Articles Posted in the Opinion Category
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Isn’t it Time For An Early Afghanistan Exit Strategy?
What is the cost of the War in Afghanistan so far? The War (2001–present) has cost the lives of 830 Americans due to hostile and non-hostile actions. In addition, the War has caused the deaths of thousands of Afghan civilians directly from insurgent and foreign military action, as well as the deaths of possibly tens of thousands of Afghan civilians indirectly as a consequence of displacement, starvation, disease, exposure, lack of medical treatment, crime and lawlessness resulting from the war.
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Astroturfing San Francisco
At least nine parks, including Franklin Square Park, Garfield Square Park and Silver Terrace Playground have already been astroturfed or are in the pipeline with funds committed for the conversion. At least 18 more parks are threatened with the same fate. That’s dozens upon dozens of acres of neighborhood parks that are filling up with hazardous waste every year. The latest victim of this trend is the Western Addition’s Kimbell Park, where workers broke ground Wednesday (9/16/09) two days after a contentious town hall meeting at the Jewish Community High School, hosted by Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi of District 5.
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Glenn Beck’s Demagoguery, Right Wing Extremism,
and RacismFox News racist Glenn Beck By Stephen Lendman September 16, 2009 At a time of 24-hour news and a proliferation of television and radio talk shows featuring hatemongers and demagogues like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly,…
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Power Plant Shell Game:
San Franciscans Will Breathe Bad Air For Another Year,
For Electricity That Isn’t NeededBut last Friday, September 18, even though San Francisco’s energy demands have not increased, the ISO suddenly reversed itself and said the City now needs to keep a whopping 362 megawatts online for the next year to satisfy reliability. 206 of these megawatts will come from a dinosaur natural gas boiler at the Mirant power plant in Potrero Hill that is so old and obsolete it cannot be turned off, and must run 24/7 kicking massive amounts of air pollution into Potrero and nearby Bayview, and devastating our bay habitat with heat and toxic dispersions because of its antiquated ‘once-through cooling’ system.
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Healthcare Reform for All? Not Quite
With Congress falling all over themselves trying to show compassion for the plight of us struggling taxpayers, it is downright diabolical how they can do so without a shred of embarrassment over their blatant hypocrisy.
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A Progressive Call to Action
But this is by no means the political eulogy for one of the few grassroots progressives in the Obama administration or the progressive movement that helped elect Obama. It is, however, a call to action.
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Government 2.0: A Meme Moves Mainstream
Gov 2.0 Radio host Adriel Hampton answers the question ‘What does Gov 2.0 mean to you?’ By Adriel Hampton September 9, 2009 Re-imagining government got a little easier with the election of President Barack Obama…
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