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Running out of gas: peak oil is here
December 21, 2007DVD REVIEW A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash Directed by Basil Gelpke, Ray McCormack and Reto Caduff Lava Productions, 2007 90 minutes Are believers in “peak oil” a lunatic fringe? Not according to the compelling and...
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Demolishing myths about todays Iran
December 21, 2007BOOK REVIEW Jasmine and Stars: Reading More than Lolita in Tehran By Fatemeh Keshavarz University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2007 Hardcover, 192 pp., $24.95 As the Bush administration continues to prepare for a possible...
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Fear of Cuba
December 21, 2007During the Vietnam War era, President Richard Nixon worried about his country becoming a “pitiful, helpless giant.” Now, with the world’s only superpower over-reacting to fears, that possibility seems to have resurfaced. Two recent U.S. measures...
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Wheres the humanity in immigration enforcement?
December 21, 2007When human beings are called “illegal” and “alien” by elected officials and law enforcement agencies and in the media, what kind of message are we spreading?
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Just the tip of the iceberg
December 21, 2007With the just completed Bali conference, the presentation of the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, special reports in many newspapers and magazines, demonstrations in 50 countries on global...
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