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The Winter of America’s Discontent
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, February 8, 2010Stiglitz: Obama’s Muddled Solutions
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, February 8, 2010TomDispatch: Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee, Destabilizing Pakistan
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, February 8, 2010t r u t h o u t | Health Care Spending Skyrockets and Shows No Signs of Tapering
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, February 8, 2010NYT Op-Eds (4)
"The way the Senate works is no longer consistent with a functioning government, and senators should change the rules to end obstructionism" (Krugman); "Linking the antiproliferation agenda to the dream of universal nuclear abolition, as President Obama seems intent on doing, is a naïve approach to a very difficult problem" (Douthat); "The 'Twilight' series’ makers owe it to the Quileute people to let them have a say in, and benefit financially from, outsiders’ use of their cultural property" (Guest Op-Ed); "Every bit of Christian teaching can be summed up in three words: God is love. That is the simple truth that teaches tolerance of same-sex unions" (Guest Op-Ed)Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, February 8, 2010
NYT (8): National News
Obama plans joint summit on health care; Wall Street starts backing Republicans; Landrieu becomes first white mayor of N.O. in 32 years; Palin says she might run in 2012; Words and accusations fly in Gillibrand-Ford race; Vote on Monserrate censure/removal likely this week; Was NYPD crime data "cooked?"; and a power plant explosion in CT kills five.Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, February 8, 2010
NYT (4): International Affairs
Iran moves ahead with uranium enrichment; Tymoshenko may be out in Ukraine; Costa Rica elects first female prez; and the plot thickens re Baptists arrested in Haiti.Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, February 8, 2010
Michael Pollan “Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual”
.. on Democracy NowPosted by Mike Blaxill, Monday, February 8, 2010
Obama invites GOP leaders to health care reform talk
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Monday, February 8, 2010On health care, ‘finish the kitchen’
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Monday, February 8, 2010Sarah Palin aims to upset the Republican Party – and the Tea Party movement
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Monday, February 8, 2010United States Federal Deficit, Budget and U.S. Debt – Deficit Aid
from a Republican site with some points one cannot ignore. recognize it will be difficult to repair the inherited damage with starvation. One hopes for a feasible program to overcome the mess made by the bankers and politicians of both parties. mbPosted by Michael Butler, Sunday, February 7, 2010
t r u t h o u t | What the Muslim World Can Teach Us About Nonviolence
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, February 7, 2010AlterNet: Obama Wants More Money for the Failed Drug War?
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, February 7, 2010Toyota Has Pattern of Slow Response on Safety Issues
Toyota’s recalls and disclosures in recent months are part of a lengthy pattern in which the automaker has often reacted slowly to safety concerns, in some instances making design changes without telling customers about problems with vehicles already on the road, an examination of its record shows.Posted by George Milman, Sunday, February 7, 2010
AlterNet: Hey Congress — Stand up to Wall Street
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, February 7, 2010NYT Op-Eds (4)
"After Adm. Mike Mullen called for gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the military, a curious silence befell the right" (Rich); "Sana is not Kabul, and Yemen is not Afghanistan — not yet. Yemenis have the resources to save themselves, but they need to be mobilized by better governance" (Friedman); "Congo has become the world capital of rape, torture and mutilation in ways that sear the survivors of a war that appears to have claimed more lives than the Holocaust" (Kristof); "Harold Ford Jr., the transplant with the Tennessee driver’s license who was raised in Washington, D.C., professes that he loves, loves, loves, loves New York" (Dowd)Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, February 7, 2010
NYT (4): National News
Is the tea party movement getting back to its roots, or simply allowing itself to be co-opted?; In bizarre case, whistleblowing nurse faces 10 years for upholding the law; A new book by Joseph Stiglitz is not kind to Obama; and a book on the history of black women activists and religion.Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, February 7, 2010
NYT (3): International Affairs
Despite Iraqi election issues, candidates are off and running; Citizenship issue in Ivory coast leaves millions of disenfranchised voters; and can a war film ever be politically neutral?Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, February 7, 2010
Matt Taibbi: Populism, Just Like Racism!
Taibbi sets sights of potent pen on David Brooks ...After [Brooks'] latest article in the Times, in which he compares the “populism” of people who “blame Goldman Sachs” with exactly the sort of racist elitism I ripped him for last week, I think David Brooks might be trying to talk to me... the response of David Brooks to being called out as a racist weenie [over his Haiti article] is to write a passionate defense of the rich, one that includes the admonition that while blaming the wealthy is easy and feels fun, truly wise men should “tolerate the excesses of traders.” ... The propagandistic argument he makes about the dangers of “populism” is spelled out here as clearly as you’ll ever see it expressed in print, and this exact thing is a key reason why so much of the corruption that went on on Wall Street in the past few decades was allowed to spread uncheckedtrue, Taibbi - too true - mab .. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Sunday, February 7, 2010
In rhe midst of a storm, President rallies party
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Sunday, February 7, 2010With speech before Tea Party activists, Sarah Palin once again steps on the political stage
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Sunday, February 7, 2010New poll results are proof that Republicans don’t think
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Sunday, February 7, 2010How to Get Our Democracy Back
Good thoughts here. mbPosted by Michael Butler, Saturday, February 6, 2010
daggatt blog: out of control
What? Our government, naturally!Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, February 6, 2010
