Saturday, January 23, 2010
Israel: Global NATO’s 29th Member
by Rick Rozoff on Voltaire website. This hasn't happened yet, but will if the world Zionist network has its way. This is a lengthy and comprehensive article.
Freedom of Speech for a Fiction
by Christopher Ketcham on Counterpunch. More on the absurdity of "corporate persons"--the fiction created by our beloved ruling class to subvert this so-called "democracy".
How Wall Street Destroyed Health Care
by Paul Craig Roberts on Counterpunch. Roberts was in the Reagan administration--hard to believe sometimes!
Millions Against Monsanto
from Daily Kos website. Sorry I missed this article earlier this month.
Organic Consumers Association members concerned that Monsanto and Big Food corporations have inordinate and dangerous power over where our food comes from and how it's produced, sent 8954 letters to the Department of Justice last month. Here's a bit of what they had to say.
GOP-linked company tracks online users’ ‘loan-worthiness’
from Raw Story website.
Everything a person does publicly on their social-networking accounts can be found by market researchers if the user's privacy settings allow it.
Government posting wealth of info on Internet
from First Amendment Center website. This may be useful for gathering government information, but of course, the most important information is classified and won't be available.
Whose Rights?
from Yes! website. The authors, Thomas Linzey and Mari Margil, see the recent Supreme Court's decision in favor of direct corporate funding of media ads as a part of a 200 year history of corporate subversion of democratic principles that appeared in the US Constitution.
Liberal radio network Air America to go silent
from The Guardian website. The "public airways" continue to grow ever narrower under corporate sponsorship.
Iraq littered with high levels of nuclear and dioxin contamination, study finds
from The Guardian website.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Copenhagen World Leaders Fail the Planet
by Frontline. An independent Marxist review from Scotland, carried on Red Flag website.
Copenhagen has also seen the radicalisation of many environmentalists as the vested interests that require to be challenged in order to prevent further degradation of the planet have been brought to the fore. There is a rising grassroots movement that identifies the dividing line of the environmental question, as between those that want to put an end to the exploitation of nature to accumulate wealth, and those that want to continue “business as usual,” regardless of the effects it may have on the planet.
Where are the real populists now?
by Joe Conason from Salon website. Re yesterday's Supreme Court decision:
Tea-party activists claim to represent Main Street, not Wall Street. So will they let corporate money rule America?
Supreme Court lifts the ruse
from New Deal 2.0 website.
All you have to do is peruse Open Secrets for a few minutes to see how pervasive and powerful corporate money is in our political process.
Don’t Ridicule the Tea-Baggers — Recruit Them
by Ernest Partridge from Dissident Voice website. He offers some excellent lessons on how to talk to "tea-baggers".
Crisis in California - everything touched by capital turns toxic
from Libcom.org website. This is a fairly lengthy, but comprehensive analysis of the current economic conditions in California and their development over time under the system of capitalism.
Agricultural employment has always fluctuated seasonally, so the growth of housing developments in the Central Valley over the last 30 years has given workers the option of steady construction work. The housing boom, which began on the heels of the collapse of the dotcom bubble in 2001, increased the need for workers until the housing bubble itself collapsed in 2007. Along with the drop in construction jobs, drought conditions have combined with increasing mechanisation and concentration of agricultural production to throw even more people out of work. There are simply fewer farms, each significantly larger in size, that produce larger yields per acre. This process of increasing capitalist centralisation in a region that was already the first in the US to have industrial agribusiness on a mass scale continues the process of replacing people with machines, substituting ‘dead labour' for living workers.
Past Decade Warmest on Record, NASA Data Shows
from the NY Times, registration required. This seems to be getting some coverage in mainstream media, but I have little doubt that some scientist somewhere in the world will, once again, report the opposite and that will be covered much more extensively in MSM.
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