Recent Stories (that should be) Of Interest
It’s Not Just a Few Bad Eggs: We Need a Better Food Safety System
Is There Any Point in Fighting to Stave off Industrial Apocalypse?
By George Monbiot and Paul Kingsnorth, The Guardian. Posted August 19, 2009.
What A Jobless Recovery Today Means For Tomorrow?
Will GOP Powerhouse Grassley's Obstructionism Put Him on the Hot Seat?
7 Ways We Can Fight Back Against the Rising Fascist Threat
With a Billion People Living on Less Than $1 a Day, Is Buying Luxury Shoes Ethical?
"Sensitive" Oil Industry Memo Lays Out Plan For Astroturf Rallies Against Climate Change Bill
Lou Dobbs Tours Single-Payer Systems Abroad and Realizes, Holy Crap They're Good!
Why the Right's 'Astroturfing' Propaganda Is Textbook Psychopathic
15 Horrifying Reasons to Never Let Anyone You Love Near a McDonald's
Climate Disobedience Is on the Rise and It's Not Just for Radical Activists Anymore
Orgasmic Organics: 20 Healthy Ways to Rev Up Your Sex Life
Why Corporations, Emerging Powers and Petro-States Are Snapping Up Huge Chunks of Farmland in the Developing World
It really is this easy to take back your life from corporations. Hunter gatherers work 18 to 26 hours a week in the wilds. This wonderful machine of ours is really eating us alive and we just keep working to make others fabulously wealthy. Just read these stories and ask yourself the question: "Who am I making richer?".
Are We All Corporate Shills?
How We Became a Society of Gluttonous Junk Food Addicts
Right-Wing Turncoat Gives the Inside Scoop on Why Conservatives Are Rampaging Town Halls
Read This one first, because it's too serious - How Bad Will the Economy Get? Really, Really Bad
Then read this one: The Rise of Gonzo Porn Is the Latest Sign of America's Cultural Apocalypse
And then finally, this one from the Heyoka himself, Joe Bageant: Consciousness Capitalism: Corporations Are Now After Our Very Beings
Thanks to Our Fossil Fuel Addiction, We May Be Setting Ourselves Up for a Catastrophic Natural Event
The Global Warming Lie Detector
Climate Skeptic: "I Was Hoping People At EPA Would Pay Attention" To My Work
Betraying the Planet
Dean Baker | Economy Loses 467,000 Jobs In June; Unemployment Edges Up to 9.5 Percent
Kill the Indian. Save the Man.
John Trudell - Madness and This sounds like the guy who read the poetry for Dead Flag Blues by Godspeed you! Black Emperor.
Scientists reveal the effect of fishing on cod size and question turning crops into fuel.
Today's unsettling comparison to 'the great dying'
Report Provides Blueprint for Communities to Tackle Global Warming
Hey Progressives, Join Forces to Fight the Health Insurance Industry!
On the Streets of China, Electric Bikes Are Swarming
U.S. Study Projects How 'Unequivocal Warming' Will Change Americans' Lives
US "Problem" Banks Rise to 15-Year High, FDIC Says -
Margaret Chadbourn and Alison Vekshin, Bloomberg News: "US 'problem' banks climbed 21 percent to the highest total in 15 years in the first quarter as provisions set aside for loan losses weighed on earnings, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said."
Our Urban Future
Bill Moyers: How Can We Expect an Industry That Profits from Disease and Sickness to Police Itself?
Supreme Court Hands Medical Marijuana Major Victory
Ditching My Wheels
The 10 Most Popular Conspiracy Theories
Deadly Salmonella: Frozen Food's Newest Ingredient
Obama's Guantanamo Appeasement Plan
Note to Garrison Keillor: "No Justice, No Peace"
Bush May Haunt Republicans for Generations to Come
Why Goldman Sachs Is the Greediest and Most Dastardly of the Wall Street Pigs -
By Jim Hightower, May 22, 2009.
People Died in New Orleans because Donald Rumsfeld is a fucking asshole?
Wall St. and the Media Are Trying to Make Us Forget Who Started the Financial Crash
How We Talk About The Environment Has Everything To Do With Whether Well Save It
Global Warming's Six Americas
An Audience Segmentation Analysis
Howard Zinn: Changing Obama's Military Mindset
The Case of the Missing H-Bomb: The Pentagon Has Lost the Mother of All Weapons
Michael Pollan: "Don't Buy Any Food You've Ever Seen Advertised"
The Luis Ramirez Murder: A Violent Act of Injustice
Income, Nothing But Income
Farmer in Chief
The Nuclear Heart of the Earth
My Interview With Economist James K. Galbraith
Wednesday 06 May 2009
Memo to Media: Populism Is a Rebellion Against Corporate Power -- It's Not Just Stupid, Raw Anger
By Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. Posted May 8, 2009.
Life Among the Eco-Capitalists: A Revolution Takes Hold in New Jersey
Climate Chaos Predicted by CO2 Study
Bad Trouble in Pakistan
Conservatives Live in a Different Moral Universe -- And Here's Why It Matters
Defying the Economic Odds: The World Melts Down, China Grows
