Saturday, July 24, 2010

The BP Oil Spill: Time to Get Unreasonable

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by Brooke Jarvis from Yes! Magazine . This features an interview with activist Diane Wilson. It was almost like seeing your own death. You ...

CNN anchors attack the scourge of anonymity

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by Glenn Greenwald from Salon . Greenwald takes aim at CNN hypocrisy about anonymous bloggers and hits a bulls-eye. Mainstream media's u...

Workers power in action

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by Leela Yellesetty from Socialist Worker . This is part 2 of a series of 3. My posting of part 1 is here . She summarizes the history of...

Modernizing Henry George

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by Herman Daly from CASSE . Sacrifice of nature’s scarce services constitutes an increasing opportunity cost of growth, and that in turn me...

Time out

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G20-Toronto property damage is a good thing

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by Denis G. Rancourt from Activist Teacher . Some thoughts from angry activists after the protests at the recent G20 meeting in Toronto.  

A Cooperative Approach to Renewing East Kentucky

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by Sara Pennington and Randy Wilson from Solutions .  We propose that the East Kentucky Power Cooperative and their 16 distribution coopera...

Anger Rises Over U.S. Tax Dollars for Settlements

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from IPS news service. There are currently half a million Israeli settlers in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank. All of the settle...

The Unbearable Dullness of Luxury Goods

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by Jamie Johnson from Vanity Fair . It's important to keep in touch with our fellow Americans of the 1% to share in their concerns and w...
Friday, July 23, 2010

U.S. Saudi Sale Is Said to Approach $30 Billion Including 84 F-15 Fighters

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from Bloomberg News .  All the elected representatives from my State of Washington vigorously defend Boeing Corporation whenever so-called...

Summer Rerun: “Toothless Fed”

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by Yves Smith from Naked Capitalism.  This reprinted post from this website illustrates how vexed liberals are to understand the system an...

The Lies That Bind: American Myth Obscures Murderous Enterprise

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by Chris Floyd from Empire Burlesque . The Empire has been exceptionally successful at indoctrinating its own citizens with the virtues of...

Time out

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Climate Bill, R.I.P.

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by Tim Dickinson from Rolling Stone .  This Rolling Stone article is very good at providing the details of the usual Congressional charad...

BP accused of 'buying academic silence'

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from  BBC News (US & Canada coverage). "Our ability to evaluate the disaster and write public policy and make decisions about it ...

Another ‘Viable’ Candidate Bites the Dust …

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by Sibel Edmonds from Boiling Frogs .  Read this to find out how US foreign policy really works on behalf of the Empire as seen by this fo...
Thursday, July 22, 2010

Latin America: Climate Change Swing States

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by Janet Redman from Foreign Policy in Focus .  The author reports on US preparations for the upcoming climate change meeting in Mexico at...

Julia Gillard, the new warlord of Oz

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by John Pilger from the New Statesman. Looks like the ruling class in Australia played the same card as the US ruling class did with Obama b...

Iraq Withdrawal? Obama and Clinton Expanding US Paramilitary Force in Iraq

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by Jeremy Scahill from The Nation . Hillary changes her tune to serve the interests of her employer--the US Empire and its ruling class. T...

The US Military Moves Into Costa Rica

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by Mike Vorpahl from Workers Action . The author looks at the recent stationing of US Naval forces in Costa Rica in the context of the Empir...