EU Politics: Arab Spring’s Migrants Are Giving the Far-Right a Boost
The European Union’s interior ministers met in Luxembourg on April 11, 2011 to discuss a recent spike of undocumented migrants from North Africa in the aftermath of the Tunisian revolution. Italy alone has reported that 26,000 migrants have entered the country since the North African unrest started in January 2011. One of the numerous threats […]
Obama’s Budget Plan: A “Kinder, Gentler” Corporatocracy
American society seems to have degenerated to the point that it resembles a massive factory floor, or plantation, rather than a sovereign country of free individuals. The extent of democracy is now limited to choosing who gets to be the foreman. The real bosses are far beyond the reach of, and accountability to, the American […]
Racism and How We Discuss the Arab Revolution
Image by L&K Designs – Go Here For T-Shirts and Other Products With This Great Design The goals of those that have risen up against the oppression of tyrannical governance are fighting for the basic rights and needs of all human beings. They want access to sufficient food and clean water. They want to […]
Bailing out the Dying: In the fight against AIDS, The Good News is–Hopelessness is a Lie
By Kenneth Lipp Countries spent an average of 16.9 percent of their GDP, worldwide, bailing out banks and private financial institutions (source: World Bank- “A User’s Guide to Banking Crises”) in the year 2000. The original allocation for the now infamous bailout of U.S. leviathans such as Goldman-Sachs was 700 billion dollars, and though the […]
The Path of Resistance, Because to Feel Something Is to Be Alive
Simple people,people who don’t exist,prefer things which don’t exist,simple things. e.e. cummings; six nonlectures Al Gore had a few minor errors of no particular consequence in his movie “An Inconvenient Truth“, but his book “The Assault on Reason” was wildly wrong in at least two important respects: i) The internet has proven to be a […]
