[MCM] Israel is using white phosphorus shells in Gaza

December 5, 2008 Israel rains fire on Gaza with phosphorus shells Sheera Frenkel in Jerusalem and Michael Evans, Defence Editor http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5447590.ece Israel is believed to be using controversial white phosphorus shells to screen its assault

[MCM] Obama does the right thing

Obama's Justice nominees signal end of Bush terror tactics By Greg Gordon | McClatchy Newspapers http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/838811.html WASHINGTON - In filling four senior Justice Department positions Monday, President-elect Barack Obama signaled that he intends to roll

[MCM] AP: MN officials declare Franken the winner

January 5, 2009 Minnesota Officials Declare Franken the Winner By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 3:44 p.m. ET http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/01/05/us/AP-Minnesota-Senate.html?hp ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- A Minnesota b

[MCM] Take action to protest Israel's attack on Gaza

If you're Jewish, you can sign on to An Open Letter from American Jews to Our Government, http://www.boycottisraeligoods.org/modules38416.php Also, there's this (which is now dated, but the links are good): Take Action to Protest Israeli A

[MCM] MCM twitters

Those who have a taste for haiku-length communications can keep in touch with me at http://twitter.com/mcrispinmiller. Damn, I'm cutting edge (thanks to my webmaster, Danielle)! Maybe I should run for president MCM --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this m

[MCM] MCM hosts Win McCormack and Dagmar Herzog, Tues. night in NYC!

First Tuesdays at McNally Robinson Booksellers: Win McCormack and Dagmar Herzog, hosted by Mark Crispin Miller Win McCormack, author of You Don't Know Me: A Citizen's Guide to Republican Family Values (Tin House) Dagmar Herzog, author of Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future

[MCM] US has a "vested interest in perpetual mayhem" in the US

The following comes from Barry Sussman. (To it I replied that, aside from the "big money" to be made from endless war, there's also the Christianist/Zionist zeal to see Israel expanded to its Biblical proportions, and the neocons' desire for a strong proxy in the region, to enforce the Pax Ameri

[MCM] Photog threatened with arrest in NYC (3 years ago)

Mark, Three years ago, I was almost arrested also--for taking photos from the deck of an Amtrak station on the way to Kennedy Airport. When he saw me shooting a photograph, a cop yelled for me not to move and rushed to my side of the platform. He demanded to see the photos I had taken, told me

[MCM] Amtrak cops bust photographer in Amtrak photo contest

Amtrak police arrest photographer participating in Amtrak photo contest http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?action=printpage;topic=77084.0 27 December 2008 Armed with his Canon 5D and his new Lensbaby lens, photographer Duane Kerzic was out to win Amtrak's annual photo contest this week, ho

[MCM] Obama's huge reward to Wall Street looters

Obama's Perilous Compromise with Wall Street Looters By Jeffrey Klein, Huffington Post Posted on January 5, 2009, Printed on January 5, 2009 http://www.alternet.org/story/117219/ Looters have taken over America's Treasury. The executives who successfully ransacked their own banks, investment fun

[MCM] It's NOT the rockets that pushed Israel into Gaza: Richard Falk

Understanding the Gaza Catastrophe By Richard Falk United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories January 2, 2009 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-falk/understanding-the-gaza-ca_b_154777.html For eighteen months the entire 1.5 million people of Gaza experi