Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Jared Berstein on the End-Game Created by Concentration of Wealth and Its Handmaiden, Power

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Jared Bernstein argues that   we have locked ourselves into a going-nowhere end-game in Western culture, because "the concentration o...

Naomi Klein on Riots as Response to Global Saqueo, "A Time of Great Taking"

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Naomi Klein on London riots as a response of an underclass being permanently cut off from the social mainstream to the grand Saqueo (i.e....
Sunday, August 14, 2011

Forrest Wilder: Mainstream Media Look the Other Way at Perry Show

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Forrest Wilder on how the mainstream media continue to soft-sell the prejudice, ignorance, and downright cruelty of the religious right--...
Saturday, August 13, 2011

NOM Loses Two Court Battles to Keep Donors Hidden

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Another small, but to my mind significant, news tidbit left over from last week: the anti-gay group National Organization of Marriage this...

CNN Reporter Don Lemon Shoved by Bachmann Staff (and Husband) in Iowa Yesterday

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African-American CNN reporter Don Lemon, who came out as a gay man this past May, reports that Michelle Bachmann's staff members and...

Hand Thanks Glove: Archbishop Dolan Thanks Bully Billy Donohue for Defending Him

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Hand thanks glove: U.S. Catholic Bishops' Conference president Timothy Dolan thanks Bully Bill Donohue at Dolan's blog site for (...
Friday, August 12, 2011

Paul Farmer on Accompaniment: Breaking Bread with the Poor as We Walk Along

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Good weekend reading: Paul Farmer's recent essay in Foreign Affairs on assisting the poor over the long term (originally composed as ...