The WAPO, for once, performs a genuine public service by running this story Low Road to Splitsville— Right-Wing Publisher’s Breakup Is Super-Rich In Tawdry Details By David Segal Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, October 22, 2007 PITTSBURGH With some select comments from original thread [print_link] Looking for a perfect little weekend vacation this fall? Here’s a [...]
The Israeli lobby’s brazen intrigues and naked power are becoming an embarrassment to the American political elite James Petras’ powerful 2006 book titled, “The Power of Israel in the United States” explained the enormous Jewish Lobby influence on US Middle East policies. Often harming American interests, they’re pursued anyway because of its grassroots and high-level [...]
As most everyone knows by now, ever more American jobs, recently even white-collar jobs, have been, and are now being, transferred to low-wage workers in other countries. Since 2000, the U.S. has lost 5.5 million manufacturing jobs, with 2.1 million of those jobs being lost in the last two years alone. Since 2001, over 42,400 [...]
Editorial feature: How expanding animal agriculture swamped Pakistan BY MERRITT CLIFTON & KIM BARTLETT Crossposted with ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2010 [print_link] Is the world close to reaching finite ecological limits on the production capacity of animal agriculture? • Flooding inundating more than a fifth of Pakistan in recent weeks may demonstrate that the limits have [...]
I first fished at age five, with my brother Greg, who is one year younger. Each of us caught a perch out of a lake in St. Paul, Minnesota. Fascinated, we watched the two perch swim around in a small bucket until first one and then the other died. I don’t remember what happened to [...]
“’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe….” –Lewis Carroll . “Enough for everyone; too much for none.” –Woof . Riff One My house is foreclosed on, my job is outsourced, and my wife runs away with a banker. So…,I figure there’s nothing left to do but pack up the [...]
We reprint below —in mildly annotated form—Jane Mayer’s important New Yorker exposé of the Koch brothers, a heinous, underhanded plutocratic duo. The interesting thing is that the idiotic hostility of these billionaire American satraps bathes Obama and his irrefutably conservative, pro-financial oligarchy administration in a leftish glow that they scarcely deserve. Such opposition from the [...]
The myth of “exceptionalism” has cut a wide swath in the American consciousness, all to the bad, but its roots lie buried in the conceits of England itself. <> YOU MAY NOT REGARD the two propositions in my title as deserving of any special attention. You may think, entirely correctly, that if we as Americans [...]
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