Everyone is discussing what Fortune magazine is calling the “Greek maelstrom” and everyone is pointing the finger at someone else. Whose fault is it? The Greek government is accused of cheating and allowing Greeks to live beyond their means. The European Union is accused of having created an impossible structure for the euro.  read more »

By Bruce Gagnon

Deer Isle, ME

Deer Isle, Maine is a beautiful place for many reasons. One of them is obvious. The other maybe less so. At their annual town hall meeting Deer Isle citizens have just become the first community in the nation to vote in favor of a resolution calling on Congress to Bring Our War $$ Home.  read more »

Many of the young artists wanted to address the issue of military recruiting, and targeting youth in low-income areas. As a result of the No Child Left Behind Act, military recruiters have access to high-school students contact information, so not only are they being approached in their schools, but also within their own homes. Utilizing a visual style inspired by war-time propaganda posters from around the world, the mural portrays three strong young women in classic military poses, armed not with violent weapons but with tools of creation and education.  read more »

by Daryl Kimball

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton phoned her Russian counterpart on Tuesday to press Moscow to wrap up final details on a new START deal to cut strategic nuclear weapons, the State Department said.

Clinton spoke to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for about 15 minutes and “encouraged Russia to continue to move ahead, push hard, so we can reach an agreement in the next couple of weeks,” State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told a news briefing.  read more »

March 4, 2010

World-renowned scholar, linguist and activist Noam Chomsky will be the keynote speaker for the annual “Give Peas A Chance” peace dinner sponsored by Peace Action Maine. The dinner will be held at Woodfords Congregational United Church of Christ on Saturday evening, April 24, 2010 starting at 5:00 p.m.

The suggested donation for the dinner will be $15.00. A simple meal of bread, soup and salad will be served. For more information, contacted Wells Staley-Mays at 409-0778.

Consumer safety champion Ralph Nader assailed President Obama’s decision to handover the first installment of direct federal loans to the nuclear industry as a “monumental mistake” that is “bad for consumers and taxpayers, and wrong-headed from an environmental and national security perspective.” The Nuclear Energy Institute, which is chaired by one of Obama’s big supporter, Exelon Nuclear CEO John Rowe, has described the taxpayer loans as the main frame of its “Permanent Financing Platform” for new reactors in the United States.  read more »

By Jeremy Scahill  read more »

You know you’re living in a chaotic situation when (1) the mainstream media are constantly surprised by what is happening; (2) short-term predictions by various pundits go in radically different directions and are stated with many reserves; (3) the Establishment dares to say things or use words that were previously taboo; (4) ordinary people are frightened and angry but very unsure what to do. This is a good description of the past two years throughout the world, or at least in most parts of the world.  read more »