Shall We Blow Up Mountains?
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Shall We Blow Up Mountains?

By Jim Hoover http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGXQ1Xwn4ws&feature=player_detailpage#t=63s Unlike traditional coal mining, dynamiting the tops of pristine mountains to extract coal, permanently alters the beauty of the landscape. The Appalachian Mountain System, running 2000 miles from Newfoundland to central Alabama, has graced the landscape of what is the eastern US today, originally formed…

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June 20, 2011
Christie not Spelled ‘Christ’
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Christie not Spelled ‘Christ’

By Jim Hoover Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey is being courted to run for president. Perhaps it relates to his extremism. The Republican base likes radical right-wingers. How can we identify his right-wing stripe? Look at him, listen to him, and watch him. He is large. He is…

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June 4, 2011
Blame it on George W?
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Blame it on George W?

By: Jim Hoover Now I know what die-hard conservatives will say without even looking at the chart above: you’re blaming it all on George W. again. Conservatives do have a point. We should blame it on the ignorance and apathy of too many American voters, interference and manipulation of…

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May 30, 2011
Japanese Taboos – The Short List
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Japanese Taboos – The Short List

By: Momoko Mariyama It’s always fun and interesting to learn about other countries, their society, culture, moral values and of course, the guilty pleasure knowledge of their taboos. The Japanese, while largely a very shy, humble and respectful culture also have many things that you just don’t do or…

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May 28, 2011
Single-Payer Health Care: The Time Has Come
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Single-Payer Health Care: The Time Has Come

By: Jim Hoover Another very important bit of news the mainstream corporate media won’t feature: Vermont has voted for the first single-payer health care system, in other words, a system without private health care middlemen who, leech-like, suck record profits out of the misery of patients[i]. Now, who doesn’t…

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May 28, 2011
Betrayed and/or Screwed?
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Betrayed and/or Screwed?

By: Jim Hoover Princeton University professor, Cornel West, is bitterly disappointed in Barack Obama. Like many of us, he bought the egalitarian rhetoric Obama used doing the campaign and fought for his election. Now like many of us, he feels betrayed. “The system is rigged against poor and working…

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May 22, 2011
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