Saturday, January 8, 2011

The Meaning of Daley

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by Russ Baker from Who What Why .  Russ Baker is one of America's premier investigative journalists. His sensitive "antennae...

WikiLeaks' Most Terrifying Revelation: Just How Much Our Government Lies to Us

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by Fred Branfman from AlterNet . (Fred Branfman exposed the U.S. Executive's Secret Air War in Laos, which illegally and savagely murde...

What Are Rich People Worried About in 2011?

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by Jamie Johnson from Vanity Fair .  Today on our brief excursion into the lives of the rich one percent of Americans, the author, who is ...
Friday, January 7, 2011

Why are so many Americans unemployed and underemployed? And what could we do about it?

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by Richard Clark from OpEd News .  He has some excellent ideas about what could be done to provide for more employment, but he is very sho...

Irish Leaders Castigated As Greatest Traitors Of All Time

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by Gabriel Donohoe from OpEd News . This guy is becoming one of my favorite internet authors. In this piece he offers a comprehensive repo...

The uncomfortable truth about mind control: Is free will simply a myth?

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by Michael Mosley from The Independent .  This piece offers a good review of the classic psychological studies done by Milgram and others ...

Extreme weather events help drive food prices to record highs

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from Climate Progress .  ...the combination of peak oil and extreme weather are likely to create growing food insecurity this decade, parti...

Obama Appoints Ultimate Wall Street Insiders to Top Posts ... Again

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from Washington's Blog . This is only for those who still cling to the delusion that Obama represents change. He is employed by the sa...

The little red book that swept France

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by John Lichfield from The Independent .  A 93 year old French resistance fighter in WWII is fighting back against the system. We must ask...

Everything is OK Montage [8:02m video]

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from BackBurnerNews .  This is great therapy to help you survive one more day of capitalism. It shows that the Brits are very creative in ...
Thursday, January 6, 2011

The urge to surge: The US's 30-year high

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by Tom Engelhardt from Asia Times Online .  This is one of the best critical reviews of Empire polices, particularly in relation to the ni...

Wikileaks: Israelis ‘Intend to Keep the Gazan Economy on the Brink of Collapse’

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by Juan Cole from his blog Informed Consent . Critics of the WikiLeaks leaks have often pointed to the presence of leaks that are supporti...
Wednesday, January 5, 2011

While Washington pursues CEOs, they snub U.S.

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by Robert Reich from SF Chronicle .  The former Secretary of Labor under the Clinton administration reveals how both US political parties ...

The climate movement is in desperate need of renewal

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by Bradley Day from the Guardian .  In the final weeks of 2010, 20 individuals – including myself – went on trial after being accused of co...

Capital's war against WikiLeaks

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by Mark LeVine from Al Jazeera .  ...Assange is right that there is something "neo", if not exactly new, in the way the corporate...
Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Capitalism and Degrowth—An Impossibility Theorem

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by John Bellamy Foster from Monthly Review .  The author examines the degrowth orientation that seems to be informing most of "green...

John Pilger’s The War You Don’t See: An indictment of news reporting as state propaganda

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by Paul Mitchell from World Socialist Web Site . A film review.  John Pilger has reported on six wars, beginning in Vietnam in 1967, and...

Recovery Recedes, Convulsion Looms

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by Walden Bello from Foreign Policy in Focus .  The author looks at economic trends in the global economy and asks an important question (...

Natural-Catastrophe Losses Rose to $37 Billion Last Year, Munich Re Says

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by Jann Bettinga from Bloomberg .  With the exception of earthquakes, I think that natural disasters will increase due to climate instabil...
Monday, January 3, 2011

Neo-Colonialism, Imperialism and Resistance in the 21st Century

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by Devon DB from Global Research . (Devon DB is 19 years old and studying political science at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey....