Iran Redux
This a.m., Diane Rehm had a show about Israel going to war against Iran. One of the Israelis said that there was no cause for concern that it might become a much larger conflict. Rather it would remain regional. Because the majority of Americans and Israelis do not want a confrontation with Iran, whether I more ...
Irrational Draghi Exuberance
Irrational Draghi Exuberance by Stephen Lendman Thursday was Draghi day. He explained what ECB watchers knew. At his Frankfort press conference, he said Governing Council members agreed to unlimited bond buying. It's called Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT). Bundesbank President Jens W more ...
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention: Carl Orestes Franzoni
The following is from the record album Hungry Freaks Daddy, Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention, 1966 and the album is Dedicated to Carl Orestes Franzoni "Mister America Walk on by Your schools that do not teach Mister America Walk on by The minds that won't be reached Mister America Try to hide The empt more ...
Obama’s Failing Education Agenda
In the 2008 presidential election, I cast a symbolic vote for Barack Obama. I would have eagerly done the same for Hillary Clinton. I believed deeply in the need to confront the lingering and corrosive racism and sexism that haunt the promise of democracy and equity that the U.S. represents (but has yet to ac more ...
Making the Case for Economic Relocalization
The Economics of Happiness (2011) Film Review The term “economic relocalization,” which has been around about four years, describes the global movement of loosely knit Transition Towns and other grassroots networks working to strengthen local and regional economies and systems of food and energy production. I more ...
David Barsarmian: Author/Editor of Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism: speaking in Sonoma County
Speaking Wednesday September 19, 2012 —7:00 PM Cross & Crown Lutheran Church 5475 Snyder Ln., Rohnert Park, CA 94928 $10.00 donation: Students, Seniors, and Occupiers $5— No one turned away Sponsored by Project Censored and Media Freedom Foundation in cooperation with SSU Sociology of Social Movements cl more ...
Tobacco Instituting the Organic – Conventional Food Debate
Studies like the one out of Stanford are less about the quality of the research than they are about the headlines when mainstream media gets involved. In this case, the findings prop up conventional foods at the expense of organics by the mere mention of Stanford researchers claiming there's no nutritional di more ...
Obama’s Failing Education Agenda
In the 2008 presidential election, I cast a symbolic vote for Barack Obama. I would have eagerly done the same for Hillary Clinton. I believed deeply in the need to confront the lingering and corrosive racism and sexism that haunt the promise of democracy and equity that the U.S. represents (but has yet to ac more ...
Canada: Selling Its Soul to America
Canada: Selling Its Soul to America by Stephen Lendman Canada is more colony than sovereign state. Canadians perhaps wonder when it'll grow up, act like an adult, and regain its rightful independence. They're also worried about a country junior partnering with imperial America, Israel, an more ...
Father of Four Fights Felony Immigration Charges to Keep His Family Together: SIGN THE PETITION AND FORWARD!
http://www.bamn.com/social-justice/father-of-four-fights-felony-immigration-charges On September 13th and 14th, the case of Alfredo Avila-Mendez will go before a jury in Federal District Court before Judge Cook. He has been charged with the felony of “re-entry” - returning to the U.S. after a deportation. A more ...
