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Monthly Archives: September 2017
Indochina, U.S. Foreign Policy, War
September 26, 1945: OSS Officer Lt. Colonel A. Peter Dewey Becomes First American to Die in Vietnam
by Christopher Fisher •
Dewey’s last 1945 report to his superiors concluded “the French and British are finished here, and we ought to clear out of Southeast Asia” The U.S. was busy in Vietnam long before the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident led to a Congressional blank check for war. Nearly a decade prior to the defeat of the…
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Military Industrial Complex, Terror Inc.
Bernie Sanders Gives the Military Industrial Complex a Heads-Up: The Time for Change Has Arrived
by Christopher Fisher •
Bernie Sanders Explains What a Progressive Foreign Policy & National Security Strategy Looks Like. The Annual Westminster College Green Foundation Lecture has been the site of many a well-known foreign policy presentation, including Winston Churchill’s 1946 “Iron Curtain” speech and Mikhail Gorbachev’s 1992 lecture on the end of the Cold War. Continue below the transcript…
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Human Rights, Native American
September 12, 2017 – Leonard Peltier’s Birthday & the 15,194th Day of His Incarceration
by Christopher Fisher •
Among the greatest disappointments with the presidency of Barack Obama – there are so many – none are greater than the last, his failure to grant clemency to or pardon the United States’ most famous political prisoner, Leonard Peltier. Peltier turns 73 today, September 12, the 15,194th day of his incarceration. Here’s the latest message…
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Activism, Petaluma
Petaluma on the March in Support of Its Immigrant Community
by Christopher Fisher •
Hundreds of people from Petaluma and beyond turned out for a march and a vigil in support of its immigrant community last weekend, days after President Donald Trump announced the termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. These images come from Saturday’s We Love Our Neighbors – Petaluma Support Dreamers, Support DACA…
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Military Industrial Complex, Terror Inc., Nuclear, U.S. Foreign Policy, Uncle Noam, War
U.S. Nuclear Modernization Has Pentagon Dreaming of a Winnable Nuclear War with Russia
by Christopher Fisher •
Mainstream, Corporate Media in U.S. Yet to Cover Alarming Change in Nuclear Balance U.S. policy “creates exactly what one would expect to see, if a nuclear-armed state were planning to have the capacity to fight and win a nuclear war by disarming enemies with a surprise first strike” Asked in the June 2017 edition of…
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Corporate Crime & Misbehavior
Equifax Data Breach – Corporate Incompetence & Criminal Misbehavior – A TRNN Interview with Bill Black
by Christopher Fisher •
Transcript AARON MATE: It’s The Real News. I’m Aaron Mate. The consumer credit reporting giant Equifax is in hot water after one of the largest data breaches in years. Equifax says hackers have gained access to the personal information of more than 143 million people. That’s just under half the entire U.S. population. The compromised…
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Climate Change, Commons, Community Supported Agriculture, Food Movement, Food System
How to Feed Ourselves in a Time of Climate Crisis
by Christopher Fisher •
Courtesy of Yes! Magazine. Here are 13 of the best ideas for a just and sustainable food system, from saving seeds to curbing food waste. Raj Patel & Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz Sep 08, 2017 Changing the food system is the most important thing humans can do to fix our broken carbon cycles. Meanwhile, food security is…
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Climate Change, Corporate Crime & Misbehavior, Fossil Fuels
What ExxonMobil Didn’t Say About Climate Change
by Christopher Fisher •
Exxon Misled the Public on Climate Change, Study Says As ExxonMobil responded to news reports in 2015 that said that the company had spread doubt about the risks of climate change despite its own extensive research in the field, it urged the public to “read the documents” for themselves. Now two Harvard researchers have done just that, reviewing nearly 200…
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Buddha Dharma, Food Labeling & Marketing, Food System, Inequality, Poverty
Like Farting in a Lift: Raj Patel on the Impoliteness of Poverty, Inequality and the Need to End Food Marketing to Children
by Christopher Fisher •
From The Inquiring Mind archives, here’s a worthy example of the work that appeared in that Buddhist journal over the course of its thirty-one year run. This is an extended excerpt of an interview with Raj Patel that was first published in their Fall 2014 edition. It has lost none of its relevance or clarity.…
