Headline news, no: “AOC Casts House Democrats’ Sole Vote Against Omnibus Spending Bill: Rep. Ocasio-Cortez cited “the dramatic increase in DHS and ICE spending” as the reason behind her vote.” Oh, wouldn’t be a fine thing in the neighborhood, if this AOC, went rogue, Independent Party, on her hands and knees, and abplogizing: RE: Green …
You and I, dear reader, if you are of the composition of say Rosa Parks, or Rachel Carson, MLK, Paul Robeson, Angela Davis (or, fill in the social justice champion of your choice), did not sign up for this, or approve of it, or okayed it in our name: Some researchers who have long studied …
What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?― W.E.B. DuBois Well, it’s not over until the fat lady sings! And, in dead-end USA, where we bomb, sanction, pollute, dictate, kidnap, bulldoze over, imprison, we …
It is always funny and sad reading reports from the Chronicle of Higher Education, and now, drum roll, a 26-page report: A ‘Stunning’ Level of Student Disconnection Professors are reporting record numbers of students checked out, stressed out, and unsure of their future. In 20 years of teaching at Doane University, Kate Marley has never …
Hate on Hate for the Poet by Paul Haeder / December 18th, 2022 So, we can’t talk about Brittney, Alex Saab, Julian,Gary Webb, Snowden, Leonard, Mumia…so we can’t question who, what, where, why, when, howthis basketball star gets out of jailfree card others rot so we can’t look into the belly of the beaststhe USA, …
There were more than 60 folk showing up in Newport, OR, at the extension center, OSU. Yaquina Birders anchored the presentation, and there was a guest presenter with hundreds of photos at the ready. He was funny, profane, full of comedic relief, and his photos from Tanzania and Uganda, March 2020, are amazing. I did …
Ahh, the lords of war, and the companies’ stocks going up up up. Look at these thieves, Lockhead Martin, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Northrup Grumman. Ahh, petal mines dropped by Ukraine forces on the Donbass: “The West is silent as Ukraine targets civilians in Donetsk using banned ‘butterfly’ mines” By Eva Bartlett (Posted Aug 18, 2022) …
there is blood on every front, as barbarism wins out, seemingly Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbel: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” They seem like small-small things — high school English class, college literature classes, university poetry classes. I have taught every manner …
It makes sense that good journalists have to take a cold hard look at facts. That they don’t take a side, per se, and look at as many angles of a story that is humanly possible. Even under those provisos, we still find missing a lack of humanity in this entire propaganda “game” of Western …
A close look at the ecology and health of Pacific Coast Feeding Group gray whales in Oregon waters by Paul Haeder / December 1st, 2022 It was a good live crowd — over a hundred folk, November 30, at Hatfield’s new classroom building, Gladys Valley Marine Studies Building Auditorium. And another 100 in “attendance” on …
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