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Peter Yarrow as apologist on Tim DeChristopher trial

Posted on July 29, 2011 by iwilder

Peter Yarrow’s article about Tim DeChristopher gets a lot right, and a lot wrong.   Yarrow rightly pins the blame squarely on President Bush for wrongly scheduling auctions to sell off mineral rights for protected land Then Yarrow veers off track, both factually and morally.  His misdirection is based on his inability to  pin the […]

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Obama is NOT “Caving” to Corporate Interests

Posted on July 26, 2011 by iwilder

Those accusations are wrong. The accusations imply that Obama is on our side. Or was on our side. And that the right wing is pushing him around. But the evidence is clear that Obama is an often-willing servant of corporate interests — not someone reluctantly doing their bidding, or serving their interests only because Republicans […]

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Obama: Declaration of Thingamajig

Posted on July 21, 2011 by iwilder

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWB2G9reo2I&feature=player_embedded] Barack Obama holds forth on the legality of various conflicty thingamajigs. Take a closer look at Libya, Yemen and Pakistan after the president delivers his address on Afghanistan and Iraq. A Mark Fiore political animation.

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Green Party discussion concerning the death of Osama bin Laden

Posted on May 2, 2011 by kwilder

Green Party Watch is an unofficial Green Party blog, with an independent and inclusive point of view. We turn there often for info on the latest Green Party news and campaigns. GPW has posted an open thread about the death of Bin Laden, where several greens have already left comments. It is a good place […]

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Laurence Tribe Decries Unconstitutional Treatment of Private Bradley Manning

Posted on April 16, 2011 by iwilder

A few days after Barack Obama gave that inspiring acceptance speech, having won the Democratic nomination for the presidency, Laurence Tribe, the preeminent constitutional law professor and scholar at Harvard Law School, circulated a letter about just how smart Obama is.  Tribe hired him as a research assistant during his first year of law school, […]

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Shut down the government (please) PLUS a more technical article…

Posted on April 8, 2011 by kwilder

Kimberly says: To the government and media: Shut up and shut the darned thing down. Aware citizens have been thinking of some excellent consequences of a government shutdown – it would stop the wars in Afrghanistan and Iraq, it would stop the ability for the US to continue to use unmanned drones to kill people […]

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Mubarak resigned. Amnesty describes “Obama and Egypt: The Window for Action Remains Open”

Posted on February 12, 2011 by kwilder

Full post, including a list of five demands that the Obama administration (and everyone) should make on the people controlling Egypt at the link: here. Obama and Egypt: The Window for Action Remains Open Hosni Mubarak’s stubborn pride and imperious manner made change in Egypt personal, but he was right in his speech Thursday when […]

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Obama’s SOTU Speech Last Night…

Posted on January 26, 2011 by kwilder

For the full text of Obama’s 1/26/2011 SOTU speech, go to alternet: here. Kimberly writes: There were many ironies, horrors, and hypocrisies in President Obama’s speech last night. He said stuff that appalled me about: the economy; war; “clean” coal (ha! ha!); nuclear energy; and his ridiculous, right-wing approach to failing schools. He sometimes sounded […]

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Green Party Live Stream (and video) Response to Obama’s SOTU Speech

Posted on January 25, 2011 by kwilder

Hat/Tip to Independent Political Report. Green Party LIVESTREAM: Greens discuss the speech during tonight’s broadcast, 9 pm ET / 6 pm PT http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus Greens on solving the deficit: end the wars, cut the military budget, tax the rich. Greens on solving the health care crisis: enact Medicare For All. Greens on jobs: a ‘Green New […]

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Only in America: Competing (Satirical) Political Rallies

Posted on September 17, 2010 by kwilder

Kimberly writes: LOL! I love this stuff. Political comedian Jon Stewart has announced that he is holding an October 30, 2010 rally in D.C. called “Rally to Restore Sanity”. And, Stephen Colbert (on the same network), announced a competing rally! And, I am thinking that these rallies might be more interesting and/or effective than the […]

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Let’s keep a blogging vigil for Julian Assange of Wikileaks

Posted on August 3, 2010 by kwilder

Julian Assange has a website called WikiLeaks, which has been serving the public for several years by allowing people to release whistle-blower documents about problems with government. He is a journalist and visionary who is experimenting with new ways to create public accountability for governments. He needs the support of citizens and journalists around the […]

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Amazing! Congress approves new war funding bill

Posted on July 27, 2010 by kwilder

(Democracy Now! had warned that this bill might be rushed through Congress quickly, before Americans could digest the Wikileaks material, and realize we must end this war…) (excerpt from) The Washington Post House approves $37 billion war-funding bill By Perry Bacon Jr. and Ben Pershing Wednesday, July 28, 2010 The House approved Tuesday spending an […]

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Democracy Now! commentary on the Wikileaks/Afghanistan material

Posted on July 26, 2010 by kwilder

Link to video with Amy Goodman and a roundtable discussion on the Wilikeaks/Afghanistan War material: here. Interestingly, Amy Goodman talks with Daniel Ellsberg, to get his thoughts on the comparison between this release and the Pentagon Papers/Vietnam War. Set up to video:

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Mudlogging geologist states directional wells will not work to solve the BP blow out

Posted on June 5, 2010 by kwilder

Mudlogging geologist states directional wells will not work to solve this Transocean-Halliburton-BP blown out well and will create a larger uncontrolled blowout disaster.

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