01 August 2013
Reverence for Garbage
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Robert Koehler
“My life would be worthless without music,” the girl said.

And the music came, up from the garbage, through her hands and heart and out to the world. My god, she was playing a violin made out of an old can. A boy was playing...
29 July 2013
Yemen, Guantanamo Bay, drones and the war on journalists
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Gerry Bello
When we think about a secret drone strikes, we often imagine remote and mountainous North West Pakistan, where Taliban fighters flee from neighboring Afghanistan in order to rest, recruit and regroup. Although the majority of America’s...
29 July 2013
Decline and fall – Drop dead date pushed up, new Pharaoh in town
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Michael Collins
Drop dead date pushed up – Man made pollution, mostly CO2, is accelerating at a rate that has a definite endpoint for world civilization as we know it. Since accumulated CO2 in the atmosphere sticks around for hundreds of years, we won’t...
29 July 2013
Unveiling female Muslim teachers so students can see their lips
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The Philippines, Asia's only Catholic-majority country, has ordered Muslim women to remove their facial veils when teaching the government's experimental curriculum of Arabic language and Islamic values, because...
29 July 2013
European Parliamentarians call for Bradley Manning’s freedom
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Gary Condon
Seventeen Members of European Parliament have written a letter calling on U.S. President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to free WikiLeaks whistle-blower Army Pfc. Bradley Manning. The MEPs laud Manning for exposing “...
26 July 2013
Fukushima spews ever more darkness
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Harvey Wasserman
Radiation leaks, steam releases, disease and death continue to spew from Fukushima and a disaster which is far from over. Its most profound threat to the global ecology—a spent fuel fire—is still very much with us.

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