January 2012
9 posts
“Most Iran specialists, including nationally recognized experts at the Center,...”
– Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation: Iran
““It will be said that in a world of internationally mobile capital and...”
– New Statesman - The coming battle over land and property
“A ‘normal’ working week of 21 hours could help to address a range of urgent,...”
– 21 hours | the new economics foundation
“It is our worldview that interprets the textual data, not the textual data that...”
– Dale Allison
“Alabama’s expansive anti-immigrant law, HB56, has been so economically...”
– Alabama Farmers Look To Replace Migrants With Prisoners | The Media Freedom Foundation
10 Elements of Church Planting Movements →
Red Letter Christians » Can Christians Learn from... →
“As I’ve said all along, the outcome in Afghanistan won’t have a big...”
– Why the new Defense Guidance is still interventionist | Stephen M. Walt
Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist |... →
Amazing piece of writing.
December 2011
23 posts
Fukushima: The Big Lie - UK Indymedia →
“One thing I have noticed on the ‘green jobs circuit’, is that no one knows who...”
– Hanna Thomas - What are the barriers harming green job creation? | the new economics foundation
“Mainstream neoclassical economics inhabits a fantasy world, a world of graphs...”
– Economics and the Real World
The Xinjiang Procedure | The Weekly Standard →
Dramatic evidence of forced organ harvesting of China’s political prisoners and ethnic minorities.
Next Year's Wars - By Louise Arbour | Foreign... →
Predictions for 2012:
Syria
Iran/Israel
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Yemen
Central Asia
Burundi
DRC
Kenya/Somalia
Venezuela
Tunisia
Myanmar
“All this outrage over people throwing a couple of bricks or rocks through...”
– MEDIAROOTS – Reporting From Outside Party Lines
“So, we’ve seen the construction of a worldwide torture regime, spying on...”
– MEDIAROOTS – Reporting From Outside Party Lines
Chomsky to Occupy: move to the next stage →
Noam Chomsky has advice for the Occupy movement, whose encampments all over the country are being swept away by police. The occupations were a “brilliant” idea, he says, but now it’s time to “move on to the next stage” in tactics. He suggests political organizing in the neighborhoods.
The Occupy camps have shown people how “to break out of this conception that we’re isolated.” But “just...
“The kind of tragic busybody who takes the time to write a letter protesting a...”
– The War on Christmas is real, and the atheist barbarians are winning it – Telegraph Blogs
““…a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative...”
– BBC News - At least 63 killed in co-ordinated Baghdad attacks
“The Public Accounts Committee said it had “serious concerns” about...”
– BBC News - HMRC criticised for ‘cosy’ deals by committee of MPs
“Prosecution witness admits “Collateral Murder” video is unclassified.”
– Bradley Manning Pre-Trial: Live Blog, Day 2 | The Dissenter
“Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans - nearly 1 in 2 -...”
– News from The Associated Press
“Even as the ranks of Britain’s poor and unemployed have been swelled by...”
– Owen Jones: Here’s the question… could you live on £67 a week? - Commentators - Opinion - The Independent
BREAKING NEWS | Los Angeles Becomes FIRST Major... →
“Green growth is the solution, even to our financial crisis. As long as we can...”
– Exclusive: Ex-Greek PM George Papandreou on Greece’s Fiscal Crisis and Why He Backs Occupy Movement
“I believe that we have a democratic challenge around the world right now,...”
– Exclusive: Ex-Greek PM George Papandreou on Greece’s Fiscal Crisis and Why He Backs Occupy Movement
WatchIncredible footage from a tsunami survivor’s car.
PressTV - UK uni gets injunction against protests →
“Stop your crowing about Cameron leaving Britain marginalised, lefties. The...”
– New Statesman - The EU treaty is a disaster for the left
“In 2009 the energy industries, backed by business lobbies, launched major...”
– Marching Off the Cliff | Truthout
“In 2010, the total investment in renewable energy in the UK fell dramatically,...”
– UK green energy projects fall by wayside in dash for gas | Environment | The Guardian
November 2011
15 posts
“Webb’s hermeneutic is concerned with navigating between the world of the Bible...”
– SAET » William Webb on Hermeneutics » The Society for the Advancement of Ecclesial Theology
“Eighteen months into a sovereign debt crisis — and after many futile efforts to...”
– Time Runs Short for Europe to Resolve Debt Crisis - NYTimes.com
Occupy Wall Street's first fatality (VIDEO) — RT →
“The 28 Rochdale Pioneers spawned a worldwide Movement which is owned by nearly...”
– Rochdale is named World Capital of Co-operatives | Co-operative News
“Increasingly US police department are acquiring armored vehicles and military...”
– Tanks in the Police Force | The Media Freedom Foundation
How ATOS could be put in charge of GP ‘sick notes’... →
“Berlusconi’s popularity derives from a secret pact with the...”
– New Statesman - Berlusconi’s last stand
“While Perry and the pacemakers play drums, the Gulf’s Sunni-led...”
– Iran could be the unmaking of Obama’s presidency | Simon Tisdall | Comment is free | The Guardian
“In their book Snakes in Suits, Paul Babiak and Robert Hare point out that as the...”
– The 1% are the very best destroyers of wealth the world has ever seen | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian
“Throughout the first two quarters of this year, even as tensions in the region...”
– ‘Liberating’ Libya and Iraq is ‘good’ for British arms companies
“I am getting a little old. And as you get old, there are three questions you...”
– Image by koke via Flickr
Reg Dean, Britain’s oldest man, speaking at his 109th birthday party (November 4th 2011).
“There are no old people in Friends, there are no children in Friends, there are...”
– Phil Whittall
“If the Occupy movement bears the mantle of one form of anti-statist,...”
– Luke Bretherton: The Real Battle of St Paul Cathedral: The Occupy Movement and Millennial Politics
“Half the workers of the world — close to 1.8 billion people — were...”
– The Shadow Superpower - By Robert Neuwirth | Foreign Policy
October 2011
17 posts
“There’s simply no way, in an economy with efficiently organized production, to...”
– Battle for the Heart of the Occupy Movement
“Antagonism to mass movements and to social change that escapes the control of...”
– Educate, agitate, occupy / Features / Home - Morning Star