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Webバージョン  |  アップデート設定  |  登録解除 いいね ツイート 転送 http://endofsecrets.blogspot.com War Hawks Were Wrong, Wrong, Wrong about Iraq Posted by jon on 1 March, 2013 James Fallows Here is something other than The Sequester to think about at the beginning of March: read more My Goal? To "Share with World... True Cost of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan" Posted by jon on 1 March, 2013 Bradley Manning Pfc. Bradley Manning explained how and more importantly, why, he leaked military and government documents.(Credit: Reuters)This statement below was read by Private First Class Bradley E. Bradley at a providence inquiry for his formal plea of guilty to one specification as charged and nine specifications for lesser included offenses. He pled not guilty to 12 other specifications. read more Apocalypse? No. But Unless We Change Tack, Earth is Running Out of Time Posted by jon on 1 March, 2013 Andrew Simms After millennia of falsely predicting the apocalypse, humanity has become understandably flippant. There were so many threatened catastrophes in 2012, from rolling earthquakes to interstellar collisions and a misunderstanding of the Mayan calendar that the quips began to flow. read more History Will Damn the Persecutors of Bradley Manning Posted by jon on 1 March, 2013 Owen Jones History will damn the persecutors of Bradley Manning. Big powers who hide crimes away from their own people – while claiming to act in their name, of course – fear few more than those determined to hold them to account. read more Going Outside the Hospital Walls to Improve Community Health Posted by jon on 1 March, 2013 Gar Alperovitz David Zuckerman Study after study demonstrates that poverty is a powerful driver of poor health. Many of America's leading hospitals exist in poor communities. read more Conversation with "Fix the Debt," Help Count the Pinocchios Posted by jon on 1 March, 2013 Lisa Graves Last week, the Center for Media and Democracy and The Nation magazine worked together to publish a package in the Nation and a new online wiki resource on Pete Peterson and the Campaign to Fix the Debt, an entity we consider an “astroturf supergroup” with a huge budget working hard to create the fantasy that Americans care more ab read more The Happiness Initiative: The Serious Business of Well-Being Posted by jon on 1 March, 2013 Laura Musikanski John de Graaf Happiness: is it just a fad of the day or the wave of the future? On July 19th, 2011, the United Nations (UN) passed a resolution urging governments across the globe to start measuring happiness and well-being “with a view to guiding public policy.” The UN recognizes that gross domestic product (GDP) is an insufficient guide for safeguarding the well-being of people or our future. read more The Ascendant and Necessary Transition to a New Economy Posted by jon on 1 March, 2013 Atlee McFellin read more The Sequester and the Tea Party Plot Posted by jon on 1 March, 2013 Robert Reich Imagine a plot to undermine the government of the United States, to destroy much of its capacity to do the public’s business, and to sow distrust among the population.(Image: Mother Jones) Imagine further that the plotters infiltrate Congress and state governments, reshape their districts to give them disproportionate influence in Washington, and use the media to spread big lies about the government. read more Washington's Sequester: Into the Vast Inane Posted by jon on 1 March, 2013 Robert Borosage Someone asked the Master about the principles of … traveling into the vast inane. – From the Bao Pu Zi, AD 320, Joseph Needham, Science and Civilization in China read more 登録変更 | 登録解除

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