This is a significant ruling for “be the media” bloggers like myself that I somehow missed in May. Apple loses bid to have blogs disqualified as legitimate news entities. This is very important for small players like Build Peace that break original local stories only a few times a year. We have journalistic status […]
The Real Cost of War. Dollar value down over the last year.
Well placed sources inform me that the cost of scientific equipment purchased from European manufacturers by American researchers has risen 34 percent over the costs of that same equipment last year. Same equipment. No changes. No materials changes. Nada. Zip. Zilch. In fact from the European perspective there has been no cost change — if […]
Rep.. Raul Grijalva (D) AZ: "It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor."
Representative Raul Grijalva Statement in Congress June 16, 2006 per HR 861Mr. GRIJALVA.: Mr. Speaker, I rise today to say we need to bring our troops home. Before continuing, though, I must say that this resolution before us, unfortunately, is perfectly irrelevant to the choices facing the American people and this Congress. It is transparently […]
No Peace. No Vote.
Voters for Peace Pledge I will not vote for or support any candidate for Congress or President who does not make a speedy end to the war in Iraq, and preventing any future war of aggression, a public position in his or her campaign. Sign the pledge! Encourage your friends to sign. buildpeace.blogspot.com
Christian Nationalism, Newt Gingrich, and Mail Fraud
In my ever ongoing attempt to decode the frames used in media and launch alternative terminology, I am now using the term “Radical Right ” (and no I didn’t coin the term) rather than religious right, as the right has no authority to claim religion as its territory. That is what we are allowing them […]
The Ethics of Inciting Mob Violence
Tucson is at the heart of a battle being waged as diversion away from the slow cook coupe d’etat Bush & his buddies are staging. It isn’t just the Orwellian unending “war on terror” that our government is using to create a hateful fervor in the masses, the government is creating absolute pandemonium on the […]