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Don’t Call It a “Defense” Budget By Norman Solomon 2/2

This isn’t “defense.” The new budget from the White House will push U.S. military spending well above $2 billion a day. Foreclosing the future of our country should not be confused with defending it. “Unless miraculous growth, or miraculous political compromises, creates some unforeseen change...
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Posted by admin in PV Members Featured Articles & Commentary on 01 30th, 2010 | No Comments

Arresting Gandhi‏ by David Rovics 1/30

Arresting Gandhi “Violent Clashes” and the Arrest of Abdullah Abu Rahma He’s a Palestinian man, and he has one of those very Muslim-sounding names with “Abu” in it (it means “father of”). Any time his name is mentioned in the media, it tends to be quickly lined up with phrases like...
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Posted by admin in PV Members Featured Articles & Commentary on 01 29th, 2010 | No Comments

PV Response to NPR’s ATC Coverage of Howard Zinn

by David Zupan Shame on “All Things Considered” for stooping so low you would give far-right activist David Horowitz time to blast Howard Zinn and everything he stood for. I’m sure whoever approved this will try to somehow rationalize this disrespect in the name of “balance.”...
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Posted by admin in PV Members Featured Articles & Commentary on 01 28th, 2010 | No Comments

Alistair Hulett, Icon of Scottish folk music, international socialism & Australian punk rock dead at 57 1/28

Alistair Hulett has died. Today is my daughter Leila’s fourth birthday, and while this occasion brings my thoughts back to the day she was born, the past 24 hours have otherwise been full of fairly devastating news. If the left can admit to having icons, then two of them have just died. Yesterday...
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Posted by admin in PV Members Featured Articles & Commentary on 01 27th, 2010 | No Comments

Obama’s Human Rights Policy a Disappointment 1/26

Published on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 by Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF) by Stephen Zunes The Obama administration’s record on human rights has been a major disappointment. In part because the Bush administration abused the promotion of democracy and human rights to rationalize its militaristic...
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Posted by admin in PV Members Featured Articles & Commentary on 01 25th, 2010 | No Comments

Good Moon Rising by Norman Solomon

Last week, with the Tea Bagger triumph in Massachusetts and the corporate triumph in the U.S. Supreme Court, an apt soundtrack would have been the Creedence Clearwater Revival song “Bad Moon Rising”: I hear the voice of rage and ruin … Looks like we’re in for nasty weather. One eye is taken...
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Posted by admin in PV Members Featured Articles & Commentary, Reposted from CommonDreams.org on 01 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

Granny D Wisdom at 100: Defend Democracy Against the Corporate State 1/21

Published on Thursday, January 21, 2010 by CommonDreams.org by Doris ‘Granny D’ Haddock Ten years ago, I walked from California to Washington, D.C. to help gather support for campaign finance reform. I used the novelty of my age (I was 90), to garner attention to the fact that our democracy,...
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Posted by admin in PV Members Featured Articles & Commentary on 12 15th, 2009 | No Comments

[Rovics] Report from Cop-enhagen ‏ 12/14

The signs up all over the airport and various places elsewhere in town are calling it Hopenhagen, but everybody I know is calling it Cop-enhagen, which seems far more appropriate. The international media has been giving this lots of coverage, and rightly so. Of course much of the media is unable to walk...
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Posted by admin in PV Members Featured Articles & Commentary, Reposted from CommonDreams.org on 12 11th, 2009 | No Comments

Climate Change Conspiracy Theorists Are Today’s Flat Earthers 12-10

Published on Thursday, December 10, 2009 by CommonDreams.org Climate Change Conspiracy Theorists Are Today’s Flat Earthers by Dave Lindorff When I was back in eighth grade, my science teacher, Mr. Malone, a brittle old man with a shock of white hair and a stern classroom demeanor, but a sharp sense...
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Posted by admin in PV Members Featured Articles & Commentary on 12 10th, 2009 | No Comments

Mr. President, War Is Not Peace By Norman Solomon 12/10

Mr. President, War Is Not Peace By Norman Solomon Eloquence in Oslo cannot change the realities of war. As President Obama neared the close of his Nobel address, he called for “the continued expansion of our moral imagination.” Yet his speech was tightly circumscribed by the policies that his oratory...
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