Saturday, March 20, 2010

Breaking the Growth Habit: A Q&A with Bill McKibben

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from Scientific American.  This celestial body [Earth] can no longer support the economic growth model that has driven society for the pas...

‘Peak Demand,’ Yes, But Not the Nice Kind

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by Chris Nelder from his blog.  As I explained in "Investment Themes for the Next Decade," the new normal will be  cycles of bump...

The education problem is not what you think, neither is the solution

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by Terry Edlin from her blog. Firing more teachers and creating more charter schools is not going to solve the education problem if the roo...

Industry interests are not in their "twilight"

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Glenn Greenwald from Salon demolishes a leading mainstream propaganda piece by the Washington Post's Ezra Klein who "trumpets what ...

Time out

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Why Israel Always Prevails

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by Jeffrey Blankfort from Counterpunch. He provides an excellent history of many other instances of the powerful influence that Zionists hav...

A Ruinous Meltdown

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an op-ed by Bob Herbert from the NY Times. He's right, the meltdown of all public services is not being covered. It appears to me that t...

Night Riders: Afghan Atrocity and American Values

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by Chris Floyd from Empire Burlesque. Occasionally the real news about what is happening in our (US) Empire's latest addition, Afghanist...
Friday, March 19, 2010

Transition Network.org

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This is a new website dedicated to the "Transitions Initiative" (TI) movement which is hoping to develop the "Transitions Mod...

The 5 characteristics of scientific denialism

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from Skeptical Science.  The goal of the Skeptical Science blog is to “explain what peer reviewed science has to say about global warming” a...

To rob a country, own a bank (11:11m video)

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from Real News Network. This is an interview with William K. Black who teaches economics and law at the University of Missouri — Kansas City...

The Monster in Our Midst

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by Gary Brumback from Dissident Voice.  What is this monster? It’s the corpocracy, a marriage made in Hell between “our” government and lar...

Is Israel an Apartheid State?

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carried on Creative-i website because it is more readable than the original site. This is a s ummary of a legal study by Human Sciences Res...

Activism is Change: A View From the Struggle in Gaza

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by Ramzy Baroud from Toward Freedom. Activism should not be bound by mere personal affiliation, and nor should it unreservedly embrace or a...

Time out

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This cartoon refers to a recent report here . 

At Lehman, Watchdogs Saw It All

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from the NY Times. Lehman's fraudulent accounting was known by SEC and NY Fed regulators, yet they did nothing. Now the Fed is fighting ...

Obama's US Top Cop for Banks Wants Less Regulation, Echoes Republican Wall St. Pals

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from Alter Net.  If you had any doubt about the bank lobby's vice-grip on public policy, look no further than the meeting of the Americ...

Creating our Own Credit: The Growing Movement for Publicly-Owned Banks

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by Ellen Brown from Global Research.  Money today is just a ticket, a receipt for work performed and goods delivered.　 We can fund the work...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

Nuclear Power Makes No Business Sense

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from Climate Progress. Though nuclear power may seem a limited issue — related only to energy, and only one of several energy sources at t...

Synergy in Security: the Rise of the National Security Complex

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from Dollars and Sense. The article reveals the evolution of the military-industrial complex into what we have today. The term “military-in...