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Dr. Werner Weinberg, a professor of Hebrew language and literature at Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio, wrote an article that appeared in the Christian Century March 21, 1982 p. 478. (Copyright by the Christian Century Foundation).
In this article Dr. Weinberg grappled with the question, “Why didn’t you leave Nazi Germany while there was still time?”
I have been familiar with this article for half a decade but today I’m seeing it in a whole new light.
Dr. Weinberg, somewhat (…)

As a 5-decade-career academic scientist I am appalled by the disconnect between perception of reality by expert scientists and that of politicians and the public informed by Mainstream media. This disconnect is most astonishingly apparent into man-made climate change – all but a tiny minority of scientists accept that anthropogenic global warming is a reality and a major threat to humanity whereas perhaps only about 50% of laypersons accept this because of egregiously incorrect Mainstream (…)

The filmed scenes of the massacre in Libya, starting to be seen, offend for their total absence of humanism and the crass lies that served as an excuse for invading and taking over the natural resources of that country.
With more than 25,000 combat missions, NATO air forces backed up the monstrous crime.
They stated that the Libyan government had funds abroad exceeding 200 billion dollars. At this time, nobody knows where the money is nor what has been done with it.
A fraudulent (…)

Mainstream media censor, self-censor and lie by commission and omission about all kinds of serious matters, this mal-reportage ranging from the non-reportage of horrendous deaths in the US Alliance War on Terror (aka the US War on Muslims involving 9 million war-related Muslim deaths since 2001; see “Muslim Holocaust, Muslim Genocide”: ) to obfuscation of the worsening climate emergency and climate genocide (10 billion people may die this century; see “Climate Genocide”: ). The Murdoch (…)

AUSTRALIA
Legal cases. Against Olympic Dam. Aboriginal elder Kevin Buzzacott continuing his Davis and Goliath case against BHP Billiton, on the environmental impact of the planned new big Olympic Dam uranium mine. Planned Muckaty nuclear waste dump. Federal government is likely to proceed with this, even if the Aborignal landowners win their court action against it. All in the long established tradition of racism in Australian nuclear/uranium matters. But the Aboriginal legal challenge (…)

Decent people were very happy to see the huge victory of Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) party in the recent Myanmar (Burma) by-elections. However there is concern that there will be a lifting of sanctions against Myanmar before a genuine democracy has been emplaced. Continuing gross human rights abuses in Myanmar merit continuing sanctions and so do those of race-based, genocidal Apartheid Israel which is not subject to such international sanctions and yet (…)

In a first ever musical collaboration between South Africa and Palestine, South African band, The Mavrix, and Palestinian Oud player, Mohammed Omar, have released a music video called "The New Black". The song is taken from The Mavrix’ upcoming album,"Pura Vida", due for release in June 2012.
Written and composed by Jeremy Karodia and Ayub Mayet, the song was a musical reaction to the horror of the Gaza Massacre of 2008/2009 and then subsequently inspired by the book "Mornings in Jenin", (…)

The world is ever more misinformed in the midst of a turmoil of events that occur at a speed never before expected.
Those of us who have lived a few more years and experienced a certain eagerness for information can attest to the amount of ignorance with which we used to approach facts.
While an increasing number of persons lack housing, bread, water, health, education and employment in the planet, the wealth of the Earth is being wasted and squandered to manufacture weapons and wage (…)

The neocon-beholden, taxpayer-funded ABC (Australia’s equivalent of the UK BBC) must be condemned for incorrect reportage and lying by omission over many serious matters of which inaction over climate change is the most serious (see “ABC Censorship”: ).
In March 2012 I sent a carefully composed letter to Australian MPs and media about Australia’s appalling climate change inaction. As far as I am aware only one significant medium published this letter, namely the Green Left Weekly which (…)

Mr President Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington DC 20500
Mr President,
Gerardo Hernandez, one of the Cuban Five, has been serving a life sentence for more than thirteen years now. He was accused of “conspiracy of attempted murder” for the death, on February 24th 1996, of four pilots of the Hermanos al Rescate (HAR) organization.
This accusation is ridiculous; this Cuban, just as his four compatriots Fernando González, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero (…)