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Webバージョン  |  アップデート設定  |  登録解除 いいね ツイート 転送 http://endofsecrets.blogspot.com As US states Legalize Marijuana, Is This the End of the War on Drugs? Posted by Craig Brown on 11 November, 2012 Eugene Jarecki Last week was a momentous week, the beginning of the end, perhaps, of a national depravity – the "war on drugs". The voters of Colorado and Washington passed measures to legalize marijuana, amounting to local shifts, for the moment. So we shouldn't delude ourselves that the country will be transformed overnight, but the public thinking, the public spirit is being transformed. Finally, there is a growing realization that this "war" has produced nothing but a legacy of failure. And who wants to be associated with failure? read more Petraeus – Scandals and Veterans Day Posted by Craig Brown on 11 November, 2012 Stan Goff History selected one man to oversee critical points in the defeat of the United States Armed Forces by two nations in Southwestern Asia.  And in the short term, the ever obsequious American media rewarded him lavishly for it.  That man was General David Petraeus. read more True Leadership in a Time of Global Warming Posted by Craig Brown on 11 November, 2012 Joseph Nevins In the wake of extreme drought in much of the United States, widespread wildfires in the U.S. west, and now Hurricane Sandy, Barack Obama’s and Mitt Romney’s refusal to discuss human-induced climate change will undoubtedly go down as political recklessness of historic proportions. read more Indigenous Protestors Against Guatemala Energy Company Targeted Posted by Craig Brown on 11 November, 2012 Jennifer Kennedy Six demonstrators were killed and dozens injured when the Guatemalan military fired into a group of indigenous Maya-K'iche' gathered on the Inter-American highway to protest rising electricity charges from Energuate, a major national power company owned by a private equity firm created by the UK government. read more The Loss of Centrality Posted by Craig Brown on 11 November, 2012 Gwynne Dyer In this interval of blessed tranquility between the titanic struggle to choose the next president of the “world’s greatest nation” (same guy as last time), and the world-shaking choice of the next leader of the “Middle Kingdom” (Xi Jinping, but it’s still officially secret for a few more days), a delicious moment of sheer silliness. The British Broadcasting Corporation has banned a science program because it might trigger an interstellar invasion. read more Pundit Tears for Petraeus’s Fall Posted by Craig Brown on 11 November, 2012 Ray McGovern A day after the surprise announcement that CIA Director David Petraeus was resigning because of marital infidelity, the pundits continue to miss the supreme irony. None other than the head of the CIA (and former bemedaled four-star general) has become the first really big fish netted by the intrusive monitoring of the communications of American citizens implemented after 9/11. read more 登録変更 | 登録解除

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