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ignoring court ruling, BLM gives Big Oil permits to drill Chaco Canyon

Submitted by wendy davis on Thu, 07/04/2019 - 10:58am


Around here, we call the BLM the ‘Bureau of Livestock and Mining’.  Every year they seem more committed to changing even National Monument area into ‘multiple use’ areas (read: multiple abuse).  While I’ve been working on this piece for a couple days, I’d almost postponed its publication after being outraged at the ‘News’ over the past two days, including ahead of ‘Independence Day’. Some of you may want a break from the nasty zeitgeist afoot as well.

After featuring bits from the title, I’ll be delving further into the Chacoan culture below the fold…if you don’t care to read that far.

From nationofchange.org, June 24, 2019, Carmen Gucwa
“This ancestral Indigenous land is now a checkerboard of state, federal, private, and Indigenous land.”

Osaka G-20 and the quest for a multi-polar world

Submitted by wendy davis on Mon, 07/01/2019 - 5:21pm


Narratives, cheers, jeers, opinions, detractors; or: the good, the bad, and the ugly.  Now you may not believe that it was a Big Deal, but you may want to finish this lunker in order to see that it was.  Now I’m not sure that Markos Moulitsas had weighed in on it, but…. (just kidding).  First up:

G-20: Russia, Iran and the Bid to End US Unilateralism’ June 30, 2019, Salman Rafi Sheik

kushner in bahrain: Prosperity is the Road to Peace for Palestinians

Submitted by wendy davis on Sun, 06/30/2019 - 10:14am

Or: ‘Palestine Is Being Led to the Crematorium’, Raouf Halaby, June 27, counterpunch.org

I’d asked permission, and have received it, from the author and the CP editors to reblog Halaby’s entire essay.  I hadn’t wanted to try to rewrite it, interpret it, and I’m posting most all of i; all bolds and italics are mine.  What the author wrote to me as he’d answered my email clearly demonstrated why this is such a burning issue for him, as it for so many others.  Salam, Raouf.  This diary is longish, but allow me to remind you that the authors of this hellacious dreck are largely the same underwriters of the current War on Iran.

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