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9 de Mayo, 2008

Our Death Will Be Inside Our Homes

Categorized under El Malestar Pálido , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah , Parenting , Política Estados Unidos , Violencia | Tags: , , , ,


AND IN THE LAND THAT FLOATS UPON OIL, U.S. Forces and their subordinates are murdering the children of Iraq at the fastest rate possible. Though it's not quite fast or deadly enough to save them from the looming WMDs that endanger them all—the ones that required our military to...

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9 de Abril, 2008

Welcome to the Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

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A FAVORITE ARTIST, Ben Harper, says "Welcome to the Cruel World." And on days when I wake up and am unfortunate enough to hear these putos yank their jaws sideways about the Iraq Travesty of Harm and Destruction and United States Greed, I think to myself "Welcome to the Mad...

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4 de Abril, 2008

A Community Garden [Let's Have Nexus 6]

Categorized under Ciencia , Corazón , El Malestar Pálido , Globalización , Guerra , Planeta , Signs of the Sixth Sun | Tags: , , , , , , ,


AND THE ANSWER for the human race and our oldest friend, the Planet Earth, is the re-centering the collective emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual health of human beings—no, we must take it further, to plant/environmental and animal (including human) health rather than this gross heirarchical defect that takes the...

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30 de Marzo, 2008

The Invaders Press On

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: , ,


IF WE STEP BACK a moment from our ethnocentric surety and simply think out what it might mean to be INVADED by another nation, no not simply bombed once and let be to work our economy and feelings of unity and national safety out as we all have (supposedly)...

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25 de Marzo, 2008

Vigil (to End the War) - [MTV Vid 3-25-08]

Categorized under Arte , Artivism , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah , MTV Street Team 08 Exclusive , Política Estados Unidos , Protesta , Violencia | Tags: , , , , , , , ,


ON THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY of the Iraq Invasion, MoveOn held vigils all over the country at the same time. This video commemorates and captures the public vigil held in Eugene, Oregon to call for an end to the Iraq Occupation. The latest video for my MTV Citizen Journalist gig....

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24 de Marzo, 2008

1 Million + 4,000 [Killed]

Categorized under Guerra , Headlines , Iraq the Casbah | Tags:


OKAY, maybe it's five hundred thousand. Maybe only two hundred thousand Iraqis are dead. Whatever, I don't personally feel 4,000 Americans' lives—ones who chose to make the military their business—are somehow more worth my sorrow than the same, or ten or one hundred times that many Iraqi lives. And...

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19 de Marzo, 2008

A Good Friend Would Say Something

Categorized under Guerra , Headlines , Iraq the Casbah | Tags:




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8 de Marzo, 2008

Who Would Yanni Bomb?

Categorized under Guerra , Iran , Iraq the Casbah , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: ,


HAVE YOU EVER put on some new agey music, sat back and thought about deep azure skies and exactly how you might sear that blue stretch of beauty into a turmoiled, agent-orange streaked, phosphorus misted, IED-spattered eternal war-o-rama-scape? Rage McCain sure has. And then he set it to video! Snuggle...

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3 de Marzo, 2008

His Legacy, A Graveyard

Categorized under Closing in on Bush , Guerra , Iran , Iraq the Casbah | Tags: , ,


Bush slinked in and out of Iraq for a quick unannounced photo-op and some handshakes on a heavily guarded American airbase. They never turned off Air Force One's engines... just in case the Iraqi people found out that the author of their misery was in the country. Now that he's...

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13 de Febrero, 2008

Symbol and Essence: The Power of Naming

Categorized under Corazón , Español , Frontera , Guerra , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: , , , , , , ,


ANOTHER BLOG POST exclusive to MTV, as it is part of my Street Team 08 duties! This one delves more into one of my favorite paradigms, Symbol and Essence. Words that came to me while thinking on our many forms of warring with the Other....

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Better Red Than Dead

Categorized under Guerra , Once de Septiembre , Violencia | Tags: ,


On the morning of 9 February 2004, The New York Times carried an exclusive and alarming story. The paper's Baghdad correspondent, Dexter Filkins, reported that US officials had obtained a 17-page letter, believed to have been written by the notorious terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi to the "inner circle"...

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11 de Febrero, 2008

Reign of McCain

Categorized under Guerra , Humor , Iran , Iraq the Casbah , Medios , Música , Violencia | Tags: , , ,


YOU REMEMBER THIS? Here is the McCain version. Funnnny. In a scary kind of way!...

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25 de Enero, 2008

More FairNBalanced® News

Categorized under Guerra , Hipnotismo , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos , Terrorizing la Gente , Violencia | Tags: , , ,


WITH ALL THE CASES of soldiers returning home and acting out on damaged souls and wartorn minds (a crime we must lay at the feet of our government which not only chose this war, but SOLD it, rammmmed it down our throats, and planned for it long ago), why...

