(Distribute widely. Obama’s WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER either.)
Ambassador Nancy J. Powell
Director General of the Foreign Service and
Director of Human Resources
U.S. Department of State
2201 C. Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20520
Dear Ambassador Powell:
It is with great regret and disappointment I submit my resignation from my appointment as a Political Officer in the Foreign Service and my […]

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Hat tip to Anita Stewart.

from Diana Butler Bass:
* Hospitality
* Discernment
* Healing
* Contemplation
* Testimony
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With the massacre at Fort Hood and reports that President Obama is about to approve the sending of 40,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, “The Good Soldier” arrives at movie theaters in the nick of time. What is needed desperately right now is a shot in the arm for the antiwar movement and this deeply moving […]

Financial historian Michael Hudson, author of Super Imperialism, makes a claim that the main contradiction in our society today is not between owner and worker, as the old left claimed, but between creditors and borrowers. I don’t know about “main” anything, contradictions or otherwise, but there is something critical in what he says. […]

Got this by email, and wanted to share. De has always been on the lookout for the biophobic bases of exterminism, a medicalized pest-metaphor that accompanied the Enlightenment through its ultimate development (to now). More than once, we’ve pointed out here - with regard to the growing proto-fascist movement of the post-Bush political […]