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Maisha Soul: "Our music is our gun."
In the west, we hear hopeless stories about the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and it's hard to imagine that anything positive could be happening there. But it isn't all war and violence....
View ArticleClimate Scientists Face Threats of Violence, Sexual Assault & Attacks of...
Earlier this month, Aaron Ross reported at Mother Jones that Austrailian climate scientists were receiving death threats.Because of their work supporting carbon emissions taxes, more than 30 climate...
View ArticleEast Africa Famine: Epic Crisis
James Orbinski, former director of Doctors Without Borders [MSF], describing a day in the life of an MSF physician in Somolia, circa 1992, in Triage: James Orbinski's Humaritarian Dilemma.Somalia's...
View Article48 for East Africa: Millions and Counting
Famine is almost always manmade. It is a disaster that requires a series of unfortunate events, but the root cause is usually a failure in the politics of resource distribution. Water, food,...
View ArticleKosability: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
KosAbility is a community diary series posted at 5 PM ET every Sunday and Wednesday by volunteer diarists. This is a gathering place for people who are living with disabilities, who love someone with a...
View ArticleStop Tar Sands: Climate Denial is a Paper Tiger.
              "Do you believe in global warming?" The climate denial propoganda machine wants to make sure that climate change gets perceived as a concept rooted in belief. Why? Because it...
View ArticleMoving Planet: Fossil Fuels Aren't Cheap
We've heard the arguments. The developing world must burn coal because of the bottom line. Clean energy costs are prohibitive for developing nations. Coal is cheap. Coal is easy.That is, it's cheap and...
View Article1 in 6: Is it real food?
Today is World Food Day. It is also Blog Action Day, where bloggers all over the world will be writing about food.This got me thinking about food as it gets produced more globally. What has to happen...
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Subscription drive: Because information is power.
From the Daily Kos Community Quilt I wasn't a subscriber at Daily Kos when this drive started. Then, I got an email from a secret Santa who decided I deserved a lifetime subscription to Daily Kos. That...
View ArticleNFTT: It's been a decade.
Ten years is a long time.Way back when, I was told that to serve, I needed to shop. Get out the credit cards. Pump that gas. Debauch and have fun. That was my patriotic duty.Flag-draped coffins were...
View ArticleI'm bored, Rush. Yawn.
For twenty five years, you've been talking your stuff. You've made your living riling angry white men, intellectually impaired misogynists, and anyone who is afraid of an identifable other. You'll keep...
View ArticleForced birthers wanted my baby
My first born daughter is twenty six years old.I was young, and pretty much on my own when I got pregnant. I had no family nearby, and her father didn't hold a lot of promise, either. Much of my...
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"A woman should never go where she will be raped."
For the past couple of years, I've posted a diary about sexual assault awareness -- mostly to point out that we are none very realistic about what makes us safer than not, and we often have a false...
View ArticleKosAbility: What? Say again???
What did you say? Come again?A lot of us have hearing loss, and it's not clear when it becomes a disability. Profound deafness is clearly disabling. What about those with lesser hearing losses -- or...
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Proof of Big Bang theory wins prestigious award.
Today, the Wilkenson Microwave Anisotropy Probe won the prestigious Gruber Cosmology Prize for "observations and analyses of ancient light have provided the unprecedentedly rigorous measurements of the...
View ArticleThis is Mitt's brain on Bain.
Now who can argue with this???Those decisions were made by folks that were running the company differently. So I don't have the details of what decision-making went into it. Oftentimes what happens...
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CCSOS: Climate change just isn't Santa anymore.
Climate denialists are having some trouble with science these days. Well, they've had trouble all along, but the final nails are in that coffin. The simple fact is that all of their attempts at...
View ArticleBROKEN: New epoch for the war in Congo
As many of you know, a new conflict has been brewing in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo for about a month. In short, the M23 rebel group marched into Goma yesterday, and now has control of the city....
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War to break in DRC over military labor dispute. You can do something to help.
Earlier this week, a rebel militia [M23] captured Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. The streets are calm (for now), but there are more than 1 million people without power or potable water. The water...
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