Two thousand Iraqis were killed in March alone. The attack on Sadrist forces, insisted upon by the US, was a huge fiasco, and the subsequent "peace" between Maliki and Sadr was brokered by America’s bete noir, Qassam Sulaymani, head of the Quds Brigade of the Iranian National Guard. The US had to stand by watching …
From Jane Dean: Farming was not a good thing for us all according to the book I am reading. People got smaller and sicker when farming was introduced about 6ooo years ago. Too late, there is now nothing to hunt or gather. We set a trap from one of the hundreds of rabbits we are …
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This might not interest those living outside the United States (even the otherwise broad-minded tend to get parochial living here after a while), but last night the dreaded Jeremiah Wright appeared on television, in one of the best, most adult and informative interviews I have seen for years. Only Bill Moyers is able to treat …
Fake news segments are being used across the United States. The Center for Media and Democracy found that 77 local TV stations were slipping corporate video news releases (VNRs) into their regular news programs and pretending that one of their reporters had produced them as original news. VNRs are videos that promote commercial brands and …
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Further to my post yesterday: I heard an impassioned speech on C-Span radio from a man who clearly came from Haiti. He told the audience that, owing to the "Washington Consensus" (see below) the supply of basic food prices previously controlled by the Haiti government, were privatized some years ago at the behest of the …
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