[LAAMN] HAPPY 4th!

> Dear Friends & Fellow Peace People, > > Wishing you a special July 4th holiday > that is both celebratory and relaxing. > > THANK YOU for all your good work! > > Jerry Rubin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ---

[LAAMN] While we were being entertained elsewhere

What is more troubling, and the article ignores that, is the number of Democratic (supposed) Congresspersons and Senators that vote with the GOP on things like this, or just as bad, do not vote when we need them. One must watch INDIVIDUALS more closely then Party, if you want to know why we alway

[LAAMN] Quotes from ICH

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. This principle is, contempt prior to examination.": - Rev. William H. Poole "And say, finally, whether peace is best preserved by giving

[LAAMN] Paul Krugman; Europe's Great Illusion

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/02/opinion/krugman-europes-great-illusion.htm l?nl=todaysheadlines &emc=edit_th_20120702 Europe's Great Illusion Paul Krugman NY Times Op-Ed:

[LAAMN] The Gutting of Public Education

Its official: the bourgeoisie doesn't need a large proportion of us any longer. Unable to make money on us by producing things (and thus shipping factories and jobs to low-wage lands), they have for a generation been been sustaining their thirst for profits by extending loans: housing, credit ca

[LAAMN] McKibben: While Colorado burns, Washington fiddles, Heat records across the U.S.

I prepared this yesterday, and as often happens, this morning's Democracy Now features the same subject. The cast provides one of the most comprehensive and best coverage of facts on the ground, relationship to global warming and what to expect in the next few months. In a word, superb. I urge

[LAAMN] JOAN CROK, PHILANTHROPIST AND McDONALDS FORTUNE INHERITOR, WAS PAUL CONRAD'S "CHAIN REACTION" SCULPTURE DONOR

> > "Chain Reaction" Friends: > > > Twenty years had passed since Paul Conrad's "Chain Reaction" public > art peace sculpture was constructed in the Santa Monica Civic Center > in 1991. Then, last year, someone mentioned to me that it was Joan > Kroc who donated the $250,000 sculpture constructi