Pierre Cloutier: Texas Secessionist Meeting Busted Up
Noticed in Quebec! Feds raid Texas secessionist meeting Dylan Baddour, Houston Chronicle : February 23, 2015
Review: Beyond the Fracking Wars – A Guide for Lawyers, Public Officials, Planners, and Citizens
Erica Levine Powers and Beth E. Kinne (editors) 4 stars. Useful contribution badly marketed and badly priced The authors, being from New York, know what the NYT and Mother Jones both missed in their stories on Governor Cuomo banning fracking in New York: that it was a legal couple Helen and David Slottje that went …
Chuck Spinney: Uri Avnery on the Obsolescence of the Nation-State
Scotland on the Euphrates The Obsolescence of the Nation-State by URI AVNERY Counterpunch, WEEKEND EDITION SEPTEMBER 19-21, 2014 [This essay originally appeared at http://www.avnery-news.co.il/english/index.html ] TWO COUNTRIES competed this week for first place in news programs all over the world: Scotland and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. There could not be a greater …
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Yoda: Neil Irwin in NYT Gets Its Right – Scotland’s Independence Vote Shows a Global Crisis of the Elites — Robert Steele Comments + Book Review RECAP
At last, NYT gets something right. Scotland’s Independence Vote Shows a Global Crisis of the Elites Neil Irwin New York Times, 18 September 2014 When you get past the details of the Scottish independence referendum Thursday, there is a broader story underway, one that is also playing out in other advanced nations. It is a …
Marcus Aurelius: STRATFOR on Scottish Referendum Plus Secession RECAP
One of their better pieces. The Origins and Implications of the Scottish Referendum Geopolitical Weekly Stratfor, Tuesday, September 16, 2014 By George Friedman The idea of Scottish independence has moved from the implausible to the very possible. Whether or not it actually happens, the idea that the union of England and Scotland, which has existed for …
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Robert Steele: OSE Book Language Rights Now Mine, Seeking Publishers and Volunteers for All Languages
The below letter from North Atlantic Books reverts all foreign language rights less Rumanian back to me. The book is going to a second printing on the strength of The Guardian profile by Dr. Nafeez Ahmed, and it has been agreed that reverting the rights to me and going for foreign translations by volunteers — …
Pierre Cloutier: The French Alternative to Being American
Of note. Opinion: Speak French, or resign to becoming American By John-Jean Ofrias The Gazette, 22 June 2014 In this 21st century, the country of my birth, the United States of America Incorporated, has become greener — in a way that is perverse.
