Saturday, August 21, 2010

Death and Joblessness

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by Annie Lowrey from The Washington Independent .  The author takes an intimate look at how unemployment is driving some in the US to suic...

Contradiction and the Law of Value (2 videos: 8:10m & 7:12m)

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from Kapitalism101 . The videos (and transcript) explains the basic Marxist concepts of exchange and use value, surplus value (profit), an...

Pakistan flood catastrophe: West gives `billions for killing, little for life'

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by John Passant from International Journal of Socialist Renewal .   The sharp contrast between the aid the US is giving to Pakistan to all...

Time out

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General McChrystal’s New Job: Dig a Bit, Please

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by Russ Baker from Who, What, Why .  The writer is an investigative journalist who authored Family of Secrets, which I highly recommend, a...

Crisis. What Crisis? Profits Soar!

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by James Petras from Voltaire .  In this article the author reports on the bonanza of profits that big corporations are enjoying by mostly...

Behind the Hamptons Hedges

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by Jessica Flint from Vanity Fair . This week's visit to the habitats of our fellow Americans referred to as the 1%. Check out their liv...
Friday, August 20, 2010

Global Empire and the International Banking Cartel (part 2)

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by Damon Vrabel from Council on Renewal . This is a continuation of last week's article--see my post regarding Part 1.  From my curso...

For a European coordination of struggle against the debt and austerity plans !

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from CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt). (Why not abolish all world debt owed to the large banking cartels?) This arti...

Top Expert: Geology is "Fractured", Relief Wells May Fail ... BP is Using a "Cloak of Silence", Refusing to Share Even Basic Data with the Government

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from Washington's Blog .  It seems to me that corporate secrecy over a major catastrophic event such as the oil drilling disaster in t...

Is WikiLeaks the antidote to the Washington K Street Kool-Aid?

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by Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould from Boiling Frogs. More cogent observations about the recent WikiLeaks revelations. The logic train...

Stop Talkin' Bout a Green(washed) Revolution

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by Sandy LeonVest from Toward Freedom .  I think the author makes the very relevant point of targeting liberal environmentalists who refus...

Time out

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Net-neutrality talks resume in DC without the FCC or Google

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by Sara Jerome from The Hill .  Private interests are circling the internet like vultures honing in on their prey. This does not bode well...

Mississippi Shrimpers Refuse to Trawl, Fearing Oil, Dispersants

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by Dahr Jamail from IPS .  The author reports that local fisherman are not taken in by US government authorities who insist that the Gulf ...

The fruit of sharing

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by Joanne Poyourow from Transition US .  The article illustrates some small steps by local neighborhoods to secure a source of food. Such...

3 Pillars of a Food Revolution

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by Anna Lappé from Yes! Magazine .  I think she has some great ideas about how the food/agricultural system will need to be revamped to fi...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

The assault on US workers’ wages

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from World Socialist Web Site .  This article does a good job of illustrating how this globalization phase of capitalism is working its ma...

Phantoms in the machine: GM corn spreads to Mexico

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from The Age (Australia). This is an edited extract from the recently published book entitled, The World According to Monsanto: Pollution, ...

Tensions Rise in Greece as Austerity Measures Backfire

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by Corinna Jessen from Der Spiegel . The austerity measures that were supposed to fix Greece's problems are dragging down the country...