Interview with Jonah Raskin, Professor and Chair of Communication Studies at Sonoma State University, about his book “The Radical Jack London: Writings on War and Revolution”. Continue reading
Day: March 14, 2009
Climate change leading the world into catastrophe, claims Lord Stern
By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent in Copenhagen
Telegraph
9:20PM GMT 12 Mar 2009
Climate change could cost trillions of pounds and lead to worldwide social unrest and decades of war, warned one of Britain’s leading economists as he accused politicians of underestimating the scale of the problem.
Lord Stern, whose report on the social and economic costs of global warming acted as a wake up call to the world in 2006, said the effects were worse than he originally thought and that the consequences could be “devastating”.
He said that increases of average temperature of four, five or even six degrees by the end of the century were becoming an increasing possibility and would produce conditions not seen on Earth for more than 30 million years.
That could mean massive rises in sea level, whole areas devastated by hurricanes and others turned to inhabitable desert, he claimed – the results of which would force billions of people to leave their homelands.
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via Climate change leading the world into catastrophe, claims Lord Stern – Telegraph
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Lou Dobbs interviews Dennis Kucinich 03/12/09
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Lou Dobbs interviews Dennis Kucinich 03/12/09
http://kucinich.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2773&Itemid=76
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Kucinich: Insane spending of taxpayers dollars
Seven Avoidance Indicators by Ralph Nader
Michael Parenti: Economic Crisis the Inevitable Result of “Capitalism’s Self-Inflicted Apocalypse”
Jim Hogue: Bursting Our Bubbles – The Theft of Our Common Wealth, the Collapse of the United States
Ralph Nader on the rise and fall of Madoff, and the Bailouts
Mosaic News – 3/13/09: World News From The Middle East
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“Iraqi Women Raped by US Troops,” New TV, Lebanon
“Morocco Cuts Ties With Iran,” Al Arabiya TV, UAE
“Israeli MP Calls for Boycotting Israeli Government,” Al-Alam TV, Iran
“Newspapers for Free in Morocco,” Al Jazeera TV, Qatar
“The UAE Rebuils the First School in Gaza,” Dubai TV, UAE
“Will Iran Come Out Of The Nuclear Closet?” Link TV, USA
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Rachel Maddow does a process postmortem on the Stewart-Cramer takedown
Senator Feingold Has Constitutional Opportunity by Joel S. Hirschhorn
by Joel S. Hirschhorn
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
www.foavc.org
March 14, 2009
Like others promoting constitutional amendments, Senator Russ Feingold, Democrat, Wisconsin, apparently is unaware of the refusal by Congress to obey Article V of the Constitution. He has a fine idea: every senator must actually be elected rather than appointed to that position. In 1913 the 17th amendment created the potential for governors to make appointments to fill Senate seats until the next regular scheduled general election and 38 states allow this; there have been 185 such appointments. Feingold is right to condemn “decisions being made solely by the powerful, without the consent, or even the input, of the people.”
Congress is unlikely to propose the desired new amendment, however. All of the existing constitutional amendments were proposed by Congress. But many worthwhile ones have never been proposed and sent to the states for ratification. There is an alternative. Article V provides a convention route for proposing amendments. Interest in amendments has triggered over 700 applications from state legislatures to Congress for a convention of state delegates that could propose constitutional amendments. However an amendment is proposed, it still must be ratified by three fourths of the states and the constitutional limitations on Congress limiting it to propose amendments to our present constitution equally apply to a convention.
CIA report: Israel will fall in 20 years
Press TV
Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:44:41 GMT
A study conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has cast doubt over Israel’s survival beyond the next 20 years.
The CIA report predicts “an inexorable movement away from a two-state to a one-state solution, as the most viable model based on democratic principles of full equality that sheds the looming specter of colonial Apartheid while allowing for the return of the 1947/1948 and 1967 refugees. The latter being the precondition for sustainable peace in the region.”
The study, which has been made available only to a certain number of individuals, further forecasts the return of all Palestinian refugees to the occupied territories, and the exodus of two million Israeli – who would move to the US in the next fifteen years.
“There is over 500,000 Israelis with American passports and more than 300,000 living in the area of just California,” International lawyer Franklin Lamb said in an interview with Press TV on Friday, adding that those who do not have American or western passport, have already applied for them.
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Focus on Gaza: The Blockade + Israel Bans Gaza Toilet Papers, Soap
Tenth Anniversary Of NATO’s Drive Into Eastern Europe by Rick Rozoff
by Rick Rozoff
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March 14, 2009
March 12 of this year marked the tenth anniversary of NATO expanding into Eastern Europe and incorporating former members of its Warsaw Pact rival.
Nine years after the George H.W. Bush’s administration’s Secretary of State James Baker had assured the Soviet Union’s last president Mikhail Gorbachev that “there would be no extension of NATO’s jurisdiction for forces of NATO one inch to the east,” the Alliance, in the case of one of its new members, Poland, moved directly to the border of Russia’s Kaliningrad territory.
Om March 12, 1999 Baker’s successor once-removed, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, gathered the the foreign ministers of the new inductees, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, to the Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri where in NATOese she “accepted the instruments of accession to NATO of the three countries.”
Eyes wide shut: A look at British news censorship By Jerry Mazza + UK Police Surveillance Of Journalists
By Jerry Mazza
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
crossposted at Online Journal
www.jerrymazza.com
March 14, 2009
I hope the late Stanley Kubrick won’t mind my borrowing the title of his film, which was shot in London and the Home Counties. I don’t think he would if he knew that February 12, 2009, marked “the enforcement date for section 76 of the Counter Terrorism Act 2008.” As reported in the UK’s Guardian, from that date on “a photojournalist who documents political dissent on the streets — and sometimes the fields — of Britain,” would be subject to prosecution under that act. Continue reading
Focus on Gaza: The Blockade + Israel Bans Gaza Toilet Papers, Soap
In this week’s show we look at how the Israeli blockade continues to hinder life in Gaza.
We have an interview with George Galloway and feature a new campaign by an Israeli anti-blockade group.
Plus we follow one fishermen as he tries to provide food for his family.
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Ron Paul: It’s Time To End Prohibition Of Marijuana!
March 13, 2009 CNN
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