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Newest Blog Entries:
AlterNet: Americans Rise Up Against the Supreme Court Decision to Create Corporate Frankensteins
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, February 26, 2010AlterNet: Why Growing Numbers of Baby Boomers and the Elderly Are Smoking Pot
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, February 26, 2010NYT Editorial & Op-Eds (4)
The Times on NYS' switch to optical scanners ("The integrity of our elections will be in jeopardy if the nation’s largest voting machine company acquires its biggest rival"); Did Paul Krugman and David Brooks watch the same summit?! ("Since Republicans didn’t bother making much of a case at Thursday’s White House meeting, Democrats may have the last laugh by finishing the job and enacting health reform"; "The health care summit may not have bridged the partisan rift, but there were moments of hope for the next set of reformers"); and psychotherapy for the Middle East ("Therapeutic diplomacy, not just rational negotiation, is the way forward in the Middle East")Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, February 26, 2010
NYT (6): National News
PATERSON WITHDRAWS FROM GOVERNOR'S RACE; House admonishes Rangel for gifts; Labor-green alliance to clear air at ports; Wal-Mart adds new seriously green policy; Mexican drug kingpin gets 25 years after "secret" trial; and a ridiculous, bizarre nutrition policy is approved for NYC school fundraisers.Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, February 26, 2010
NYT (4): International Affairs
Goldman Sachs et al under investigation re Greek economic crisis; In hypocritical move, al-Maliki reinstates Baathist army officers after refusing to allow Baathist candidates; Khamenei remains instransigent re compromise with opposition; and Falklands dispute may be premature.Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, February 26, 2010
Mark Weisbrot: Latin America’s Path to Independence
Weisbrot in The Guardian...Latin America took another historic step forward this week with the creation of a new regional organisation of 32 Latin American and Caribbean countries. The United States and Canada were excluded. The increasing independence of Latin America has been one of the most important geopolitical changes over the last decade, affecting not only the region but the rest of the world as well.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Friday, February 26, 2010
US Advice to Europe: Spend More on War-Making
Our SOD huckstering for the Merchants of DeathPosted by Michael Butler, Thursday, February 25, 2010
daggatt blog: boehner vs. boehner
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, February 25, 2010Debt Dynamite Dominoes: The Coming Financial Catastrophe
Very negative however the possibility exists. mbPosted by Michael Butler, Thursday, February 25, 2010
Robert L. Borosage: Bipartisan Blight 4: The Shrinking Jobs Bill
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, February 25, 2010Truthdig – No Banker Left Behind – Robert Scheer
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, February 25, 2010AlterNet: Exposing the Great American Bubble Barons: Join Us in the Investigation
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, February 25, 2010Washington Times: Explosive News
9/11 Truth goes mainstream! WT picks up on planned litigation against NIST officials re collapse of WTC 7.Posted by Ian Alterman, Thursday, February 25, 2010
NYT Editorial & Op-Eds (3)
The Times is unhappy with DOJ's ruling on Yoo and Bybee ("The two lawyers who produced the torture memos for the Bush administration may have been excused by a senior Justice Department official, but the quest for accountability must continue"); Why the U.S. is not an empire on the verge of collapse ("Vice President Joe Biden is right to insist that America has little in common with Rome or Britain before their empires collapsed"); and Nick Kirstof on a possible new culprit re autism ("Autism and other development disorders constitute a huge national health burden, and suspicions are growing that one culprit may be chemicals in the environment").Posted by Ian Alterman, Thursday, February 25, 2010
NYT (6): National News
Senate approves (weakened) jobs bill; SCOTUS says Miranda rights do not preclude requestioning; Officer charged in post-Katrina shooting cover-up; Vermont to close nuclear plant; Hummer goes the way of the dodo; and your tomato-related canned product may be tainted.Posted by Ian Alterman, Thursday, February 25, 2010
NYT (3): International Affairs
Outrageously, banks bet against Greece; Italy convicts three Google execs in privacy case; and British panel condemns Murdoch for hacking phones of royal family and others.Posted by Ian Alterman, Thursday, February 25, 2010
Glenn Greenwald: Dems Hiding Behind Filibuster to Justify Political Inaction on Public Option
Democracy NowPosted by Mike Blaxill, Thursday, February 25, 2010
