Song: Machine Gun
CD: Band Of Gypsys
 It is a lengthy, loosely defined (jam-based) protest of the Vietnam War, and perhaps a broader comment on conflict of any kind.
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BY ROBERT BURNS

WASHINGTON — President Obama convened the first direct Israeli-Palestinian talks in two years Wednesday, challenging Mideast leaders to seize a fleeting opportunity to settle their differences and deliver peace to a region haunted by decades of hostility.
“I am hopeful, cautiously hopeful, but hopeful,” Obama said with the leaders of Jordan, Egypt, Israel and [...]

By: Max Blumenthal
Journalist Max Blumenthal has spent most of the past five years infiltrating and documenting the radical, fundamentalist fringe of the Republican Party.  This book is an amazing look at the ways in which theocrats, maniacs, and charlatans exploit the real pain and despair of real Americans to build a world that causes those [...]

Rig Owner Has Had 13 Incidents Since 2006… Company Was Enron Subsidiary…
BIG OIL ORGANIZING ‘RALLIES’ AGAINST BIG OIL REGULATIONS

Director:Michael Moore
Latest critically acclaimed documentary by Michael Moore, with a look at corporate abuse, greed, and corruption. Might just explain how we got into this mess and how to get out of it.
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WASHINGTON — The United States may be bringing troops home from the war in Iraq, but there is a “tough slog” ahead in the war in Afghanistan, President Obama told troops in Fort Bliss, Texas on Tuesday.

By: Peter Maass
A tragic look at the way that the companies who produce oil are often mired in poverty, and the ones who consume oil find themselves embroiled in corruption and war.
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Thirty-three miners trapped 2,300 feet (701 meters) below ground in Chile are depending on food, medicine and supplies being dropped to them through a 4-inch-wide tube.

An anti-war song by Phil Ochs, a U.S. protest singer from the 1960s known for being a harsh critic of the American military industrial complex.

On May 17th, a black-tie audience at the Metropolitan Opera House applauded as a tall, jovial-looking billionaire took the stage. It was the seventieth annual spring gala of American Ballet Theatre, and David H. Koch was being celebrated for his generosity as a member of the board of trustees; he had recently donated $2.5 million [...]