The First Step to Real Power
Body: Good on you, Chris. One of the advantages of being ahead of the game is that you get to make decisions like this one, and Chris is showing he's a 'money where his mouth is' kind of guy. I...
View ArticleA Miracle In Lourdes? Or, did TSA fumble on the holy water?
Body: From Reuters comes this story of just how much more credibility the right-wing "security" theatre gives to authoritarians it finds sympathetic: Catholic pilgrims to Lourdes (remember "The Song of...
View Article"Because you did not obey my instruction."
Body: The world's safest and most useful tool is working impressively again, in Utah. (All you taser fans in the crack den *cough cough* get out your lotion, because this stuff is hot.)Tasered in front...
View Articleviolence or non-violence -- Gandhi on israel, Zionists, Holocaust, etc --...
Body: Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews -- ... what did Mahatma Gandhi actually think of the idea of Israel, and of the fate of the Jews of his time?As it turns out, M.K. Gandhi engaged in...
View ArticleWikileaks needs cash
Body: "Wikileaks has probably produced more scoops in its short life than the Washington Post has in the past 30 years"— The National, November 19. 2009 Wikileaks:To concentrate on raising the funds...
View ArticleHOW WE LOST AMERICA :: A Brief History in Ten Points (Linked Version)
Body: HOW WE LOST AMERICA :: A Brief History in Ten Points (Linked Version) Copyright (c) 2010 Bruce Arnold. Republication with attribution permitted.
View ArticleHappy, shiny-faced IndependentVoting.org is actually 'a pressure group...
Body: Reprinted in full, with permission, from Ballot Access News, the newsletter of the highly respected and trustworthy ballot access expert Richard Winger.
View ArticleUniversity of Occupy - Majoring in Freedom
Body: Rage. Almost every adolescent feels at one time or another or most of the time a feeling of suffocation and expresses that feeling with rage. David Graeber in his on line essays on revolutionary...
View ArticleFreedom does not equate to democracy
Body: "Not long after the start of the 21st Century, we like to tell ourselves an uplifting story in which freedom expands whenever tyranny is overthrown.We believe that freedom and democracy are...
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