It Will Take a Lot More Than Gardening to Fix Our Food System - CommonDreams.org

Stan Cox makes a self-critical and far-sighted argument that the "grow your own" food garden movement is but one small act of resistance, insufficient by itself, as an act toward wide sweeping revolutionary change. Read more

Vincent Bugliosi | Antiwar Radio with Scott Horton and Charles Goyette

Here's why you should donate to Anti-war.

Truth Spring: "Bomb Haters, Unite!"

Anwaar Hussain: "Who was it that said, if you live with a cripple, you would learn to limp. ..."

Consortium News: "McClellan Suggests Plame Cover-up" by Jason Leopold

[excerpt] "Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan says George W. Bush’s political guru Karl Rove arranged a private meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby in 2005 when the two men were under mounting suspicion for leaking the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson. ..." Read more at: Consortiumnews.com

Talk is Cheap, Even with Enemies, and By the Way, Rivals Aren't Enemies | This Can't Be Happening!

Uh, oh! Dave Lindorff is writing like an independent, again. "What the hell is Barack Obama talking about? He says that America should be talking with leaders in Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, Korea, Syria. Fine. But he calls this 'talking with our enemies.' What enemies? ..." Read more at: This Can't Be Happening!

US Economy: The Worst Is Yet to Come

Truthdig: "Where Is the Outrage?"

Robert Scheer writes: "Are we Americans truly savages or merely tone-deaf in matters of morality, and therefore more guilty of terminal indifference than venality? It’s a question demanding an answer in response to the publication of the detailed 370-page report on U.S. complicity in torture, issued last week by the Justice Department’s inspector general. ..."
Read more at Truthdig

John Bolton Escapes Citizen’s Arrest at Hay Festival - CommonDreams.org

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Nepal ready to abolish monarchy

A Republican government is being formed, spearheaded by the revolutionary intitiatives of Maoist communists and democratic elections.

As Border Efforts Grow, Corruption Is on the Rise - NYTimes.com

As Border Efforts Grow, Corruption Is on the Rise: "Altogether, there are about 200 open cases pending against law enforcement employees who work the border. In the latest arrests, four employees in Arizona, Texas and California were charged this month with helping to smuggle illegal immigrants into the country."

Other things you could have blown $6 trillion on

Before you click this link, bear in mind that the money spent is our children's taxes.

Iraq Vet Who Wrote About His PTSD Kills Self, Brother

On Memorial Day: Press Coverage Probes Suicides

t r u t h o u t | No Room on the Wall

"They Used Pat for Public Consumption, Just Like Jessica Lynch": An Interview with Mary Tillman | War on Iraq | AlterNet

The Political Scene: The Fall of Conservatism: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

More like "the fall of (neo) conservatism" or why Pat Buchanan is painting his political war wagon "isolationist" and "anti-war" - read this forward from a reader.

Wake Up, America. We're Driving Toward Disaster. - washingtonpost.com

James Howard Kustler has an Ed-Op in the Sunday, Memorial Day WaPo. Somehow it seems appropriate, as America "celebrates" it's dead with an announcement that the party with oil is over. Read more

Cindy Sheehan: An Uphill Battle

The mountain I am facing now has a name: The System. Read more.

Oil: A Global Crisis - CommonDreams.org

Greg Palast: Obama's Secret War Profiteering Tax | OurFuture.org

Curtailing the flow of oil, raises the price per barrel and for good reason - it slows distribution and allows for maximizing profits. [excerpt] "... Nevertheless, oilman George W. Bush opposes it as does Bush’s man McCain. Senator McCain admonishes us that the po’ widdle oil companies need more than 80% of their windfall so they can explore for more oil. When pigs fly, Senator. Last year, Exxon spent $36 billion of its $40 billion income on dividends and special payouts to stockholders in tax-free buy-backs. Even the Journal called Exxon’s capital investment spending “stingy.” ..." Why aren't the companies spending more on exploration? Because they know that the remaining oil deposits are smaller and smaller. Read more of award-winning investigative journalist Greg Palast.

Bill Kauffman: The Candidates from Nowhere

He's writing about us, with style and a vigorous grasp of history. If you live in small towns, or know your neighbors and have a sense of decency and mercy - this man must be read. It's what America used to be and now more than ever, should be today. "Isolationism" is not a dirty word. Read more Bill Kauffman

Book TV - Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go With the Flow

Jim Hightower discusses the rebels in his new book on C-Span 2 beginning 10am Saturday! Watch it then or online. Click here.

C-span 2: "Memorial Day - Book TV Exclusive"

MEMORIAL DAY BRAIN FOOD!

BBQ AND POLITICAL SPORT!

STAY-AT-HOME FUN!

Scheduled Programming Times

for this "not-to-be-missed" exclusive:

Saturday 9 PM,

Sunday 12 PM, 6 PM and 9 PM,

Monday 12 AM (Eastern Time Zone)

Matt Taibbi, contributing editor to Rolling Stone magazine, explores the political landscape of post-9/11 America in "The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire."

From C-span's description: "Mr. Taibbi presents his thoughts on the war in Iraq, the machinations of Congress, the 9/11 truth movement and his time as a church goer. Matt Taibbi discusses his book with David Corn, Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones magazine. Following the taping of After Words, Matt Taibbi and David Corn took questions from the audience at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, DC."

