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Recession: Time to Beat Up Workers Some More
A much better case could be made that American workers are getting the crap beat out them right now, but this article is a beginning. Not only is this financial meltdown not serving up a much-deserved comeuppance to big business, … Continue reading
Binyamin Netanyahu: An Unfortunate Choice
Netanyahu: Train Wreck for Israel, Middle East;Looming Disaster for United StatesBy Juan Cole / February 21, 2009 The selection of rightwing expansionist Binyamin Netanyahu to form the next Israeli government is being greeted with dismay by the Egyptian government, which … Continue reading
Progress in Iraq: 65 % Unemployment
Layla Anwar’s piece reminds of the tragic toll of the American folly in Iraq over two decades. Millions have been affected and we go on blithely ignoring the mass of this tragedy. Think about 65% unemployment rate; think about half … Continue reading
Kyrgyzstan Pulls the Plug on Imperial America
Kyrgyz parliament OKs closing air base that’s crucial to U.S.By Tom Lasseter / February 19, 2009 BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — The Kyrgyz parliament voted Thursday to force the U.S. military to abandon its air base here — part of what many … Continue reading
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Some Litttle-Known Financial Crisis Trivia
Rep. Paul Kanjorski of Pennsylvania explains how the Federal Reserve told Congress members about a “tremendous draw-down of money market accounts in the United States, to the tune of $550 billion dollars.” According to Kanjorski, this electronic transfer occured over … Continue reading
Sustainability : Transforming Detroit
Photographer: Fabrizio Costantini/Bloomberg News. Hazel Williams picks green tomatoes at an Urban Farm off Linwood Avenue in Detroit, on Sept. 22, 2008. Photo by Fabrizio Costantini / Bloomberg.Detroit: City of HopeBuilding a sustainable economy out of the ashes of industry. … Continue reading
Fixing Health Care : Rush Limbaugh and the Radical Right
Our health care system is a ticking time bomb and the right wing opposes every effort to fix it. Photo/illustration by Mark Hooper / Stanford Medicine Magazine The science is already published, especially by Scripps Institute, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and … Continue reading
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Racism in the New York Post? Sharpton Spanks the Monkey Cartoon
Cartoon by Sean Delonas in today’s New York Post.‘The cartoon in today’s New York Post is troubling at best given the historic racist attacks of African-Americans as being synonymous with monkeys.’ — Rev. Al Sharpton By TMZ / February 18, … Continue reading
US Military: Just an Imperial Police Force?
Not to quibble, but the US military has been an imperial police force since time immemorial, or at least since the Monroe Doctrine. Thinking otherwise has frequently led this nation to murder (not to war) for no particularly good reason. … Continue reading
Compassion Is the Only Course, Even When the Crimes Are Atrocious
This is a profoundly important piece, written by a victim of a Cambodian war criminal. When the author writes that “We shall all be at the trial — not just as judges, but also as victims, and the accused,” his … Continue reading
Acorn: Fighting the Banks to Counter Foreclosures
Jonathan Westin, an Acorn organizer, comforted Denise Parker, whose house was being foreclosed on, after she spoke at an Acorn training session in Brooklyn. Photo: James Estrin/The New York Times.A Bid to Link Arms Against EvictionBy Fernanda Santos / February … Continue reading
