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what's going on...: An Impartial Interrogation of George W. Bush

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Articles and essays about the world. politics, philosophy, sociology, ecology, comedy and some other stuff. Monday, January 29, 2007. An Impartial Interrogation of George W. Bush. Senator George McGovern delivered these remarks at the National Press Club January 12. They are published here as part of Moral Compass, a series focusing on the spoken word. After frowning for a moment, the preacher replied, 'Young man- it's impertinent questions like that that's hurtin' religion.'". Are you aware that your ac...

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what's going on...: August 2006

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Articles and essays about the world. politics, philosophy, sociology, ecology, comedy and some other stuff. Thursday, August 31, 2006. Posted by rich hawkins @ 08:32 0 comments. Thursday, August 24, 2006. The Real Terrorism Plot. Moments after the shocking announcement, as security threat levels reached their peak in the US and Britain, the debate commenced and it relentlessly continues: Why would a British Muslim choose such a destructive path while living in a democratic society, where change, at least...

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what's going on...: Global Warming: the Final Verdict

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Articles and essays about the world. politics, philosophy, sociology, ecology, comedy and some other stuff. Monday, January 29, 2007. Global Warming: the Final Verdict. A study by the world's leading experts says global warming will happen faster and be more devastating than previously thought. Global warming is destined to have a far more destructive and earlier impact than previously estimated, the most authoritative report yet produced on climate change will warn next week. Sea levels are rising at th...

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what's going on...: September 2006

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Articles and essays about the world. politics, philosophy, sociology, ecology, comedy and some other stuff. Wednesday, September 27, 2006. The Carbon Offset Con. From The New Internationalist. For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.’ HL Mencken, journalist and social critic (1880-1956). A rush of blood to the head. But what is this whole offsets business about? Does planting trees or investing in other offsets projects solve climate change? This is carbon. And my diamo...

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what's going on...: May 2006

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Articles and essays about the world. politics, philosophy, sociology, ecology, comedy and some other stuff. Wednesday, May 31, 2006. The Art of Living. Or better put, how can we die with ourselves? Posted by rich hawkins @ 14:54 0 comments. Saturday, May 27, 2006. What If They Gave a War? 1968 It was the height of the Vietnam War, the year of My Lai and the Tet offensive. Student riots in Paris nearly brought down the French government. Soviet tanks put a premature end to Czechoslovakia's Prague ...In th...

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what's going on...: THE WAR ON (BLANK)

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Articles and essays about the world. politics, philosophy, sociology, ecology, comedy and some other stuff. Wednesday, February 21, 2007. THE WAR ON (BLANK). INSTRUCTIONS: Fill in the blank with the name of any group of people, nation, substance, or activitiy that threatens to destroy the American way of life and everything America stands for. Freedoms that Americans have become used to will have to be temporarily curtailed in order for government to mount an effective campaign to eradict the threat of (...

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what's going on...: Mystery: How Wealth Creates Poverty in the World

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Articles and essays about the world. politics, philosophy, sociology, ecology, comedy and some other stuff. Saturday, February 17, 2007. Mystery: How Wealth Creates Poverty in the World. There is a mystery we must explain: How is it that as corporate investments and foreign aid and international loans to poor countries have increased dramatically throughout the world over the last half century, so has poverty? By displacing local populations from their lands and robbing them of their self-sufficiency, co...

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what's going on...: 737 U.S. Military Bases = Global Empire

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Articles and essays about the world. politics, philosophy, sociology, ecology, comedy and some other stuff. Wednesday, February 21, 2007. 737 US. Military Bases = Global Empire. By Chalmers Johnson, Metropolitan Books. With more than 2,500,000 U.S. personnel serving across the planet and military bases spread across each continent, it's time to face up to the fact that our American democracy has spawned a global empire. The total of America's military bases in other people's countries in 2005, according ...

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what's going on...: Another Species of Denial

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Articles and essays about the world. politics, philosophy, sociology, ecology, comedy and some other stuff. Wednesday, January 31, 2007. Another Species of Denial. So how do we do it without bringing civilisation crashing down? Here is a plan for drastic but affordable action that the government could take. It goes much further than the proposals discussed by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown yesterday, for the reason that this is what the science demands. 7 Oblige all chains of filling stations to supply leas...

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what's going on...: April 2006

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Articles and essays about the world. politics, philosophy, sociology, ecology, comedy and some other stuff. Saturday, April 29, 2006. Chernobyl was the world's worst environmental disaster. Twenty years on, John Vidal reports on the clean-up, the false medical records, the communities that refused to leave and the continuing cost to people and planet. He survived the worst environment disaster in history, he says, because he knew the danger and could monitor the radioactivity that varied from yard to yar...