30 Apr 2008
The Democrats must admit it: Obama would lose to McCain
By Anatole Kaletsky
American Presidential elections have been compared with reality TV series or game shows, in which a gaggle of jumped-up nonentities aspiring to be celebrities are ritually humiliated in public and offered entertaining opportunities to self-destruct, until only one survivor remains. But this time [...]
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29 Apr 2008
Note: Here is another piece of life together – Muslims and Mizrahis (Sephardis, real Jews) share so much in common. It also shows one more aspect of many of the monstrous Ashkenazo-Zionist efforts to falsify Judaism and history and to create confusion and alienation between the two communities.
By Anouar Majid *
Not [...]
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28 Apr 2008
An Alternative Agriculture is Possible
By DE CLARKE and STAN GOFF
In recent days, we have seen the rising price of oil and the devaluation of the dollar create two quantum shifts in the economy: the beginning of the collapse of the air travel industry and a global crisis of food-price inflation. These are related [...]
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25 Apr 2008
Note : Hunga is Texanese for Hunger.
By Anwaar Hussain
What is hunger?
When the glucose level of the liver falls below a threshold, a feeling is experienced that is called hunger, usually followed by a desire to eat. Although an average nourished human can survive for weeks without food intake, the sensation of hunger typically begins after [...]
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24 Apr 2008
By Zaigham Khan, Thursday, April 24, 2008
It was like a tumour on the body of Peshawar, a cancer that had to be removed sooner or later. The surgeon’s knife is working swiftly to eliminate the last traces of the Jalozai Camp, a mini-Afghanistan, from the soil of Pakistan. Its graveyard, where the dead are buried [...]
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23 Apr 2008
(As inspired by a conversation with Derrick Jensen)
By Jason Miller
“There’s got to be just more to it than this;
Or tell me why do we exist?”
-Iron Maiden
Is the Western consumerist culture that we inflict upon the rest of the world truly the pinnacle of our evolution? If it is, I resign my membership in [...]
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22 Apr 2008
By Marc Lacey in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
HUNGER smashed in the front gate of Haiti’s presidential palace. Hunger poured on to the streets, burning tyres and taking on soldiers and the police. Hunger sent the country’s prime minister packing.
Haiti’s hunger, that has become fiercer than ever in recent days as global food prices spiral out [...]
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