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Video: Brian Becker: “End the Afghan War Right Now!”
On Sat., Dec. 12, 2009, Brian Becker was one of the speakers at the emergency “End-the-U.S.-Wars” rally. See, for background:
http://www.enduswars.org/
The event was held in Lafayette Park, opposite the White House. Becker is the National Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition. Check out:
http://answer.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ANS_homepage
The ANSWER Coalition is planning a massive antiwar demonstration for Washington, (…)

On Sat., Dec. 12, 2009, David Swanson, activist/author, was one of the speakers at the emergency “End-the-U.S.-Wars” rally. See, for background: http://www.enduswars.org/ The event was held in Lafayette Park, opposite the White House. Swanson is the cofounder of the popular AfterDowningStreet Web Site, go to: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/ His best selling book, “Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency,” is both timely and well written. Check out: (…)

Most of my immediate male relatives are named Steve. There was Stephen A., my grandfather, who begot Stephen B., who begot Stephen R., who begot Stephen R. Jr., who has not begot anybody yet but another Steve cannot be far away. Stephen R. Sr., my brother, is inexplicably not Stephen C. (Chaires having a venerable Florida history on my mother’s side), and equally inexplicably it was not his first son Stephen who went to West Point, like himself and his father, but his second son Brian (…)

When Geocities offed itself a few weeks ago, taking 32 megs of me with it, my optimism about the internet suffered a hefty, but also healthy, blow. I had learned, often the hard way, about the emphemerality of digital media, but it’s one thing to know something and another to do something about it. In this case, I don’t think there was anything I could have done about it except transfer my site to another host, which I have now done after the fact, but nothing could have saved the broken (…)

By David Glenn Cox
There is an old Firesign Theatre comedy piece, a parody of “The Price is Right,” where a woman contestant is asked, “Do you want what’s behind the door or what’s in the bag?”
She blurts out, “I’ll take the bag! Why… why this is a bag of shit!”
“Yes” the announcer answers, “but it’s really great shit!”
Two years ago CNBC, America’s first name in fascism, sent cutie pie Erin "Black Widow" Burnett to Dubai for live, on-sight interviews with all the movers and shakers (…)

Rebellion in Congo. Belgian Paratroopers to crush rising rebellion? Rwanda Defense Forces flown into western Congo defeated. Kabila regime under threat on multiple fronts. Mainstream media blackout on this story.
http://www.consciousbeingalliance.com

The US Coast Guard Cutter “Taney,” (WPG37), sits in Baltimore harbor, as a museum/memorial, and is known as “The Last Survivor of Pearl Harbor,” according to the program notes prepared by the “Historic Ships in Baltimore.”
See,
http://www.historicships.org/
On Dec. 7, 2009, the “68th Anniversary” of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a moving noontime ceremony was held on the “Taney”; it included the dropping of a memorial wreath into the harbor.
For background on the attack on (…)

JAZZMAN CHRONICLES. DISSEMINATE FREELY.
“As Commander-in-Chief, I have determined that it is in our vital national interest to send an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan. After 18 months, our troops will begin to come home.”
“Under the banner of … domestic unity and international legitimacy - and only after the Taliban refused to turn over Osama bin Laden - we sent our troops into Afghanistan. Within a matter of months, al Qaeda was scattered and many of its operatives were (…)

The burden of taxation in the United States has been shifted from those who most benefit from our government to those who work the hardest and earn the least. This shrugging of responsibility is not only unfair, it fails to accomplish public policy goals required to move the economy out of recession and the environment out of crisis.
Uncorrected, the heavy burden of taxation borne by workers and small businesses today for the benefit of corporations and the wealthy elite will certainly (…)

A RESPONSE TO HILLARY CLINTON’S ASSERTION THAT ALL NATIONS SHOULD PLAY A PART IN THE AFGHANISTAN MISSION
John Chuckman
Hillary Clinton, in a just-published piece on the Afghanistan mission (see note at bottom), offers us nothing helpful or enlightening, only boiler-plate American slogans, the kind of stuff you’d hear from some provincial Congressman giving a Fourth of July speech in a place like Muncie, Indiana.
Indeed, her use of the question-begging word “mission” in the title to (…)