Saturday, September 4, 2010

The Word - Control-Self-Delete (4:28m video)

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by Stephen Colbert from Colbert Nation . Colbert makes some very good points in his humorous treatment of the social networking websites.

A World in Collapse?

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by Alex Doherty, Robert Jensen from New Left Project . Doherty interviews Robert Jensen. You dismiss the possibility of technological solut...

In defense of Alan Simpson

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by Glenn Greenwald from Salon . The author trains his sights on Obama's super-secret Deficit Commission whose findings will come out in ...

Sleep, the Newest Status Symbol Among the Wealthy

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by Jamie Johnson from Vanity Fair . This is this week's contribution to us ordinary Americans to help us keep in touch with the one perc...
Friday, September 3, 2010

Military Study Warns of a Potentially Drastic Oil Crisis

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by Stefan Schultz from Der Spiegel . Given the predatory nature of capitalist elites, is there any doubt now as to why the US, with its hu...

Synthetic Sea ..... NEW version for 2010 (10:00m video)

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Algalita Marine Research Foundation .  Earlier this morning I tuned into Bloomberg TV program to listen to a Wall Street expert talking ab...

What's More Important For Black Leadership? Turning Off Fox News? Or Stopping the President's Cat Food Commission?

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by Bruce A. Dixon from Black Agenda Report .  Rev. Al Sharpton and  the NAACP's Ben Jealous, along with most of the old black politica...
Thursday, September 2, 2010

Covert Operations [Part 2: What the Article Reveals]

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by Jane Mayer from The New Yorker .  As I discussed in yesterday's review of this article, I was initially quite surprised by this mag...
Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Covert Operations [Part 1: Why This Article?]

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by Jane Mayer from The New Yorker .  This is an exceedingly important article for working people, especially activists, to read and unders...

Why failure of climate summit would herald global catastrophe: 3.5°

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by Michael McCarthy from The Independent . The world is heading for the next major climate change conference in Cancun later this year on ...
Tuesday, August 31, 2010

CIA in Honduras: the Practice of Selective Terror

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by Nil Nikandrov from Strategic Culture Foundation .  This is a very good update on the Empire's latest subversion of a government in ...

For-profit colleges can leave you dumb and broke

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by Makaiya Brown from The Loop 21 .  A federal investigation  found that several for-profit colleges are involved in fraudulent acts and qu...

Natural health movement achieving key victories over HFCS, MSG, GMOs and more

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by Mike Adams from Natural News . It's not all bad news on the food front as this author explains. It's hard to see it sometimes, b...

Cooperatives and the crisis: “Our customers are also our owners”

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from International Labour Organization .  “Available evidence suggests that, with few exceptions, cooperative enterprises across all sector...

The Food Safety Shell Game

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by Mark Kastel and Will Fantle from Common Dreams . The relatively new phenomena of nationwide pathogenic outbreaks, be they from salmonell...

Time out

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Veterans for Peace discuss Bradley Manning with McCord (7:29m video)

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from War is a Crime .  US veterans are increasingly speaking up against the horrors that the military-industrial complex of the US is infl...

Big grocers take aim at the UFCW

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by Darrin Hoop from Socialist Worker . THE LONG list of attempted concessions is stunning. But Allied Employers is only trying to build on ...

Losing Sight of What Matters in America

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by Mary Newsom from the Charlotte Observer . We’ve stopped valuing workers. The country apparently no longer believes people who work hard ...

Anti-Mosque Coalition’s Website Owned By Neo-Conservative Islamophobe Frank Gaffney

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by Alex Seitz-Wald from Think Progress .