The recent musings of Conservative talk show/cable hosts like Rush Limbaugh, who attempts to align President Barack Obama and his administration with the Third Reich and Nazi Germany and...
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Souk= marketplace, traditionally open-air, now on the internet and over satellite TV channels."Farcical fatwas, often at odds with each other, flood Saudi sites, satellites as faithful seek spiritual answers. By Habib Trabelsi Women are banned from sitting on a chair or...
This video is devastating because the shadows of his remarks have been presented on Now Public in the commentary sections by some known and not so known contributors to this site. What is truly sad is the...
This war was preventable but Hamas wanted Israel to attack and they provoked Israel by firing hundreds of rockets into Israel.Hamas got what they wanted and the Gaza people suffer,, again." Hamas, judging by its...
Everything gets recycled.Punk nostalgia gets its day in the limelight at Christie's on November 24 with a Punk Rock Auction at Rockefeller Center in New York.I was left wondering what the Bob Dylan-Joan Baez (1965) Concert Poster was doing there until I understood the name of...
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Love, not unlike any other human feeling, has many sub-genres. Robert Plutchik, inventor of the “emotion wheel” would define them as advanced emotions. Love breaks down into such sub-sects like...
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Facts and opinion. 07.26.08 The bomb blasts events between Hamas and Fatah In Gaza, reveal a 'Gaza's Guantanamo' prison, a suggestive name, innocent passersby killed by the Fatah bombs including...
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Wikipedia is considering a basic change to its editing philosophy to cut down on vandalism. In the process, the online encyclopedia anyone can edit would add a layer of hierarchy and eliminate some of the spontaneity that has made the site, at times, an informal source of...
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"America's Role as the First, Only, and Last Truly Global Superpower
The Grand Chessboard Part 1
Brent Jessop - Knowledge Driven Revolution.com
October 1, 2007
In Zbigniew Brzezinski’s The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (1997), he...
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The violence continues in Kenya, killing at least a dozen people on Tuesday.I've been talking to a lot of people from Kenya in chat rooms and such and very few have been willing to speak in an interview, or even...
"Gaza's last gasp
Sonja Karkar, The Electronic Intifada, 23 January 2008
Palestinians in Gaza gather in front of the Rafah border crossing at the border with Egypt, 22 January 2008. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages)
By now, people watching their news programs around the world...
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Now based in the green pastures of Vermont (Brattleboro to be specific), Abby Banks hit the road with her camera back in 2004 to document what she calls Interiors in Anarchy. The result is Punk House (published by Harry N. Abrams, October 2007).
The most famous punk band of them all, who rocked the establishment in the 70's with their outlandish behaviour and lyrics, will be reforming for the Brixton academy London gig."Punk legends The Sex Pistols have...
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Catastrophe looms for Zimbabwe:"The economy of Zimbabwe is facing total collapse within four months, leaving the country facing a slide into Congo-style anarchy, The Sunday Telegraph has been told.
Western...
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Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change claims that Robert Mugabe's government has instigated the violence with which the MDC is blamed. Currently Mugabe runs Zim with an iron fist, but cracks are beginning to appear in his armor. "Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for...