some see small dams as a middle ground between big dams and no dams at all but that compromise is not working in south americabecause of their presumed limited ecological impact environmental permits for small hydroelectric dams are granted by state not federal agencies. and the state bodies are more vulnerable to local economic pressures says valle.snipthe dams reduce the quantity of fish in the ...
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cleaning off my desk i just came across this fascinating and still timely 2004 interview with seymour hersh. hes answering a question about the torture that bush allowed encouraged and rewarded in the abu ghraib prison is there anything more dangerous than a 20yearold with a weapon cmon in a war zone youll steal and kill and do pretty much anything. of course hersh knows that there is in fact...
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at jfk airport denying basic rights is just another day at the office rights and liberties alternet tags politics culture article......
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20 august 2008 immigration bullies for us immigration agents at jfk airport bullying is standard practice. they detain people for hours forbidding them to urinate and proudly say they will hold people longer as an act of repression.......
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wenn man einen solchen bericht wie den von emily feder at jfk airport denying basic rights is just another day at the office liest dann vergeht einem wirklich jede lust in irgendwie absehbarer zeit in die usa zu reisen. ich kann den wahrheitsgehalt des berichtes natarlich nicht aberprafen aber irgendwie passt es ins bild. mir lagen ob des beschriebenen verhaltens sogar vergleiche mit unserer deuts...
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it looks like the smart money is on delaware senator joe biden for obamas running mate. mark halperins already announced it in his typical cryptic way after erasing his if i dont know the selection it hasnt happened yet post from last night bo knows he says which probably refers to bidens son beau though why beau would know is unknown. why would obama choose biden our theory is that obama just lik...
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steven greenhouse of the new york times wrote about robert greenwald brave new films teaming up with the aflcio and seiu to make mccains mansions the real elitist. the a.f.l.c.i.o. and the service employees international union have banded together to help distribute and publicize a new online video that characterizes senator john mccain as elitist and out of touch. the fourminute video produ...
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...ish. i came to america because ive always wanted to come here and now theyve got me so scared that all i want to do is go home. i really do want to see the country but i read things like this httpwww.alternet.org and it scares me. via boingboing......
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an american humanrights worker was detained by the dhs at jfk when she returned from her holiday in syria. she found herself in a kafkaesque nightmare room crammed like a cattlecar with americans and foreigners seething as they were abused ignored insulted and sometimes deported by the us governments representatives. so much for public diplomacy. no one who had been detained knew precisely why th...
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head over the alternet and read the whole interview with author susan jacoby howantiitellectualism is destroying america. the money quotes steve colbert interviewed georgia rep. lynn westmoreland on the colbert report. westmoreland cosponsored a bill that would require the display of the ten commandments in both the house of representatives and the senate but when asked couldnt actually list the ...
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as we enter the perfect economic storm its important though too late to realize that none of this is an accident. it is all the result of careful longterm planning by our masters on wall street and main street. easy consumer credit the legalization of usury the federal deficit the subprime mess privatization the strangling of unions the collapse of the middle class deregulation the lotteries and ...
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courtney martin the naked truth young beautiful and hiv positive by marvelyn brown and cowritten by courtney hits stores tomorrow august 19th and is now available on amazon.com the teen moms of gloucester what the media didnt tell you cowritten with elaine tyler may at alternet a clip of courtneys appearance in june with the womens media center ethan todraswhitehill and theo gangi blood brother...
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...s destroying americahow antiintellectualism is destroying americasad but true intelligence is a political liability in the us. author of the age of american unreason susan jacoby explains why.......
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business school graduates have replaced doctors and public health experts as ceos of hospitals often at patients expense writes maggie mahar of health beat blog. the organizational culture of medicine used to be dominated by the ideals of professionalism and voluntarism which softened the underlying acquisitive activity starr wrote. the restraints exercised by those ideals now grow weaker. the he...
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...eems he is in really bad shape. more technorati tags republicans bush john mccain barack obama rev. kirbyjon caldwell windsor village united methodist church......
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top 10 signs of the impending u.s. police state 1. the internet clampdown one saving grace of alternative media in this age of unfettered corporate conglomeration has been the internet. while the masses are spoonfed predigested news on tv and in mainstream print publications the truthseeking individual still has access to a broad array of investigative reporting and political opinion via the...
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matthew gertz and eric h. hananoki from media matters for america document all of jerome corsis blatant lies in the obama nation a followup to his 2004 book unfit for command. the comparison seems apt just as unfit for command contains false attacks on sen. john kerrys military service a media matters review finds that the obama nation similarly contains numerous falsehoods about sen. barac...
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how antiintellectualism is destroying america by terrence mcnally alternet. posted august 15 2008. sad but true intelligence is a political liability in the us. author of the age of american unreason susan jacoby explains why. this is an important article but it seems to have gone off course in one way sneaking into the discussion is the arrogant stance of the brights movement the new atheisms bo...
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how antiintellectualism is destroying america in my talks to people i often mention a statistic from the national constitution center that almost half of americans cant name even one of the rights guaranteed by the first amendment. a student stood up at a university in california and said that doesnt matter because you can just look it up on the internet. but if you dont know what the first amendm...
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this blog post has a bears theme. its all aboot bears. above bear not amused. bear market. chart 1 chart 2 bear stearns. whodunnit. next. bear angry at poland. bear angry at ukraine. colbert on bears. flickr bears.......
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its like these guys take pride in being ignorant. barack obama finally said it. though a successful political and electoral strategy the rights stand against intelligence has steered them far off course leaving them and us unable to deal successfully with the complex and dynamic circumstances we face as a nation and a society writes terrence mcnally.......
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