OpEds— The struggle to save the environment must end up as a class struggle. By Fred Goldstein | Published Jun 21, 2010 | [print_link] The BP oil company, which has just unleashed the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, is part of the oil lobby that defeated all attempts to stop climate change in Copenhagen this [...]
Robert Greenwald interviews the controversial director June 26, 2010 | [print_link] By Robert Greenwald, Brave New Conversations [• With related feature: The New York Times poo-poohs Stone's documentary] Critically-acclaimed Hollywood Director Oliver Stone dropped by our studio for a Brave New Conversation, where I spoke with him about his latest documentary South of the Border, [...]
By Frank Schaeffer | June 25, 2010 | [print_link] The Obama/McChrystal debacle is symptomatic of a wider divide — the widening estrangement between our civilian elites and our military. McChrystal deserved to be fired and has been. But this event is a symptom of a bigger problem. PHOTO: Stanley McChrystal, part of a class apart. General [...]
Totalitarian democracy and the politics of plunder Editor’s Note: As one who has lived abroad at various points in his life—chiefly in Latin America and Europe—and as a person who has also lived most of his adult life in the United States and never ceases to be amazed at what Bageant details here so eloquently, [...]
Film Reviews— Stone’s ‘Border’ Shows Fall of South America’s Berlin Wall by Robert Naiman [print_link] On April 13, 2002, an event occurred in Venezuela which was as world-historical for South America as the fall of the Berlin Wall was for Eastern Europe: a U.S.-backed coup against the democratically-elected government of Venezuela collapsed. The Bush Administration’s [...]
From NAFTA to WTO to welfare “reform’ to the Telecommunications Bill, Wall Street never had better friend in the White House than Bill Clinton. That is, until Barack Obama simply outright changed the address of Goldman Sachs’ headquarters to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. As we speak, the president and his party in Congress are busy gutting [...]
The likely results of the White House shuffle of generals are, in fact, dangerous.The change makes the prospects dimmer for Obama executing a rapid–or even a measured–withdrawal from Afghanistan beginning in July 2011, as some in his administration had hoped. And the President may not yet realize how scandalized his political base has been at [...]
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