Despite what you hear, U.S. interventionism has nothing to do with resisting the spread of " Terrorism," or "Communism," it's INDEPENDENCE we've always been opposed to everywhere... and for quite a good reason. If a country begins to pay attention to its own population, it's not going to be paying adequate attention to the overriding needs of U.S. ( Read more... )

Lockheed-Martin, US military budgets, and who benefits from high military spending ( Read more... )

One of the most eloquent and uncompromising voices against war was that of Eugene Debs. At first an organizer of railroad workers, later a leader of the socialist party. On June 18, 1918 he spoke in Canton, Ohio in defiance of the espionage act, which made it a crime to say anything that would obstruct recruitment into the armed forces. He was ( Read more... )

The problems to be faced are vast and complex, but come down to this: 6.5 billion people are breeding exponentially. The process of fulfilling their wants and needs is stripping the earth of its biotic capacity to produce life; a climactic bust of consumption by a single species is overwhelming the skies, earth, waters, and fauna. As Lester Brown ( Read more... )

Vietnam's a pretty tight autocratic place-but it was obvious that it was going to be that way. Don't forget, what we (the US) did to that country practically wiped it out. You have to bear in mind what happened there. Nobody here cares, so nobody studies it carefully, but over the course of the Indochina wars the number of people killed was maybe ( Read more... )

George Orwell, “Freedom of the Press” (unpublished preface to Animal Farm), published by Bernard Crick, New York Times Magazine, 8 October 1972: 12, 13, 72, 74, 76 ( Read more... )

"There are studies, often, asking people whether religious beliefs are "very important" to them, how often they attend religious services, etc. There are also interesting studies relating intensity of religious belief (by such measures) with economic development. It turns out that there is a very close correlation: the more developed the society, ( Read more... )

"Suppose that Al-Qaeda destroyed half the pharmaceutical supplies in some country where people matter -- say the US, or Israel, etc. Would we regard it as an act of terrorism? They could claim they had no intent to harm anyone, they just thought that the plants were involved in producing biological weapons or components for them. In fact their ( Read more... )

"The point of public relations slogans like "Support our troops" is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. Its crucial value is that it diverts your ( Read more... )

"It is obvious that the leaders of our country don't like Hugo Chavez, it is also obvious why they don't like him. Regardless of the standard doctrine, the interesting question is not what I think about him or what you think about him, or what George Bush thinks about him. The question is, what do Venezuelans think about him? On that, we have ( Read more... )