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“The establishment media ignores the scientific evidence linking psychiatric medications and violent behavior because psychiatry is the religion of the mainstream media, and it has chosen to not mention the dangers of psychiatrically prescribed drugs.” -- Peter R. Breggin, MD(www.breggin.org)
Will Joe Biden end the endless wars or won’t he?
I have serious doubts that he has the will or political acumen to do so. But that’s only a fragment of the question that needs to be asked, as we approach the twentieth anniversary of our global “war on evil.” A far, far bigger question looms, a question with answers scattered across the global landscape: Can we learn to wage peace? Can we create a united world, free of borders and scapegoats? Can we transcend our alienation from and exploitation of the planet that is our home and our nurturer? Can we stop being afraid of people we don’t know, people who are “different” from us? Can we let go of our need for an enemy?
A ‘major setback’ was the recurring term in many news headlines reporting on the outcome of Israel’s general elections of March 23.
Last week’s outbreak of rhetorical hostilitiesbetween the White House and the Kremlin has heightened the urgent need for a summit between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin. The spate of mutual denunciations is catnip for mass media and fuel for hardliners in both countries. But for the world at large, under the doomsday shadow of nuclear arsenals brandished by the United States and Russia, the latest developments are terribly ominous.
A Palestinian man, Atef Yousef Hanaysha, was killed by Israeli occupation forces on March 19 during a weekly protest against illegal Israeli settlement expansion in Beit Dajan, near Nablus, in the northern West Bank.
When a lost soul attempts to reclaim himself in the American way, it becomes, far too often . . . we all know this . . . another mass murder.
In the past week or so, there have been two more of them.
“This cannot be our new normal. We should be able to feel safe in our grocery stores. We should be able to feel safe in our schools, in our movie theaters and in our communities. We need to see a change.”
When I first saw this quote by U.S. Congressman Joe Neguse, whose district includes Boulder, Colorado, site of one of the shootings, I initially misread that last sentence and thought, oh my God, he’s right. We need a sea change!
Originally published on August 3, 2012at: https://duluthreader.com/articles/2012/08/03/100731-what-were-the-brain-altering-psych-drugs-that-the
The most recent episode in the peculiarly American epidemic of mass shootings happened yesterday, March 22, 2021, in Boulder, Colorado. Everybody knows the bare details as broadcast on the mainstream media and most people are expecting the seemingly inevitable – and illogical – revenge/retaliations against Middle Eastern immigrants.
The lone shooter in Boulder was a 21-year-old Syrian-born man named Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa. He hasadmitted to the shooting.
A week earlier Alissa had legally purchased the murder weapon, a semiautomatic AK-15-style Ruger assault pistol.
Six years ago, on March 26, 2015, the US green-lighted and provided logistical support for the Saudi bombing of Yemen that continues on a daily basis. The US/Saudi war, which includes as allies the several members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, is an undeclared war, illegal under international law, and an endless crime against humanity. The US and the Saudis have dropped cluster bombs on Yemen since 2009. Yemen has no air force and no significant air defenses. Two years ago, even the US Congress voted to end US involvement in the war, but President Trump vetoed the resolution.
BANGKOK, Thailand -- When Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen received
his AstraZeneca vaccination shot, he suddenly felt invulnerable and
vowed to rule indefinitely.
Hun Sen is already one of the world's longest ruling prime ministers,
confident his successor will be his son Hun Manet who is a West Point
graduate, or Finance Minister Aun Pornmoniroth.
A vaccination shot against COVID-19 on March 4 may delay those plans.
"I will not die anytime soon. And now that my body is vaccinated, I
will not easily die," Hun Sen, 68, announced after receiving an
AstraZeneca injection at Calmette Hospital in the capital Phnom Penh.
"I will rule until a point that I feel I no longer want to rule."
The U.S. perceives Hun Sen as dangerously pro-China because he allows
major Chinese investment and infrastructure projects, enabling Beijing
to extend its reach into Southeast Asia.
Cambodia is simultaneously embroiled in a harsh crackdown against Hun
Sen's political opponents, enforced by prison sentences and fueled by
allegations of coup plots.