Outside Insight

I have mentioned in previous posts my disagreement with the existence of permanent U.S. military bases around the world. To me these bases speak of silent wars against countries who we have no reason to be at war with. Perhaps this is why our government engages in quiet and private military occupations. So is it [...]

World Food Crisis:

Price of food increases at least 40% around the world this last week - in the meantime in the US our poor are dying from health problems deriving from obesity and easy access to bad quality quickly and cheaply produced foods. We are a country where the “poor are fat” so when I [...]

Ignorance breeds violence.

A lot of people in the US do not know what Sikhism is and often confuse Sikhs with Muslims so I’ve included a little educational youtube video.

[ April 17, 2008; 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Cuba scholar Arnold August will answer the question “What? Democracy in Cuba?!?” in a talk at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto.

Thanks to anti-Cuba propaganda, most Americans still don’t realize that Cuba holds regular elections at all levels of government, local through national. With U.S. interest in meddling in Cuba at an all-time high [...]

The protests are against China’s government oppression of the people of the region - Chinese, Tibetans and Burmese, etc. - not against the Olympics themselves.

Too bad our system punishes those who care about justice and celebrates those who make war and death happen.
War Protest - March 19th 2008, 5th Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq