Dec 06 2011
U.S.’s Afghan Headache: $400-a-Gallon Gasoline By Nathan Hodge, December 6, 2011 … OVER EASTERN AFGHANISTAN—Parachuting a barrel of fuel to a remote Afghan base takes sharp flying skills, steady nerves and flawless timing. It also costs a lot of money—up to $400 a gallon, by military estimates. But the Pentagon is stuck with the expense …
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Dec 05 2011
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmBnvajSfWU[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmBnvajSfWU Brand new track produced by Red Skull, taken from the highly anticipated album Soundtrack To The Struggle by Lowkey. So, we must ask ourselves, what is the dictionary definition of “terrorism”? The systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion. But what is “terror”? According to the dictionary I …
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Dec 04 2011
The new cyber-industrial complex spying on us By Pratap Chatterjee, Friday 2 December 2011 18.59 EST … We live digital lives now, flitting from Facebook to YouTube, checking our iPhones and BlackBerries, and chatting with our loved ones on Skype. Very few of us worry too much about tweeting our personal opinions on politics or …
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Dec 04 2011
A New York spider gave me an insight into US private healthcare By Laurie Penny, Sunday 4 December 2011 09.30 EST … It started with a spider. Someone with a taste for narrative justice might call it retribution, but there’s really no moral correlation between the wisdom of absconding with a relative stranger after a …
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Dec 04 2011
The crackdown on Occupy controversy: a rebuttal By Naomi Wolf, Friday 2 December 2011 08.43 EST … What a firestorm my Comment is free blog post in the Guardian, “The Shocking News Behind the Crackdown on Occupy”, has unleashed: some have praised, while others have attacked. Joshua Holland’s criticisms of my piece, in a blog …
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Nov 27 2011
Would Jesus Join the Occupy Protests? By the Rev. Howard Bess, November 26, 2011 … When the Martin Luther King Jr. monument was dedicated recently in Washington DC, I was reminded that the civil rights movement in America was led not by a politician fulfilling campaign promises, nor by a popular evangelist bent on saving …
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Nov 27 2011
Why torturers film their handiwork By Robert Fisk, Saturday 26 November 2011 … When prisoners were brought to Saddam Hussein’s intelligence service for interrogation, their torturers often videotaped the torment. In the years after his downfall, I lectured around the world on the illegality and the immorality and the outrageous civilian slaughter of the invasion …
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