Barrier troops, blocking units, or anti-retreat forces ,as it's said in encyclopedias - are formations of armed soldiers normally placed behind regular troops on a battle line to prevent panic or unauthorized withdrawal or retreat. Barrier troops may be utilized simply to raise the morale of frontline troops and for the purpose of constituting a ( Read more... )

Georgian president Saakashvili in his tries to become known as georgian autocrat has made all his people suffer.
A group of georgian students has organised a social group, the goal of which is attracting attention to  criminal actions of Saakashvili, so that people can finally see the truth.

Here's the manifest of this group :

"Very few of us, ( Read more... )

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Friday November 28th is Buy Nothing Day. A day to start changing your shopping habits and give up the consumerism addiction.

Adbusters has a campaign info here

Also Reverend Billy and The Church of Stop Shopping are having a Dance your Debt Away event on Buy Nothing Day info here Stop racking up the debt and buying more cheap crap from ( Read more... )

http://casa-del-duderino.blogspot.com/2008/11/note-of-caution.html

A while back Gringo Tambo dug up this video of Obama´s Bolivia advisor, Greg Craig speaking about the possible extradition of Bolivia´s ex-Pres "Goni" Sanchez de Lozada for his role in ( Read more... )

The Washington Note is reporting that former Clinton official Larry Summers is one of the leading nominees to become the Treasury Secretary for the Obama administration. In 1999, Summers was one of the key proponents of the banking deregulation that led to the rise of 'mega-banks' and the current financial crisis. At the time, Senators like Byron ( Read more... )

http://www.olywip.org/site/page/article/2008/10/06.html

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YAY! Old mods have added new mods (or rather, maintainers), and this community can be sane again! :D ( Read more... )