By Tara Dorabji A few days before I left for India, American journalist, David Barsamian, was deported from New Delhi for his coverage of Kashmir. Barsamian reports for AlterNet one of the few national free speech radio outlets in the US. News reports quoted officials saying that his deportation resulted from his reporting on Kashmir [...]

Mickey Z. “The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.” – GB Shaw Scenario #1: Let’s say you’re a handy man/woman/person and you get hired for a job. I’m guessing you’d bring your full toolbox to the worksite. After all, [...]

Mickey Z. “The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Rockefeller, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of a fortune of such magnitude entails, are left out of the picture, and it is not always possible to make the people in general see this.” – Che Guevara Shortly after [...]

Mickey Z. “When you own a big chunk of the bloody Third World, the babies just come with the scenery.” – Pretenders, “Middle of the Road” On November 24, 2011, while many of the more privileged humans on Planet Earth marked Thanksgiving—with or without a dead turkey, with or without awareness of the near-extermination of [...]

By Peter Phillips and Craig Cekala  For the second year (2010) in a row, more US soldiers killed themselves (468) than died in combat, reports Cord Jefferson January 27, 2011 on www.good.ir. Excluding accidents and illness, 462 soldiers died in combat, while 468 committed suicide. Veterans  who, after serving, suffer Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are also [...]