June 2012
2 posts
“The first steps to ending the Euro crisis are to end austerity, halting and...”
– James Meadway - Eurobonds: what they are, and why they won’t work | the new economics foundation
“Most importantly, he kept the whole of England from being conquered by the...”
– A politically incorrect guide to the greatest monarchs of all time – Telegraph Blogs
May 2012
8 posts
“For almost as long as there has been science in the West there has been a...”
– Marilynne Robinson, excerpt from “Freedom of Thought”, an essay from her new collection, When I Was a Child I Read Books (via veareflejos)
“Reaganomics and Thatcherism instigated the shift away from social cohesion to...”
– Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Is there no alternative to this tale of two nations? - Yasmin Alibhai-Brown - Commentators - The Independent
“The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist,”...”
– Nato talks security and peace, Chicago has neither | Gary Younge | Comment is free | The Guardian
“In New York City, last year, there were more stop and frisks, more racial...”
– Ben Jealous: “Heartbreaking” Trayvon Tapes Capture Experience of Millions Racially Profiled in U.S.
11 Things the Wealthiest Americans Can Buy for the... →
“The conviction of Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, is said to...”
– Imperialism didn’t end. These days it’s known as international law | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian
April 2012
4 posts
“Walmart is the third-largest U.S. corporate consumer of green power”
– Walmart Struggles to Overcome Environmental Criticism - US News and World Report
Gender and the Vestigial State of Religion | Prof... →
“The modern secular society is rejected by some Muslims. They demand a special...”
– Enemies of free speech | Index on Censorship
Signs of an Emerging Police State | The Media... →
March 2012
8 posts
“I talk to churches a lot about the difference between worship attendance,...”
– Red Letter Christians » Four Reasons I Came Back to Church
“China is one of the few countries in the world that spends more on domestic...”
– What’s going on in Xinjiang? | Stephen M. Walt
“Obama’s foolish decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan back in 2009...”
– Why Afghanistan was Obama’s biggest mistake | Stephen M. Walt
WatchTake a tour of Lansley’s private healthcare supporters.
“Far too often, actual legislation is not considered newsworthy enough to report...”
– Lamentable media coverage and state deception, the scandal of NHS legislation | openDemocracy
“The Google I was passionate about was a technology company that empowered its...”
– Why I left Google - JW on Tech - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
WatchThe Challenges of Live Radio
February 2012
4 posts
“We found that religious literacy is poor right across the public sphere.”
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Jim Dobbin and Gary Streeter, MPs
Godwin's Law
“As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.”
Richard Rohr on Institutions
In Falling Upward, Richard Rohr reminds us that institutions by nature are “first-half-of-life structures” that “must and will be concerned with identity, boundaries, self-maintenance, self-perpetuation and self-congratulation.”
“I have previously also remarked that the cost of tackling non-communicable...”
– Christian Medical Comment: Fantastic treatment breakthrough highlights utter scandal of British banking crisis
January 2012
13 posts
“There are 250 millionaires in Congress. Their median net worth is $891,506, nine...”
– US elections: no matter who you vote for, money always wins | Gary Younge | Comment is free | The Guardian
“Money in American politics was already an elephant in the room. Now the supreme...”
– US elections: no matter who you vote for, money always wins | Gary Younge | Comment is free | The Guardian
“Republican presidential debates are not for the faint-hearted. Last week in...”
– US elections: no matter who you vote for, money always wins | Gary Younge | Comment is free | The Guardian
“Bill Gates, who has pledged £478m to the Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis...”
– Philanthropy is the enemy of justice | Robert Newman | Comment is free | The Guardian
“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