Mario Penalver interview in Ohio: “a world without strangers”
Mario Penalver, who is walking from Chicago, Illinois to DC for Peace is interviewed in Fireside, Ohio.
Mario’s Poetry:
A glimmer of hope for the future as therawstory’s Eric Brewer’s persistence finally paid off. He has been trying to get Dana Perino to call on him for weeks to no avail. <div id=”flvppperino32024022554″> <img style=’float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;’ src=”https://video.thinkprogress.org/2008/04/ppperino.320.240.jpg” width=”320″ height=”240″ alt=”Screenshot” /> </div> <script type=”text/javascript”> var flvppperino32024022554 =…
May 4th, 1970, thirty seven years ago today, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a student protest of the escalation of the military conflict in Southeast Asia, killing four students and wounding nine others. Specifically the protest was against the invasion of Cambodia, which President Nixon had initiated on April 25th and announced on…
The elusive Iranian weapons Tina Susman in Baghdad 02:47 PM PT, May 8 2008 Copyright 2008 Los Angeles Times There was something interesting missing from Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner’s introductory remarks to journalists at his regular news briefing in Baghdad on Wednesday: the word “Iran,” or any form of it. It was especially striking as…
As the Bush administration completes secret new rules governing interrogations, a group of experts advising the intelligence agencies are arguing that the harsh techniques used since the 2001 terrorist attacks are outmoded, amateurish and unreliable. The psychologists and other specialists, commissioned by the Intelligence Science Board, make the case that more than five years after…
afterdowningstreet.org Submitted by davidswanson on Tue, 2007-09-11 13:35. Impeachment The following will be voted on at the NLG convention starting November 1 in Washington, DC, where Rep. John Conyers will be the keynote speaker. Resolution on Impeachment of Bush and Cheney Whereas George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney: 1. deliberately misled the nation and…