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Stop Outsourcing Security Act + Update Comment by IPOA's Doug Brooks ????

By we are stardust on Wed, 02/24/2010 - 1:34pm |

Representative Jan Schakowsy and twenty co-sponsors will offer a bill that would phase out private security forces and require the military to use its own personnel to train troops and police, guard convoys, repair weapons, etc. There are over 217,000...

House Votes to Designate 'Certain' TV Stations as 'Terrorists'

By we are stardust on Tue, 02/23/2010 - 11:57am |

Now here is a real pip we haven't heard much (if anything) about: On 12/08/09 the House overwhelmingly passed an apparently AIPAC-sponsored bill, brought to the floor by Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. (Foreign Affairs Committee) : H.R. 2278 directs the...

The Reverend Wendy's Telethon for Synch (Cafe-athon?)

By we are stardust on Sun, 02/21/2010 - 4:13pm |

Every time you Rec this, AND contribute, an Angel Gets It's Wings! ;-} I offered to repost this for Synch. Please realize how hard it is to ask for some money from Virtual Strangers (hahahahaha) to get through an injury...

Gareth Porter's Take on the 'New' Afghanistan Strategy

By we are stardust on Sat, 02/20/2010 - 12:11pm |

Veteran journalist and author Gareth Porter was recently interviewed by Paul Jay on The Real News network; Porter just returned from Afghanistan two weeks ago. It's a ten-and-a-half minute interview, and well worth the dab of time. He makes some...

Obama Names Yemen New Hotbed for Anti-American Extremists?

By we are stardust on Mon, 02/15/2010 - 12:08pm |

Yemen's been in the news a lot lately, and I needed to know more about it than it's where the Underwear-bomber got his bomb, and that the Fort Hood shooter emailed with a Radical Imam there. Maybe you'd like some...

Assassination of US Citizens Abroad

By we are stardust on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 4:43pm |

Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told a Congressional committee on Wednesday that the military has the authority to target US citizens in other countries if it believes that they 'have been radicalized' and are 'involved with a group that...

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A Salute to Admiral Mike Mullen on DADT

By we are stardust on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 10:47am |

At the Groundhog Day Senate Armed Services Committee hearings on the current Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Mike Mullen gave a full-throated endorsement to the President's appeal to Congress to reverse that policy. He...

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Haitians Need Shelter

By we are stardust on Fri, 01/29/2010 - 11:14am |

The Hatian government is asking for a minimum of 200,000 more tents for temporary housing, which might mean from now until half-of-forever. I found an NGO based in the UK called Shelterbox, which has branches in a number of countries,...

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Bravehearts at the Café

By we are stardust on Tue, 01/26/2010 - 12:47pm |

There's an excess of suffering in this country and around the globe right now, and maybe in your lives, or the lives of your friends and relatives. It's hard, and harder still to feel powerless in the face of most...

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Obama Shifting Regulatory Course after Coakley's Loss (I won't say 'silver lining,' I promise...)

By we are stardust on Thu, 01/21/2010 - 10:44am |

Simon Johnson, British-American economist, former Chief economist of the International Monetary Fund blogs at Huffpo this morning, announcing a Wall Street Journal report that today the President will announce a plan to be presented to Congress to restrict Mega-bank size,...

I am heading to Rehab. I am an Arrogant, Whining, Childish, Unrealistic, Non-pragmatic, Shrieking, Sniveling, Palin-enabling Obama-not. I surrender; it's Rehab for me.

By we are stardust on Tue, 01/19/2010 - 10:40pm |

Would any of you Nots care to join me? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8w_2hvluKY ...

Our Senate Not-Pecora Commission Laid an Egg

By we are stardust on Mon, 01/18/2010 - 11:52am |

How many of us called for a modern-day Pecora Commission (whose report led to the passage of Glass-Steagal ) to suss out the true causes of the financial meltdown, and make recommendations toward re-regulation. Given Congressional and White House love...

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Healthy Additions to Foods and Some Supplements to Explore

By we are stardust on Wed, 01/13/2010 - 1:01pm |

There have been so many blogs and comments about health care, food, healthy eating, pharmaceuticals, and so forth lately, I thought I'd add my two cents about common kitchen ingredients (and below that section some supplements) that can have beneficial...

Some Small Hints for Meditation/Relaxation from a Dilettante

By we are stardust on Mon, 01/04/2010 - 6:48pm |

Life is fraught with anxiety for a lot of us right now; mild depression seems widespread. We might be worried for ourselves, or for the hardships and suffering of our friends. Our nation seems to be in meltdown in many...

Contractors in Afghanistan and Iraq: Two Reports; plus a bonus video from the BBC on Neocons and the Cold War

By we are stardust on Sun, 01/03/2010 - 1:16pm |

The Congressional Research Service report on military contractors came out last week, as well as Senator Claire McCaskill's Contract Oversight Subcommittee's hearings report on Afghanistan contractors. Her committee reports that contractors make up an astounding 69% of the total Pentagon...

Federal Judge Dismisses All Charges Against Blackwater in Massacre in Iraq

By we are stardust on Thu, 12/31/2009 - 5:55pm |

I just saw this at Jeremy Scahill's website. This is about the 14 Iraqi civilians Blackwater guards accused of gunning down in Nisour Square in Bagdad in September 2007. The Judge's reasoning: In a memo defending his opinion, Urbina cited a...

NAME THE DECADE CONTEST WINNERS

By we are stardust on Wed, 12/30/2009 - 12:13pm |

Sadly, the prizes will need to be changed out. I got an ominous email late last night from Karl Rove warning me off the Mitch McConnell prize date. He did not specify as to his interest in the...

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The NAME THE DECADE CONTEST! (prize update)

By we are stardust on Mon, 12/28/2009 - 5:58pm |

Lots of modern decades have been named, as in: The Roaring '20s, The Fabulous '50s, The '60s, The '80s ME decade, The Dotcom '90s... Time Magazine is calling the almost-past one: The Decade from Hell....

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Strong Social Movements are Critical Now or: It's RUCKUS TIME!

By we are stardust on Sat, 12/19/2009 - 10:17pm |

This week Matt Taibbi and Robert Kuttner talked with Bill Moyers about health care reform and the President. Both were dismayed by the hands-off approach of Obama, and discussed at length the ways that he has disappointed too many of...

Strange Bedfellows: McCain and Cantwell to Team Up on Financial Reform

By we are stardust on Wed, 12/16/2009 - 12:35pm |

Newsweek reports that this week John McCain and firebrand Maria Cantwell will join forces to offer a bill in the Senate to restore Glass-Steagall, the Depression-era law that forced a firewall between Commercial and Investment Banking. It was repealed in...