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  • My Interview With Norman Finkelstein March 6, 2009
    This is a transcript of an interview with Norman Finkelstein last November, which was conducted by Atticus Mullikin and arranged and filmed by Bernd Kapeller, Associate Producer at the European Journalism Centre. The video was recorded following Mr. […]
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  • Comment Deletion Policy March 6, 2009
    In order to more effectively and consistently moderate my own discussion forums, this Comment Deletion Policy will apply to all visitors to my column. Visitors will see a disclaimer among the first comments on my posts that includes a link to this page. […]
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  • How home became homeland September 8, 2008
    Roger Cohen laments what the American nation is quickly becoming, and what it could have been. Whatever happened to Lincoln's "last, best hope?" […]
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  • Bush wants to redeclare war in time for the election. August 30, 2008
    Tucked deep into a recent proposal from the Bush administration is a provision that has received almost no public attention, yet in many ways captures one of President Bush's defining legacies: an affirmation that the United States is still at war with Al Qaeda. […]
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  • Conservative Andrew Bacevich on the End of American Exceptionalism August 29, 2008
    Conservative professor of history and international relations at Boston University and twenty-three year veteran of the US Army, Andrew Bacevich, speaks with Amy Goodman about his new book The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism. A quote from the interview: […]
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  • Jon Stewart rips media's false sense of urgency August 27, 2008
    Case in point: the recent sniping between the presidential campaigns after presumptive GOP nominee Sen. John McCain couldn't remember how many houses he owned. As Stewart watched the campaigns trade attack ads over the comment, he said he thought of President Franklin D. […]
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  • "Contemporary Energy and Military Policies Virtually Indistinguishable" August 26, 2008
    A new documentary based on the work of Professor Michael Klare reveals the inextricable link between American foreign policy and energy supply over recent decades. The following is a synopsis of the film from the website. […]
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  • Taking Issue With "Why We Fight": A Reaction From the Author August 25, 2008
    WARNING. This is as long as the original article, as I wanted to be as thorough as possible. However, everything is organized under convenient subtitles, so you don't have to read the whole thing if you don't want to. -------------------- […]
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  • Ron Suskind says Iraq Intel Forged August 24, 2008
    Terry Gross interview's Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind on his allegations that the head of Iraqi intelligence told the British there were no weapons of mass destruction prior to the invasion of Iraq. […]
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  • Why We Fight...Conservatism: A META, Meta-article August 15, 2008
    *SEPTEMBER 8TH UPDATED DISCLAIMER & WARNING* "Why We Fight" in the title of this article refers to a series of propaganda films made by Frank Capra during the Second World War, which you can link to via my Recommendations. […]
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This article was written by Atticus Mullikin as an epilogue for the dossier, Future Energy, on the website EU4Journalists.eu. It was republished on the Atticus Mullikin Newsvine column with permission.

“The ‘disaster’ scenario in the Arctic is no longer science fiction. What was initially only a question of modeling has since been widely confirmed by field observation.” Says glaciologist Philippe Huybrechts of the Free University of Brussels “Each year, Greenland is losing about 80 cubic kilometres of ice. If the ice sheet loses 20 percent of its volume, the process will become irreversible.” To illustrate the importance of even limited ice melt, it’s relevant to point out that if Greenland alone were to lose all of its ice it would raise ocean levels 7.5 meters worldwide. Even incremental melting of the arctic region is important, as many cities and settlements are within a few feet of sea level.

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Originally published on Atticus Mullikin’s Newsvine column.

Balkanization: a chic geopolitical term derived from the repeated breakup of the Balkans, that convergent point between Turkic, Greek and Slavic identities, Muslim, Orthodox and Catholic religiosities, and a dozen sets and subsets of each of these. But Balkanization is used to describe a worldwide phenomenon. Kosovo isn’t the exception, but the rule of the future. What we’re seeing is the Balkanization of the nation-state system, period.

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My wife introduced me to Phil Borges when she brought home the book Enduring Spirit one day after a conversation with Borges’ son, who was studying in Maastricht. The book was written by Isabel Allende to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations in 1948, and features 80 of Borges’ signature portraits: crystalline black-and-white photography with the subjects natural skin-tones tinted in.

Borges has been developing his unique style of photography since the 1970’s, when he assembled the book, Tibetan Portraiture, of Tibetans in exile in Nepal, including the Dalai Lama. Since, he has built a unique portfolio of indigenous peoples throughout the world, attempting to capture their innate dignity and worth in the midst of rapid cultural extinctions brought about by corporate and national agendas.

You can see Mr. Borges’ work on his website, and hear him speaking about his work at a TEDTalks gathering on YouTube.

Also published on my Newsvine column.

This article was originally published on the European Journalism Center’s Magazine section, and was republished on Atticus Mullikin’s Newsvine column.

On January 24, the New York Times published an article about the resurfacing of former American Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld. Quoting a story in the Air Force Times, the article discussed Rumsfeld’s speech at Network Centric Warfare 2008, where he called for a reincarnation of the U.S. Information Agency (USIA) – which was used to spread the message of “a nation that was carved from the wilderness and conceived in freedom [the United States]” during the Cold War – as “an information offensive against Muslim extremists.”

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Michael Klare is a five-colleges professor of Peace and World Security studies, defense correspondent of The Nation magazine and contributor to Tom’s Dispatch, Mother Jones and Foreign Policy in Focus. He’s published many books, but most recently he’s concentrated on global energy supply and conflict, including Resource Wars and his most recent, Blood and Oil.

Part I of the interview includes the implications of the U.S military’s dependence on oil, a discussion of rising oil prices, questions about the European Union’s energy strategy and the implications of biofuel development.

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Part II includes a discussion of various parts of the world from which the EU imports oil and natural gas, including Russia, the Caspian Sea Basin, and North Africa, the implications of a potential U.S. invasion of Iran, and Prof. Klare’s term “Energo-fascism.”

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In Part III we continue the discussion of Energo-fascism, the concept of a “peak in oil production,” Russia’s Arktika expedition to the North Pole, and M.K. Hubbert’s theory of Peak Oil.

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The fourth and final part of the interview continues Prof. Klare’s discussion of Peak Oil Theory, a recent IEA World Energy Outlook report and Mr. Klare’s lack of optimism for the future.

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I was going through my Amazon wish list, which is full of books I meant to buy, and I stumbled across a beautiful work by Steve Mumford that I never got around to ordering. Baghdad Journal: An artist in occupied Iraq turns the concept of war photographer on its ear. Mumford acted as a war artist, and kept a journal accompanied by his sketches and paintings during the course of four trips to Iraq between 2003-2004.

Mumford was embedded with US troops, and they where the subject of many paintings and drawings. But he also created a record of Iraqis in their daily life around Iraq, including many Iraqi artists. He sent digital versions of his work along with journal entries to artnet via satellite.

You can read Steve Mumford’s biography at Drawn and Quartered.com. You can also hear a 1995 interview with him at NPR.

Also posted on my Newsvine column.

This article was originally published on the European Journalism Center’s Magazine section, and was republished on Atticus Mullikin’s Newsvine column.

Did you know that the IBM Corporation helped to organize the Holocaust? Did you know that the Nuremberg Laws were based on guidelines drafted by a eugenics organization in the United States, and that the idea of a blond-haired, blue-eyed master race was an American one? Did you know that corporate and governmental power in America conspired to dismantle mass-transit systems and addict Americans to internal combustion engine vehicles?

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