Saturday, September 11, 2010

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Because of many distractions today, I've decided to take the day off to enjoy them. I believe that balance in one's life is very imp...
Friday, September 10, 2010

Will our generals ever shut up?

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by Tom Engelhardt from Asia Times Online . The author looks at the recent firing of General Stanley McChrystal as "the exception that...

Nobody expects the American inquisition!

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by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times Online . This amusing theater play by the author presents a parody of what passes for political life in the ...

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EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT:  How the World Changed After 9/11--A Symposium of Critical Thinkers    Get all the details of this event which is cu...
Thursday, September 9, 2010

Why Millions March in France, But Not in the US [Prize offered for best answer]

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by Rick Wolff from MR Zine .  By merely blaming the left in the US, the author really doesn't answer the implied question in the title...

The Great Pakistani Deluge Never Happened

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by Juan Cole from Tom Dispatch . (You may want to skip the introduction at the top and scroll down to the article.) Many people, including...

Supreme Court: Corporations Can Buy Judges

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from Washington's Blog .  You've heard that a recent Supreme Court decision said that corporations can give unlimited funds to poli...

The Anniversary of 9/11

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from Washington's Blog . Great read!  And great summary of the information related to the event that was used to justify the invasions...

Groups Sue Over Suspicionless Laptop Search Policy At The Border

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from American Civil Liberties Union . More infringements on American citizen's right to privacy that continues the descent of the US int...
Wednesday, September 8, 2010

The Revenge of Main Street

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from The Economic Populist . The best part of this article is that the author provides an excellent description of capitalism as organized c...

Book review of ‘Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir’ by Joe Bageant – So different yet so familiar

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by William Bowles from Creative-i .  This is a great review of a recently published book by Joe Bageant who writes about some of the most ...

Does Our Economy Really Have to Run on Fraud?

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by Michael Hudson from CounterPunch .  Hudson puts the bailouts in a perspective that the current Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission is u...

Time out

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Strikes in France, London foreshadow more protests

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by Angela Doland from Associated Press . Europeans continue to fight back. French strikers disrupted trains and planes, hospitals and mail ...

In a Misguided Effort to Weed out the Bad Eggs, the Food Safety Bill Punishes the Safest Farmers in the Country

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by Barry Estabrook from Politics of the Plate . The author's examination of the recent egg contamination scandal illustrates how the F...

Take Back the Land, Give Root to Democracy

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a book review  by Alex Knight from The End of Capitalism .  The book, written by Max Rameau, appears to focus on some critical issues that...
Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Ultra-Rich in Finance Are Meaner Than Rest of Us

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by Matthew Lynn from Bloomberg . The author supplies evidence to support his headline: There is an increasing amount of evidence that the...

Blood Tests Show Elevated Level of Toxic Hydrocarbons in Gulf Residents (article and 2 videos)

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from Washington's Blog .   A number of different chemists are finding elevated levels of toxic hydrocarbons in the bloodstream of Gulf ...

Life vs. Productivity: "What Would You Live and Die to Protect?"

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by Dahr Jamail from Truthout .  The author surveys various measures about the state of the world which strongly suggests a suicidal course...
Monday, September 6, 2010

Labor Day

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I am taking today off, but I will post this brief, but accurate article on the history of the real Labor Day that originated in the US: May ...