Saturday, October 30, 2010

Class War in America

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by David Rosen from CounterPunch .  The author provides an excellent overview of the history of class war in the US. His history makes cle...

Electric Evasion

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by Michael Dawson from CounterPunch .  The author does a good job of punching holes in all the hype about electric cars.  Also, I can ne...

Rich nations to wreck climate talks

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by Simon Butler from Green Left .  No legally-binding agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions will be made at this year’s big United Nat...

Against mainstream economics: The Kick It Over Manifesto [A Call to Action at Universities]

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from Climate and Capitalism .  An international student movement to free the economics curriculum from its neoclassical straitjacket was la...

Yes, the Rich Are Still Quite Different

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by Jamie Johnson from Vanity Fair .  Occasionally on Saturday I like to keep up with the lives of the one percent of Americans by featurin...
Friday, October 29, 2010

Time for a New Theory of Money

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by Ellen Brown from her website .  I have found her writing on the subject of money to be most understandable and informative. In this pie...

The Man Behind the Throne

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by Shay Totten from Seven Days .  This article was forwarded to me by a friend in Vermont who felt that it revealed a lot about how politi...
Thursday, October 28, 2010

Manufacturing Mayhem in Mexico: From Nixon to NAFTA and Beyond

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from Chris Floyd's excerpts from London Review of Books article.   The article goes a long way to explaining how the Empire uses, an...

Reappearance of Huge Plumes of Oil is Making It Hard to Pretend that the Problem Has Disappeared

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from Washington's Blog .  The blogger lists numerous sources of evidence that the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is being widely o...

Foreclosure Lawyers Go to Gardner's Farm for Edge on Lenders

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by Prashant Gopal from Bloomberg .  Okay, some lawyers are making a mint off of other people's misery, but skills and information is n...

Worlds Collide at Cancun Climate Talks

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by Laura Carlsen from Foreign Policy in Focus . ...two worlds will collide in Cancun. The first is a world in denial where profits come be...

Time out

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French pension strikes halt flights

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from Al Jazeera .   The latest update on the battle waged by French workers vs the French ruling capitalist class. The latter are banking ...

Globalization Creates Unemployment: American Job Loss Is Permanent

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by Paul Craig Roberts from Global Research . I love it when this former official of the Reagan administration exposes all the lies of the...

The Debt Crisis Hits Harder in Europe Than in the Emergent Countries of the South

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by Ram Etwareea from the Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt .  Scattered here and there in rather obscure sources are bits an...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Economic Crisis and The Protest Movement: French Lessons for U.S. Workers

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by Shamus Cooke from Global Research .  The events in France related to the austerity cuts are seen as pivotal for working people. Because...

For the Conservatives, this is not a financial crisis but a long-awaited opportunity

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by George Monbiot from the Guardian . The author sees a pattern being played out in the UK with many cutbacks related to quasi-governmenta...

The Tory 'big society' relies on women replacing welfare

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by Selma James from the Guardian .  The author reviews the history of social spending in the UK after WWII how the capitalist ruling class...

Coming Soon to America: Big Push for Austerity

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by Roger Bybee from In These Times .  The fight-backs in Europe that is currently being led by French workers portends the same battles he...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

The World Liberal Opportunists Made

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by Chris Hedges from Truthdig .  I'm not sure if he is merely announcing the demise of politically liberal capitalists, bemoaning that...