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It’s not Mothers Day- It’s International Women’s Day!

This headline from Montreal caught our attention today… ‘Women Unite Against Austerity Measures’   Well…. Why Not? Nobody should advocate prosperity for the banks and austerity for those who actually do the work instead of merely owning capital (stored up … Continue reading

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Colorado Springs gay pride festival 2013 moves back into the closet

Haven’t we seen this countless times before: a nonprofit buys bigger britches forgetting that there was a reason it wore tight pink shorts, esthetics being the governing factor in neither case. Local Pride organizers may tell you they needed a … Continue reading

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The unrepentant pro-terrorist and pro imperialist US ‘Leftist’, Louis Proyect

— One of the saddest happenings of my lifetime has been to observe the complete Far Rightward slide of much of the ex-American Trotskyist Movement, that during my youth had been the strongest builders of the Antiwar Movement during the … Continue reading

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Super Bowl 2013 commemorates American warrior culture minus wounded vets

TV NATION- Can Americans no longer embarrass themselves? This year’s pregame holiday extended to Super Bowl Eve with an un-ironic commemoration ceremony, an all-star gala tribute to football, acclaiming it a venerated touchstone of the American character, the public mob … Continue reading

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Why so many crazies are loose in the US killing so many innocent people… and Have a Happy New Year, America!

An autistic youth with a gun nut Mom goes into an elementary school and kills kids in mass, and the NRA can only suggest putting cops with guns in ALL schools, including elementary schools! CRAZY! Crazy NRA and crazy USA. … Continue reading

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Turks protest against war fever of their government and NATO

Many in the US government and European governments would like for Turkey to go and duke it out in Syria, but ordinary Turkish citizens are not in support of this war fever. See Protesters March Against War in Istanbul as … Continue reading

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About Juan Cole on the bloodshed in Houla, Syria…

Houla was bombed by the Syrian government and 30 to 40 children were killed among the 90 casualties in this portion of the US attack on Syria as the Syrian government fought back by bombing US backed rebels. Juan Cole … Continue reading

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Barack Obama Administration uses hunger as weapon of war against the people of Yemen

Americans as a mass are so completely outside of the making of any political decisions in their supposed democracy, that they hardly now bat an eye at news about the US/ Pentagon war making in places like Bahrain, Syria, Libya, … Continue reading

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US proxy war against Iran begins with war on Syria

The US has been the center power in the alliance to overthrow the Assad regime in Syria, which is stage one of a planned assault against Iran. The fighting in Syria has now also been extended back into Lebanon, as … Continue reading

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Just how doped up on medications are US soldiers now getting?

Pills, pills, pills! Just how doped up on medications are US soldiers now getting? The Los Angeles Times today has an article called A fog of drugs and war that mentions ‘more than 110,000 active-duty Army troops last year were … Continue reading

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National demonstrations to stop US-NATO war against Iran to be held this week

This Saturday, there will be a national mobilization of the remaining elements of the US Antiwar Movement in demonstrations calling for an end to the US-NATO attack against Iran. Why do I call the people concerned with stopping this aggression … Continue reading

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Is Ron Paul really against supporting more US government war making?

Many desperate citizens have this round of corporate Presidential selectioning, taken to supporting Ron Paul and his Libertarian backed campaign in hopes of finding some avenue forward to changing the sorry state of current US politics. We think that a … Continue reading

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Perhaps the Pentagon helped make North Korea a totalitarian theocracy

Is North Korea really a communist country as the corporate media keeps telling us it is? And just what is a communist country anyway? What makes a country ‘communist’?   For example, how can China be considered ‘communist’ when it … Continue reading

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Genghis Khan’s socialism of the fittest

An interesting exhibit about Genghis Khan’s “enduring legacy” hit the Denver Museum of Nature and Science two years ago and continues its US tour, so you can still learn about “the ruthless warlord who conquered half the known world,” but … Continue reading

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IDF’s Anarchist Bible, Old Testament: sulfur as a weapon, mind you it stinks

FOR HOW-TO FANS: Israel’s IDF says sulfur can be poured unto its soldiers to immobilize them, even used “to light them up like human torches” supposedly. Uh, sounds promising. References please? The Old Testament of course! Literally the proverbial fire … Continue reading

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US govt spreads terror to Yemen

Hundreds of thousands of new refugees and yet another country, Yemen, is now being destabilized by the US’s relentless drive to control the Middle East’s oil resources. Yemen is not oil rich but sits in a strategic locale between Iran … Continue reading

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Activists have so far failed to construct a real American Antiwar Movement

Despite the grass roots sentiment against all the bloodshed that Bush and now Barack Obama are engaged in, activists in the US have ever failed to construct a real Antiwar Movement. Do you consider that to be a harsh judgment … Continue reading

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The Full Text of Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s speech

At last we have a copy of the full text of the Iranian President’s speech at the Durban Review Conference on racism and now we can examine just how it has been misrepresented as vile, ugly, and racist by vile … Continue reading

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US ruling class and their torture toads continue to debate how to use US govmt criminality to benefit themselves

We have a really stupid US ruling class in God Bless America Land, but then again most class societies on Real Planet Earth actually do. See Ex-CIA chief: Obama risks national security Some of these ‘American leaders’ just can’t seem … Continue reading

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The official apparatus of the ‘Two State Solution’ peace-process industry

Ali Abunimah– “We have to expect that the official apparatus of the peace-process industry — the Hillary Clintons, the Quartets, the Tony Blairs, the Javier Solanas, the Ban Ki-Moons, the whole panoply of official and semi-official Washington think tanks — … Continue reading

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Prohibition is Stupid- there is something wrong with the law

‘Nearly half of all Americans say they have tried marijuana. That makes them criminals in the eyes of the law. Luckily, not all of them have been found out – but when one is grateful that most law-breakers go undetected, … Continue reading

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John Kerry puts his warmongering act into action against Iran

Have I mentioned how repulsive I personally find all the Democratic Party enablers? The party is uniformly as disgusting to me as the Republicans are and more. The Republicans are just what they seem to be but the Democratic Party … Continue reading

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The international campaign to deny Iran the use of nuclear reactors

Nuclear energy whether we like it or not is seen by many countries as their way of becoming ‘energy independent’. Those countries that have already developed this technology are seen as being the movers and shakers around the world… don’t … Continue reading

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Indian elephants fail to apply Gandhi’s theories of peaceful resistance

OK, this is a gratuitous commentary but don’t blame me for it, since I’ve merely overdosed on the religion from the Colorado Springs Justice and Peace Commission, a group supposedly dedicated to fighting US war making and not just for … Continue reading

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Russia to Europe- Back US war making then pay the price

Russia is starting to play tough with the US’s European allies because of their support for the constant US Pentagon aggression. No longer can the main European countries just verbally waffle along while doing absolutely nothing other than backing the … Continue reading

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