Friday, February 27, 2004
Globalization RevisitedDemocrats' arguments against outsourcing are overstated — and effective.
January/February 2004 Issue of Mother Jones
George W. Bush wants to run this year as a “war president,” but voters seem more inclined to judge him as a “jobs president.” Never mind that the president actually has little sway over the business cycle; millions of jobs [...]
Friday, February 27, 2004
[ The U.S. has a history of toppling democracies in the hemisphere; and it's not just Chile and Nicaragua, but even Haiti itself in recent decades: corporate interests trumped democracy and international law again (see footnotes 51-60 of Chomsky's Understanding Power for more sources on Haiti). Against this back-drop, it would not be surprising to [...]
Friday, February 27, 2004
The Flight to India
The jobs Britain stole from the Asian subcontinent 300 years ago are now returning. Is this a good thing or a bad one?
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 21st October 2003
If you live in a rich nation in the English-speaking world, and most of your work involves a computer [...]
Friday, February 20, 2004
The New Scopes Trials
This article can be found on the web at The Nation
by ERIC ALTERMAN & MARK GREEN
[from the March 8, 2004 issue]
What if the research agenda of the University of Texas College of Natural Sciences were drafted not by the professors who actually conduct the studies but by, say, the alumni who [...]
Thursday, February 19, 2004
[ Saletan argues (below) on the basis of exit polls from states in which Republicans voted in Democratic primaries that Edwards may be more likely than Kerry to win Republican votes in November. The Republicans featured in the cited polls (i.e., those disposed to crossover) may not be representative of all Republicans; but crossover Republicans (and [...]
Friday, February 13, 2004
[ Could Bush make it any more clear that he is not interested in being "a uniter," as he likes to put it? Silberman, the one he appointed to head the commission to investigate intelligence failures prior to the Iraq War, is a sneaky partisan who let Oliver North off the hook. --doclalor ]Bush Appoints [...]
Friday, February 13, 2004
On a lighter note for those in need of catharsis, if you have not seen this very funny ad for a (fictional) G.W. Bush action figure, you should: [ link ]
Friday, February 13, 2004
[ In the latest open letter (below) of Michael Moore, he in effect challenges Bush to honor his promise, made Sunday on Meet the Press, to authorize release of all records relevant to determining his status in the Guard from 1972 to 1973. White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan is a broken record on this: [...]
Friday, February 13, 2004
Comcast wants to acquire Disney and become the largest communications company in the world. Most of the media is already controlled by a small number of giant companies (see http://www.mediareform.net). These companies are not in business for the good of local communities, nor to promote genuine, free discussion on important issues for the good of [...]
[ The Bush and Blair Administrations, and officials high in the Iraqi Ministry of Health, all discouraged counting the number of civilians killed as a result of the U.S.-led attack on Iraq. --doclalor ]
The terrible human cost of Bush and Blair's military adventure: 10,000 civilian deaths
UK and US authorities discourage counting of deaths as a [...]