FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Fwd: Links for humanists

[Robert Tapp (tappx001]

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> From: Robert Tapp <tappx001 [at] umn.edu>
> Date: November 23, 2009 9:11:00 PM CST
> To: Humanist Institute Discussion List <hidisc [at] humanistinstitute.org>
> 
> Here are 5 interesting links for humanists.
> 
> Bob
> 
> from Democracy Now
> 
>> Naomi Klein on Climate Debt: Why Rich Countries Should Pay Reparations To 
>> Poor Countries For The Climate Crisis *
>> 
>> With the Copenhagen climate summit two weeks away, best-selling journalist 
>> Naomi Klein examines the grass-roots movement behind the climate debate 
>> proposal that argues all the costs associated with adapting to a more 
>> hostile ecology˜everything from building stronger sea walls to switching to 
>> cleaner, more expensive technologies˜are the responsibility of the countries 
>> that created the crisis. Klein also discusses the 10th anniversary of the 
>> Seattle WTO protests and the 10th anniversary of her first book, „No Logo.‰
>> 
>> Listen/Watch/Read
>> http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/23/naomi_klein_on_climate_debt_why
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>> Amy's [Goodman's] new book Breaking the Sound Barrier #1 on Amazon's Media & 
>> Politics section
>> 
>> http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/15959581/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_b_1_5_last
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> Consortium carries a longish essay by Nicolas J S Davie anticipating his 
> forthcoming book. His review of the fates of the British, Soviet, and US 
> empires seems right on.
> See if the concluding paragraph doesn't make you read the whole thing.
> 
>> It is the policy of the United States, not that of Afghanistan, that is 
>> filling the graveyards, and the great game that can stop the funerals will 
>> not be played out in Afghanistan but in Washington and in local communities 
>> all over the United States as Americans begin to organize for a 
>> post-imperial, post-corporate and more democratic future.
> 
>       http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/112309b.html
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> If you missed Bill Moyers' history lesson on Viet Nam, here's a link
> 
>> Bill Moyers Tells a Tale of Two Quagmires: Vietnam & Afghanistan
>> by John Nichols
>> Bill Moyers, who was at the side of President Lyndon Johnson at the time 
>> when disastrous decisions were being made to escalate the U.S. presence in 
>> the quagmire that was Vietnam, used his experience to speak Friday night to 
>> President Barack Obama about what could be an equally disastrous decision to 
>> escalate the U.S. presence in the quagmire that is Afghanistan.
>> 
>> "Our country wonders this weekend what is on President Obama's mind," Moyers 
>> began, at the opening of a remarkable hour of television. "He is apparently, 
>> about to bring months of deliberation to a close and answer General Stanley 
>> McChrystal's request for more troops in Afghanistan. When he finally 
>> announces how many, why, and at what cost, he will most likely have defined 
>> his presidency, for the consequences will be far-reaching and unpredictable. 
>> As I read and listen and wait with all of you for answers, I have been 
>> thinking about the mind of another president, Lyndon B. Johnson."
>> 
>> 
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> Reconciliation and a Public Option on healthcare. Allowing majority rule on 
> the issue is in Harry Reid's hands. Here's one way to support a petition.
> 
>       http://action.firedoglake.com/page/s/reconciliation?source=email112209