Department of Paradox – or doing the right thing for the “wrong” (?) reasons – with good consequences.

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Ralph Metzner

Sierra Club magazine (July/August 2011) reports that the US military is “embracing alternative energy – but not because of climate change. Up to half of the yearly American casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan have been incurred guarding fuel convoys, and the Pentagon will no longer tolerate oil’s burden in blood.” “The Department of Defense uses [...]

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Climate chaos to come

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Ralph Metzner

The investigative journalist Christian Parenti’s new book Tropic of Chaos exposes how global warming could lead to chaos and global warfare. Something prescient scientists have been pointing out for years. In an interview on Democracy Now, Parenti pointed out –  Extreme weather from Texas to Somalia may indicate that a new era of climate war [...]

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The Free Gaza Flotilla

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Ralph Metzner

The ships involved in this international volunteer and donations effort to the people of Gaza has now been effectively blocked from leaving the Athens harbor – most probably as a result of pressure from Israel and the US on the near-bankrupt state of Greece. Below are extracts from a comment by Starhawk, which she published [...]

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Meanwhile…regressive drug policies still hold sway in the UK (as well as USA)

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Ralph Metzner

The following article on drug policy in the UK appeared in The Guardian: British government science advisor sacked for speaking truth about drugs and dangers. Professor David Nutt, the government’s chief drug adviser, has been sacked a day after claiming that ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcohol… Nutt incurred the wrath of the [...]

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Jimmy Carter adds his voice to calls for ending the drug war

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Ralph Metzner

In an op-ed in the New York Times, former President Jimmy Carter called on the US to implement the recommendations of the Global Commission on Drug Policy to abandon the “war on drugs.” The Commission’s primary recommendations are to substitute treatment for imprisonment for people who use drugs but do no harm to others, and [...]

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Timothy Leary archives acquired by the NY Public Library

Posted on July 2, 2011 by Ralph Metzner

Some 350 boxes of hitherto unpublished papers from the estate of the late Timothy Leary have been purchased by the New York Public Library, and will be opened to researchers and the public after the library staff has organized and sorted the materials. Leary was somewhat of a compulsive gatherer of the  traces of his [...]

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