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Emersberger: Note to Peter Beaumont Re Civility, Honest Engagement and telling readers to F*** Off
Blog Post, August, 26 2012
Joe Emersberger
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Note to Peter Beaumont Re Civility, Honest Engagement and telling readers to F*** Off
Kavanagh: No Account: The Social Security Hope-a-Dope
Blog Post, August, 25 2012
Jim Kavanagh
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So let me understand the strategy: FDL gathers a gazillion signatures on their internet petition, with Joe Biden’s “guarantee” in bold italics, and sends it off to Obama campaign headquarters with the stern warning that they are going to “Hold Th...
Evans: IOPS: Interim Goals?
Blog Post, August, 24 2012
Mark Evans
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A discussion on IOPS interim goals including some suggestions etc...
Jones: The Grind of Austerity: Sadness and Hope
Blog Post, August, 24 2012
Chris Jones
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More reflections on the impact of austerity on the island of Samos and an attempt to assess and identify some of the issues which seem to be, at this time, inhibiting our resistance.
Kavanagh: Too Many Cooks: The Syrian Demise
Blog Post, August, 23 2012
Jim Kavanagh
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The Assad/Alawite regime is cooking in a stew of its own penchant for brutality, which has folded into the cleverness of the United States and Saudi Arabia in crafting a strategy for hijacking “Arab Spring” anti-authoritarian uprisings for counter...
Emersberger: Assange, Treviño, and the Limits of Debate in the Corporate Press
Blog Post, August, 23 2012
Joe Emersberger
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Assange, Treviño, and the Limits of Debate in the Corporate Press
Lewis: What are schools really for?
Blog Post, August, 23 2012
Stephen Lewis
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This isn’t a rhetorical question. This short article isn’t even a polemic. I’m posing a genuine question - as the question mark implies. Honestly I really don’t know. I went through the English education system and, later on, studied at Universiti...
Lewis: Thoughts on the Limits of Economic Prediction
Blog Post, August, 23 2012
Stephen Lewis
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Economics doesn’t seem able to predict anything of great import. It certainly didn’t seem able to predict or even, after the fact, explain the recent banking and financial crisis; the repercussions of which will be felt by millions for decades to ...
Lewis: Humpty Dumpty Economics – The Myth of Dematerialization
Blog Post, August, 23 2012
Stephen Lewis
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There is an English expression that tells us that you can’t make omelettes without breaking a few eggs. This is usually taken to mean that in order to achieve something or make progress there are often losers in the process – true enough though a ...
Lewis: Space, Time and Pinhead Economics
Blog Post, August, 23 2012
Stephen Lewis
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What happens instantaneously on a pinhead that exists nowhere and everywhere? Most economic activity according to the dominant strain of economics. The absence of space and time is just one reason why such economics is so unhelpful in addressing q...
Targol: Reza Shahabi's health worsening
Blog Post, August, 23 2012
Hoshang Targol
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Reza Shahabi's (incarcerated Iranian Labor leader) health is rapidly deteriorating. He was sent back to jail after his operation, instead of hospital.
Targol: IASWI strongly condemns the massacre of striking mineworkers in South Africa
Blog Post, August, 21 2012
Hoshang Targol
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IASWI strongly condemns the massacre of striking mineworkers in South Africa
Lee: KEITH HAMPTON'S RESEARCH ON THE SOCIAL EFFECTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA SITES
Blog Post, August, 20 2012
Terri Lee
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This is a reposted research article from Rutgers University -- archived August 12, 2012 -- by Lisa Intrabartola: "Rutgers Professor's Research Shows Social Network Sites Foster Close and Diverse Connections:Keith Hampton pokes holes in the theory ...
Greeman: The horrors of socialized medicine in France
Blog Post, August, 20 2012
Richard Greeman
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Longtime Marxist-humorist and activist Richard Greeman describes what it is like to need three operations in France, under state-controlled, initiative-killing, bureaucratic, inhuman, impersonal, inefficient socialised medicine, constrained by tot...
Andrews: Media Lens Article - 'The Man Who Knew Everyone' - Gore Vidal Through The Eyes Of The Eyes Of The One Percent Press
Blog Post, August, 20 2012
John Andrews
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Gore Vidal took great delight in demolishing the fragile confections of ‘mainstream’ politics. While corporate journalists typically portray US Presidents as benign demigods, Vidal described George W. Bush as ‘the stupidest man in the United States’.
Shepherd: Ted Turner's Blunder
Blog Post, August, 19 2012
Lester Shepherd
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At one point the media tycoon, Ted Turner, came close to acquiring a major network. Had he, this country could have been converted to a decent society from one of hucksters.
Bybee: Study Shows Need for Minimum-Wage Hike, but Obama seems AWOL
Blog Post, August, 19 2012
Roger Bybee
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'Pnatomomime' replaces political commitment and real campaign to aid working poor
Wilson: Flawed Food History: Farm Justice Missing from Timeline
Blog Post, August, 18 2012
Brad Wilson
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A Food Movement Timeline is a great idea, but it should include the farm side of food justice. This one misses most of that, which is related to the failure of the food movement to adequately advocate for US and global farm justice.
Wilson: Parecomic book ready
Blog Post, August, 18 2012
Sean Michael Wilson
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Parecomic book finished.
Wilson: Food Dialogue Fails: Firetrucks (Subsidies) Don’t Cause Fires (of Injustice)
Blog Post, August, 15 2012
Brad Wilson
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Farmers have been excluded from food movement dialogues. This has led the food movement to failed advocacy, where food movement “principles” lead to advocacy that directly violates those principles. Here’s the story. This blog summarizes a longer...


