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- Democracy Now with Amy Goodman | TV Channel ^

BBc World Service Live ^

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/audioconsole/?stream=livea href ="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/"> MSNBC Countdown with Keith Olbermann ^

- America's #1 Populist Jim Hightower On Air ^

- Mark Fiore Animated Political Cartoons ^

- Documentary - Bilderberg and the Obama Deception ^

Jewish TV Channel ^

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International News

- Real clear Politics Daily Rundown ^

Ireland Sends Israeli Diplomat Packing ^

Iraqis warn US against 'interference in the formation of a new coalition government ^
Al Alam - Saturday, June19, 2010

US envoy Jeffrey Feltman's recent trip to Iraq has caused outrage among politicians in the country, with some saying Washington seeks to interfere in Baghdad's internal affairs. In an interview with Al-Alalam news network, Dawa Party member Abdul Karim al-Anzi warned against any foreign interference while the country is forming a coalition government.

Afghans losing hope after 8 years of US invasion ^
Al Alam - By Todd Pitman, AP Writer -
Sunday, January 20, 2010

The man on the motorcycle was going the wrong way down a one-way street, gesturing indignantly for the phalanx of traffic-clogged cars in front of him to move.

"Brother, why are you angry with us?" said a passenger leaning out of one of the vehicles blocking his path. "It's you who are going the wrong way!"

"I'm not angry at you, I'm angry at Afghanistan," the man cried back, waving his arm dismissively as he negotiated his bike onto a crowded sidewalk and drove off in a trail of exhaust fumes. "These are sad days."

In Kabul, even a traffic jam can provoke a comment on this Islamic nation's dismal state, which most people here believe is at its bleakest since the U.S. invaded to topple the Taliban in 2001. It's a striking sentiment when you consider it comes after eight years of international intervention, $60 billion in foreign aid and the lives of thousands of foreign troops and Afghan civilians.

The Obama administration is hoping to reverse that trend by pouring 30,000 more American troops into the conflict over the next few months. But "the more soldiers they send here, the worse it gets," said 19-year-old carpet seller Hamid Hashimi. In the year after the Taliban fell, international forces numbered a modest 16,000. Today that number is already well over 100,000, and the insurgency has mushroomed along with it.

The war - once mostly limited to Pakistan border - has touched nearly ever corner of the country. It has also penetrated the frontier-like capital, where car bombings or other spectacular attacks like the October storming of a guest house filled with U.N. staff make news every couple of weeks.

[Barack,] It wasn't supposed to be this way.

Why the Taliban Is Gaining Ground in Afghanistan
Al Alam - By Muhib Habibi, Time's Kandahar Correspondent - Saturday, September 19, 2010

The Taliban today in Afghanistan is a markedly different movement from that of those warriors whose one-eyed leader, Mullah Omar, riding on a motorcycle, escaped capture from American forces in Kandahar in December 2001. Mullah Omar is still their leader, even though, as a senior Afghan intelligence official told TIME, he is thought to be hiding across the border in Pakistan, moving between the towns of Quetta and Zob in the scorched Baluchistan desert. Nowadays, though, the Taliban encompasses a vast and disparate array of players. A look at who they are is key to understanding why they are gaining ground against 63,000 U.S. troops and their NATO partners after eight years of guerrilla war.

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United States Government

Opinion | At Long Last, It's Guns vs. Butter ^
The Washington Post - By Robert Naiman - Friday, June 18, 2010

One of the many destructive legacies of the Reagan Era was the effective Washington consensus that wars and other military spending exist on their own fiscal planet. Reagan got a Dixiecrat Congress to double military spending at a time when the U.S. was not at war (unless you were a poor person in Central America.) Meanwhile, Reagan got the Dixiecrat Congress to cut domestic spending - we just couldn't afford those costly social programs. Reagan pretended the two things were totally unrelated, and the Dixiecrat Congress went along.

Ever since, the Democratic leadership and the big Democratic constituency groups have largely collaborated in maintaining the destructive fiction that we can shovel tax dollars to war and to corporate welfare called "defense spending" without having any impact on our ability to provide quality education, health care, effective enforcement of environmental, civil rights, and worker safety laws, and other basic services to our citizens that are taken for granted by the citizens of every other industrialized country.

But maybe - maybe - that destructive connivance is coming to an end.

This week, House Appropriations Committee Chair David Obey told the White House that he was going to sit on the Administration's request for $33 billion more for pointless killing in Afghanistan until the White House acted on House Democratic demands to unlock federal money to aid the states in averting a wave of layoffs of teachers and other public employees.

Obey didn't just link the two issues rhetorically; he linked them with the threat of effective action.

At last, at long last.

But why is David Obey standing alone?

Perhaps, behind the scenes, the big Democratic constituency groups are pulling for Obey.

But you wouldn't know it from any public manifestation. Why? This should be a "teachable moment," an opportunity to mobilize the majority of America's working families to push to redirect resources from futile wars of empire and the corporate welfare of the "base military budget" to human needs at home and abroad. Where is the public mobilization of the Democratic constituency groups?

If we could shorten the Afghanistan war by a month, that would free up the $10 billion that Obey is asking for domestic spending. Rep. Jim McGovern's bill requiring a timetable for military redeployment from Afghanistan currently has 94 co-sponsors in the House (act here.) If McGovern's bill became law, it would surely save the taxpayers at least $10 billion. Why aren't the big Democratic constituency groups aggressively backing the McGovern bill, demanding that it be attached to the war supplemental?

This isn't just a question of missing an opportunity. There is a freight train coming called "deficit reduction." If the big Democratic constituency groups continue to sit on their hands on the issue of military spending, then we can predict what the cargo of that freight train is likely to be: cut Social Security benefits, cut Medicare benefits, raise the retirement age for Social Security and Medicare, cut domestic spending for enforcing environmental regulations and civil rights and worker safety.

Ending the war in Afghanistan with a timetable for withdrawal would likely save hundreds of billions of dollars. That's money that could be used to prevent cuts from jobs and services at home.

Poll | Obama popularity dips in Muslim world ^
Al Alam - Saturday, June 19, 2010

Results of a global opinion poll reveal that US President Barack Obama's popularity has nosedived in the Muslim world. According to The Washington Times his popularity rate has dropped since his speech to the Muslim world in Cairo last year.

Obama had pledged to restore ties with Muslim, but the survey shows he failed to deliver on his promise. Results of a globalopinion poll reveal that US President Barack Obama's popularity has nosedived in the Muslim world.

Video | BP Blow out Claims Adjudicator Explains Procedure for Processing ^

Video Highlights of the Debate in the House of Representatives on Afghanistan

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Activism at the Ground Level

The only recognizable feature of hope is action.
-- Grace Paley

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Corporate Life

BP denies Anadarko 'negligence. claim ^
BBC News - Saturday, June 19, 2010

BP has denied claims by one of its partners that its handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill amounted to "gross negligence". BP said it "strongly disagrees" with Anadarko Petroleum, who said BP's behaviour in the run-up to the disaster was "reckless". Anadarko, the largest independent oil and gas company operating in the Gulf, owns 25% of the well.

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Economy and Finance

- Bloomberg Economic News ^

Bloomberg Current Worldwide Financial News

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Environment

"Dirt and other marvelous things" -- Trailer | Environmental Film Festival in Washington ^

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Bad habits can age you by 12 years
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

A new research has found that four common bad habits combined - smoking, drinking too much, inactivity and poor diet - can age you by 12 years. The findings are from a study that tracked nearly 5,000 British adults for 20 years, and they highlight yet another reason to adopt a healthier lifestyle. Overall, 314 people studied had all four unhealthy behaviors. Among them, 91 died during the study, or 29 percent. Among the 387 healthiest people with none of the four habits, only 32 died, or about 8 percent.

The risky behaviors were: smoking tobacco; downing more than three alcoholic drinks per day for men and more than two daily for women; getting less than two hours of physical activity per week; and eating fruits and vegetables fewer than three times daily. These habits combined substantially increased the risk of death and made people who engaged in them seem 12 years older than people in the healthiest group, said lead researcher Elisabeth Kvaavik of the University of Oslo.

Tea and coffee 'protect against heart disease'
It is still not clear what difference milk makes to the health benefits
BBC News - Friday, June 18, 2010

Drinking several cups of tea or coffee a day appears to protect against heart disease, a 13-year-long study from the Netherlands has found. It adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting health benefits from the most popular hot drinks.

Those who drank more than six cups of tea a day cut their risk of heart disease by a third, the study of 40,000 people found. Consuming between two to four coffees a day was also linked to a reduced risk.

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Archive of Miscellany

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- Music Video | "Democracy Is Coming to the USA" - Leonard Cohen ^

- usic Video | Leonard Cohen | "First We Take Manhattan, Then We Take Berlin ^

- Music Video | Jordan Page - "Listen" | What If This Happened On Your Street? ^

- Music Video | Jordan Page - "Pendulum ^

- Music video - Neville Brothers performing "Fearless ^

- Video - The Arts of Peace vs Violence ^

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