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Malaria, DDT, and Rachel Carson
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Gus diZerega
April 25 has been named “World Malaria Day” and among the more positive develpments will be efforts by Christian and Muslim groups in Africa to cooperate against this killer. Among the less positive developments, we can expect a number of attacks on environmentalism as supposedly helping to spread malaria and even being guilty of genocide…
Is this Blog Too Political?
By
Gus diZerega
I have been taken to task for my curt response to Mike who responded to my post on John Boehner and torture. My reply has grown to being a small post of its own that I hope will interest a number of readers. It addresses issues far bigger than Mike’s complaint.
Witchcraft Persecution Today
By
Gus diZerega
Eagle-eyed Valerie Voigt has again sent me an important link. It is to a UN publication on contemporary persecution of witches. It is calledWitchcraft Allegations, Refugee Protection and Human Rights: A Review of the Evidence, produced by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee Paraphrasing briefly from its abstract:This paper examines the link between witchcraft…
Boehner, Torture, and Republican Leninism
By
Gus diZerega
House Minority Leader John Boehner just took the Republican Party another big step towards what at one time conservatives would have called totalitarianism when he said: “Last week, they released these memos outlining torture techniques. That was clearly a political decision and ignored the advice of their Director of National Intelligence and their CIA director,” …
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