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KENNEDY SWINGS FOR THE FENCES
Last month, Robert Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer and scion of the Massachusetts Kennedy clan, created quite a stir by publishing, in Rolling Stone magazine, an article meticulously detailing the...
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SHAME, SHAME SHAME…AND A LITTLE GOOD NEWS
The Democrats gave the Bush administration another pass on war crimes this week, as Senate Judiciary committee members Diane Feinstein and Chuck Schumer, plus 5 other fascist sympathizers, broke with...
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UH-OH…
There was a a big flurry of polar exploration this summer, because for the first time in a hundred and twenty-five thousand years, it was possible to sail all the way around the Arctic Ocean. Shipping...
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BEYOND PINE TREES AND CARBON TRADING
Some of you may be aware of my involvement with The Green Living Journal, a quarterly publication that has, in the last year, created a niche for itself here in middle Tennessee. I write articles for...
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“TRANSITION NASHVILLE”–ORGANIZING FROM THE GROUND UP
As Margaret Mead famously said, Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. The potluck didn’t happen due to the...
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IT TAKES THE LACK OF A VILLAGE TO RAISE A JARED LOUGHNER
Well, I suppose I owe Sarah Palin and Bill O’Reilly and all those guys an apology. When I first heard the news about Jared Loughner’s shooting spree, it seemed natural to blame the hysterical gaggle...
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THE CONTINUING COUP
I want to take a few minutes to honor the late Joe Bageant, who passed out of this world back in March. Joe was a longtime editor and writer, but only recently came to what prominence he has (or had)...
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IN 2012, WHO WILL YOUR VOTING MACHINE VOTE FOR?
As I said, getting the state of Tennessee to recognize the Green Party’s right to appear on the ballot as a party is only half the battle. The other half involves how the votes will be cast and...
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OBAMONSANTO AND OTHER INCONVENIENT TRUTHS
A few months back, President Obama announced a three billion dollar U.S. initiative “to help Africa feed itself, “which is a noble goal, but the devil was all over his details. The first detail to...
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CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT THE ONLY “INCONVENIENT TRUTH”
(This is a slightly edited version of a blog post that first appeared in my candidate blog, “Holsinger for House.” You can read the original here.) Al Gore called his landmark presentation on climate...
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WHEN THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD
A couple of weeks ago, I was commenting in a discussion thread on Facebook that had started with a local, politically active friend bemoaning the abysmally low turnout in the last election. Here in...
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A DEEP GREEN PERSPECTIVE ON BERNIE SANDERS
Not since the halcyon days when Rev. Martin Luther King broadened his perspective from civil rights for African-Americans to human rights for everybody, and called for an end to poverty, oppression,...
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THE CONTEXT OF THE ASSAULT ON PLANNED PARENTHOOD
First of all, we have to accept that mainstream American politics has long been about which party’s lies resonate better with the voters. For most of the last 35 years, the Republicans have had the...
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PAINTING OURSELVES INTO A CORNER
American democracy has been functionally describable as “a two-party system” for most of our country’s history. There have been “third parties,” but they have rarely been successful at breaking into...
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THE DEMOCRATS ARE THE NEW REPUBLICANS…CAN THE GREENS BECOME “THE NEW DEMOCRATS”?
Today’s date, September 11th, is, to borrow President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s words, “a day that will live in infamy.” On this date in 1973, Salvador Allende, the Bernie Sanders of Chile, who,...
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OUT OF THE FRYING PAN, INTO THE FIRE
music: Leonard Cohen, “Everybody Knows” I confess, I didn’t really expect it to happen. I’m kind of in shock that it did, and I still wonder if some strong wind will suddenly rise up and blow this...
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Before I get going with my main topic for tonight, I want to briefly address “the government shutdown,” because what I have to say about it seems obvious to me, but I haven’t heard it from anybody...
View Article“PLANET OF THE HUMANS”–IMPERFECT, BUT VITALLY IMPORTANT
Depending on who you’re reading and your own viewpoint, “Planet of the Humans,” the new movie from Michael Moore and Jeff Gibbs, is either a bomb or a bombshell. Numerous prominent, well-respected...
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