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Ding dong! Maggie’s dirty deeds live on
From a 2004 column in Daily Mail on what happened to the working class in Britain after Margaret Thatcher’s successful crusade to kill the miners’ union: … What the [coal miners'] st… more →
Odd Man Out
Ding dong! Maggie's dirty deeds live on
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wrote 1 month ago: From a 2004 column in Daily Mail on what happened to the working class in Britain after Margaret Tha … more →
Zizek on OWS: Where to next?
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wrote 1 year ago: Slovoj Zizek quoting from Ninotchka: 'Sorry, but we have run out of cream, we only have milk. Can I … more →
U.S. is leader of the pack -- in poverty rates
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wrote 1 year ago: In an article in Boston Review, Paul Osterman notes that income inequality in the United States is m … more →
Serfin' USA (the new feudalism)
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wrote 1 year ago: Did Cameron Diaz go under the knife? Will the stars of Hangover 3 score big pay increases? These are … more →
The Facebook bubble
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wrote 1 year ago: A massive con job may be in progress in the form of the coming Facebook IPO, which will supposedly v … more →
Slave labor is good for business
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wrote 1 year ago: A depressing piece in the Sunday New York Times re-explained why the U.S. is losing huge numbers of … more →
Japan's job-killing robots
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wrote 1 year ago: You thought Godzilla was scary? Wait until Nextage emerges fully grown from Japan: Japanese firm Kaw … more →
Joe Conason, meet Karl Rove
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wrote 1 year ago: A resolution for 2012: Don’t read opinion pieces by knee-jerk Obama supporters who profess to … more →
Victoria loved them all, including Iran
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wrote 1 year ago: People who follow the news in a superficial way may have read about the storming of the British Emba … more →
Austerity measures = medieval bleeding
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wrote 1 year ago: Millions are protesting in Britain, and it’s no wonder — the government is making an alr … more →
On lies and the lying liars quoted in the NYT
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wrote 1 year ago: I was going to post some comments on a New York Times story in which Wall Street types were asked to … more →
Elected Dems to protesters -- we're with you, sort of
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wrote 1 year ago: Chris Hedges, plainly stating why “liberal” has become a dirty word not only to right-wi … more →
Freedom of assembly? Not in MY public space
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wrote 1 year ago: From Michael Kimmelman’s thoughtful piece about… well, about America’s rediscovery … more →
Don't judge me by my shoes...
wrote 1 year ago: The Band was peaking as a creative force when “King Harvest (Has Surely Come)” appeared … more →
Bloomberg backs off plan to sweep away OWS
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wrote 1 year ago: Weary looking Russell Simmons, answering a reporter’s question about Occupy Wall Street after … more →
Talking with voters, walking with CEOs
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wrote 1 year ago: What will it mean to American voters that Barack Obama has signed into law three trade deals that wi … more →
Question for NYT: WHOSE economy is growing?
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wrote 1 year ago: News stories often raise more questions than they answer. Such is the case with an article by Robert … more →
Obama sides with banksters, not protesters
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wrote 1 year ago: OK, we knew this all along, but I still winced when I read it in Firedoglake: For perhaps the first … more →
What's crazier, belief in UFOs or in 'free trade'?
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wrote 1 year ago: "Let's watch the American Earthlings destroy themselves." Who else remembers when pre … more →
