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    Rhetoric versus Reality, Actions Speak Louder than Words

    First we have this, President Obama speaking in Cairo:

    And then we have this reality from David Swanson:

    A New Beginning: If Only

    By David Swanson

    President Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo probably did a world of good. It was packed with truth telling and noble sentiments. But imagine how much more good would be done if all the best parts of it corresponded to [...]



    the know-nothing prize

    Once again, the Templeton prize has been awarded not for new discovery, but for the admission by a scientist that there are mysteries that science cannot penetrate, and therefore the answer is WOO:

    French physicist and philosopher of science Bernard d’Espagnat won the Templeton Prize for religion on Monday for work which acknowledges that science cannot fully explain “the nature of being”.

    He will receive STG1 million [...]



    Sign the Public Letter to President Obama

    GAZA, GAZA STRIP – NOVEMBER 25:

    Dear Mr. President,

    Last year, you were swept into office on the hopeful promise of redemptive change.  You inspired the nation by repeating the phrase, “together, we will change the world.”  For many Americans, your words were not merely the final lines of a campaign speech, but a call to action for a new historical moment.

    Nowhere is [...]



    Pelosi and Reid Must Go

    Just read this from Judith Shattuck, the Washington State Coordinator of the Progressive Democrats of America. Nice to be reminded there are many others that see what I see, think what I think and feel what I feel:

    My note to Pelosi ….

    Quoting: Pelosi: US must stand strongly with Israel Published: 12.28.08, 03:13 / Israel News …Speaker of the US House of [...]



    Obama’s Closing Argument

    Thanks to Truthout.

    Here is some good news from Guardian.Uk, US election: Obama leads McCain by 19 points among early voters, Pew says.

    But it also sounds like November 4th is going to be utter chaos for those states without mail-in voting.

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    Brian Baird is a Flake – Part II

    The Representative from Washington’s Congressional District # 3 is a member of the Democratic Party who has backed George Bush on several matters of critical importance to U.S. citizens in general and progressives in particular: 1) support for the occupation of Iraq, and, especially, support for ‘the Surge’; 2) approval of the Peru Free-Trade Agreement in late 2007; and 3) an affirmative vote for the [...]



    Remember the Illegal War and Occupation of Iraq?

    You can watch this video at the bottom of the home page of this blog but after watching it I decided it was so important that a post is necessary. The news media in this country has egregiously ignored and continues to ignore the ongoing disaster in Iraq. Iraq is MORE IMPORTANT than the housing crisis. Iraq is MORE IMPORTANT than the [...]



    it has been eight months

    since Riverbend last posted; the post was long and hopeful, about she and her family’s arrived in Syria as refugees from Iraq.

    But since then, only silence.

    From the Washington Post last week:

    Damascus is the epicenter of the Middle East’s gravest humanitarian disaster since the Palestinian refugee crisis of 1948. …Unlike its neighbors, who have imposed strict visa requirements, Syria has done little to discourage the flow [...]

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