Saturday, March 6, 2010

Want the Good Life? Your Neighbors Need It, Too

›
from Yes! website.  We've got to get this structure of equality much more deeply embedded in our society. I think that means more econo...

Murray Bookchin on Growth and Consumerism

›
a condensed reprint of an article by Murrary Bookchin from Climate and Capitalism . It’s not enough, however, to blame our environmental pr...

Déjà vu, all over again. And again. And again.

›
by Russ Baker, investigative journalist extraordinaire, from his blog, Who What Why. The disappearance of harmful documentation and related...

Bolivia: Women a driving force in the revolutionary process

›
from International Journal of Socialist Renewal.  In January, Bolivia’s left-wing President Evo Morales began his second term by appointing...

Time out (click on image to enlarge)

›

The right kind of bigotry

›
by Glenn Greenwald from Salon. Nowadays in the freedom loving country of USA, bigotry is becoming socially acceptable, even fashionable if i...

Those Salem Witchs - I mean, American Terrorists

›
from New American. A rather different view on an alleged terrorist that the US government is targeting in its "war on terror", and...

Whose Bank? Public Investment, Not Private Debt

›
from Yes! website.  The public bank concept is gaining ground on the state level, attracting proponents across the political spectrum. 
Friday, March 5, 2010

The Story So Far on the Gov’t Loan Mod Program

›
from Pro-Publica. The administration’s foreclosure prevention program began operation last April. We at ProPublica have been closely coveri...

March 5: Building a Movement, Starting Today

›
 from the Daily Californian. Today our newspapers will be dominated by the headlines that March 4 was a historic day for public education. ...

Economists: Another Financial Crisis on the Way

›
from ABC news service.  Even as many Americans still struggle to recover from the country's worst economic downturn since the Great Dep...

Mexico Subdued by the Empire

›
 from Strategic Culture Foundation. The resistance to privatization is mounting. The oil sector is actively defending itself. The electric ...

Time out (click on cartoon to enlarge)

›

Nobel Prize-Winning Economist: Federal Reserve System is Corrupt and Undermines Democracy

›
from Washington's Blog.  Joseph Stiglitz - former head economist at the World Bank and a nobel-prize winner - said yesterday that the v...

The European strikes and the trade unions

›
from World Socialist Web Site. The author uses the current European economic crisis to illustrate how unions under capitalism collaborate wi...

Study Says Undersea Release of Methane Is Under Way

›
from the NY Times.  Climate scientists have long warned that global warming could unlock vast stores of the greenhouse gas methane that are...

DoD Releases Records of Illegal Surveillance

›
from Truthout.  Much of the improper activity consisted of intelligence gathering on so-called "US Persons," including citizens, ...

Consumers Are Sleeping With the Enemy

›
 from Toward Freedom In the same way consumers have become captive to the social networking industry, we have likewise become captive to th...
Thursday, March 4, 2010

Max Keiser Interviews David DeGraw — The Economic Elite Vs. The People of the USA [video]

›
originally from RT, but carried here on Amped Status. Be sure to activate the 13m video at approximately 13:26m into the video. As you may b...

"It is Not Because Things are Difficult that We Do Not Dare; It Is Because We Do Not Dare that They are Difficult.”

›
from Washington's Blog. This astute blogger offers a re-post of an earlier article of his to those of you who occasionally get discourag...