Saturday, December 25, 2010

Grooming Children for Profit

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from New Left Project (an interview with Agnes Nairn is co-author of Consumer Kids: How big business is grooming our children for profit .)...

ROK President Lee heats up cold war on Korean peninsula

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by Stephen Gowans from Voltaire . This piece is an excellent antidote to the propaganda in US media. There are three key facts that place...

Zimbabwe and the Steep Road to Vindication: Myths and Realities

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by Netfa Freeman from Voltaire .  This is another antidote for the poison of Empire propaganda. ...the major study of 10 years of land re...

Making the Rich Happy

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by Alexander Cockburn from CounterPunch . (Focusing on material only down to "The Day of the Beast" in this essay.) The author e...

Bradley Manning Speaks About His Conditions

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by David House from FireDogLake .   Bradley Manning, the 23-year-old Army private accused of leaking classified information to Wikileaks,...

New FDA Numbers Reveal Food Animals Consume Lion’s Share of Antibiotics

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by Ralph Loglisci from Civil Eats .  Antibiotics, one of the world’s greatest medical discoveries, are slowly losing their effectiveness in...

Uninspired Gifts of the Rich and Disinterested

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by Jamie Johnson from Vanity Fair .  On this Christmas day let us pay a visit to the One Percent who shape so much of our experience in ca...
Friday, December 24, 2010

Hailing 111th Congress, Obama prepares further shift to the right

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by Joseph Kishore from World Socialist Web Site .  This is a very sensible performance review of the 111th Congress and Obama administrati...

The Social Security Fraud Has Finally Been Exposed

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by Allen W. Smith from Dissident Voice .  This is the best article that I have ever seen on this issue.  The only problem I have with it...

Obama’s Liberty Problem

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by Bill Quigley and Vince Warren from Dissident Voice . I see the importance of this liberal perspective only for what it illustrates: man...

The Media is the Message

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by William Bowles from Creative-i .  The author takes a hard look at the WikiLeaks controversy and uncovers some details that don't fi...

Wikileaks News Archive 28 November – 21 December, 2010

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from Creative-i .  This site appears to be a good one-stop shopping center for the leaks and related news up to Dec. 21. This is a contin...

Economics Is Simple ... The Fat Cats Just Want You to Think It's Complicated So That You Won't Demand Change

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from Washington's Blog . His analogy with water supplies works very well to understand the banking industries' venture into gambli...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

Inside Job’s Charles Ferguson on the Corruption of Academic Economics

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from Naked Capitalism .  Here are two excellent videos. The first one is a short 1:54m excerpt from the film "Inside Job" about ...

Climate Change and ‘Balanced’ Coverage

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by Justin Gillis from the NY Times (free registration required). The author contrasts the findings of scientists about the slim prospects...

A Shadow Government of Kindness

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by Rebecca Solnit from Tom Dispatch . (You may want to skip the introduction by scrolling down to the article.) This inspiration piece may...

Britain's Police State: London arrests based on CCTV identification.

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by Nathan Allonby from Global Research .  Despite no evidence that CCTV technology reduces crime, its use is strongly supported by polici...

Private debt, public pain: lessons for Ireland

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by Nick Dearden from CADTM . The banks have not always won over the last 30 years, and in 2001 Argentina did exactly what many economists a...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010

The Naked Face of Capitalism: Goldman Prizewinner Shoots Up Foreign Mining Firms in Mongolia

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by Keith Harmon Snow from Conscious Being .  Your ruling class media won't report the capitalist crimes of mining companies supported ...

Washington’s incendiary role in Asia

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from World Socialist Web Site .  What is the US ruling elite after in its pursuit of an increasingly bellicose policy on the Korean Peninsu...