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Eleanor Clift | Dick Cheney’s Dangerous Influence
Most of us have known most of this for sometime though there are some interesting new twists in her article. It is great to see such writing in a mainstreet publication such as Newsweek. MBPosted by Michael Butler, Saturday, June 30, 2007
NYT Op-Ed (Egan): Courage Without the Uniform
"In Oregon, a senator started something on the war." Egan speaks with Republican Senator Gordon Smith, the first senator to openly suggest - on the floor of the Senate - that U.S. policy in Iraq is "criminal."Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, June 30, 2007
NYT Guest Op-Ed: The Break-In That History Forgot
"It was the Ellsberg burglary that set the stage for Watergate." One of Nixon's "plumbers" tells how it happened. Fascinating.Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, June 30, 2007
NYT Editorial: Questions About a Governor’s Fall
Is Don Siegelman a victim of the partisan politics that led to the Justice Department scandal?Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, June 30, 2007
NYT Saturday Profile: Saving Wildlife in Zambia, and Raising Human Prospects
Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, June 30, 2007Watch Your Foodometer (w/Video)
go to articleIn The Nation, Molly Schwartz and Donna Schaper show us how food is politics..."As I wolfed down my warm glob of chemicals, I thought about the sources of my [fast food pizza]. In Florida the tomato pickers get a pittance a bushel. Nobody could possibly pay the migrant workers any more than that because otherwise I'd never get that round, warm, 800-calorie, nutritionally worthless globule for just $6.99. You have to add the truck and its gas, the middleman's middleman's middleman, the lawyers they hire to fight the migrants so they don't get more for picking the tomatoes. Then there are advertising costs to make me want the pizza. The unionbusting lawyers who make sure the woman who made it "fresh" for me doesn't make too much money... The culture of fast food is amazingly conformist, boring, tasteless and unhealthy--and people think that the slow food movement is a "weird" idea. You figure" ... There's also a good video on the subject - mab
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Saturday, June 30, 2007
Outrage comes too easily for the Democrats
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Saturday, June 30, 2007Iraq, al-Qaeda and Tenet’s equivocation
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Saturday, June 30, 2007Tibetans Jailed, Tortured for Displaying Banned Flag
Posted by Barbara DiSalvia, Saturday, June 30, 2007NYT Guest Op-Ed: Don’t Mourn Brown v. Board of Education
"Finally, the court sides with quality over desegregation..." Not sure what to make of this. Like the Op-Ed by the general who called Guantanamo a well-run, clean and safe prison...Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, June 29, 2007
NYT: Justices Limit the Use of Race in School Plans for Integration
"A bitter division...Court rejects programs of type used widely across the nation." The evisceration of Brown v. BOE begins...Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, June 29, 2007
NYT: The Same Words, but Differing Views
"Opposing ideas of what it means to be 'faithful' to the Brown ruling of 1954?"Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, June 29, 2007
NYT: Century-Old Ban Lifted on Minimum Retail Pricing
Yet another destructive Supreme Court decision...Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, June 29, 2007
NYT: City May Seek Permit and Insurance for Many Kinds of Public Photography
"Vague wording raises fears of selective enforcement." And New York continues to be the poster child for repressive law enforcement and questionable justice...Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, June 29, 2007
Tomgram: Powers on George Tenet, the CIA, and the Invasion of Iraq
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, June 29, 2007Ignacio Ramonet | Kosovo
Another world victim of Bush's misdirected hubris, leading to nemesis MBPosted by Michael Butler, Friday, June 29, 2007
Right-Wingers Are on the Defensive About Talk Radio Report
go to articleJoshua Holland in Alternet - "The report ... shows that in markets where progressive and liberal talk has proven itself to be competitive, conservative programming still dominates the airwaves...The report found evidence to support what critics of media concentration have long maintained: that for some media owners, advancing a series of political narratives can be just as much in their interest as a healthy bottom line ever was" ... give the people what they want?.. yeah right - mab
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Friday, June 29, 2007
Bio-fuels: BP to invest in Jatropha oil production. I have been beating the Jatropha drum for 2 years. It looks as if serious stuff is beginning to happen. As I put in a comment on one of Ian’s postings a couple of days ago a great advantage of jatropha is that it does not compete with food production and can be grown on marginal land. Al B
Posted by Alexander Harper, Friday, June 29, 2007Patrick Cockburn’s open letter to Gordon Brown re Iraq. Short and utterly to the point. Al B
Posted by Alexander Harper, Friday, June 29, 2007How Mrs Rundell whipped up a storm…Daily Telegraph
Posted by Alexander Harper, Friday, June 29, 2007The transformation of Justice Ginsburg
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Friday, June 29, 2007Standing in the schoolhouse door
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Friday, June 29, 2007Around the Globe, Farmers Losing Ground
A VERY SERIOUS PROBLE> Ignored, in particular, the effect of agricultural industry plunge into biofuels supply such as corn's devatating effect of the top soil. MBPosted by Michael Butler, Thursday, June 28, 2007