Book Review: "Bill Kauffman's 'Ain't My America' - by Doug Bandow"

IN PRAISE OF VILLAGE REBELS, LITTLE AMERICANS!

LOCALS FIRST, LOATHING A 'WAR HAWK COUNTRY'!

Here comes a book that every Kansan who loves old fashioned republicanism should have on their book shelves. Less of the Mission Hills, Ks. variety, which very eloquently talked down about us like Thomas Frank's "What's the Matter with Kansas" and more of a jab into the eyes of the interventionist corporate liberals and war mongering Big Business Busheviks. I'll say it again, most Kansas Republicans have been dumbed down to being mindless uncritical loyalists to an advertising machine, and assumed that imperialist arrogance and mass amnesia will save the country.

Well, here comes Bill Kauffman's new book "Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism" to remind ma, pa, grandma and Aunt Sally what has been forgotten of the "isolationists" - I love it!

Bandow begins the book review with: "American politicians routinely chatter about peace while inaugurating war. Indeed, despite the bitter partisan wrangling over Iraq, war has more often united than divided Washington's establishment. Today, despite the ongoing debacle in Iraq, Republicans and Democrats compete to breathe more and hotter fire against Iran. It is Democrat Hillary Clinton who threatens to "obliterate" that nation if it attacks not America, but a far distant allied state, one already nuclear-armed and well able to defend itself. Both of the dominant political parties are war parties. ..."

Read the rest because it ain't our America anymore, Kansans! Let's take it back!

Can't read anymore? Listen to an Anti-war Radio interview with the book's author, Bill Kauffman here.

March to War in Lebanon? - by Ron Paul

This too is Obama's fault?
While every racist in the country crawls from under their consumption-soaked, NASCAR reality tee vee radiated brain fart over Obama. Gender-obsessed Bush-lite Hillary supporters, included. Here is a courageous speech from the floor of the U. S. House of Representatives by a "non-interventionist" Republican, of all people. And not one goddamnable ass-kissing Bushevik or go with the flow dead fish Democrat in Kansas is listening, reading or thinking anymore. Read it now!

VHeadline Venezuela News: Nikolas Kosloff: US Military Bases in South America ... controversy Over Guajira

A hot link forward from our distinguished colleague and friend, Editor: Henk Ruyssenaars, Foreign Press Foundation, Brussels, Belgium. Thanks, Henk for the link! Read news from the South!

Left Brain Kansas: You gotta watch this from beginning to end...

Now here is a progressive [radical] democrat blog in Kansas that deserves your attention. Here's just one post click here!

t r u t h o u t | John Cusack's War

Jeremy Scahill, who wrote the definitive book on the private mercenary army, Blackwater has an original piece on the just released movie War, Inc. (linked on the scroll, way, way down below). Read all about it at the newly remodeled - t r u t h o u t John Cusack's War

WOW! ... t r u t h o u t ... BLOOMS!

WOW! Check out Truthout's new look - it's absolutely GREAT! Click here and take a gander. Don't know "who's who?" Then click here for an inspirational message from the staff.

For His Treatment of Children in the `War on Terror,' Bush is a War Criminal | This Can't Be Happening!

Where are all those clinic bombing, doctor and nurse killing Christian "pro-lifers" with the militias now?
Dave Lindorff begins with: "Surely nothing that President Bush has done in his two wretched terms of office—not the invasion and destruction of Iraq, not the overturning of the five-centuries-old tradition of habeas corpus, not his authorization and encouragement of torture, not his campaign of domestic spying—nothing, can compare in its ugliness to his approval, as commander in chief, of the imprisoning of over 2500 children. ..." Read it and think!

Energy Watchdog Warns Of Oil-Production Crunch - WSJ.com

All along the elite's watchtowers they are starting to echo what deep green environmentalists and revolutionaries have been warning about for the last five years. How does it feel to be used like brainless shit for these people and their gated mansions? Better get ready, and that means more than filling up your SUV or tractor fuel tanks. It begins: "The world's premier energy monitor is preparing a sharp downward revision of its oil-supply forecast, a shift that reflects deepening pessimism over whether oil companies can keep abreast of booming demand. ..." Read more

Roslyn Zinn, 85; Blended Social Activism With The Arts

My deep condolences to Professor Howard Zinn for the recent loss of his beloved.

Another Johnson County Bushevik sucking up to wealth and power, dumps official duties.

He hasn't even got into office! Hand this Bushevik idiot a handkerchief to wipe the crap off his nose: Scott Schwab, Johnson County’s Republican Party chairman, was scheduled to be with President Bush at a campaign event in the area on that day. Schwab is to be sworn in next week as a new House member from Olathe. “I certainly would have gladly gone to Topeka to vote for the override, but I also would have missed the opportunity to be with the president,” he said. Read more ass kissing.

Guns or Gas? At least they didn't mix God in it, yet.

Dr. Bill Roy: "The Only Way to Express Our Grief?"

