RELEASE OF AUNG SAN SUU KYI November 18, 2010
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The Burmese military dictatorship, although they held an election recently, released Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest in which she has been held for 15 of the last 20 years. Why have they released her now?
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HELEN THOMAS GETS TIME November 17, 2010
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Months later, after her sacking for thought crime, in the land of the free and the home of the brave, Helen Thomas gets the chance to put her side of the story.
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MAKING WAR November 16, 2010
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The Prime Minister committed Australia to ten more years of the occupation war in Afghanistan, by which time she will be long gone and perhaps the soldiers will be too.
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SENSE AND NO CENTS November 14, 2010
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Is it the case that the US is flat out broke? The Gentleman from Texas avers this to be the case, and while making sense he seems to be talking to an empty chamber.
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THE WEST RULED November 14, 2010
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History is composed of details and dates and larger patterns. Professor Ian Morris of Stanford University has a new book, Why the West Rules – For Now: The Patterns of History, and What they Reveal About the Future (Profile), and an article at the BBC
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REMEMBERING WORLD WAR ONE AND WHITLAM November 12, 2010
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Paul Norton at Larvatus Prodeo reminds me that it is now 35 years since the dismissal of the Whitlam Government and 92 years since the end of the First World War.
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SO WHAT ARE MIRROR NEURONS? November 9, 2010
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Vilayanur Ramachandran, from the University of California, Berkeley, outlines the functions of mirror neurons.
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EARTH DEMOCRACY November 8, 2010
Posted by wmmbb in Natural Environment, Peace.2 comments
So how do we stop violence in all its forms? The ecological and atmospheric crises we face did not just happen. They have a source in perception and thinking.
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“DON’T MENTION THE WAR” November 7, 2010
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The mid-term elections represented a Republican wave on which the Democrats were wiped out. Analysis and predictably analogies flowed in their wake.
FRIDAY NIGHT DOG BLOG: RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY November 6, 2010
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The weather seems to have been unseasonably cold and wet, although I could confirm the hunch by checking out the photos from previous years.
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MID-TERM SUMMARY November 4, 2010
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Some, and perhaps too few, Americans are asserting the need to “take back our democracy” in summary of the mid-term election victory of the Tea Party and their anonymous financial backers.
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MID-TERM ROUT? November 3, 2010
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Politics in the United States after the election of Obama have become weird, if not crazy. Most Presidents lose in the mid-term elections, and this time some predictions suggest that the Republicans will can control of the both the House of Reps and the Senate.
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DEATH SQUADS STALKING AFGHANISTAN November 1, 2010
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In the noble humanitarian war in Afghanistan, military death squads are turning the population against the Occupation and the Invaders. Wow, what a surprise!
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ATTACK ON SUFI SHRINES October 31, 2010
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In Karachi and other places in Pakistan, Sufi shrines have been attacked including by suicide bombers.
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FRIDAY NIGHT DOG BLOG: FRAGMENTS OF TIME October 29, 2010
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Reviewing these old photos is a strange experience. They are incidental moments for which I am sure the dogs have no memories.
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FIRST MUSLIM MP October 28, 2010
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Not everything that happens is bad or counter-productive. Sometimes progress occurs on the margins, but better than it occurs than not happening at all.
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“HUMANITARIAN” SLAUGHTER October 27, 2010
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There are those in the Australian Parliament hand on heart who claim that the Afghan Occupation to be “a humanitarian mission“.
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A TORRENT OF EVIDENCE October 26, 2010
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The documents released by Wikileaks have apparently revealed a torrent of evidence of killing and torture in which American mercenaries and military were involved, if not complicit.
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