Wednesday, March 29, 2006
US Living on Borrowed Time - and Money
In 1987, Yale historian Paul Kennedy published The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, in which he argued that "military overstretch" - where conquering nations engaged in more foreign military adventures than their economic resources could support - led to the eventual decline and fall of empires....
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Tuesday, March 7, 2006
POVERTY IS RIFE IN AMERICA
The catholic church has come out with a report on poverty in the richest nation on Earth, and it makes for devastating reading. The number of people living in poverty in America is 37 MILLION people! That's around 13% of the population! Is that not just a huge embarassment for all those who talk in...
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Monday, March 6, 2006
America the Pitiful
Calling our form of government a democratic republic does not make it so. We are what we do. By now it should be abundantly clear that most Americans are incapable of recognizing real democracy—because they have never been subjected to one. Perhaps no culture on earth is more materialistic or...
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Monday, February 13, 2006
CLIMATE CHANGE, ANYONE?
So, New york got - what? - 27 inches of snow last night? The largest single fall since records began? I wonder how many woke up and thought, "Uh-oh. Climate change." And I wonder how many just switched on to Faux News to be told what to think today.
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Tuesday, November 1, 2005
BAD SCIENCE IN THE BUSH "ADMINISTRATION"
I've just been taking a look at "The Republican War on Science" by Chris Mooney, and it makes for very interesting reading. The collaboration between science and government in the US began during WWII, and has ticked along quit nicely for decades. The scientists didn't want much; a bit of annual...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2005
ARE YOU SERIOUS ABOUT WORKERS' RIGHTS?
Then go sign this petition... http://action.americanrightsatwork.org/campaign/walmartdem? Wal-Mart are demonstrably anti-union, and that's just not good enough.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005
SHAME ON YOU, AMERICA!
Remind me again, Uncle Sam - who was on that fictional list you made up and titled "Axis of Evil"? North Korea - well, yes, slanty eyes and nuclear pretensions. Can't be having that, can we? Israel - friends in Washington, massive financial and military aid from Washington, nuclear weapons (though...
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Tuesday, October 4, 2005
Make Every Drug Legal - NOW!!
In the last post I showed you how the media put a party-line spin on the drugs issue, and how we're told that the root of the problem is the growers, the guerillas, the drugs barons, the smugglers, the dealers, the users. None of those are the root of the problem. The root of the problem is the...
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Drug Spin
Well, the update on the Kate Moss cocaine story (as covered in Fishing in the Rivers of Light) is that H&M have decided against dropping her after she made a public apology and promised to go into rehab. Meanwhile, the police here in the UK are said to be launching their own investigation. Is that...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2005
A PLEA FOR THE ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE
As you read this, thousands of concerned citizens are gathering on Capitol Hill to tell Congress to keep the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge off-limits to oil drilling. To mark this national day of Arctic Refuge Action, the novelist T.A. Barron -- a passionate conservationist -- has captured so...
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