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After the traditional military ‘orgy’ parades on October 12, the Spanish government is preparing to become the main theater of the biggest NATO exercises since the end of the Cold War. The so-called Trident Juncture 2015, the first phase was held between 3 and 16 October, will mobilize in a second stage, this exercise on the ground, more than 36,000 troops from 33 countries (28 NATO allies five) More than 230 military units, 140 aircraft and 60 warships to be deployed in Italy, Portugal and Spain between October 21 and November 6. Continue reading “War Preparations in Iberia: Nato the Spearhead of Capitalist Terror”
The corporate state, largely to pacify citizens being frog-marched to their own execution, passes environmental laws and regulations that, at best, slow the ongoing environmental destruction. Corporations, which routinely ignore even these tepid restrictions, largely write the laws and legislation designed to regulate their activity.
DENVER—The maniacal drive by the human species to extinguish itself includes a variety of lethal pursuits. One of the most efficient is fracking. One day, courtesy of corporations such as Halliburton, BP and ExxonMobil, a gallon of water will cost more than a gallon of gasoline. Fracking, which involves putting chemicals into potable water and then injecting millions of gallons of the…
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Do you find yourself thrashing against the tide of human indifference and selfishness? Are you oppressed by the sense that while you care, others don’t? That because of humankind’s callousness, civilisation and the rest of life on earth are basically stuffed? If so, you are not alone. But neither are you right.
A study by the Common Cause Foundation, due to be published next month, reveals two transformative findings. The first is that a large majority of the 1000 people they surveyed – 74% – identify more strongly with unselfish values than with selfish values. This means that they are more interested in helpfulness, honesty, forgiveness and justice than in money, fame, status and power. The second is that a similar majority – 78% – believes others to be more selfish than they really are. In other words, we have made a terrible mistake about other people’s minds. Continue reading “Kropotkin was Right: Cooperation beats Competition”
Since 3rd October 2015, the night when 200 migrants attempted to cross the fences in Ceuta and 87 succeeded to do so, several other attempts where made by hundreds of migrants. Afterwards, Morocco increased the military presence and border security measures at the fences.
On 9th October 2015, a Cameroonian and a Guinean migrant died during their attempt to cross the border. The two persons were on a boat which tried to enter Ceuta in the morning of 9th October. However, they were intercepted by the Moroccan Royal Marine, were severely beaten and subsequently died. A dozen of other persons present on the boat and therefore witnesses to these facts, were put in a van, locked in it for 12 hours and subsequently taken to the Fnideq police station. http://cadenaser.com/ser/2015/10/09/internacional/1444425919_850628.html
During these days, all the attempts to cross the border were suppressed with the use of extreme violence by the…
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Jess: Thanks for agreeing to meet with me today. As a young feminist I’m wondering how you became involved in the feminist movement and how you decided to make it your life’s work.
Lee: In a way, I had absolutely no excuse. I was roughly twenty, living in Toronto and studying at Ryerson, so lots of things were going on all around me, including meetings about women’s liberation and meetings about the civil rights movement. It was right there. You had to work atnot being involved when I was young.
reblogged with thanks from: http://www.feministcurrent.com/…-interview-with-lee-lakeman/
To top it all off, I became pregnant by a foreign student so I was, all of a sudden, right in the middle of the race questions, poverty questions, and women’s rights questions. That made them all profoundly important to me. I didn’t think about it as my life’s work until later.
I owned a house with some friends, and we made it available to women who had no place to go. It became the Woodstock Women’s Emergency shelter. So, there I was in the middle of learning about violence against women, and I haven’t looked back. The work is rewarding, and the more I did it, the more I understood how important it was. It was a place to stand. Continue reading “Lee Lakeman: Lifelong Feminist Activist”
This is the absolute BEST (and most simple) pumpkin bread recipe that I have ever made. The secret – knowing how to keep the moisture in the bread and not allowing it to evaporate during and after the cooking process.
There is nothing worse than anticipating taking a bite of freshly baked pumpkin bread and sinking your teeth into nothing but a dry and crumbly mess. You will not find that with this recipe. In fact, just the opposite. It has stood the test of time as it has been passed down through many generations and exceeds all expectations as compared to every other recipe that I have tried.
Wrapping the bread in foil shortly after it is taken out of the oven is the secret to keeping it moist
The secret to keeping the bread moist is something you will find very familiar if you ever have grilled meat. After…
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