Live feed from Egypt

Posted on January 29, 2011 by kwilder

Link to Al Jazeera video as posted at Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/01/28-0 It has been about 3 hours that the people of Egypt are demonstrating on the street, in violation of the curfew. The video news from Al-Jazeera is reporting that Mubarak has now appointed a new Vice President, Omar Suleiman (also, spelled Omar Soliman) — […]

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Elections in Japan: left wins over conservative

Posted on August 30, 2009 by kwilder

It is amazing how many media outlets refuse to acknowledge victories by the left. The AP story, which many papers often use, did say that the ruling power who lost is “conservative” and the party that won is “left-of-center.” Though, on my Google-news search for a newspaper source, the word “conservative” was left out of […]

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Al-Zaidi: As his wounds fester, my anger grows…

Posted on December 21, 2008 by iwilder

Post with links to petitions for Al-Zaidi are: here. KW: As some of you may have noticed, my activism is motivated largely by anger at injustice. Previously, in regards to the War in Iraq, I had an attitude mostly of  “war is bad, end the war” and was abstractedly angry that women and children and […]

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