Now at Discomfit Magazine! "In recent primary exit polls as many as 45% of Hillary Clinton’s primary voters have indicated they will not vote for Barack Obama in November. About half of them said they would vote for John McCain and the remainder do not intend to cast a ballot for president.Initially, I gave this about 10 seconds of thought and marked it down as a polling aberrancy, something that will not happen. Oh, yeah! ..." Read it all - and think for more 10 seconds.

The Oil Drum | Hirsch on CNBC: Peak oil problem "as massive as one can possibly imagine"

I remember well the hecklers here in Jefferson county, Kansas when I distributed the Flyer over two years ago with "peak oil" warnings plastered all over it - a couple scoffed and threw them in the trash - daring me to argue with them. Nope, just get along little doggie on to the next drop-off.

Also a T. Boone Pickens follow-up after this video, click here.

It's right to rebel!

MOTHER EARTH, THE PEOPLE,

CAN'T WAIT,

WE NEED ANOTHER

1968!

"I remember when de Mello, who was at the U.N., got killed in Baghdad as a result of these murderers taking this good man's life, I was playing golf — I think I was in central Texas — and they pulled me off the golf course and I said, ‘It's just not worth it anymore to do.’ ... I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”

-President George W. Bush,

May 13, 2008,

at the White House

with Politico and Yahoo News,

his first online interview.

They hate us for our freedoms?"

Profiteers Squeeze Billions Out of Growing Global Food Crisis Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace AlterNet: "Cargill's net earnings soared by 86 per cent from $553m to $1.030 billion over the same three months. And Archer Daniels Midland, one of the world's largest agricultural processors of soy, corn and wheat, increased its net earnings by 42 per cent in the first three months of this year from $363m to $517m. The operating profit of its grains merchandising and handling operations jumped 16-fold from $21m to $341m. Similarly, the Mosaic Company, one of the world's largest fertiliser companies, saw its income for the three months ending 29 February rise more than 12-fold, from $42.2m to $520.8m, on the back of a shortage of fertiliser. The prices of some kinds of fertiliser have more than tripled over the past year as demand has outstripped supply. As a result, plans to increase harvests in developing countries have been hit hard."

Juan Crow: The Deep South's New Second-Class Citizens | Rights and Liberties | AlterNet

Protest Camps Form Against American Military Bases in Japan and Italy

Kelpie Wilson | Peak Oil and Politicians

The environmental editor for Truthout.org that I published several years ago in one of my pamphlets is calling the shots agian, read what she's saying now. She was correct then and now about Peak Oil and Politicians

Robert Parry: "The Bushes and Hitler's Appeasement"

SHADE TREE TALKS, GREAT HISTORICAL LESSONS, THEN AND NOW


Long ago in my hometown, LeRoy, Ks., nearly every year around this time - as the school year closed and summer vacation began I would spend long afternoons and evenings with my paternal grandmother. She and I would talk about life in LeRoy during her, now distant and largely forgotten past in the town.

She by her own words came, "from the wrong side of the railroad tracks" meaning where the poor folks lived. At that time I didn't understand that there weren't any rich people in that small river town, but suffice it to say she bore a bit of a chip on her shoulder.

She was one of the few women who wore pants on Main Street, played in one of the first women's high school basketball teams during the twenties and made her own way. Reclusive, opinionated and fiercely independent I always enjoyed questioning her of life in her early days. Once when sitting in the shade sipping ice tea she described life during the Great Depression and one comment she made rings true today.

She said, "Mike, we knew it was coming long before it happened. Those business men in New York City jumping out of the windows and killing themselves and the market crashing, really was just a date to mark on your calender. We knew it was coming a long time before that happened. Poor people could tell because food was getting harder and harder to come by, long before the bankers started yelling about it."

I think we are again in similar times. We just haven't seen the big shots taking the big leaps, yet.

While President George W. Bush was traveling around the Middle East this last week; defending an illegally nuclear armed Israel, while begging for an attack on Iran (always good for our bloodsoaked military-industrial economy), begging for oil production spikes with the Saudis royals (what an amnesiac Republican, sucking ass with monarchs ), and scolding a loyal despot (we've sold Eygpt arms for decades) about democracy - I note that we have a propaganda soaked imperialist war before the onset of this "Great Depression." It took a five year world war to claw our way out of the first "Great Depression" and now in contradiction, we've had a six year and counting phony "Global War on Terror" bankrupting us into a new Great Depression.

And now the great investigative journalist Robert Parry reminds us with:

"The irony of George W. Bush going before the Knesset and mocking the late Sen. William Borah for expressing surprise at Adolf Hitler’s 1939 invasion of Poland is that Bush’s own family played a much bigger role assisting the Nazis. If Borah, an isolationist Republican from Idaho, sounded naïve saying 'Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided,' then what should be said about Bush’s grandfather and other members of his family providing banking and industrial assistance to the Nazis as they built their war machine in the 1930s? ..."

And what can be said about Cheney, the Neocons and the Big Energy cabal today?

Read more of Parry's shade tree lesson in history at: Consortiumnews.com

Holy Warriors in the U.S. military?

Evolve or die: Can we shed our moral primitivism before it’s too late?