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16 de Diciembre, 2007

KBR/Halliburton Rapeland Fest Interrupted by Scrutiny. Again.

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos , Terrorizing la Gente , Violencia | Tags: , , , ,


Congress is asking questions about another ex-employee of government contracting firm KBR who claims she was raped in Iraq. Letters to the Pentagon and the Justice Department today from Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. underscore congressional concern about a second alleged assault, this time of a woman from Florida who...

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8 de Diciembre, 2007

The Truth We Don't Seek

Categorized under Guerra , Hipnotismo , Iraq the Casbah , Medios , Violencia | Tags: , , , ,


I TEND TO PAY attention to little human details. We communicate on so many levels that I find it very helpful to watch tics, eyeball choreography, the hands, the body, to listen closely to "trail-off" statements, to note associations made in topics, and so on. This doesn't mean you...

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25 de Noviembre, 2007

America's Little Warlings

Categorized under Cultura , El Malestar Pálido , Guerra | Tags: , , , , , , ,


“We’ve worn handmade peace shirts every Thursday since the first week of school, without fail,” Skylar said. But what started out as a light-hearted gesture soon started to be taken out of context. Students started approaching the group members, yelling obscene things at them, said Lauren. “People just turned...

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18 de Noviembre, 2007

"You Are a Declining Empire, and You Will Learn the Truth."

Categorized under Closing in on Bush , Corazón , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah | Tags: , ,


JOHN BOLTON gets his Walrus mustache trampled by an old stodgy dude with a British accent. It's a war crime that's being committed in Iraq. Because there is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons." —Tony Benn s/t...

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14 de Noviembre, 2007

Her Back Pages

Categorized under Guerra , Medios , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: ,


... AND THEN THERE'S Ava from Alabama, who could serve as a much better inspiration to mijas than previously-mentioned equivocators. After all, this young lady is willing to lose support while she chases down what she believes true and important. ¡Que Viva La Rebelde!...

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15 de Octubre, 2007

(My) War Hero

Categorized under Corazón , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah | Tags: ,


I'D LIKE TO TAKE one small moment to remember the ongoing struggle of the soldier I personally respect most in this war, Lt. Ehren Watada. In a video press conference announcing his refusal to deploy to Iraq, Watada noted, 'Although I have tried to resign out of protest, I...

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7 de Octubre, 2007

Mind Your Myanmars

Categorized under Guerra , Signs of the Sixth Sun , Violencia | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,


A COUPLE COMMENTERS who, ayer, visited the House of Nez on their way home from bloghomie Glenn Greenwald's jernt seemed a bit upset that I push back against the Bomb-Iran media blitz. I am reminded that Iran is a "repressive" and cruel nation. They insistently speak of persecution and violence...

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6 de Octubre, 2007

The Secrets of Liberty

Categorized under Gobierno , Guerra , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: ,


WELL, that's pretty interesting. I never knew that Israel knowingly attacked a US ship and the US Government hid it for years. My worldview is not exactly shaken, but it is quite a revelation. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee brags that it is the most influential foreign policy...

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4 de Octubre, 2007

One More Moment Before We Bomb—

Categorized under Guerra , Iran , Política Estados Unidos , Terrorizing la Gente | Tags:


LET'S TAKE A WALK THROUGH IRAN. Here are images, I wanted to lay them out. As glimpses. Isolated glimpses into another country, one that mostly exists for us in scary soundbytes and media-approved shots of hangings and flame and the dark dark chador and the obscuring burqa. We pump the...

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3 de Octubre, 2007

A Moment, Before We Bomb—

Categorized under Guerra , Iran , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos , Signs of the Sixth Sun , Terrorizing la Gente , Violencia | Tags: ,


CHANCES ARE GOOD, given what we do know and have seen and have heard from those with control of the money and the guns in these here United States of America, that we will soon initiate some kind of massive violence upon Iran. Whether it be part of the USA's...

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29 de Septiembre, 2007

Hillarious Clinton and the Air Raid Siren

Categorized under Guerra , Iran , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: , , ,


CLEARLY, someone has recently advised Hillary Clinton that she was coming across as too dour, to grim, too "shrill," perhaps, and too heavy. So, true to the Rovian/GOP handbook, she is changing the packaging (her reactions), while the content continues to veer into the most grim and cynical terrain...

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28 de Septiembre, 2007

How Ya Like Your Freedom® Now?

Categorized under Guerra , Iraq the Casbah | Tags: ,


BAGHDAD, September 28 — At least seven young men were killed in an attack late Thursday that witnesses say was launched by an American military helicopter in a suburb outside Baghdad. The young men, the witnesses said, were playing a traditional Ramadan game at the time of the attack....

