This is a rather bleak subject but the following two articles both came to my attention today. The Increase in Army Suicides Is Not ‘Slight’ A letter to the Editor published Tuesday, May 2, 2006 in the Washington Post. In an April 22 Washington in Brief item, an Army spokesman called the increase in soldiers’ […]
The Border is an Imaginary Construct
I haven’t gotten to address some of the “big topics” of the last couple months. “The Border” and “Immigration”are probably ones that have gotten the biggest nudge from corporate media. Some say the coverage is just distraction from issues the powers that be would prefer we forgot. Hundreds of thousands of people are taking to […]
Stop the Hostile Take-over of the Internet!
I just became aware of this attempt by telecommunication giants to take over, privatize, corporatize and basically make the internet a non-regulated utility so they can screw us like the oil industry has done. This fits in as a great follow-up to my earlier rant on the need to focus on media and taking back […]
I'm Ba-aack…
Where oh where oh where do I start? Over the next couple weeks I will have a fair amount of time to write so I will be blogging about lots of things that have happened in the last few weeks when I have not been able to post, but before I start playing catch up […]
Tucson's March 18th March
I am finishing up something started the day of the march — yesterday. I am not in top form today as I’m on my third day of a fast. I’m a bit tired and a bit grumpy… but this is a juice fast so I’m not experiencing real hunger, not the kind of hunger that […]
The Women's Web is the World's Safety Net
Maxine Frith’s article in the Independent/UK is one of the most salient articles I’ve seen, although the title is deceptively narrow, in quite some time on the status of women and its impact on the state of the world in regard to peace and every matter. I usually do not reprint articles in their entirity, […]