Saturday, February 6, 2010

The Defense Industry Is Pleased with Obama

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by Laura Flanders from The Nation website.  This year, the president dispensed with the window dressing. No big deal about cuts -- except o...

Haiti, Still Starving 23 Days Later

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by Bill Quigley from Counterpunch.  You can walk down many of the streets of Port au Prince and see absolutely no evidence that the world c...

Non Farm Payrolls Benchmark Revision and the Unemployment Rate as Cruel Farce

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from Jesse's Cafe Americain blog. This article provides a critical and more careful look at government employment stats.

Time out (click on cartoon to enlarge)

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The dark side of nitrogen

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from Grist. Re the adverse effects of using nitrogen based fertilizers in farming.

Boiling Tea in America: Attitudes toward the Tea Party movement

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by John Zogby from Global Research. The author furnishes some interesting polling data about this group. John Zogby  is president and CEO o...

The Planning of War Behind Closed Doors

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by Rick Rozoff from Global Research. A closer look at The Empire as it makes war plans.
Friday, February 5, 2010

Consumption Fatigue and a Return to Citizenship

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This is Chapter 6 of a draft of a book due to be published soon. There are signs that the public are tired of waiting for politics and busi...

No Direction Home: Pakistan and the Imperial Principle

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by Chris Floyd from his blog, Empire Burlesque. More tales from The Empire.

The lynch-mob mentality

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by Glenn Greenwald from Salon.  The fact that the Government labels Person X a "Terrorist" is not proof that Person X is, in fact...

Government Labor Statistics: Lies and Damned Lies

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by Dave Lindorff from The Public Record. Ah, but that begs the question: if the government numbers are that grotesquely wrong, what does th...

When independent journalists challenge US wars, government propagandists attack in the comments

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from LA County Nonpartisan Examine. This is another way that the ruling class "manages consent". We know in the present that gove...

Gene Patents Under Legal Attack

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from Wired website. Capitalists "own" everything else--why not the basic elements of life? (sarcasm) So, what if commercial biotec...

The Politics of Climate Denial

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from Climate and Capitalism.  The mainstream media’s coverage of climate change must also share some of the blame. Despite the scientific c...

Obama's nuclear power policy: a study in contradictions?

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from the Christian Science Monitor. The title would be more accurate if worded this way: "The ruling class's nuclear policy......

Portland promotes urban cycling, but costs will be high

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from the Christian Science Monitor. The costs will be high? Really? As compared to what--building and maintaining more car roads?

A Nation of Suspects

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by Sibel Edmonds, whistle-blower extraordinaire.  If you were to ask most ‘but why do they tap your phone line and capture your data or con...

The Violence of Work: New Book Brings Work Out of the Shadows

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a book review from Toward Freedom. The book, entitled Working In The Shadows , is about immigrant labor doing work in the US that even Ameri...

Time out for a laugh (click on cartoon to enlarge)

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Gulf firm seeks long-term lease on Tanzanian farmland

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from This Day online newspaper based, I think, in Nigeria. The article illustrates a wider trend among rich countries to secure their food s...