Saturday, May 1, 2010

Revisiting Plutonomy: The Rich Getting Richer

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from Citigroup via Bill Moyers' program from PBS (4-30-10)  (Updated) I found an especially interesting mini-segment of Bill Moyers...
Friday, April 30, 2010

The End of the Long Summer

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from Yes! Magazine. Somehow I missed this article earlier in the month. It is a review of a book by Dianne Dumanoski entitled, "The End...

Lungs of the world are choking

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from Al Jazeera. This is an eye-witness report of the dramatic environmental damage caused in Borneo by the operations of large Indonesian c...

Banks Pressured Credit Agencies, Then Blamed Them

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from ProPublica. The title quite says it all, but read the article for more details.

Whistleblower: BP Risks More Massive Catastrophes in Gulf

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from Truthout.  British Petroleum (BP) has broken federal laws and violated its own internal procedures by failing to maintain crucial safe...

Obama’s blueprint for austerity

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from World Socialist Web Site. What capitalists euphemistically call "structural adjustment", which has slashed social, educationa...

Gulf oil spill threatens economic, environmental catastrophe

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from World Socialist Web Site.  The Obama administration claims BP will be responsible for the full cost of the cleanup. However, given the...

US military enforces attacks on Haitian unions Pt2 (8:18m video)

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from Real News Network. This is continuation of the interview with Didier Dominique who claims that there is a deliberate US policy to weake...

Time out

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The Lunatics Who Made a Religion Out of Greed and Wrecked the Economy

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by Matt Taibbi from AlterNet.  Even if he stands to make a buck at it, even your average used-car salesman won't sell some working fath...

Revolving Door From Capitol Hill to Big Banks

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from Sunlight Foundation.  Concerned about seeing their huge profits cut, six big banks are leading the charge to weaken or block new finan...

Fix the economy, not Wall Street

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by David Korten from Yes! Magazine.  Korten has been a popular critic of corporations in the US for quite some time. However his insights ...

Biofooled again: BBC on the impact of biofuels on Paraguay’s ecology and farmers

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by Tom Philpott from Grist. The author discusses the implications of a BBC report on the production of bio-fuels. ...government-mandated bi...

How the SEC and Congress Can Bring Down Goldman Sachs and Expose the Financial Coup

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by David DeGraw from Amped Status. Unlike mainstream reporters, this insightful investigative journalist links Goldman Sachs' shenanigan...
Thursday, April 29, 2010

War with China? The Dangers of a Global Conflagration

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by James Petras from Global Research. The subtitle, "Rising and Declining Economic Powers: The Sino-US Conflict Deepens" much more...

How the Western Media Promotes a Mistaken View of the World

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by Ramzy Baroud from his blog via Global Research. The author addresses the issue of the narrow and biased focus of Western news agencies wh...

US military enforces attacks on Haitian unions--part 1 (10:99m video)

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from Real News Network. Paul Jay interviews Didier Dominique who is a trade unionist and a prominent spokesperson for Batay Ouvriye. BATAY O...

The Surprising Reason Why Americans Are So Lonely, and Why Future Prosperity Means Socializing with Your Neighbors

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by Bill McKibben from Alter Net. This is an excerpt from his book, " EAARTH: Making a Life on a Tough New Plane". The author discu...

Updated: Facebook Further Reduces Your Control Over Personal Information

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from Electronic Frontier Foundation.  Once upon a time, Facebook could be used simply to share your interests and information with a select...

Israeli Bulldozers Destroy Palestinian Children’s Playground

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from After Downing Street.  Soldiers present used violent force to remove Palestinian, Israeli and international activists who attempted to...