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Newest Blog Entries:
AlterNet: 8 Things That Must Happen Now to Salvage the Economy — and the Country
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, December 31, 2008NYT Guest Op-Ed: The Year in Questions
Just a fun end-of-year political-cultural quiz.Posted by Ian Alterman, Wednesday, December 31, 2008
NYT (2): National Politics
Franken's lead grows again (if only by a tiny amount); and Blagojevich puts Democrats in a quandry as his choice for Obama's seat is actually excellent.Posted by Ian Alterman, Wednesday, December 31, 2008
NYT (2): International News
U.S. begins ratcheting up re Afghanistan; and with Gazprom in trouble, Russia flexes its supply muscles.Posted by Ian Alterman, Wednesday, December 31, 2008
NYT: Airline Flies a 747 on Fuel From a Plant
A 50-50 mixture may lead toward a cleaner environment and lower costs.Posted by Ian Alterman, Wednesday, December 31, 2008
NYT: Village Voice Lays Off Nat Hentoff and 2 Others
A legend succumbs to the economy.Posted by Ian Alterman, Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Keynes’ Comeback
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Wednesday, December 31, 2008Two lessons from 2008
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Wednesday, December 31, 2008The GOP’s “Magic Negro” debacle
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Wednesday, December 31, 2008NYT Op-Eds (2)
"I don’t think George W. Bush should be allowed to slip quietly out of town. There should be a loud, collective angry howl and demonstrations over the damage he’s done to this country" (Herbert); "Iran’s nuclear threat, the rise of Hamas and Hezbollah and Israeli Arabs’ growing disaffection with the state offer challenges that Israel’s leaders and public find difficult to counter" (Guest Op-Ed)Posted by Ian Alterman, Tuesday, December 30, 2008
NYT (3): Environment
Revelations about the Tennesse coal ash spill continue; "Weatherization" of homes creates jobs and brings down energy costs; and settlement of lawsuit against Navy re whales and sonar leaves environmentalists only marginally happy.Posted by Ian Alterman, Tuesday, December 30, 2008
NYT (2): International News
Gazprom is in serious trouble; and Iranian authorities raid the offices of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.Posted by Ian Alterman, Tuesday, December 30, 2008
NYT (2): Arts/Literature
A review of a book that sees the 1960s from a slightly different perspective; and a "false memoir" on the Holocaust is canceled.Posted by Ian Alterman, Tuesday, December 30, 2008
t r u t h o u t | Dan Rather’s $70 Million Lawsuit Likely to Deal Bush Legacy a New Blow
This is a case which deserves close attention. Not only about Bush's war service record but moreso for the other matters which it will expose in media/government relations. MBPosted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, December 30, 2008
AlterNet: This Week in God: Pat Robertson Turns on Bush, NYT Lies About Church Numbers, and More
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, December 30, 2008AlterNet: Was the ‘Credit Crunch’ a Myth Used to Sell a Trillion-Dollar Scam?
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, December 30, 2008Is a sustainable food strategy on Obama’s menu?
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Tuesday, December 30, 2008Words that matter: The greatest speeches of the 20th century
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Tuesday, December 30, 2008Are older people happier?
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Tuesday, December 30, 2008Chris Hedges: Why I Am a Socialist
go to story"Corporations have intruded into every facet of life. We eat corporate food. We buy corporate clothes. We drive corporate cars. We buy our vehicular fuel and our heating oil from corporations. We borrow from corporate banks. We invest our retirement savings with corporations. We are entertained, informed and branded by corporations. We work for corporations. The creation of a mercenary army, the privatization of public utilities and our disgusting for-profit health care system are all legacies of the corporate state. These corporations have no loyalty to America or the American worker. They are not tied to nation states. They are vampires" - Hedges
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Gideon Levy in Haaretz: The Neighborhood Bully Strikes Again
go to story"Once again, Israel's violent responses, even if there is justification for them, exceed all proportion and cross every red line of humaneness, morality, international law and wisdom. What began yesterday in Gaza is a war crime ... Hezbollah was not weakened as a result of the Second Lebanon War; to the contrary. Hamas will not be weakened due to the Gaza war; to the contrary" - Levy
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Tuesday, December 30, 2008
