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On Friday evening, Aug. 6, 2010, at the Bufano Sculpture Garden, on the campus of the Johns Hopkins U., in Baltimore, MD, a remembrance ceremony was held by the “Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration Committee.” Social Justice activist Dr. Margaret Flowers participated. She sang her rendition of the popular John Lennon ballad, “Imagine.” It was originally released in 1971. Dr. Flowers is a champion of an expanded Medicare-for-All Healthcare System. She is associated with Physicians for a National (…)

On Friday evening, Aug. 6, 2010, at the Bufano Sculpture Garden, on the campus of the Johns Hopkins U., in Baltimore, MD, a remembrance ceremony was held by the “Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration Committee.” Social Justice activist Dr. Margaret Flowers participated. She sang the Bob Dylan ballad, “Masters of War.” Dr. Flowers is a champion of an expanded Medicare-for-All Healthcare System. She is associated with Physicians for a National Health Program, check out for more information: (…)

Bmore Local Wants Wal-Mart Project Rejected from William Hughes on Vimeo.
On Thursday evening, Aug. 5, 2010, Baltimore City’s Planning Commission held a public hearing in the Benton Building, near the City Hall. The matter before the panel is officially known as “The 25th Street Station” project. Wal-Mart, however, will be the biggest tenant in the development. It is looking to open a “93,000-square-foot store,” according to Baltimore Brew’s reporter, Elizabeth Suman. See: (…)

The Devaluation of the US Dollar
by Jim Willie
The need is urgent. The recognition is broad. Supply & Demand of American debt paper demand price adjustment. The USGovt avoids the topic like the plague. The billboard fact of the matter, as USCongressional politicians like to say, is that the USDollar must be take a downward revaluation of significant magnitude in order to even begin to offer a semblance of equilibrium and balance. Natural forces are aligned against those in power who (…)

Reports out of Pakistan now indicate that about 1,500 people have lost their lives and tens of thousands have been left homeless. This years monsoon, which began July 28, is said to have affected 3.2
million people in northwest Pakistan. The most urgent need is clean drinking water followed by food, shelter and sanitation and medicines. Homes, bridges, roads and agricultural land has been swept away
leaving scores of families with no homes or livelihood.
The potential for disease is (…)

REFLECTIONS ON THE MILITARY/INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Submitted by Mike Endres on Wed, 4 Aug 2010
How Big is Huge? A little different subject for this article - still economics - but one that will probably have sufficient material in it to irritate almost everyone. In the interest of full disclosure, I am a Navy veteran, served in destroyers of the Atlantic Fleet as an Electronic and Fire Control Technician working out of Norfolk, VA., to the Med, N. Europe, Caribbean and the Middle East during (…)

The Year America Dissolved
Paul Craig Roberts Prison Planet
It was 2017. Clans were governing America.
The first clans organized around local police forces. The conservatives’ war on crime during the late 20th century and the Bush/Obama war on terror during the first decade of the 21st century had resulted in the police becoming militarized and unaccountable.
As society broke down, the police became warlords. The state police broke apart, and the officers were subsumed into the local (…)

Dangerous Illusions
by James Zogby (Monday, August 2, 2010)
"That another war will create peace; that more arms that only provoke your dangerous better-armed and unrestrained neighbor will make you secure; that bad policy made under the duress of domestic politics will produce anything other than bad results - these are the dangerous illusions under which all have been laboring for decades, and apparently still are."
After a century in which tragedy has been heaped upon tragedy across (…)

Timeline of Financial Collapse on Wall Street On The Third Anniversary Of The Crash Of The US Economy
by Danny Schechter
Global Research, August 3, 2010
We live in the United States of Amnesia and selective memory. As we debate the breaking news, we easily forget the sequence of events that broke the bank and left us broke. Three years ago, when the idea of an Obama presidency was still a fantasy in polite company, a non-seismic financial earthquake began to rumble in ways we then (…)

British Judge: "Israel is Nazi regime"
Judge faces anti-Semitism probe after speech attacking Israel helps free arms factory protesters
By STEVE DOUGHTY, SOCIAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT
Remarks: Judge Bathurst-Norman is being investigated after summing up in a trial which led to protesters being acquitted
A senior judge was under investigation yesterday after being accused of making anti-Semitic remarks in court that may have swayed his jury into acquitting a group of protesters. (…)