Saturday, July 17, 2010

Shock Doctrine in action

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from New Left Project . (UK) This is classic neo-liberalism in action in the UK, but it is also happening in the US.

Consumer or Citizen?

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by Micki Krimmel from Shareable .  I'm not so much interested in the speeches by former President Carter as I am in the helpful sugges...

CIA without news of Osama bin Laden for almost 9 years

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from Voltaire Net . This is a very concise article that makes its point very well. The Agency and the political establishment consider him...

Corporate Control of Our Democracy: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission

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by Radhika Balakrishnan and James Heintz from The Huffington Post .  Articles like this offer some understanding of corporate power, but p...

Roots of Sustainability

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by Joe Roman, Tess Croner, Will Raap, Wes Jackson from Solutions .  They provide an excellent historical perspective on the degradation of...

Time out

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How Obama can wean the country off oil without help from Congress

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by Christian Parenti from Grist .  The author supplies some excellent ideas about transitioning from fossil fuels to non-polluting energy ...

President Obama's Most Inexplicable Failure

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by Melvin A. Goodman from Truthout .  There are so many articles like this that illustrate the poor understanding Americans have of their ...

What Is the Ultimate Yachting Experience on the Mediterranean?

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by Jamie Johnson from Vanity Fair . We all need to keep in touch with our fellow top 1% Americans to learn about their concerns and worries....

Hey,You Liberal Dummies. It’s the Tenth Amendment

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by James Ridgeway from his blog, Unsilent Generation . Quite a measure of sarcasm in this piece; but with mainstream media coverage so awful...

solutions NASA: First half of 2010 breaks the thermometer — despite “recent minimum of solar irradiance”

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from Climate Progress .
Friday, July 16, 2010

Heat waves and extremely high temperatures could be commonplace in the U.S. by 2039, Stanford study finds

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by Mark Shwartz from Stanford University News .  Exceptionally long heat waves and other hot events could become commonplace in the United ...

The Administration Double Speak on Jobs & Exports

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from The Economic Populist .  The author does not seem to understand that the system, capitalism, in an age of globalization requires the ...

Jay Bybee's sociopathic self-absorption

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by Glenn Greenwald from Salon . He comments on another sociopath that the system has produced: That's what happens when you create a so...

Time out

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Rich countries set intellectual property rules in secret: What’s ours will stay that way

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by Philippe Rivière from Le Monde Diplomatique .  Rich capitalist corporations of the West are secretly attempting to secure more rights o...

Chile's Social Earthquake

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by Roger Burbach from Global Alternatives . The author provides an honest update on Chilean society under the post Pinochet governments that...

Why Power Is Not a Dirty Word

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by Frances Moore Lappé from Energy Bulletin . Although supposedly originally sourced in Yes! Magazine, this version of her article is better...
Thursday, July 15, 2010

The G20 Plan for Prosperity: Rubber Bullets and Shredded Social Safety Net

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by Paul Jay from New Deal 2.0. The author who usually does the interviews for The Real News Network writes about his observations and signif...

Government for Sale: How Lobbyists Shaped the Financial Reform Bill

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from Time Magazine online.  This is an abridged version of a longer article in the magazine which I have not read, however this version is...