Saturday, August 14, 2010

Crime Pays If You Are a Capitalist

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by Ron Horn.  In contrast to capitalists where crime often does pay, under their system work doesn't pay for many workers. This survey...

Is the Dionysian Party Over for St. Tropez?

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by Jamie Johnson from Vanity Fair . Another installment of life among what are known as the 1 per cent Americans, your fellow Americans who,...
Friday, August 13, 2010

The unemployment horror show

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by Bob Herbert from Socialist Worker. They’re [government leaders] appropriating more and more money for warfare while schizophrenically ba...

Liberals to the Rescue of Capitalism

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by Ron Horn. There has been abundant criticisms from liberals about economic policies that have driven the economy into its present dysfun...

Reviving Anarchy For The Sake Of Sustainability

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by Antonio Roman-Alcalá from Civil Eats. Once we get past our doubts about ourselves, and the belief that we cannot self-govern, then all t...

Time out

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Drug money [23:44m video]

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by Melanie Newman and Chris Woods from Al Jazeera .  The investigators look closely at the corruption in the US pharmaceutical industry th...

Hidden Intelligence Operation Behind the Wikileaks Release of "Secret" Documents?

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by F. William Engdahl from Global Research .  Has the real story been told about the recent Wiki leaks? Time will probably tell, but the a...

On War, Armies, and the Brilliance of James Madison

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by Damon Vrabel from Council on Renewal . The mass media’s way of communicating war is basically to put fake tough-guy narcissists like Bil...
Thursday, August 12, 2010

Monopoly Money and the International Banking Cartel

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from Council on Renewal . Understanding money creation under private banking institutions is extremely important. After reading this article...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Giant ice block baffles scientists [1:44m video & other links]

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from Al Jazeera .  I am absolutely amazed at the slight media coverage that this event is receiving in the US. The best I've come acro...

Manifestations of Runaway Climate Change

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by Andrew Glikson from Dissident Voice . He provides recent data about climate extremes that is uncovered in mainstream media.

Frustrated White House Slams “Professional Left”

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by Yves Smith from Naked Capitalism .  This excellent blogger with a long career in the financial services industry knows of what she writ...

Time out

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Russia's Agony a "Wake-Up Call" to the World

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by Stephen Leahy from IPS .  The founder of the Washington-based Earth Policy Institute wants the government to get serious about climate ...

Sticking Together in Tough Times

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by Chuck Collins from Yes! Magazine .  Some unemployed workers are organizing to defend themselves against the unrelenting push by corpora...

National Security Letter Recipient Can Speak Out For First Time Since FBI Demanded Customer Records From Him

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from American Civil Liberties Union .  "After six long years of not being able to tell anyone at all what happened to me – not eve...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Google-Verizon Deal: The End of The Internet as We Know It

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by Josh Silver from Huffington Post . So the Google-Verizon deal can be summed up as this: "FCC, you have no authority over us and yo...

Read: Regulators’ Deepwater Drilling Document Is ‘at War With Itself’

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by Marion Wang from ProPublica .   A decade-old environmental assessment by offshore drilling regulators called for more research on Corexi...

New Outrages Keep Gushing From BP

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by Jim Hightower from Creators. com .  Bet you won't read this in mainstream media. Yes, it's more mischief perpetrated by the rul...