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26 de Septiembre, 2007

In Which We Find Out What We Already Knew

Categorized under Closing in on Bush , Español , Guerra , Hipnotismo , Iraq the Casbah , Medios , Política Estados Unidos , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: , , ,


OVER TIME, I HAVE NOTICED from checking out news sources in Español vs. English that politicians and media pundits often take gross and blatant advantage of the fact that so many US citizens cannot read/speak anything other than English, as in YEAH, AMERICA NUMBER ONE! ENGLISH ONLY!!!!! WOOOO! USE...

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21 de Septiembre, 2007

Stand and be Counted. Or Cower and be Condemned.

Categorized under Corazón , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah , Medios , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: , , , , , , , ,


I KNOW I DIDN'T GO INTO IT, but I don't go into many things that a well-informed and reasonably sane person staying current on the News would understand all by themselves. I don't like to bog down my blog (Blog-bog, must add this word) with unwieldy explanations that insult the...

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18 de Septiembre, 2007

Liliana and her Son

Categorized under Frontera , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah | Tags: , , , ,


"THE MOVEMENT FOR THE ILLEGALS TO GO HOME," the anti-migrant protestor says, and I am not sure, but am assuming she doesn't refer to the illegal invasion of Iraq? Or does she? What could be more illegal than killing or aiding in the death of a million people in a...

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14 de Septiembre, 2007

And You Shall Know Him By The Ease With Which He Misleads

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13 de Septiembre, 2007

Back in the Good Ole O.R.

Categorized under Artivism , Blogando , Corazón , Cultura , Derechos Humanos , El Malestar Pálido , Frontera , Guerra , Hipnotismo , Indígena , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos , Política México , Signs of the Sixth Sun | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,


AS IT TURNS OUT, I cannot blog on much that went on at the Immigration Strategy Meeting. My packet of materials is half drafts that cannot be disseminated (lest they "fall into the wrong hands"), and the cat who invited me to the panel I spoke on (and who funneled...

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31 de Agosto, 2007

Freedom on the Berzerker

Categorized under Guerra , Iraq the Casbah | Tags: ,


WE SLAUGHTER THEM OVER THERE so that we can fill our tanks over here. Oh, and this is only like Vietnam in that we need to stay longer, spend more money, kill more civilians. So...we're doing good! A US Marine was ordered to execute a room full of Iraqi...

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21 de Agosto, 2007

Los Angelenos Represent!

Categorized under Closing in on Bush , Guerra , Política Estados Unidos , When the Right is SO wrong | Tags: , ,


CITIZENS SPEAK UP LOUDLY on the need to impeach the criminals in our midst....

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18 de Julio, 2007

Just Kill It

Categorized under Guerra , Hipnotismo , Iraq the Casbah , Violencia | Tags: , ,


JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT ADVERTISERS had no soul left to sell. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Like the maker of an out-of-favor car or sneaker, the U.S. military needs a new 'branding' campaign to earn civilian support in Iraq, Afghanistan and other hot spots, a report for the Pentagon said on...

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16 de Julio, 2007

Strong Women 4 Peace!

Categorized under Corazón , Guerra , Iraq the Casbah , Política Estados Unidos | Tags: , ,


Other strong women attending the conference, in solidarity with Iraqi women and children, drafted a "Call for Restitution to the Women of Iraq" which rejects the policies by which the United States brought war to Iraq and renounces war as a means of solving conflict between and within states....

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21 de Junio, 2007

The Deadly Sugar Plum [Support the Truth 3]

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I HOPE ALL YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN who have ever thought about joining the United States military are keeping a good eye on how you will be thought of and treated by the government even when you give them your life. Perhaps to those from other countries who long to...

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15 de Abril, 2007

Ka-Ching, Ka-Boom.

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ANOTHER TAX DAY comes and goes. Between our typing against the war, and even our protests in the street, we pause to shell out the money that will continue to make it possible. Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to...

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29 de Marzo, 2007

The Clotty Red Stopper

Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Guerra | Tags: ,


IS VIOLENCE LIKE A GENIE in a bottle, once summoned answerable only to its own propagation? And specifically, why is it so important for you and me to know the truth about the atrocities that troops commit while embarked upon their glorious missions of Liberty and Justice®? Because these atrocities;...

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21 de Marzo, 2007

Cooking The History Book [Ken Burns' Anti-Latino Agenda]

Categorized under Acción , Guerra , Hipnotismo , Historia , Raza | Tags: , , , , ,


WHEN I SPEAK OF THE LONG WAR on Mexico, I imagine there is a faction of people who sigh and chalk it up to the fiery and verbose drama of a Xicano activist or some such thing. But what I speak of, specifically, is a long and concerted effort...

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