Tag: politics
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NEW YORK—Responding to recent events on Earth, God, the omniscient creator-deity worshipped by billions of followers of various faiths for more than 6,000 years, angrily clarified His longtime stance against humans killing each other Monday. Enlarge ImageGod. “Look, I don’t know, maybe I haven’t made myself completely clear, so for…
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America began the new millennium with optimism and confidence. Today, two recessions and two wars later, the optimism is weakened and the confidence is waning. U.S. military spending has risen to nearly half of the global total, but the U.S. share of global output is eroding steadily as other economies…
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Reps. Barney Frank (D-MA) and Ron Paul (R-TX) are enlisting members of Congress to press President Obama’s Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform to propose “significant cuts to the military budget.” Frank and Paul are seeking signatories to a letter to the fiscal commission, highlighting one trillion dollars in savings…
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PORT FOURCHON, LA—In what may be the greatest environmental disaster in the nation’s history, the supertanker TI Oceania docked without incident at the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port Monday and successfully unloaded 3.1 million barrels of dangerous crude oil into the United States. According to witnesses, the catastrophe began shortly after…
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The Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference (SSREC) is an important event that brings hundreds of students from across the Southeast together for a weekend of essential skills trainings, inspiring keynote speakers, collaborative state network meetings, and movement building. Since its establishment in 2003, the SSREC has served as a platform…
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via youtube.com Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. ~ Baruch Spinoza
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Send our postcard to Congress now, calling on them to: Support the New START Treaty. Eliminate funding for “modernization” of our existing nuclear arsenal. Provide funds to clean up nuclear research and development sites. Support the abolition of all nuclear weapons. via support.afsc.org
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via rawstory.com “That’s why I got mad last week,” Weiner concludes in his NY Times Op-ed. That’s also why I’m going to fight for this bill when we come back in session in September. I’m still angry. Playing politics on important issues is never right. But on health care for…
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via youtube.com “two, one two three four Ev’rybody’s talking about Bagism, Madism, Dragism, Shagism, Ragism, Tagism This-ism, that-ism ism ism ism All we are saying is give peace a chance All we are saying is give peace a chance its goin’ great Everybody’s talkin’ bout’ministers, sinisters, banisters and canisters, bishops…
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On April 8, 2010, President Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev signed a new agreement to reduce each country’s vast arsenals of nuclear weapons. The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) is a modest, but critical first step in a renewed global effort to reduce the grave risks posed by…
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As if Rand Paul’s flippant “No one will miss a hill or two” comment wasn’t egregious enough, his latest PR effort on behalf of the coal industry is even worse. In an interview with Details magazine, he makes some of the dumbest and most offensive statements I’ve heard yet about…
