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Monthly Archives: June 2013
Orlando Sentinel Rejects Supporters of Mr Trayvon Martin Statement
Dear Friend, The Orlando Sentinel has refused to publish the “We Say No More!†statement, as a paid ad on the grounds that it’s “inflammatory†and “is more of an opinion rather than a substantiated fact and therefore are unable … Continue reading
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American Human Rights Activist Edward Snowden Hounded by America
David G. Mcintyre/ZUMA Press These are some thoughts seriatim: 1) Don’t trust Senator Dianne Feinstein. The eighty-year old senator from California has a long history of opposition to civil liberties, dissent and protest. This person wants to criminalise flag burning as … Continue reading
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Kirstein Article on Alperovitz, Realism and A-Bomb
Advances in Historical Studies 2013. Vol.2, No.2, 46-53 Published Online June 2013 in SciRes (http://www.scirp.org/journal/ahs) DOI:10.4236/ahs.2013.22008 The article was submitted to three readers. Reclaiming Realism for the Left: Gar Alperovitz and the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb Peter N. … Continue reading
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Hero Edward Snowden, defender of the Constitution, Speaks to the World
In an online chat with the British paper, the Guardian, Mr Snowden discusses further his courageous act in revealing police-state surveillance N.S.A. tactics by the US government. Not knowing if the C.I.A. will shut down the Guardian or not, or … Continue reading
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Pictures at an Exhibition: well not Mussorgsky but Half Marathon With Racial Overtones
These are images of a very tired person running the First Midwest (banks are good for something I guess) Half-Marathon in Palos Heights, Ill. on May 5, 2013. It’s a 13.1 mile jaunt! I returned early from St Louis from a Mary … Continue reading
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The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
William Appleman Williams, the greatest revisionist historian, used the blog-post title for one of his seminal works. It unfortunately is ongoing: William Appleman Williams (1921-1990) Allies: The U.S. persists in using this term as if we are in a permanent … Continue reading
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National Louis University Censured by AAUP Based on Committee A Recommendation
Letter followed by censure at AAUP DC annual meeting on June 15.                                                                                        5/31/13 NATIONAL LOUIS UNIVERSITY (ILLINOIS)            The investigation of Association concerns at National Louis University followed the actions taken by the administration in spring 2012 to discontinue numerous academic … Continue reading
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N.L.R.B. Defies Police State and False Claims of Religious Exemption, Gives Adjuncts Green Light at Pacific Lutheran
The epochal National Labour Relations Board (N.L.R.B.) established in 1935 during the Great Depression, has ruled once again that faculty adjuncts, part-timers, at Pacific Lutheran University have the right to hold an election to determine if they can organise under a union … Continue reading
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Sign the Petition for Pres. Obama to Pardon American Hero Edward Snowden. He Pardons Turkeys!!
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pardon-edward-snowden/Dp03vGYD I don’t like pardons. They presume there is something to pardon. Yet due to the heroic, self-sacrificing nature of Mr Snowden’s actions, I signed. Will you? Of course the national-security elites will ignore this. After all, this is Amerika. … Continue reading
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End the Police State, Cyber Imperialism and the N.S.A. Traitorous Campaign Against America
Thank you American hero, that is what you are, Edward Snowden, for protecting our freedoms. Not the militarists who are taking it away History shows, especially American history, that when it is under siege or attack (real or imagined) usually … Continue reading
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