Thursday
Jul082010
Myth: America is Conservative
July 8, 2010 New Report Documents Progressive American Majority Independent Public Polls Debunk Conventional Wisdom That Americans Agree With Conservative Agenda
Forging his way through the predictable UK media censorship: Dr Andrew Wakefield Responds to Measles Outbreak in Swansea
July 8, 2010 Thursday
Jul082010
The Big Lie: BP, Governments Downplay Public Health Risk From Oil and Dispersants
July 8, 2010 Public officials have failed to sound an alarm about the public health threat because three federal agencies - DHHS, EPA, and OSHA - cannot find any unsafe levels of oil in air or water. Perhaps the federal air and water standards are not stringent enough to protect the public from oil pollution. Our federal laws [3] are outdated and do not protect us from the toxic threat from oil - now widely recognized in the scientific and medical community.
Thursday
Jul082010
Tea Party Think Tank Founded By Clarence Thomas' Wife Makes Common Cause With Militia Guru Larry Pratt
July 8, 2010 Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, as a new job, running a think tank she founded to appeal to Tea Party supporters. Liberty Central, according to Kenneth P. Vogel, writing in Politico, "appears to be positioning itself as a hybrid think tank/advocacy group/campaign arm for the tea party movement."
Wednesday
Jul072010
Joe Bageant: Waltzing at the Doomsday Ball: Capitalism is dead, but we still dance with the corpse
July 7, 2010 Capitalism wouldn't be around today, at least not in its current pathogenic form, if it had not caught a couple of lucky breaks. The first of course, was the expansion of bloodsucking colonialism to give it transfusions of unearned wealth, enabling "investors" to profit by artificial means (death, oppression and slavery). But the biggest break was being driven to stratospheric heights by inordinate quantities of available hydrocarbon energy. Inordinate, but never the less finite.
Wednesday
Jul072010
Over 25% of flowers face extinction – many before they are even discovered
July 7, 2010 Scientists say human activity could spell end for a quarter of all flowering plants, with huge impact on food chain
Wednesday
Jul072010
Mike Whitney: More Red Flags for the Economy
July 7, 2010 Bonds are signaling that the recovery is in trouble. The yield on the 10-year Treasury (2.97 percent) has fallen to levels not seen since the peak of the crisis while the yield on the two-year note has dropped to historic lows. This is a sign of extreme pessimism. Investors are scared and moving into liquid assets. Their confidence has begun to wane.
Wednesday
Jul072010
Abandoned Oil Wells Make Gulf of Mexico 'Environmental Minefield'
July 7, 2010 AP investigation finds BP was responsible for 600 of more than 27,000 abandoned wells in the Gulf of Mexico
Tuesday
Jul062010
Global Emissions Targets Will Lead to 4C Temperature Rise, Say Studies
July 6, 2010 Studies predict major extinctions and collapse of Greenland ice sheet with temperatures rising well above UN targets
Tuesday
Jul062010
7 Lessons Saul Alinsky Would Give Progressives Today
July 6, 2010 The far right is both hypnotized and terrified of the non-socialist Alinsky whom it brackets with Karl Marx in some of its more hysterical offerings. A better pairing would be with Tom Paine as both were in-the-trenches small "d" democrats. Today literally hundreds of grassroots organizations here and in other countries trace their origins to Alinsky, his ideas and his organizing.
Tuesday
Jul062010
Ralph Nader: Hammering the Poor and Vulnerable
July 6, 2010 There is a reason why, so many centuries ago, every major religion warned its adherents not to give too much power to the "merchant class." That reason is still here - the commercial drive knows few self-imposed boundaries, especially when it resides in large corporations.