Our nation’s infrastructure is dying of old age and neglect. The solution is obvious: Repair and rebuild. We can't allow conservatives to have us running scared from this issue.
I care about the environment deeply - though not necessarily agreeing with all the policies of America's Green party or anywhere else for that matter. That said, in making Green Party Presidential candidates Jill Stein and Vice-Presidential candidate Cheri Honkala available to 85% of the US population they deserve to be heard by the electorate they seek to serve.
alternet.org — After reading Richard Eskow's article about Goldman Sachs getting a 'pat on the wrist' after committing offences that in the past could have shut them down I couldn't help but draw a link with this article about the influence Monsanto wields over the law and democracy.
alternet.org — A series of ongoing battles delineate the boundary of what, in the digital age, is personal, private life and information.
In a recent hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Al Franken reminded his fellow Americans, “People have a fundamental right to control their private information.” At the hearing, Franken raised an alarm about Carrier IQ’s software, CIQ.
tomdispatch.com — The Tomdispatch.com website has for years provided an alternative voice to the tainted and simply unrepresentative mainstream media that parrots the views of the plutocrats and their relentless drive against democracy in America.
This story provides some perspective; thoughts from veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan wars to the betrayal of the ideals they thought they were fighting for.
"Our Establishment, left, right, and center, did not see the wave coming or understand what it meant as it broke. Maybe it’s just human nature and the power of denial, or maybe it’s a stubborn strain of all-American optimism, but at each aftershock since the fall of Lehman Brothers, those at the top have preferred not to see what they didn’t want to see." - Frank Rich
War - "A state of open, armed, often prolonged conflict carried on between nations, states, or parties." - The Freedictionary
I know what you meant Mr Rich and I agree with the sentiment about class conflict but you should use the term war, carefully.
Taking aim at a practice she called unnecessary, costly and punitive, the speaker of the City Council, Christine C. Quinn, is asking the Bloomberg administration to justify requiring applicants for food stamps to be electronically fingerprinted.
telegraph.co.uk — US technological lead abandoned in the sixties because it didn't produce enough plutonium for nuclear bombs.
A few weeks before the tsunami struck Fukushima’s uranium reactors and shattered public faith in nuclear power, China revealed that it was launching a rival technology to build a safer, cleaner, and ultimately cheaper network of reactors based on thorium.
nextbigfuture.com — The words Millions and Billions and Trillions are bandied around by office bound politicians and media commentators with such an abstract detachment the sheer scale and meaning of what they say is easily lost on ordinary people who budget in the tens and hundreds from day to day.
Just how many unnecessary war machines, how much corruption, and how much greed can 1.3 Trillion sustain over thirty years. Just how many wars will we have to start to justify them, how many threats must we create and magnify to justify them. War = Profits. Fantastic profits
Think like a CEO and board, have a cigar, and think of a convincing argument..... for war.
guardian.co.uk — Today, the Centre for Constitutional Rights filed papers encouraging Judge Eloy Velasco and the Spanish national court to do what the United States will not: prosecute the "Bush Six". These are the former senior administration legal advisors, headed by then US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who violated international law by creating a legal framework that materially contributed to the torture of suspected terrorists at US-run facilities at Guantánamo and other overseas locations.
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After reading Richard Eskow's article about Goldman Sachs getting a 'pat on the wrist' after committing offences that in the past could have shut them down I couldn't help but draw a link with this article about the influence Monsanto wields over the law and democracy.
A series of ongoing battles delineate the boundary of what, in the digital age, is personal, private life and information. 
The words Millions and Billions and Trillions are bandied around by office bound politicians and media commentators with such an abstract detachment the sheer scale and meaning of what they say is easily lost on ordinary people who budget in the tens and hundreds from day to day.
