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 MARCH 20:
Money for Healthcare, Jobs, Education,
Public Services
- NOT WAR!
Beyond Chron --
March 17, 2010
It is long past time for the antiwar movement to get back into the streets in a big way. It is also long past time for us to see the links between our permanent war economy -- regardless of the party or President in office -- and the growing economic, political and social crisis that we confront daily.
The massive March 4 demonstrations around the country against education cuts and fee hikes are a clear manifestation of a serious break, especially among youth, with the business-as-usual political elite that constantly strives to contain and diminish our righteous anger. It is time to take the fightback to the next level...
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 KILLERS: McNAMARA and ANDERSON
Beyond Chron -- July 8, 2009
The obituary page in last Tuesday's
San Francisco Chronicle had me looking
for the vomitorium.
The five-column headline at the top read "Killer, now blamed in girl's death,
a 'monster.'"
Curtis Dean Anderson confessed to kidnapping and killing one 7-year old girl, stands accused by the police of kidnapping and killing yet another 7-year old, and bragged about kidnapping and molesting many other children. "Everyone, it seems, hated Curtis Dean Anderson. Except his mother. And even she had doubts."
Right below this obit is a three-column headline:
"Robert McNamara -- led escalation of Vietnam War."
Do I really have to point out the irony here? The unemotional eulogy to McNamara, who "directed the escalation" of the war that killed three million Vietnamese -- including countless children -- never once uses the word "killer." But a killer is exactly what McNamara was...
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 TIGERS, CAPITALISM
and THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE
Beyond Chron -- January 22, 2008
Tigers kill, as we saw at the San Francisco Zoo
on Christmas day.
But for all its ferocity, the tiger is not the King of Beasts. That title belongs to the lion. Let loose an equal number of tigers and lions, and the lions will
kill off the tigers. Why? Because the tiger, ever the rugged individualist, fights alone. Lions fight together as a pack.
I didn't learn this fact from some nature book. I learned it from reading a book called
Caviar and Cabbage, a collection of newspaper columns by Melvin B. Tolson.
Tolson was the professor, poet and writer portrayed by Denzel Washington in
The Great Debaters, which is based on a true story from 1935 America.
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 CONNECT the... HEADLINES
Beyond Chron -- November 9, 2007
"Former AT&T worker details federal internet spying in S.F."
Seems AT&T allowed the National Security Agency (NSA), the biggest and baddest intelligence agency in world history, to build a special room at an AT&T office on Folsom Street, right here in the City by the Bay.
According to a lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, AT&T is sending "the entire Internet to the [NSA's] secret room... sweeping up everything, vacuum-cleaner-style... These are major pipes that carry not just AT&T's customers but everybody's."
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 HARDLY STRICTLY
Indybay --
October 9, 2007
I knew I had stopped having a good time when Emmylou Harris gave Warren Hellman a big hug at the Banjo Stage in Speedway Meadows. Hellman, after all, is the billionaire financier, venture capitalist and political heavyweight who tore up the Music Concourse in Golden Gate Park to build a parking lot for his monstrosity of a museum, just a short stroll away from the site of his Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival.
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 HALLIBURTON for PRESIDENT!
Beyond Chron -- July 24, 2007
Tired already of the gaggle of candidates
vying to take over the Oval Office? Most of them can't decide which side of the bread to butter without a focus group. It's time to try something new. Why limit presidential candidates to mere human beings?
We should elect a corporation as our
Chief Executive. After all, the Supreme Court says that corporations are people too.
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 Lynne Stewart/Michael Ratner Tour
Beyond Chron -- February 21, 2007
Lynne Stewart is an attorney renowned for her defense of radical and unpopular defendants... She has been convicted of bogus “terrorist conspiracy” charges, and is appealing her conviction and 28-month prison sentence.
Stewart’s two co-defendants, Mohammad Yousry (right) and Ahmed Sattar (far right), both legal workers for Stewart, were similarly convicted on trumped-up charges. Yousry faces a 20-month prison sentence, while Sattar faces 24 years.
Mumia Abu-Jamal has called the government attack on Stewart and her co-defendants “a triumph of fear over reason.”
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The War Over the War
Beyond Chron -- December 15, 2006
Sometimes Pat Buchanan hits the nail on the head.
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All I See Are Dead People
Beyond Chron -- October 20, 2006
It was Bruce Willis who famously said:
"All I see are dead people..."
...a report from a prestigious medical journal, The Lancet, [says] that more than 650,000 Iraqis have died in the wake of the U.S. invasion...
As horrific as the war in Iraq is, Iraqis aren't the only ones on the planet who are dying. According to the United Nation's World Food Program, every five seconds a child dies because that child is hungry.
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PAUL ROBESON -- Son of a Slave
Columbia Review -- March, 2006
Congressman Scherer,
House Un-American Activities Committee:
Why do you not stay in Russia?
ROBESON:
Because my father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you. And no Fascist-minded people will drive me from it.
Is that clear?...
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