Wednesday
Jun232010
Michael Klare: BP-Style Extreme Energy Nightmares to Come
June 23, 2010 Four Scenarios for the Next Energy Mega-Disaster
Forging his way through the predictable UK media censorship: Dr Andrew Wakefield Responds to Measles Outbreak in Swansea
June 23, 2010 Wednesday
Jun232010
U.S. Scores Dead Last Again in Healthcare Study
June 23, 2010 Americans spend twice as much as residents of other developed countries on healthcare, but get lower quality, less efficiency and have the least equitable system, according to a report released on Wednesday.
Wednesday
Jun232010
William Greider: Obama's Approach to Jobs Is Out of Touch with Reality
June 23, 2010 We are now witnessing a second great failure of the doctrine John Maynard Keynes devised for managing a healthy economy. This time, Washington faces the opposite problem—a starkly underperforming economy in which 10 percent of the workforce are without jobs and income.
Wednesday
Jun232010
The Dollar versus the Yuan: China’s Renminbi Announcement: A Big Head Fake
June 23, 2010 The Chinese central bank made a vague announcement about its currency policy on its website today, which the officialdom, on cue, treated as a major move (to wit: “China vows increased currency flexibility” at the Financial Times, “Chinese say they intend to free up their currency,” Washington Post).) As we describe below, this “announcement” is basically a non-statement to silence Westerners calling for a revaluation in the runup to the Toronto G-20 meeting later this month.
Tuesday
Jun222010
David Korten: The Big Picture -- 5 Ways to Know if You’re Making a Difference
June 22, 2010 In my career in international development, I saw, time and again, that the most successful projects were not the largest or the most carefully, centrally planned; they were the ones that arose from the bottom up. Likewise, successful social movements are emergent, evolving, radically self-organizing, and involve the dedicated efforts of many people, each finding the role that best uses his or her gifts and passions.
Tuesday
Jun222010
Peter Breggin: The Hazards of Psychiatric Diagnosis
June 22, 2010 Is there anything wrong with diagnosing ourselves or even accepting the mental health diagnoses of psychiatrists, family doctors, psychotherapists and other health professionals?
Tuesday
Jun222010
Vit D to reduce severity of influenza
June 22, 2010 A study conducted by investigators at Greenwich Hospital and Yale University School of Medicine finds Vitamin D reduces the risks of influenza infection.
Tuesday
Jun222010
Jim Hightower: Time to Take on Sarah Palin, the Tea Party Screamers, and Their Corporate Masters With Real Populism
June 22, 2010 Most of the big issues that our country faces defy right-left categorization. Take conservatism. It's a doctrine that classically embodies caution and...well, conservation. Yet the gushing and spreading Gulf Coast oil disaster was caused by people who proudly identify themselves as conservatives--including top executives of BP, Halliburton, and Transocean, as well as the top regulatory officials involved. However, they're not conservatives, they're anything-goes corporatists.
Tuesday
Jun222010
Five Times As Many Homeowners Bounced From Obama Plan To Slow Foreclosures As Granted New Relief
June 22, 2010 More than five times as many homeowners were kicked out of the Obama administration's primary foreclosure-prevention program last month than were granted new relief, new data released Monday show.
Monday
Jun212010
Robert Fisk: Fighting Talk: The New Propaganda
June 21, 2010 Journalism has become a linguistic battleground – and when reporters use terms such ‘spike in violence’ or ‘surge’ or ‘settler’, they are playing along with a pernicious game