1848+: Last and First Men

Prof John Kozy Liberty’s Easy Slide into Tyranny Global Research (February 23 2011) The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy! Robert Burns – 1785 No matter how hard we try, no one can control the future, and we cannot assume the [...]

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The Libyan War, American Power and the Decline of the Petrodollar System by Prof. Peter Dale Scott Global Research, April 29, 2011 The Asia-Pacific Journal The present NATO campaign against Gaddafi in Libya has given rise to great confusion, both among those waging this ineffective campaign, and among those observing it. Many whose opinions I [...]

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Why the US and NATO Fed Detainees to Brutal Afghan Security Service The Torture Mill By GARETH PORTER http://www.counterpunch.org/porter04272011.html Starting in late 2005, U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan began turning detainees over to the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS), despite its well-known reputation for torture.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europeans-shift-long-held-view-that-social-benefits-are-untouchable/2011/02/09/AFLdYzdE_story.html Europeans shift long-held view that social benefits are untouchable By Edward Cody, Sunday, April 24, 8:54 PM PARIS — From blanket health insurance to long vacations and early retirement, the cozy social benefits that have been a way of life in Western Europe since World War II increasingly appear to be luxuries the continent [...]

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Many lessons learned by Mikhail Gorbachev Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (March/April 2011) The catastrophic accident in 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine was one of the worst man-made disasters of the twentieth century. Two and a half decades later, the nuclear accident offers many lessons for preventing, managing, and recovering from [...]

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http://www.alternet.org/story/150646/yes%2C_the_latest_right-wing_paean_to_sociopath_ayn_rand_is_really%2C_really_awful?akid=6853.142806.VgnoPx&rd=1&t=5 AlterNet / By Brad Reed April 18, 2011 Yes, the Latest Right-Wing Paean to Sociopath Ayn Rand Is Really, Really Awful Take Lisa Simpson and combine her with Gordon Gekko and the obnoxious child-android from “Small Wonder,” and you get the perfect Rand hero. The year is 2016. Eight years of Obammunism have transformed [...]

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US-Japan security treaty fatally delayed nuclear workers’ fight against meltdown by Yoichi Shimatsu New America Media, News Analysis (April 06 2011) Confused and often conflicting reports out of Fukushima One nuclear plant cannot be solely the result of tsunami-caused breakdowns, bungling or miscommunication. Inexplicable delays and half-baked explanations from Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and [...]

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Ending Tyranny in the Middle East By SASAN FAYAZMANESH http://www.counterpunch.org/sasan04082011.html “A specter is haunting Europe–the specter of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.” Karl Marx, 1848, The Communist Manifesto When the current upheavals [...]

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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24232 Global Research, April 8, 2011 by Michael Parenti Some years ago in New England, a group of environmentalists asked a corporate executive how his company (a paper mill) could justify dumping its raw industrial effluent into a nearby river. The river – which had taken Mother Nature centuries to create – was used for [...]

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2011 by RH Reality Check by Angi Becker Stevens http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/09-1 From Wisconsin to my home state of Michigan to New York, it seems as though half the country is embroiled in a battle for the rights of the working class. Hardly a week goes by without news of protests taking place at yet another state [...]

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