Category Archives: International
The Coverup continues – Book Review: Watergate – A Novel
By Jim Smith We live in a world shaped by history. It is hard to escape our personal history – parents, aunts, uncles – and others who want to shape us in their molde. One means of escape that has … Continue reading
Filed under Book Review, History, International, Jim Smith, Politics
Questions Persist As To US Arms Treaty Compliance
By Janet Phelan Geneva, Switzerland — Questions concerning the compliance of the United States with the international treaty, the Biological Weapons Convention, came to a head recently during the Seventh Review Conference of the Convention, which is being held now … Continue reading
Filed under International, Iraq/Military, Science/Technology
Interview with Singer-Songwriter Jacqueline Fuentes
Interviewed by Karl Abrams Jacqueline Fuentes is a dynamic and charismatic Chilean folk singer, songwriter and international activist. She moved to Venice about 15 years ago from Santiago and has been playing for small to medium-sized groups of lucky people … Continue reading
Filed under Culture, International, Interviews, Karl Abrams, Music
Depleted Uranium strikes friends and foes alike in Libya
By Karl Abrams High in the skies of Libya, NATO jets, equipped with uranium bullets and uranium-tipped missiles, are probably being used to assist Libyan rebels in toppling the regime of Muammar Gaddafy. France, Great Britain and the US regularly … Continue reading
Filed under Environment, International, Iraq/Military, Karl Abrams
Nuclear Nightmare
By Ralph Nader The unfolding multiple nuclear reactor catastrophe in Japan is prompting overdue attention to the 104 nuclear plants in the United States—many of them aging, many of them near earthquake faults, some on the west coast exposed to … Continue reading
Filed under International
The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram: Last Night I Dreamed of Peace
Book Reviewed by Jim Smith The definitive book about the Viet Nam war has been written by a twenty-something Vietnamese woman. This may be hard to believe for those raised on a diet of male-oriented sagas of hard fighting, hard … Continue reading
Filed under Book Review, International, Jim Smith, Women
WikiLeaks and Local Leaks
By Jim Smith Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. ~Aldous Huxley Silly Hillary. Did she really think the internet was a safe place for her deepest, darkest secrets? She’s not alone. The geniuses of … Continue reading
Filed under Human Rights/Constitution, International, Jim Smith
A Tale of Two Wars: Vietnam/Afghanistan
By Clay Claiborne In the spirit of Mark Twain, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.” I offer the following combined brief history of the Vietnam and Afghan Wars: Although the War in [Vietnam|Afghanistan] was started by the previous occupant … Continue reading
Filed under International, Iraq/Military
Dumping Sidebar: United Nations Declares Sanitation A Basic Human Right
Sanitation and safe and clean drinking water is a human right essential to the full enjoyment of life and all other human rights, the General Assembly declared July 28, voicing deep concern that 2.6 billion people, including the homeless in Venice, … Continue reading
Filed under Homeless/RVs, Human Rights/Constitution, International, Jim Smith
New “Pentagon Papers” Describe the Insanity of the Afghan War
EDITORIAL: Time To Pull Out About 75,000 documents describing a war without a purpose in Afghanistan have been “liberated” from military computers with another 15,000 to come. The documents describe, among other things, U.S. soldiers randomly shooting Afghan civilians and … Continue reading
Filed under International, Iraq/Military
