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What I like About The Occupy Movement : Part 4

Reflexions on the non-violence of the Occupy Movement.

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What I Like About The Occupy Movement Part 3

Praise for the pluralism of the "Occupy MOvrmrnt"

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The Possibility And Limitations Of Revolution

Thoughts on revolution in the modern world.

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Dems call GOP’s bluff, force House Republicans to vote down their own budget

"WASHINGTON – House Republicans scrambled Friday to vote down their own... more

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7 Arrested at TN Capitol Protesting for Worker Rights

A friend in Tennessee was arrested for protesting for Union Rights. All caught on... more

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The 'Facebookalization' of Anarchism

The drawbacks of anarchist activity on Facebook.

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Democrats go trick-or-treating as Libertarians

In Colorado, Indiana, Illinois, and Maryland, Democrats have spent money on mailers... more

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Molly'sBlog Sweden Turns Right

News and opinion about the recent Swedish election.

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Molly'sBlog International Support For Spanish General Strike

News and opinion about the upcoming general strike in Spain and the international... more

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U.S. using old and risky strategy « My Bloggity Blog

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Wargaming

It is said that history repeats itself but sometimes it can actually change. That is... more

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Dragon Age: Origins tactics videos

A guide showing Dragon Age: Origins tactics on video how to gain the tactical... more

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Reform of G20 police tactics

What do you do when you have a bunch of protesters sick of the corrupt governments way... more

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The trouble with sex - Men & Women, Love & Sex

Sexual intercourse is poorly designed to give pleasure to both parties. Jeremy... more

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Are We the Martians of the Twenty-First Century?

War of the worlds hits Kabul.

An unremarkable paragraph in a piece in my hometown paper recently caught my eye. It was headlined "White House Believes Karzai Will Be Re-elected," but in mid-report Helene Cooper and Mark Landler of the New York Times turned to Afghan War commander General Stanley McChrystal's "redeployment option." Here's the humdrum paragraph in question: "The redeployment option calls for moving troops from sparsely populated and lawless areas of the countryside to urban areas, including Kandahar and Kabul. Many rural areas 'would be better left to Predators,' said an administration official, referring to drone aircraft."

In other words, the United States may now be represented in the Afghan countryside, as it already is in the tribal areas on the Pakistani side of the border, mainly by Predators and their even more powerful cousins, Reapers, unmanned aerial vehicles with names straight out of a sci-fi film about implacable aliens. If you happen to be an Afghan villager in some underpopulated part of that country where the U.S. has set up small bases—two of which were almost overrun recently—they will be gone and "America" will instead be soaring overhead. We're talking about planes without human beings in them tirelessly scanning the ground with their cameras for up to 22 hours at a stretch. Launched from Afghanistan but flown by pilots thousands of miles away in the American West, they are armed with two to four Hellfire missiles or the equivalent in 500-pound bombs.

To see Earth from the heavens, that's the classic viewpoint of the superior being or god with the ultimate power of life and death. Zeus, that Greek god of gods, used lightning bolts to strike down humans who offended him. We use missiles and bombs. Zeus had the knowledge of a god. We have "intelligence," often fallible (or score-settling). His weapon of choice destroyed one individual. Ours take out anyone in the vicinity.

He made his decisions from Mount Olympus; we make ours from places like Creech Air Force Base outside Las Vegas, and Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. Those about whom we make life-and-death decisions, as they scurry below or carry on as best they can, have—like any beings faced with the gods—no recourse or appeal. Seen on screens, they are, to us, distant, grainy figures, hardly larger than ants. This is what implacable means.

Continued at link . . .War of the worlds hits Kabul. An unremarkable paragraph in a piece in my hometown... more

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The Iran Attack

The Iran Attack Plan

By ANTHONY H. CORDESMAN

When the Israeli army's then-Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Halutz was asked in 2004 how far Israel would go to stop Iran's nuclear program, he replied: "2,000 kilometers," roughly the distance been the two countries.

Israel's political and military leaders have long made it clear that they are considering taking decisive military action if Iran continues to develop its nuclear program. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned at the United Nations this week that "the most urgent challenge facing this body is to prevent the tyrants of Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons."

Reporting by the International Atomic Energy Agency and other sources has made it clear that whether or not Iran ties all of its efforts into a formal nuclear weapons program, it has acquired all of the elements necessary to make and deliver such weapons. Just Friday, Iran confirmed that it has been developing a second uranium-enrichment facility on a military base near Qom, doing little to dispel the long-standing concerns of Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia, and the U.S. that Iran is developing nuclear weapons.

Bryan Christie
Iran has acquired North Korean and other nuclear weapons design data through sources like the sales network once led by the former head of Pakistan's nuclear program, A. Q. Khan. Iran has all of the technology and production and manufacturing capabilities needed for fission weapons. It has acquired the technology to make the explosives needed for a gun or implosion device, the triggering components, and the neutron initiator and reflectors. It has experimented with machine uranium and plutonium processing. It has put massive resources into a medium-range missile program that has the range payload to carry nuclear weapons and that makes no sense with conventional warheads. It has also worked on nuclear weapons designs for missile warheads. These capabilities are dispersed in many facilities in many cities and remote areas, and often into many buildings in each facility—each of which would have to be a target in an Israeli military strike.

It is far from certain that such action would be met with success.The Iran Attack Plan By ANTHONY H. CORDESMAN When the Israeli army's... more

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Lebanese Man Target of First Rendition Under Obama

A Lebanese citizen being held in a detention center for bribery was hooded, stripped... more

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Democrats tactics begin to stink like a neglected outhouse

It seems that when Barack Obama became president of the United States, he brought with... more

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