Saturday, February 13, 2010

Economic Trouble? Join the Club

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from Yes! website.  "In the midst of the meltdown, people throughout the U.S. were joining with their neighbors to weather the economi...

Religious faith in government accusations

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by Glenn Greenwald from Salon.  It's hard to imagine any mindset more impervious to reason and evidence than this, or any thought-proce...

Vancouver Winter Olympics: A festival of corporate greed

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posted on the International Journal of Socialist Renewal website. The two-week Olympic spectacle will leave in its wake a legacy of financi...

Yemen: USA are fighting against democracy, not against Al-Qaeda

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from Voltaire website. An interview with Mohamed Hassan who ...is a specialist in geopolitics and the Arab world. Born in Addis Ababa (Ethi...

World Economic Forum that we can only dream of

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from Yes! website. This is the altered website of the World Economic Forums website created by the pranksters called "The Yes Men...

That Which Cannot Not be Spoken: Why Do Terrorists Keeping Picking on the United States?

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by William Blum from Counterpunch. Re the "underware bomber": Is that not odd? That an individual would try to take the lives of ...

Baseball industry's generosity toward Haiti (click on cartoon to enlarge)

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Working week should be 21 hours, says New Economic Foundation

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from The Guardian. The people in this foundation appear to be completely out of touch with the imperatives of a capitalist system where labo...

Infrastructure: Priorities and painful decisions

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from Peak Oil Hausfrau blog. The crumbling of this legacy of infrastructure is one of the many day-to-day living problems that we face over...

Our other addiction: the tricky geopolitics of nitrogen fertilizer

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by Tom Philpott from Grist.  So where does our nitrogen come from? Given our food system’s reliance on synthetic nitrogen, that’s another w...
Friday, February 12, 2010

"In America you can say anything you want — as long as it doesn't have any effect." - Paul Goodman

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by William Blum from his blog, Killing Hope  ...it's more insidious than a conspiracy, it's what's built into the system,

[Medical] Insurers enjoy record-breaking profits as they cut 2.7 million people from their rolls

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from Fire Dog Lake.  The numbers may be shocking, but they shouldn’t be surprising. This is how the industry makes money, by charging peopl...

The Lobbying-Media Complex

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from The Nation.  ...what viewers weren't told was that since 2005, Ridge has pocketed $530,659 in executive compensation for serving o...

Honduras: The making of a death squad “democracy”

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from World Socialist Web Site. With the restoration of diplomatic relations and the resumption of aid and credits from the world’s major go...

Refuse to Pay Government Debt Incurred for Unlawful and Oppressive Purposes ... It Is the Personal Debt of Those Who Ordered It to Be Incurred

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from Washington's Blog. He makes a good legal case for this by citing legal precedents.

There are No Conspiracies Because Daddy Will Always Protect Us

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from Washington's Blog.  ...many Americans have tended to naively believe that our leaders are selfless folks. They forget, of course, ...

Welcome to boarded-up Britain: One in eight shops now stand empty as recession hits high streets Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250214/One-shops-stand-recession-hits-Britains-high-streets.html#ixzz0fLOjMWLw

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from Mail Online.

Schwarzman Says Kowtow to Banks or They Will Strangle the Economy

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from Naked Capitalism blog. This article written by an honest and moral financial blogger who has a career in the US finance industry provid...

How Agri-Food Corporations Make the World Hungry

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from Food Freedom.   The root cause of this insecurity is the food system itself, which is controlled by a handful of global monopolies. In...

The latest hope and change (click on cartoon to enlarge)

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