.
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Jun 11 2013 - 4:24pm
Experts Say U.S. Executive Secret War Harming U.S. National Security
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Jun 11 2013 - 3:42pm
The recent NSA revelations of widespread surveillance on American citizens should be cause for intense protest. Surely it will be, as a day of nationwide mass action to restore the Fourth Amendment has been planned for the fourth of July. But any awake American can see that PRISM is only one sock on a long line of dirty laundry. The list of U.S. government abuses and failures to protect stretches far and wide, an alphabet soup of depravity: PRISM, NDAA, CISPA, SOPA, Patriot Act, the Monsanto Protection Act, drones, secret kill lists, Guantanamo Bay, DNA tests, Abu Ghraib, Afghan Massacre, Keystone, Tar Sands, Hanford. I'm certain you'll think of more.
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Jun 11 2013 - 9:33am
A little leak can be quickly fixed by stuffing it or wrapping it. Large leaks, however, often require more structural repairs or completely different solutions. Bradley Manning’s and just days ago Edward Snowden’s leaking of classified information demonstrates just how big our structural repairs need to be. What they exposed are further indicators of the faulty framework of the national security debate. In other words, a poorly designed security construct is collapsing. We discuss the acts of those individuals on a sliding scale from “nominate them for the Nobel Peace Prize” to “try them for treason” – I opt for the first. Distracted by character debate, however, we are missing opportunities to engage in more meaningful discussions about the faulty structures they exposed.
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Jun 10 2013 - 8:10am
Updated 1 week ago
Many loyal Republicans opposed impeaching George W. Bush. So did most liberal and progressive activist groups, labor unions, peace organizations, churches, media outlets, journalists, pundits, organizers, and bloggers, not to mention most Democratic members of Congress, most Democrats dreaming of someday being in Congress, and -- toward the end of the Bush presidency -- most supporters of candidate Barack Obama or candidate Hillary Clinton.
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Jun 8 2013 - 4:15pm
Updated 1 week ago
I believe in preserving the individual freedoms and liberties for all. I'm a peaceful man, I hate violence, hate imperialism, and despise an all powerful behemoth of a government who monitors our emails and can kill us with drones just as easy as they can drive up the national deficit without regard. And I disagree with Christopher Swindell's [Charleston Gazette] op-ed piece about our gun laws and the NRA. Why? I disagree with his premise: Lets line up and shoot people that disagree with us. That disgusts me.
[Editor's Note: In brief , Journalism Prof. Swindell advocates the gun safety compromise proposed by Sen. Joe Manchin, but equates the N.R.A.'s opposition of "arming the U.S." as "treason," asserting that conservative gun owner's advocate Civil War
http://www.wvgazette.com/Opinion/OpEdCommentaries/201305300071 ]
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Jun 7 2013 - 11:06pm
Updated 1 week ago
Dear Editor,
Is the 4th Amendment dead?
With each passing day we see government agencies encroaching on more and more of our Natural Rights, as guaranteed in the United States Constitution. Read more
Jun 7 2013 - 1:16pm
Justice Louis Brandeis once called the right to privacy “the right most valued by civilized men.” Sadly, it has become increasingly clear that, despite pronunciations about “change” and “transparency,” the Obama administration is continuing down the path so dangerously started by former President George W. Bush.
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Jun 7 2013 - 1:10am
Of course, old people should know these things too, and some small percentage does know them, but energy seems better invested in trying to teach them to young people who have less to unlearn in the process. Read more
Jun 6 2013 - 2:16pm
So, now that the Turkish government, under the fiats of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip "Facebook is the worst menace to society" Erdogan, is running down nonviolent protesters and shooting tear gas cannisters into their heads and permanently blinding them, should we ask John McCain what to do? Or John Kerry? These are some of the leaders of the conservatives and liberals who want to ramp up the US military aid and action in Syria because Bashar al-Assad is violent against violent insurgents and anyone else affiliated with them or nearby when his Syrian military strikes.
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Jun 6 2013 - 1:04pm
From the government of China’s point of view, the visit of President Xi Jinping to Trinidad to meet nine Caribbean Heads of Government was a great success.
Each of the nine leaders made statements after individual short meetings with President Xi praising China for the loans and assistance the government is giving to their countries individually. Read more
Jun 5 2013 - 12:32pm
By William Blum, WarIsAcCrime, Anti-Empire Report
In this season of college graduations, let us pause to remember the stirring words of America’s beloved scholar, George W. Bush, speaking in Florida in 2007 at the commencement exercises of Miami Dade College: “In Havana and other Cuban cities, there are people just like you who are attending school, and dreaming of a better life. Unfortunately those dreams are stifled by a cruel dictatorship that denies all freedom in the name of a dark and discredited ideology.” 1
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Jun 5 2013 - 9:34am
About as frequently as Halley's Comet lighting the midnight skies, West Virginians have seen fit to elect a Republican to the Executive Branch of state government.
You can count them on one hand over the past fifty years: Governors like Arch A. Moore, Jr. and Cecil Underwood, or Agriculture Commissioner Cleve Benedict and Secretary of State Betty Ireland.
Benedict and Ireland only had to wrangle intensely with the Democratic legislature at budget time. Then they could do the work the people had elected them to do. Read more
Jun 3 2013 - 2:13pm
Editor's note: Joe Honick thinks this op-ed, which originally ran Jan. 16, 2009, deserves to be reprinted. With the death today (June 3) of Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-NJ, the last World War II veteran in the Senate and a man who believed in devoting much of his life to public service, we at HNN agree. Lautenberg, from a poor Russian-Jewish family, used his VA benefits to get the college education his father said he needed, started a company that was very successful, and repaid his country working for the public good in six terms in the Senate. A member of the Greatest Generation, Lautenberg (1924-2013) will be missed. Read more
Jun 1 2013 - 1:39pm
Our country is addicted to oil and gas. In recent years the technique of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, or fracking, has gotten greater attention, both positive and negative. It is a Trojan horse, sold to us as a way to become energy independent, provide local jobs, and stimulate the economy. As an MD, I need to note that the disease, death and destruction of fracking outweighs its appeal.
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May 30 2013 - 2:46pm
Much media coverage was given to the signing on May 28 in Trinidad of a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) by US Vice President, Joseph Biden, and current Chairman of the 15-nation Caribbean Community, Haiti’s President Michel Martelly.
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May 29 2013 - 3:41pm
Following Charlottesville VA in February, and St. Bonifacius MN in April, Evanston IL on May 28, 2013 passed a resolution against drones. Below is the text: Read more
May 28 2013 - 9:39am
When was the last time you visited Stone Mountain Park with the world famous carving of legendary Americans: Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson or beautiful Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia where Jefferson Davis is buried?
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