Saturday, March 13, 2010

Learning About Capitalism at Gunther's Garage

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by Joe Bageant from Counterpunch. Joe has a very unique style for capturing the gritty realities of working people and does so with love, co...

The High Price of Materialism

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An interview with Tim Kasser from New Left Project.  I...think that there are alternatives to capitalism that can promote better mental he...

Neighbors and Online Networks

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by Bill McKibben from Yankee website. What a great idea on how to build your immediate community using the internet! Forget the World Wide ...

AFRICOM’s First War: U.S. Directs Large-Scale Offensive In Somalia

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Rick Rozoff in Voltaire's website provides the latest update on The Empire's military operations in Africa, reports of which are com...

Time out (click on cartoon to enlarge)

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Iceland Busts the Banksters

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by John Nichols from Yes! magazine.  ...the people who pay the taxes have a right to be a part of the decision-making process. And, in a de...

Life After Growth--Managing our Way to a Desirable Future

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by Richard Heinberg, a condensed version posted on The Oil Drum. It’s an uncomfortable idea, but one that cannot be ignored: The “normal” l...

Our Energy Supply: Some Basics

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by Gail Tverberg from The Oil Drum. This site often generates thoughtful articles on energy resouces, forecasts, etc. The discussions follow...
Friday, March 12, 2010

CAMP “OUT NOW” ON THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT LAWN

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    "There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. Yo...

The New McCarthyism

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by Joe Conason, from Creators.  I am posting this piece because it represents a quintessential liberal view on recent neo-conservative att...

The Wrong Kind of Green

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by Johann Hari from The Nation.  Why did America's leading environmental groups jet to Copenhagen and lobby for policies that will lead...

Cud and Complicity: Burying the Alternatives to Empire's Dominion

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by Chris Floyd from his blog, Empire Burlesque. I was a bit surprised to learn of this event from the internet--not from mainstream media. ...

Greece: Millions join general strike against government austerity package

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from World Socialist Web Site.  Workers throughout Greece staged their second one-day general strike within a month yesterday to protest th...

Predatory lenders and consumer protection (5:27m vido)

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from McClatchy News. An interview with the reporter who is following the events in Washington re a consumer protection agency. It is compl...

The Rogue Nation

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by Philip Giraldi from Anti-War. In spite of the fact that the United States faces no enemy anywhere in the world capable of opposing it on...

Yves Smith for Dummies [Humor]

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from Outside the Box. Today's offering of humor. Read the "for dummies" version of an interview with Yves Smith who has had an...

Food, water driving 21st-century African land grab

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by John Vidal from Mail & Guardian (South Africa).  The farm manager shows us millions of tomatoes, peppers and other vegetables being ...

Lehman Fraudulently Cooked Its Books, Accounting Giant Ernst & Young Helped, Geithner and Bernanke Winked and Slapped Them on the Back

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from Washington's Blog.  All the dirt on the key players in the economic collapse (for working people) that you probably don't nee...

ECONNED – The Movie, Um, Video! (1:54m video)

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by Yves Smith from her blog, Naked Capitalism. Although this is a promotion of her recently released book entitled, "Econned", I a...
Thursday, March 11, 2010

Is "More Jobs" Sustainable or Necessary in the Post-Peak Oil World?

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by Jan Lundberg from Culture Change. Although he makes a number of good points, I think that he omits the fact that so many necessary jobs (...