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'Green News Report' - August 23, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Energy, Fukushima, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Environmentalism, Nuclear, Green News Report, Pollution, Rick Perry, Energy Efficiency, Michele Bachmann, Koch Brothers, Big Oil, BRAD BLOG, Fossil Fuels, Electric Cars, Green News, Sustainability, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Japan, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Global Warming Deniers, Solar Power, Global Warming, Australia, James Inhofe, Canada, China, Tar Sands, Bill Mckibben, Viet Nam, Keystone XL Pipeline, Food, Video, Green News

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Once Again, a Time for Reflection

Dr. Peggy Drexler | Posted 09.03.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Declaration of Independence, Stem-Cells, Wmd, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Constitution, Viet Nam, Afghanistan War, Politics News

The Declaration of Independence was a statement that we intend to run this place the way we want. The Constitution was the blueprint for how we're going to do it.

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Witnessing Revolutions

Ann Medlock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Ngo Dinh Diem, Tunisia, Belgium, US Foreign Policy, Self-Determination, Kinshasa, Aspirations, Democracy, Foreign Service, Soviet Union, Power, Capitalism, Cold War, Viet Nam, Congo, Dictators, Foreign Policy, Founders, History, Uprisings, Nato, Human Rights, Real Politik, Freedom, Revolutions, Libya, Minerals, Status Quo, Stability, Saigon, Leopoldville, World News

With all the news of uprisings, I've been rocketed back in time and space to the Congo, to Vietnam, where I got some first-hand experiences of what it's like when people make such dramatic moves.

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Used Bookstores Keep Reading Culture Alive In Vietnam

Vietnam News | Vietnam News | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rare Bookstores, Rare Books, Vietnam Bookstore, Second-Hand Book Shop, Used Books, Used Bookstore, Book Shop, Viet Nam, Booksellers, Vietnam, Books News

The southern city is known as the "centre" for old book shops in the country. The city has an ample number of book collectors and, more importantly, i...

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Broadway Miracle Sighted on PBS -- South Pacific Permitted Full Use of Real Instruments

Melody Breyer-Grell | Posted 05.25.2011

South Pacific, based on a collection of stories by James Michener, is a multifaceted piece. The plot is the thing in this play, although it is loaded with the requisite number of hit tunes.

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The Tyranny of the Polarized: There's No More Us in the U.S.

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Lincoln, Tea Party, Healthcare Summit, 911, Gettysburg College, The Teaching Company, Democracy, Political Polarization, Allen Guelzo, The American Mind, Viet Nam, Brigadoon, Politics News

Whether you're a Tea Partier, civil libber, or anything in-between, the role of government is not the issue. Our real problem is us, or lack of us -- the tyranny of the polarized.

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Vietnam Man Jailed For Democracy Slogan

BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vietnam, Hanoi-Vietnam, Vietnam Democracy, Democracy, Hanoi, Viet Nam, Haiphong, World News

A court in Vietnam has sentenced a man to three years in prison for hanging a banner over a bridge in Hanoi which called for multi-party democracy....

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Reprise? Obama And Afghanistan

Phyllis Bennis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama, Viet Nam, Afghanistan War, Truman-Macarthur, Politics News

Obama stands to reprise not the courage of Harry Truman, but rather the failure of Lyndon Johnson, whose bold and ambitious 1964-65 Great Society anti-poverty and civil rights programs were buried in the quagmire of Vietnam.

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Veterans Day: Dusty, Faded Surprise

Wendy Block | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Ptsd, Homeless Veterans, Iraq, Viet Nam, Afghanistan, The Giving Life, Veterans Day, Healthy Living News

I remember him every time a street person asks for money, when a guy holds up a cardboard sign saying something like "Viet Nam vet. Will work for food," when news stories cover soldiers returned from Iraq.

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That's the Way It Was

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Television, Eric Sevareid, David Brinkley, Walter Cronkite, Ted Koppel, Kennedy Assassination, Brooke Astor, Viet Nam, Cbs, Edward R. Murrow, Media News

I wanted my kids to watch a few examples of what the news was like when I was their age so I put on the clip of Cronkite's coverage of the Kennedy assassination. "Wow", my son said. "That was so quiet and so powerful."

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Errol Morris and the Passing of Robert McNamara

Brad Schreiber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Academy Awards, Robert S. McNamara, Documentaries, Viet Nam, The Fog of War, Errol-Morris, Politics News

Morris said, "very few people today know about the firebombing and hardly anybody knows about Robert McNamara's role in the firebombing".

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Iran: "The Whole World is Watching"

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 60s, Iran, Gay Rights, Mlk, Womens' Rightts, Rfk, Obama, Neda, Jfk, Kent State, Viet Nam, Civil Rights, Stonewall, World News

Seeing all the blogs on the Huffington Post made me realize that Americans of all political persuasions care deeply about this issue of oppression in Iran.

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Protesting Protest Votes

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Third Party, Obama, Nixon, Viet Nam, Voting, Ralph Nader 2008, Ralph Nader, Politics News

Though it's unlikely Nader or anyone else will prevent Obama from getting elected next week, "Naderists" either think he would be a better president, or, he is a convenient vehicle of protest.

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Saddleback: A Watershed Moment?

Mark Joseph | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Saddleback Church, Fetus, Saddleback Forum, Rick Warren, Obama, Mccain, Viet Nam, Debate, Politics News

Obama's performance at Saddleback can be blamed on strategic mistake his campaign made by scheduling such an important event so close to the end of his Hawaiian vacation. His mind was elsewhere.

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