May 29, 2014 - ExopermacultureExopermaculture

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Privatizing War in Afghanistan — and elsewhere

A quick google search for “privatizing war” shows that even Time magazine refers to one company, “Battlespace Flight Services, LLC (Based in Las Vegas, NV),” which apparently does everything for drones except guide them to their (usually civilian) targets. RT, three days ago: Over 60% of US drone targets in Pakistan are homes – research. […]

My Own Private Idaho Goes Public: “Solar Freakin’ Roadways” and “Freaks of the Garden Sale Mountain Style.” YES!

Though our large family has long since dispersed from southern Idaho, that flat plain with Snake River cut through deep canyon, that mystic land of vast circular sky above endless desert ringed with distant mountains below, where memory of the intoxicating aroma of sage after (rare) rain whooses us back to childhood — well, it […]

R.I.P Maya Angelou, 1928-2014 “If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?”

We can all learn, from her example to come up from under, like a lotus from the mud. Here’s another poet’s encomium, in the New York Times. In a Commanding Literary Voice, Singing Out to the World Excerpt: She was a girl who was raped and did not speak for years after, so cognizant was […]