Saturday, April 10, 2010

A Society Consumed by Locusts: Youth in the Age of Moral and Political Plagues

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by Henry A. Giroux from Truthout. What might it mean to oppose the institutions, reverse the values and challenge the power relations that ...

Revolution in Kyrgyzstan: nothing to do with tulips.

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from New Left Project.  The underlying issue is that Bakiyev embarked on exactly the same programme of privatizing and expropriating public...

Nonsanto: A Month Without Monsanto

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from Civil Eats.  When I first heard about April Davila’s quest to live without Monsanto for a month, I thought she was doing something nob...

How the CIA is Welcoming Itself Back Onto American University Campuses

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by David Price from CounterPunch.  The programs most significantly linking the CIA with university campuses are the “Intelligence Community...

U.K. Passes Internet Censorship and Disconnection Law

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from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.  Late Thursday night the U.K. Parliament passed  the controversial Digital Economy Bill, which gra...
Friday, April 9, 2010

Expanding the Meaning of the Commons

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from On the Commons. This brief article illustrates how some people are beginning to re-envision the world. 

The Accomodationists: Memo to Liberals on the White House Death Warrants

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by Chris Floyd from his blog, Empire Burlesque.  Let us hear no more excuses for Barack Obama. Let us hear no more defenses, no more speci...

The Perplexed Puppet Jerks on His Strings: Karzai Calls US Troops Invaders

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from Common Dreams. This US puppet is either very shrewd, very stupid, or suicidal. Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a former consultant for ...

Shocking Censorship at Google News and the Future of Net Neutrality

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by David DeGraw from Amped Status. Under tight control by the most powerful corporations on the planet, U.S. mainstream media has become an...

Timeout (click on cartoon to enlarge)

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Is Momentum Growing for Debt Repudiation?

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from Washinton's Blog.  The most cynical (but not necessarily inaccurate) view of debt I've seen is that banks loan out imaginary m...

Opium and the CIA: Can the US Triumph in the Drug-Addicted War in Afghanistan?

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by Peter Dale Scott from Japan Focus. Scott, a Canadian and retired professor of English at UC Berkeley, has also made a career of investiga...

The Coming European Debt Wars: EU Countries Sinking into Depression

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by Michael Hudson from Global Research.  The battle lines are being drawn regarding how private and public debts are to be repaid. For nati...
Thursday, April 8, 2010

The Global Economic Crisis: Riots, Rebellion and Revolution

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by Andrew Gavin Marshall from Global Research.  As the world has already experienced the greatest transfer of wealth in human history, the ...

The Last Oyster Haul?

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from Common Dreams.  Thanks to greenhouse gas emissions, it's looking like my days as a commercial fisherman are numbered.

China maintains discriminatory measures against rural migrants

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from World Socialist Web Site. Read how China's internal migrants provide the basis for capitalism in China to flourish, and how they de...

Blasted in a West Virginia Mine: First by Explosion, Then by Lies

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by Mike Ely from Dissident Voice.  Good exposition of how government officials and mainstream media provide cover for incidents like this. ...

Timeout

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Iraq War Vet: "WeWere Told to Just Shoot People, and the Officers Would Take Care of Us"

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by Dahr Jamail from Truthout.  As disturbing as the video is, this type of behavior by US soldiers in Iraq is not uncommon. Truthout has ...

Out of work in the US (23:29m video)

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by Avi Lewis from Al Jazeera. To be unemployed in the US – to lose your identity as a consumer in an economy where 70 per cent of all activ...