Warning graphic images at this link. Jason Miller conducts an on-line interview with Dr. Steve Best at Thomas Paine's Corner. [excerpt] "These superfluous gasbags and oxygen thieves could possibly redeem themselves if they began each day by studying the spine-shivering words of Dr. Martin Luther King (who didn’t fear losing his life, let alone a job): “Cowardice asks the question: Is it safe? Expediency asks the question: Is it politic? Vanity asks the question: Is it popular? But conscience asks the question: Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it simply because it is right.” Keep reading "Evolve or die"

With McCain on hand, knives won't cut it at massive NRA gunfest

Former Republican presidential candidate and Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee jokes about Democratic presidential candidate Barrack Obama getting shot before an National Rifle Association (NRA) Louisville, Ky. convention audience. Meanwhile the Secret Service detail protectiing John McCain conducts a weapons search and seizure at the door before he speaks. Another reader forwards this post.
Keep reading

Tehran Times : Iran busts CIA terror network

Another reader forwards a post from a prominent Iranian news site of an apparent nationwide round-up of accused CIA sponsored terrorists operating in several provinces. Keep reading

Asia Times Online :: Gareth Porter: "U.S. plot to nail Iran backfires"

A reader forwards a post from Gareth Porter at Asian Times entitled, "US plot to nail Iran backfires" that details the desperation of the Bush administration attempting to establish a pretext for war on Iran. Porter appears regularly on Anti-war.com and writes: "The Bush administration and top Iraq commander General David Petraeus had plotted a sequence of events that would build domestic US political support for a possible strike against Iran over its "meddling" in Iraq, and especially its alleged export of arms to Shi'ite militias. The plan was keyed to a briefing document to be prepared by Petraeus on the alleged Iranian role in arming and training Shi'ite militias that would be revealed to the public after the Maliki government had endorsed it, and that would be used to accuse Iran publicly. ..." Keep reading

Official Site for War, Inc - In Theaters May 23!

Political economy and satire just went over the top with this movie. A "Mash" for the Halliburton war generation. Watch the trailers, track it's distribution. War, Inc - In Theaters May 23!

Revolution Radio Playlist for Blue Barn Radio 18/May/08

Here's the groups featured in the first hour of Blue Barn radio show tonight.
New shows updated regularly at the title link and they have an email at: musicagainstcapitalism@gmail.com

16. Rapaces - Un système d'esclaves et de boss
17. Lila Downs - El Bracero Fracasado
18. Asian Dub Foundation - Naxalite
19. Subversivos - A internacional ("L'Internationale" Portuguese version)
20. Lamb Of God - Boot Scraper
21. Purgjen - Rabotejshen = Digradejshen
22. P.O.W.E.R. - Class War
23. L'Internationale
24. Afrika - Revolution
25. Blind Pigs - Capitalist Myth
26. Jeunesse Apatride - À ma révolution
27. Commandantes - Die Internationale ("L'Internationale" German version)
28. Randy - Proletarian hop
29. Z.E.N. - Abba oa Jeon Tae-il
30. Kalash de la Sombra - State and Revolution

This is the second hour of the special May 1st International Workers Day broadcast. I'll play hour three before the month is up. Many thanks to them for this segment - and go to their site and check out all the downloads available for the clicking. Go to Revolution Radio Now!

Want Cheaper Gas and Oil? End the Damned Wars! | This Can't Be Happening!

Dave Lindorff writes: "Americans are in a panic over rising gas and heating oil prices, and with reason. For months, the price of a barrel of crude oil has been rising steadily, hitting a record $127 yesterday. Analysts keep getting trotted out on TV and in print, attributing the dramatic price rise to everything from “peak oil”—the idea that producing countries have reached their peak of productive capacity, and that the only direction for oil supplies looking forward is down, while demand continues to rise—to increasing demand in China and India, to supply bottlenecks, to specific news events, like a pipeline break in Nigeria, or a closed refinery in California. ..." Read the rest because It's Happening!

McClatchy Washington Bureau | 05/16/2008 | Bush visit to Israel revives talk of a strike on Iran

Chasing Utopia, Family Imagines No Possessions - CommonDreams.org

Yes folks, it's a movement! The Resistance demands that fighters travel lightly to get to the front. "Stampede the clutterfreaks!" It's the season ... many, many thanks to Jim Herrmann, a fellow comrade from the great land around the Neosho River basin. Keep reading

True Majority "Don't Bomb Iran"

What Michael Pollan Hasn't Told You About Food

Stan Cox: Big Brother Close Up

Or - what he learned at an FBI Terrorism Conference in the Heartland. Keep reading.

Hillary Clinton, John McCain and the "Stupid" Vote | This Can't Be Happening!

image hat tip: Pat Condell

STUPID IS, AS STUPID DOES!

I'm looking through the window of the mud shack to learn what this smart guy is writing about.
He wrote the book with Barbara Olshansky "The Case for Impeachment" and collected over 1500 people to dump their Democrat Party membership in protest of it's leadership stonewalling throwing President Bush out of office.

Dave Lindorff is hitting home with how stupid many faux "conservatives" in Kansas are. They have been fooled by elitest scumsuckers in the central banks and transnational corporate CEOs. And all it took was the Holy Bible and the Grand Old Flag.

