Saturday, July 3, 2010

Independence From Empire… As Tears Go By

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by Philip A. Farruggio from Dandelion Salad. The author is son and grandson of Brooklyn NYC longshoremen. He is an activist leader and free ...

Sen. Al Franken Challenges Elena Kagan On Proposed NBC/Comcast Merger [6:05m video and article]

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from Mediaite.  Here is an interesting event at the US Senatorial hearings to determine the fitness of Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court. ...

A Progressive Attack on the Poor

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from the New Left Project.  While the author appears to be well meaning in her analysis of the "Con-Dems" cutbacks and fake amel...

Natural Gas Fracking: Ruining Your Lunch

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from Civil Eats. With the documentary movie Gasland making its national debut on HBO just last week, the nation is now more aware of the en...

Russian spy ring may be last straw for Obama nuclear arms treaty

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from The Hill. I've been wondering about all the mainstream media coverage of this spy non-event, and it may take a while to uncover the...

Time out

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Keeping the War Far from Home

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from Who What Why. This illustrates one way that mainstream media, the propaganda department of the Empire, manages consent--simply omit cov...

50 Random Facts That Make You Wonder What In The World Has Happened To America

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from The Economic Collapse.  The "land of the free and the home of the brave" has been transformed into a socialized Big Brother ...

Can Gates and Buffett Persuade Billionaires to Donate Half Their Fortunes?

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by Jamie Johnson from Vanity Fair. This is the weekly installment of life among the 1 per cent of Americans. It is always good for working p...
Friday, July 2, 2010

The Glittering Prizes: War Crime Continues to Pay

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by Chris Floyd from his blog, Empire Burlesque.  The author shows that capitalist ruling classes reward their war criminals.  Ruling classes...

How Goldman Gambled on Starvation

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from The Independent.  This article provides a very good explanation of how the capitalist ruling class has devised exotic Wall Street gam...

The link between BP, geoengineering and GM

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from the Ecologist.  Like the banking industry, the article shows how BP is also engaged in high risk adventures that could cause other ma...

Deficits, Social Security, and the American Public

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from New Deal 2.0.  A major effort to cut Social Security apparently has received a setback by the American people. Deficit-hawk and inves...

Congress' Oil Industry "Reforms" = Election-Year Greenwashing

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from Mother Jones.  This article provides a very good illustration of how a liberal, self-styled "progressive" US magazine treat...

Time out

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The End of the Age of Credit

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from The Automatic Earth. The author reports on the continuing ruling class strategy to bail out the banking industry's bad debts while ...

Who is Kenneth Feinberg?

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from World Socialist Web Site. The author delves into the background of the BP victims "claims czar", and it looks like the ruling...

All Power to the Casinos! Death to the Social Safety Net! [4:03m video and transcript]

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by Glen Ford from the Black Agenda Report. Global capital is attempting to sound the death knell for European social democracy and its much...

'Surge'' smoke follows Petraeus to Afpak

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by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times Online. Escobar, once again, tells it like it is--this time Petraeus' new adventure in Afghanistan-Pakis...

Factory Jobs Return, but Employers Find Skills Shortage

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from the NY Times. This does not surprise me because the history of US corporations off-shoring of manufacturing jobs to cheap labor, weak u...