Saturday, April 23, 2016

Seymour Hersh Dishes on Saudi Oil Money Bribes and the Killing of Osama Bin Laden

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Click here to access article by Ken Klippenstein from AlterNet . It's hard to tell whether Klippenstein or the editors of AlterNet ch...

The real reason Dilma Rousseff’s enemies want her impeached

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Click here to access article by David Miranda from The Guardian .  The country’s elite class and their media organs have failed, over and...

Second Gilded Age

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Click here to access article by economist David Ruccio from his blog Occasional Links & Commentary .  There are still some who believ...

Bernie Sanders: the Candidate Who Came in From the Cold

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Click here to access article by Jeffrey St. Clair from CounterPunch .  This piece is not terribly enlightening, but it conforms precisely...

The best system for some people

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by Steve Artley from his website .
Friday, April 22, 2016

Fear and Loathing in the Arabian Nights

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Click here to access article by Pepe Escobar from Sputnik .  Escobar furnishes a very different take on Obama visit to the Saudi kingdom ...

The 'Absolutely Disturbing' New Normal: Earth Just Smashed Another Climate Record

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Click here to access article by Andrea Germanos from Common Dreams .  Our ever-warming planet just passed another climate record. The Nat...

Either capitalism dies or Mother Earth dies...

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from TeleSur.  (Some additional comments were added to my commentary on 4/23/2016) Of course what is meant here is that the part of nature...
Thursday, April 21, 2016

Obama: ‘If we let Americans sue Saudis for 9/11, foreigners will begin suing US non-stop’

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Click here to access article from RT .  It seems that Obama's employers in the ruling class directorate have ordered their chief of U...

New York voting fiasco just the warm-up for the November game

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Click here to access article by Greg Palast from Uncommon Thought Journal . Before the 2000 presidential election I, who will soon be 80 ...

The BRICS: Still a Hegemonic, Not Anti-Capitalist Project

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Click here to access article by François Houtart from TeleSur .  Many alternative geopolitical analysts have lauded the BRICS countries f...

The Empire Files: Understanding Marxism and Socialism

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Click here if you wish to access an interview conducted with Richard Wolff by Abby Martin posted by TeleSur on YouTube . I highly recomme...

Press Release: 1.5°C vs 2°C global warming – new study shows why half a degree matters

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Click here to access article from European Geosciences Union . European researchers have found substantially different climate change imp...
Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Breaks and broken

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Click here to access article by David Ruccio from Real-World Economics Review Blog . Combining his own research with that of Oxfam, this ...

Military spending is the capitalist world’s fuel

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Click here to access article by Pete Dolack from his blog Systemic Disorder . ...why is U.S. military spending so high? It’s because the ...
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Exit from the Megamachine [a 'best post']

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Click here to access article by Fabian Scheidler from degrowth . Unfortunately, I have run out of time this morning to comment on this ex...

World’s largest Earth science organization to continue accepting ExxonMobil sponsorship despite calls from 250+ geoscientists

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Click here to access article by Geoffrey Supran, Ploy Achakulwisut, Ben Scandella, and Britta Voss from Skeptical Science . Last week, th...

Democracy Sleepwalking

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Click here to access article by Arun Gupta from CounterPunch . Although he initially identifies the protest march near the capitol as org...

The differing lifestyles of low-level drug offenders vs banksters

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as posted on Occasional Links & Commentary .
Monday, April 18, 2016

Review: ‘The Measure of a Man,’ a Tale of a Man’s Lost Labor

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Click here to access article by Manohla Dargis from The NY Times . Here is a film featuring a main character that many of us can identify...