90% of Kansas conservatives don't even know where the word "republican" came from. Republicans were chopping off the heads of royalty less than two hundred years ago. Hated large governments with huge armies and rioted against monopoly capitalism. Forget all that, suck ass with anybody pounding the pulpits for the Pentagon, endless wars for energy resources and empire. FORGET HISTORY, trash brained amnesiacs!

Where are the Republicans now? "Stupid" is too polite of a word to use, but read his article anyway.

Here's an excerpt from Dave's latest: "I want to be clear here from the start: there is a difference between ignorance and stupidity. Ignorance is a lack of knowledge. Stupidity is a lack of intelligence. But even here, there are subsets. Some ignorance results from a lack of access to knowledge, while some is the result of a laziness or unwillingness to learn. Some stupidity is the result of some genetic or nutritional deficiency or perhaps of some abuse or lack of care or attention during early childhood, while some is the result of mental laziness or a willful desire not to think. ..." Read more at: This Can't Be Happening!

Why? Because it is happening! And Dave is coming to Blue Barn Radio very soon!

Paul Craig Roberts: How Empires Fall

You can't beat this guy with a stick and get a better definition of "conservative" - Dr. Paul Craig Roberts writes: "In a new book that will infuriate the fake conservatives who inhabit the Republican Party, Patrick J. Buchanan documents how British self-righteousness, delusion, and hubris destroyed both the British Empire and Western ascendancy in two unnecessary wars launched by a small cabal of morons that ruled Britain. Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War shows that the two world wars that destroyed European civilization began when England declared war on Germany, thus dragging in the Empire, Commonwealth, and United States. ..." Read it all!

Grow up, act like an adult ... with Pat Condell

Survey: Gulf Between Democracy in Theory and Practice - by Jim Lobe

FISH HEAD SOUP, WORLDWIDE!

The civilizing effect of democracy and resistance is about to get a big worldwide shot in the arm with energy resource depletion and the economic collapse of the American imperialist empire. Unfortunately, as in many mass struggles of the past, millions will have to fight, starve and die for their convictions. [excerpt] " ... And an average of 63 percent of respondents say their country is being run by a 'few big interests looking out for themselves,' rather than 'for the benefit of all the people.' The belief that governments were being run by 'a few big interests' was particularly pervasive in Ukraine (84 percent), Mexico (83 percent), the United States (80 percent), Nigeria and South Korea (78 percent), and Argentina (71 percent). ..." [end excerpt - Flyer emphasis] Now as the many strong loyalists in Christian King George's Kansas will tell you - "it is God's Will" that the big fishies eat the many little fishies, I tend to disagree. While uncivilized as it may be, Republicans used to prefer chopping off the heads of royalty - just a hundred or so years ago, now they carry on like royalty, much to their doom. Keep reading

US confession: Weapons were not made in Iran after all | Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

The CASMII link was originally sourced from the outstanding Information Clearing House. Lots of resistance news here.

Gary Leupp: Why All of Our Efforts Won't Stop an Attack on Iran

He writes this May 12th, of "the limits of exposure" and [excerpt] "... All the 'exposure' that so many journalists and academics have tried to provide for years will have failed to prevent another illegal attack on a sovereign nation based on lies and bound to produce more outrage against the U.S. throughout the world. A cruise missile strike on an alleged training camp site won’t end there. It will be designed to provoke an Iranian response and legitimate further U.S. attacks, not only on Iran but Syria and Lebanon, probably in coordination with Israel. Some in Israel badly want the U.S. to behead all their main enemies in the region before their good friend George Bush leaves the White House. If that means regional chaos---clashes between Iranian and U.S. forces, the fall of the Maliki puppet regime in Baghdad (which actually is friendly with Tehran and says it’s playing a positive role in Iraq), the collapse of Shiite cooperation with the U.S. occupation, Iran-Iraq border clashes, U.S. forays into Iranian territory, the closing of ranks in fractious Iran against the imperialist assault on their country---so be it! ..."
Keep reading

Blast kills Gaza teacher in front of her children - Middle East, World - The Independent

Israel's apartheid policies rolls on like a rickety water truck over a cliff.

Independent News Analyst Eric Margolis - TODAY!

McCain's national security team of advisers, including the neocon and far-right suck-ass, James Woolsey, watch his 2006 remarks advocating bombing Syria and war with Iran as played here on the REAL News network. Mr. Margolis will also be appearing on Anti-war Radio today at 11:15am (central). He will be discussing, with host Scott Horton, his recent article, “The Great Nuclear Menace.”

Truthdig - Reports - Taking a Stand Against War

Former UN weapons inspector, US Marine and prominent critic of the wars in Iraq will be appearing as an expert witness before the Chicago City Council which is preparing a resolution against a war with Iran. Read more at the latest Truthdig

New Statesman - Noam Chomsky on 1968

John Bellamy Foster: "The Financialization of Capital and the Crisis" - Monthly Review -

Or, how most of the world's bigwig economists have missed the ongoing collapse of international capitalism. Better keep reading

Full Service Medical Adoption Agency

A reader forwards a late "Mother's Day" example of the logical outcome of the "free market" in our fast-moving, fashionable modern world. Adopting little children from far-off countries to raise for organ and tissue harvest, priced for the chic Alphas in our Brave New World, an index is included on the site detailing the desired body parts. Keep Reading.

Feminist Peace Network » Arise Then Women Of This Day!

A fitting historical tribute: "A Mother's Day Proclamation" Read more of a great American, now forgotten, Arise Then Women Of This Day!

Mother’s Day 2008: Peaceful Idealism v. Political Pragmatism by Cindy Sheehan

Congressional candidate for congress in House Speaker's Nancy Pelosi's California district begins her article (poignantly):

As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
At the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace…
(From Julia Ward Howe’s 1870 Mother’s Day Proclamation)

Keep reading

Tomgram: Michael Klare, America Out of Gas

The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder

Written by the prosecutor who sent Charlie Manson to death row, Vincent Bugliosi, makes a case against Bush. Read more

The American Conservative » War With Iran Might Be Closer Than You Think

A misguided caller to Blue Barn Radio last Wednesday said of higher and higher gasoline prices, "we can afford it." Well, is it worth a bankrupt empire? We'll see very soon. Keep reading.

"Bunker Hill" Premier this weekend at Liberty Hall, Lawrence, Ks.

A post-modern, powerdown film of smalltown America gone berserk!

NOW PREMIERING IN LAWRENCE, KS.

click the title link, above for dates, times.

Now appearing at Brave New Film!

Wind Energy in the News | FSRN (download, 4 mins)

Wind Energy Producer Tax Initiatives FSRN: "A bill to extend tax credits for wind energy production is currently wrangled in a political debate. Industry experts say investment in the young industry will be damaged, unless Congress extends the tax credit soon. FSRN Correspondent Matt Laslo reports from Washington."

Binoy Kampmark: Food Riots are Coming to the U.S.

U.S. lease of Waterloo fairgrounds raises questions | DesMoinesRegister.com

Here's how you will be missed after the clampdown. Keep reading and take a gander at some of the Iowans comments.

Grassroot blogging - a dirty slog, but somebody must do it in Kansas!

image tip: Project for an Old American Century

KANSAS BUSHEVIKS HAVE GOD, GUNS AND COPS!

WE GOT BLOGS!

Blue Tide Rising is getting flamed by anonymous posters, but big deal - any blogger worth it's salt gets crap (read the comments below the fold on the link) especially when spreading the news about a wealthy political machine operator up to his neck in the country's blood and treasure visiting Wichita, Ks. Busheviks hate it when you out their trashy operatives, read how they say "ouch" anonymously in the BTR comment section. If you want to know who needs his car surrounded and yelled at while visiting and fundraising in Wichita, KS follow the link to BTR.

Who says you can't take apart a Republican demagogue one sentence at a time? A new blog that's just starting out for the 4th district called, Doo Dah Blue, is ripping on a certain Wichita state senator, and I can't help but wonder how many she's gonna fool with this red, white and blue line of misinformation! Not Doo Dah Blue, worth a bookmark and a following.

Left Brain Kansas: "Loving Democrats means never having to say you're sorry?"

WE AIN'T SORRY!

WE'RE JUST GETTIN' STARTED!

Left Brain Kansas is a new blog shaping up about Kansas politics that wants to be smarter than the usual Democrat or Republican cheerleading squads that seem to dominant the local blogosphere. Aren't you tired of being treated like an idiot?

Sometimes when reading the Dems' blogs, I get all drippy and sentimental - crying over the keyboard, shorting out the circuits, sobbing over lost loves to a Willie Nelson song. The Dems keep trying to claim the mantle of the grassroots, just like the anti-choice, 'love it or leave it' Christian Empire wingnuts now controlling the Republican Party in Kansas.

"Left" is more than being a "Democrat" and in Kansas it certainly doesn't mean being "smart." Just look at how they gushed over former KSAG Paul Morrison, and how quickly they dropped him into the garbage bucket. Unlike Kansas Republicans who stubbornly cling to the snickering weasel, JoCo county attorney Phill Kline, even to the point of giving him that cherry job. Ever seen a super-nova explode in front of your face? Watch what's happening to the Republican Party in Kansas - it's happening all over the country.

Here's a listing of the state legislators voting on the Holcomb coal-electric plants, courtesy Left Brain Kansas - those voting "yes" were trying to override the governor's veto. Check where your legislator is on the list. If he/she is on the list voting "yes" consider talking trash on them at the coffee bars and be sure to tell'em you want them out of office.

Republicans voting yes: Aurand, Beamer, Bethell, Bowers, Brown, Brunk, Burgess, Carlson, Colyer, Craft, Crum, Dahl, Donohoe, Faber, Fund, George, Goico, Gordon, Grange, Hayzlett, Hill, Carl Holmes, Mitch Holmes, Horst, Huebert, Humerickhouse, Johnson, Kelley, Kelsey, Kiegerl, King, Kinzer, Knox, Landwehr, Light, Mast, Masterson, McLeland, Merrick, Jim Morrison, Moxley, Myers, Neufeld, Olson, O'Neal, Otto, Owens, Patton, Peck, Powell, Powers, Proehl, Rhoades, Roth, Schroeder, Schwartz, Shultz, Siegfreid, Sloan, Swanson, Tafanelli, Vickrey, Watkins, Whitham, Wilk, William Wolf and Yoder.

