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Friday, October 12, 2007
By Gabriele Zamparini
Bill Clinton’s former vice president Al Gore has won (together with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) the Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change"
This Nobel Prize will hopefully help to focus time and resources into the battle against Climate Change. But there could be (…)

by Blake Morlock
Scoot Ritter. Democrats and to try to teach them a thing or two.
Lesson one: The term should be “war prevention,” not “anti-war.” It sounds better, Ritter said.
Lesson two: Act like a military operation - learn the battlefield, prepare it and anticipate the other side’s moves before acting.
“We need to start waging peace with the same tenacity with which we wagDemocrats were taken to school Sunday by a lifelong-conservative-Republican- turned-anti-war activist.e (…)

The Few, The Proud, Armies of One By David Glenn Cox
Again and again they stand before the complicit media and say no, that is incorrect. The President makes claims and they repeat no, that is incorrect. Nancy and Harry talk a good game but all while they bob and weave denouncing the Presidents plans but funding them all the same. The media anointed presidential candidates of both parties do their best to distance themselves from the (…)

by Lia Tarachansky
Opposition to uranium mining has once again become a major topic of coverage by the media. From Australia to Canada, people are taking a stand against corporations that mine uranium and in particular against their mining on Native land. Today, the Ardoch and Shabot blockade brings attention to the potential uranium mine opening between Kingston and Ottawa. To make it clearer why so many are objecting to the mining of uranium, I have decided to investigate why so many (…)

by Robert Dreyfuss
Perversely, and entirely unintentionally,
recent US-caused events in Iraq have sparked the one thing capable of both forcing an end to the American occupation and uniting the people of Iraq around a common purpose: Iraqi nationalism. Last seen, briefly, during the summer, when the Iraqi soccer team’s victory brought its countrymen out in the streets in all shades of ethnic and sectarian variety, nationalism in Iraq has been revived recently as a result of three (…)

By Gabriele Zamparini
The Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore opened a heated debate: was it right to award a mass murderer and war criminal? This is a curious question that certainly would have a meaning in a sane world, certainly not in ours. A few days ago, commenting on this blog about this ordinary episode of folly, I wrote that Al Gore was
“(…) a top war criminal that in a sane world would be hanged or imprisoned for life. But we are not living in a sane world – just in case someone (…)

By Garbis Altinoglu 12-13 October 2007 Updated on 14 October 2007
On October 7th, 13 army personnel, who were part of a unit conducting military operations at the Gabar mountain in the southeastern province of Shirnak were waylaid and killed by PKK guerillas. (These deaths followed the killing of 12 Kurdish peasants on September 29th in the same area, probably by the Turkish “security” forces.) On October 8th, two more soldiers died in mine explosions in Diyarbakir and Shirnak and three (…)

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Ruminant With A View
SANTORINI, GREECE — (OfficialWire) — 10/14/07 — Elizabeth Boleman-Herring“I have issued the command—and I’ll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad—that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death-head formation in readiness . . . with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women and children of Polish (…)

Anybody seen this Flag - the U.S. Civil Flag of Peacetime?
Time to start flying this one again.
http://www.barefootsworld.net/uscivilflag.html