Yearly Archives: 2007

A friend of ours just started a new blog to oppose the farm bill that is pending in Congress, and to provide information about other agriculture and food issues that are pertinent to our health. Here’s a brief sample: STOP … Continue reading →

Summary – What are we trying to accomplish? We are at a juncture where the pendulum of The American Way of Life has swung to the end of its arc on one side. The side in question is the one … Continue reading →

PensionAlice EmbreeSeptember 19, 2007 Char nursed a large, iced mocha in a trendy café in the near-trendy North Loop neighborhood of Austin. She was the oldest person in the place. By far. She was musing on a pension – no … Continue reading →

Checkbook Imperialism: The Blackwater FiascoBy Robert Scheer 09/19/07 “Truthdig” — — Please, please, I tell myself, leave Orwell out of it. Find some other, fresher way to explain why “Operation Iraqi Freedom” is dependent upon killer mercenaries. Or why the … Continue reading →

At What Price, Safety?By Cindy Sheehan 09/19/07 “ICH ” — — I am consistently amazed at things that right-wing nut jobs throw at me to justify their support of an unjustifiable war. Seriously, when you watch Generals, Ambassadors, Senators and … Continue reading →

Was the Iraq War Inevitable? For A Critical Appraisal of the Background that Led to the Warby Fawwaz TraboulsiSeptember 18, 2007 [Translator’s Introduction: The article below by Fawwaz Traboulsi first appeared in Arabic in the Beirut daily as-Safir on July … Continue reading →

Chiquita bosses escape justiceBy Tom MellenSep 19, 2007, 07:39 Editor’s Note: At least the capitalists behind the death squads have been found guilty of murdering banana workers, something they have been doing for more than a century. It remains to … Continue reading →

I remember years and years ago when I was still a child hearing a friend speak of Hexagram 35 from the I Ching. He used the phrase as an epithet for white man’s progress on earth. Here is an example … Continue reading →

America’s Great Wall: Where Will the Workers Go When They Finish It?By JOHN ROSS SAN FRANCISCO – We are being walled in. Every second that we stay here, they are adding another inch to the wall they are building along … Continue reading →

Who really runs Austin? Austin city politics is complicated by the fact that poverty levels among unskilled workers are increasing and the city is not sure how to handle that. The poor want to work but the city is gentrifying … Continue reading →