Republicans voting no: Colloton, Hodge, Huntington, Metsker, Judy Morrison, Pottorff, Quigley, Spalding, Swenson, Kay Wolf and Worley.

Democrats voting yes: Feuerborn, Gatewood, Grant, Hawk, Lukert, McKinney, Palmer, Pauls, Peterson, Phelps, Ruff, Wetta and Williams.

Democrats voting no: Ballard, Burroughs, Carlin, Crow, Davis, Dillmore, Faust-Goudeau, Flaharty, Flora, Frownfelter, Garcia, Goyle, Henderson, Henry, Holland, Kuether, Lane, Loganbill, Long, Mah, McCray-Miller, McLachlan, Menghini, Neighbor, Rardin, Ruiz, Sawyer, Storm, Svaty, Tietze, Treaster, Trimmer, Ward and Winn.

Also love means never having to say we're sorry about stopping the upcoming construction of a biological weapons lab being porked over for Manhattan, KS. Another shady "bi-partisan" blood deal under the "Tell'em it means MORE JOBS" tag! Aren't you tired of being treated like some short-sighted selfish fool grabbing at every shiny trinket waved before our faces?

The historical "breadbasket of the world" looks now to the world as a dumbass ethanol corn crowd for global famine. Talk about stupid is as stupid does, both parties went hog wild over that one - and sold it in a red, white and blue package as "our" part in the phony Global War on Terror! And all those $100,000 tractor farmers agreed and humbly took their subsidy checks. Breaking the Big Energy monopolies in Kansas is going to take some real grassroot guts and brains - qualities that are sorely lacking in the bi-partisan leadership in Topeka, Ks.

Energy autonomy begins with every home, farm, village and community - generating electricity with abundant Kansas solar and wind and selling it back to the utility companies. It is going to end with all of us being "off the grid" sooner rather than later - and producing and promoting local food sources. All of us, better get to work!

The elected officials in Topeka and Washington think we are blind, deaf and dumb!

Turn on them! Bite their corrupt war-mongering hands, help yourself and the neighbors - pull the government jack boot off each neck. Stand up, read their tax hiking lips and bust'em in the nose, tell them we do not need their bloody governments!

Never forget this ancient creed! The governments need our blood, sweat and tears, and all our sons and daughters blood, sweat and tears, more than we need them. We need to fight tooth and claw to reclaim that historical high ground, again!

Check in frequently at Left Brain Kansas and make'em work. Tell'em "thank you" for providing the list above.

TV News Blackout on Pentagon Pundits

The "must read" article for today. Keep those informative forwards coming! Keep reading

Marie-Beatrice Baudet | Six Crises That Jostle the World

» Beyond Problems: Into Brainstorming Creative Solutions for Change

At Thomas Paine's Corner, a discussion on an upcoming New World Conference this month.

COAL OVERRIDE FAILS | KansasCity.com

IS IT JUST BIG COAL?

Title link, above, blitzed by Kansas metro-legislators who wisely stopped it. You know, Johnson, Wyandotte and Sedgewick counties, the smart ones. Extreme kudos to that bunch.

"This project was the FIRST in the United States rejected solely on the threat of CO2 and climate change concerns. Look at little old Kansas leading the way. We have one person to thank for this and that is our Governor, Kathleen Sebelius. .."

That's Daily Kos gushing over Sebelius, pissing on grassroots actions, just Democrats there - pumping the guv for vice - president. Here's how they described the determined work of politically diverse environmental and rural farm constituents from the grassroots:

"Intense lobbying is currently happening between supporters and opponents on the floor. ..." Everyday citizens aren't allowed "on the floor" of the chambers while in session, doors are blocked by security, lucky to get a balconey seat - "lobbying" means fear of getting your butt kicked out of elected office, Republican or Democrat.

GREENWASHING DEMOCRATS!

NET METERING IS THE ISSUE,

DUMBASSES!

Mary Pitt: "The Goldwater Girl and Other Changelings"

FREE MARKET GIRL GLITZING EMPIRE

How many "Goldwater Girls" are out there? [excerpt] "In this life there is one immutable truth. It is that there will be change, whether or not we may approve or desire that change. At this time, there is no place where this is more true than in the battle for the presidency of the United States. The people whom we thought we knew now appear to us as something different than we ever expected from their past performances. ..." Travel to Discomfit for more.

International Workers' Day - West Coast Longshore Union 1-day Strike!

IRAQ
DOCK
WORKERS HOLD SAME DAY SOLIDARITY STRIKE!
A reader forwards this great slide show of the anti-war demonstrations surrounding the strike action by west coast dock workers. Democracy Now! interviews union official - war, economy, racism and impeachment are the issues!
MAY DAY! MAY DAY! MAY DAY!

Where the May Day music came from on Blue Barn Radio!

MAY DAY MUSIC!

1. Táng Cháo - Yīngtènàxióngnài'ěr ("L'Internationale" Chinese version)
2. The Strike - Shots Heard 'Round The World
3. Boysetsfire - The Force Majeure
4. Blue Scholars - Proletariat Blues
5. Al-lumumiyeh ("L'Internationale" Arabic version)
6. The (International) Noise Conspiracy - Communist Moon
7. The Kieran Ridge Band - Laborer's Blues
8. Kadena - Welga
9. Maxx Klaxon - Internationale 2000 ("L'Internationale" new English version)
10. Red Shadow (The Economics Rock & Roll Band) - Understanding Marx
11. Four Letter Words - Kill My Boss
12. The Coup - 5 Million Ways to Kill a C.E.O.
13. System Of A Down - P.L.U.C.K.
14. Tetsuya Daiku - Intonasyonaalu ("L'Internationale" Japanese version)
15. Claudes Claudes - Mao Mao

Don't click this link until you've got your speakers ready.

FAIR: M$Media 'mission accomplished' moment - 'The Final Word Is Hooray!'

This one is a 'keeper.' A reader forwards this post with the comment: "It takes a long while for reality to crash through BLINDERS like the ones memorialized here." Amen to that brother! Read: 'The Final Word Is Hooray!'

Dave Lindorff: "The Bush Family Latin Real Estate Investment - the getaway that got away?"

Like Tony in the movie "Scarface" said, "You wanna piece a me?!"
Lindorff writes: "Back in late 2006, it was widely reported in the Latin American media that President Bush, or perhaps his old man, had bought a 100,000-acre farm in a remote area of Paraguay. What struck people at the time was the choice of country. Paraguay, of course, has gained a certain Club Med status among the world's villains and criminal elements as the place to go when the law's on your tail. The country, ruled for six decades by the dictatorial and fascist Colorado Party of Gen. Alfredo Stroesser, an almost cartoon charicature of a Latin American dictator, has no extradition treaty with any nation. ..." Keep reading!

Dr. Bill Blum: "Anti - Empire Report, May 1, 2008"

[excerpt]

Since I gave up hope, I feel better.

"More than any time in history, mankind now faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly." -- Woody Allen

Food riots, in dozens of countries, in the 21st century. Is this what we envisioned during the post-World War Two, moon-landing 20th century as humankind's glorious future? It's not the end of the world, but you can almost see it from here. ... Keep Reading.

Dockworkers take May Day off, idling all West Coast ports - Los Angeles Times

A powerful industrial labor strike, explicitly against the war, sweeps the west coat for a single day shift. Read: Dockworkers take May Day

Question: "What are greenwashers?"

Michael Hudson: "The Fed Sinks the Dollar"

BEAT TO QUARTERS!


Former head economist for the Kucinich campaign and pathbreaking analyst on FIRE (Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate) sectors' on-going meltdown, directs our attention to the new dimensions of the class war - it's "us" labor and manufacturing against "them" - FIRE! We need to hear from him on Blue Barn Radio and get it straight. Here's his most recent at Counterpunch where you will find a link to his web site at the end of the article.

Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality

Hat tip to This is Hell for the link, because it is hell - Consulting for Fortunes

Mike Whitney: "Global Famine? Blame the Fed"

Well, the twelve oldsters in the Fed did lower the rate. Now read what Whitney says will happen. Global Famine? Blame the Fed

Dr. Chalmers Johnson: "Teaching Imperialism 101" or "How to make the eagles scream."

DR. CHALMERS JOHNSON, UNPACKS THE RAND CORPORATION!

ONE NEOCON NUTCASE AT A TIME.

Read the latest from Dr. Johnson, a book review of a book about the Rand Corporation. Got it? Well here's a video above for those too busy to stop and smell the coffee this morning. You know who you are, too lazy and stupid to think for yourselves - way, way out here in Jesus country. Take the time, smell the roses and have a cup of coffee, watch the video.

Did you ask? Well, here's my favorite quote from this article:

"Albert Wohlstetter was born and raised in Manhattan and studied mathematics at the City College of New York and Columbia University. Like many others of that generation, he was very much on the left and, according to research by Abella, was briefly a member of a communist splinter group, the League for a Revolutionary Workers Party. He avoided being ruined in later years by Senator Joseph McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover's FBI because, as Daniel Ellsberg told Abella, the evidence had disappeared. In 1934, the leader of the group was moving the Party's records to new offices and had rented a horse-drawn cart to do so. At a Manhattan intersection, the horse died, and the leader promptly fled the scene, leaving all the records to be picked up and disposed of by the New York City sanitation department. .."

Additional and pertinent to Dr. Johnson's latest!

A "Quote of the Week" from the Peak Oil Study newsletter:

"Our candid advice to the oil majors is that they should not waste their time repairing any lines as we will continue to sabotage them. We have time on our side and there is so much to be destroyed." - Nigerian militant spokesman Jomo Gbomo

And before I forget it, another short primer (50min.) video, below, for the dysfunctionally retired as still more homework for this coming weekend. Just in case you missed it a couple years ago. And in Kansas, you did.

You'll learn some surprising facts about the history of the "Military Petroleum Complex" as well as a refresher on "blowback" and 9/11.

Oh yes, and maybe memory loss is setting in, but before I forget, back to reading Teaching Imperialism 101 at Tom's Dispatch!

Now do your homework, fellow readers - send the link along to those relatives and friends who "just don't get it" and to those you still love and care about. I must take a break and get involved in some serious garden and poultry issues here at our tiny farm. Until Saturday late night at Blue Barn Radio, ciao, and have a great May Day, the old forgotten International Workers' Day! Remember?