Saturday, May 22, 2010

The Breadbasket of America: New England?

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from Civil Eats, original source from The Atlantic Food Channel.  The article deals with the efforts of New England food outlets to link u...

Why Oil Spills Don’t Happen to Rich People

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from Vanity Fair. Well, the reasons are obvious--oil spills tarnish their lifestyle and the rich are powerful people. When rhetoric on the ...

Environmentalism is Dead

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by Gregory Vickrey from Counterpunch. Okay, I know that this is a bit over-the-top cynicism, but he does make some very good points about ho...

Obama and Attention Deficit Democracy

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by James Bovard from Counterpunch.  The recent coverups illustrate how our republic is becoming an Attention Deficit Democracy.   The gover...

Time out

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Schama: Are the Guillotines Being Sharpened? [A must-read article]

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by Ives Smith from her blog, Naked Capitalism. This is a commentary of a commentary--both contain some very astute observations.

A Progressive Agenda to Remake Washington [a propaganda piece]

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from the NY Times.  Our nation's "newspaper of record" gives you a piece of pure propaganda selling the virtues of the Obama...

Detainees Barred From Access to U.S. Courts

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from the NY Times. The Obama administration appealed a lower court decision that these detainees at the US Bagram Air Base had habeas corpus...
Friday, May 21, 2010

Requiem for the Gulf (3:59m video)

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by David Swanson from War Is A Crime.  In an addition to the war on working people, our corporate leaders in their mad pursuit of profits ...

Gene Pioneer Venter Takes Another Step Toward Synthetic Life

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from Bloomberg News. This is a dramatic news piece that could have profound consequences. “It is an untested technology, and there needs to...

Artificial Scarcity in a World of Overproduction: An Escape that Isn't

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from Mute. The author analyzes the recent economic collapse as a tendency for the capitalist system to produce bubbles and over-production o...

Goldman Sachs Revolving Door: The New Edition

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from Huffington Post. View 14 slides to get a visual portrayal of a major method, among others, that the US financial oligarchy uses to mana...

Facing record loss of revenue, US states gutting essential services

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by David Walsh from World Socialist Web Site.  While they insist workers in the US and around the world do without, the financial masters o...

The Heresy of the Greeks Offers Hope

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by John Pilger from Dissident Voice. This article provides one of the most revealing perspectives on the Greek economic crisis that I've...

We are the endangered species

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from The Economic Populist.  Adding humans as an endangered species might be a timely move.  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administr...

Time out

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Senate Passes Faux Financial "Reform" Bill

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from Washington's Blog. Get the real scoop on the much ballyhooed US Senate passage of the so-called financial reform bill. It only awai...

Iran, Sun Tzu and the dominatrix

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by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times Online. The author explains how the US is caught in an embarrassing contradiction regarding Iran, and how th...

'Culture Integral to Agriculture'

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from IPS news service.  Biodiversity in agriculture is about culture. Traditional knowledge and culture are as important as research and in...

Living in denial: How corporations manufacture doubt

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from New Scientist.  You can't beat doubt as a corporate strategy - especially if your product is life-threatening when used as directe...