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Colin Beavan attracted international attention for his year-long lifestyle redesign project and popular book and documentary film, No Impact Man.
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Mainstream acceptable heroes now and lasting long into the future have in common perfect understanding of what should be done, fraudulent pretenses of doing it, and calculating weakness as the true driver of their actions.
Exhibit one from nearby here in Virginia: Patrick Henry. Like Jesus, his story was written up third-hand decades later, with him gone from the earth. While his speeches usually warned of the need to keep the Native Americans on the run and the slaves in slavery (yes, that was
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In a video from February 2008, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton passionately denounces candidate Barack Obama for criticizing her healthcare plan and daring to “discredit universal healthcare.”
“Since when do Democrats attack each other on universal healthcare?!” Clinton exclaims. Check out this video mashup of Clinton’08 and Clinton ’16.
She finds Obama’s comments to be “Republican talking points,” “the worst kind of politics,”
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President Barack Obama used his final State of the Union speech to claim that “America is leading the fight against climate change,” while in reality the United States is far and away the worst offender, per capita, in the ongoing mad race to render the earth’s climate uninhabitable. We “cut our imports of foreign oil,” Obama brags, as if earth cares what flag its pollution belches into the air under. “Gas under two bucks a gallon
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From the tiny bit I know about him, I wouldn’t expect to agree with Virginia state senator Richard Black about the time of day. But here he is blurting out the fact that it is U.S. buddies Saudi Arabia and Turkey fueling ISIS and al Qaeda, along with other forbidden facts — including how this disaster in Syria began:
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Have you seen Dahr Jamail’s report on U.S. military plans for war games in Washington state? I’m sure some observers imagine that the military is simply looking for a place to engage in safe and responsible and needed practice in hand-to-hand combat against incoming North Korean nuclear missiles, or perhaps to rehearse a humanitarian invasion of Russia to uphold the fundamental international law against Vladimir Putin’s existence.
But if you look over the history of domestic use
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Cynthia McKinney has served in the Georgia State Legislature and the United States Congress where she voted against NAFTA, opposed the war
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In the United States it’s not actually difficult to find significant funding with which to research new and innovative — not to say bizarre and absurd — pursuits, as long as they form part of an overall project of mass murder.
The United States has hundreds of programs at universities, think tanks, and research institutes that claim to devote their attention to “security” and “defense” studies. Yet in almost all of these programs that receive many millions of dollars in
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I don’t know where this will end but every time I write about a book on Bernie Sanders, somebody sends me a larger one. At least my arms are getting stronger from lifting the things. One point is clear to me: if the media ever wanted to catch up on all the coverage of Bernie’s campaign that it has foregone, it could do it with a minimum-wage staffer reading aloud from books — reducing the need to find corporations opposed to oligarchy
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