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The Texas Observer found some problems with the border wall:

As the U.S. Department of Homeland Security marches down the Texas border serving condemnation lawsuits to frightened landowners, Brownsville resident Eloisa Tamez, 72, has one simple question. She would like to know why her land is being targeted for destruction by a border wall, while a nearby golf course and resort remain untouched.

Tamez, a nursing director at the University of Texas at Brownsville, is one of the last of the Spanish land grant heirs in Cameron County. Her ancestors once owned 12,000 acres. In the 1930s, the federal government took more than half of her inherited land, without paying a cent, to build flood levees.

Now Homeland Security wants to put an 18-foot steel and concrete wall through what remains.
Brownsville landowner Eloisa Tamez

While the border wall will go through her backyard and effectively destroy her home, it will stop at the edge of the River Bend Resort and golf course, a popular Winter Texan retreat two miles down the road. The wall starts up again on the other side of the resort.

“It has a golf course and all of the amenities,” Tamez says. “There are no plans to build a wall there. If the wall is so important for security, then why are we skipping parts?”

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The acclaimed critic of U.S. foreign policy analyzes Bush's current political troubles, the war on Iraq, and what's really behind the global 'war on terror.' Read the story.

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Not a great video clip, but this is my first test of Blip.tv. If this first test is any indication this service is great. Also see 10 Reasons Why Blip.tv is Better Than Youtube for Uploading & Sharing Videos on the Web

This peace protest vigil has been staffed 24 hours a day since 1981 and is located right across the street from the White House. Right before I shot this video one of the girls in this group went up to the lady and told her that she loved her for the work she is doing. It was a nice little moment that gave me some hope.

Can We End the American Empire Before It Ends Us?

Chalmers Johnson is an author and professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego. He is also president and co-founder of the Japan Policy Research Institute, an organization promoting public education about Japan and Asia. He has written numerous books including, most recently, three examinations of the consequences of American empire, Blowback, The Sorrows of Empire, and Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic.

Listen to Sam Seder interview Johnson about his latest book (9mins, 45 seconds)