http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:46:16 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:46:16 [b]Once upon a time, white nationalists in South Africa celebrated their control of the African continent and its people and the tremendous wealth they drew from this control by playing rugby:
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The African people hated, hated, hated ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IndyOp/109 Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:31:59 http://images.politico.com/global/080617_edtoon6-18_600.jpg

By Wuerker, via Politico.com - http://www.politico.com/wuerker/... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IndyOp/105 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:14:33 During this primary I've supported Dennis Kucinich, the draft Al Gore movement, and John Edwards. If Al had tossed his hat in the ring, I'd be with him. If John was still in the race, I'd still be talking him up to everyone who would listen.

While I was supporting other candidates I was critical ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IndyOp/103 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:02:40 [b][i]... don't let anybody make you think that GOD chose America as his divine messianic force to be, a sort of policeman of the whole world.

God has a way of standing before the nations with judgment and it seems that I can hear God saying to America "You are too arrogant!"

If you don't cha... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IndyOp/102 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:21:28 The world would be profoundly different if we all saw the events in the Middle East the way that Juan Cole does...

[link:www.juancole.com/|Top 10 Challenges Facing the US in the Middle East, 2008]

10. Helping broker a deal in Lebanon between the March 14 Movement and the Shiites so that a new... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IndyOp/98 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:45:00 [link:www.democracynow.org/2007/11/19/deception_british_reporter_andrew_levy_on|Deception: British Reporter Adrian Levy on How the United States Secretly Helped Pakistan Build Its Nuclear Arsenal]

Adrian Levy examines how five consecutive US administrations from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush hav... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IndyOp/96 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:27:09 At Wal-Mart, Christmas ornaments are cheap, and so are the lives of the young workers in China who make them.

The Guangzhou Huanya Gift company describes itself as being “among the top three Christmas ornament producers in mainland China,” with “long term, friendly, collaborative relationships wi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IndyOp/95 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:17:59 It looks to me like the mission of this group is to serve notice that no matter who is next in the Oval Office, the scientists, citizens, and business community will be in the driver's seat.

From the moment the 44th President of the United States takes office, the American people and the world c... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IndyOp/93 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:57:27 [link:www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0%2C2763%2C1089158%2C00.html|War critics astonished as US hawk admits invasion was illegal]
Oliver Burkeman and Julian Borger in Washington
Thursday November 20, 2003
The Guardian

International lawyers and anti-war campaigners reacted with astonishment yeste... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IndyOp/92 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:26:50 [link:www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20071124/immigrant-rescuer/|Illegal Immigrant Rescues Boy in Desert]
TERRY TANG | November 24, 2007 01:27 AM EST | AP

PHOENIX — A 9-year-old boy looking for help after his mother crashed their van in the southern Arizona desert was rescued by a man enterin... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IndyOp/91 Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:15:17 Sometimes I need a swift kick in the butt. I got one watching Tuesday's DemocracyNow!

[div class="excerpt"]Excerpt of a 1962 interview...

STUDS TERKEL: Why do people, the great majority of people the world over, feel as helpless as they do, they feel as impotent as they do? This seems to be i... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IndyOp/87 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:25:03 https://oncourse.iu.edu/access/content/user/hoffmanc/Filemanager_Public_Files/Pics/pic.jpeg

[link:www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/6d6dbd15239ce47241134cd62fa493a1.htm|Reuters AlterNet - IRAQ: Child prisoners abused and tortured, say activists]

"Children are being treated as adults in Ir... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IndyOp/83 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:05:45 B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-)
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B-) B-) B-) B-) ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IndyOp/82 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:05:16 My interpretation of a new CBS News Poll is that there is no significant difference in support for Gore versus Clinton among Democratic primary voters. I think my interpretation is fair even though CBS has given their poll results a different spin...

CBS News Poll - 456 interviews were conducted... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IndyOp/81 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:12:27 [link://current.com/items/85018011_2_bullets_to_the_head|2 Bullets to the Head] - Powerful piece on one young Iraqi man trying to live and maintain his sanity in Baghdad.

Lots more here at "Current War" -> http://current.com/topics/76253492_the_current_war

:(... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IndyOp/80 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:44:48 I am guessing that this has been posted already, but in case you missed it - as I did - it is worth the time to watch. And I want to be a very well-informed celebrant on Friday morning, when Al wins the Nobel.

http://blog.algore.com/2007/10/al_gores_speech_at_the_united.html

After it loads, fa... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IndyOp/72 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:46:23 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/EveningPrayers01a.jpg/210px-EveningPrayers01a.jpg

Maha Ghosananda, a respected Cambodian monk went into the refugee camps where thousands of Cambodians had fled the terrible holocaust conducted by Pol Pot. Every family had lost children, sp... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IndyOp/89 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:49:05 :wow: :scared: :wow: :scared: :wow: :scared:

[b]The Top 100 Effects of Global Warming[/b]

[b]Global Warming Makes Us Sicker[/b]

People Are Dying
150,000: Number of people the World Health Organization estimates are killed by climate-change-related issues every year. [Washington Post]

H... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IndyOp/71 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:01:52 The Presidential Scholars who gave Bush a letter asking him to stop torture were interviewed today on DemocracyNow!

The backstory is wonderful!

Mari Oye's Japanese grandfather had been interred in a U.S. Concentration Camp during WWII.

In 1968 her mother was a high school Presidential scho... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IndyOp/70 Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:08:45 America stands at the threshold of a new Democratic president, Democratic Congress, FDR-magnitude realignment and a national spirit reminiscent of the New Frontier.

There will be a transformation of American media as powerful as the days when Edward R. Murrow took integrity and quality to broadca... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IndyOp/67 Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:45:44 Thomas Paine, John Kenneth Galbraith, Walter Lippmann, Johannes Gutenberg, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Jefferson and Marshall McLuhan – all before finishing the introduction,” (Dana) Milbank wrote.

“Reading Gore’s book, or listening to his speeches, may remind some supporters what they liked least a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IndyOp/68 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:21:59 An [link:www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=985977&mesg_id=985977|interesting thread] that has made it to the Greatest Page makes the point that message boards might be "a giant liberal pacification device" that make us less likely to take action "in th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IndyOp/66 Mon, 28 May 2007 12:04:41 Their fists are up in defiance.
Their shoes are off and their pant legs are rolled up in protest of poverty.
Their heads are bowed in humility and prayer.

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DemocracyNow! did a recent interview with Tom... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IndyOp/63 Sun, 27 May 2007 15:05:53 U.S. BURIED IRAQI SOLDIERS ALIVE IN (FIRST) GULF WAR. News Report September 1991
From THE CATHOLIC WORKER, Page Three, March-April 1992 edition - Poem by Denise Levertov

[b]"What you saw was a bunch of trenches with arms sticking out."
"Plows mounted on tanks. Combat earthmovers." "Defiant." ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IndyOp/64 Sun, 27 May 2007 10:38:44 All posts welcome!

Book sections:

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Politics of Fear
Chapter 2: Blinding the Faithful
Chapter 3: The Politics of Wealth
Chapter 4: Convenient Untruths
Chapter 5: The Assault on the Individual
Chapter 6: National Insecurity
Chapter 7: The Carbon Crisis
Chapter ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/IndyOp/62 Sat, 26 May 2007 17:36:29