Friday, April 3
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Christopher Lempa is the guest editor today. |
G-20
Shapes New World Order With Lesser Role for U.S., Markets
“Global leaders took their biggest steps yet toward a new world order that’s less U.S.-centric with a more heavily regulated financial industry and a greater role for international institutions and emerging markets.”
G20: The Police Ruined a Peaceful Protest
“I watched the police push into the crowd with a brutality that was not only shocking but utterly unnecessary.”
Did Obama Overreach with GM and Chrysler?
Dean Baker and Matt Welch weigh the president's actions this week on the restructuring of U.S. automakers.
Black
Oak Presents, Spring 2009
The
new issue features Root
Striker Marcel
Votlucka, Chicago author Stephanie Kuehnert, Christina Sanantonio
explaining why Nature Deficit Disorder is killing our children (metaphorically),
and Steven Clark taking us into a post-apocalyptic world in his story The Peach
Takers.
The Green Revolution Saved Lives? A Poison Meme That Just Won’t Die
“Recently, in honor of Norman Borlaug’s 95th birthday, Ron Bailey of Reason Magazine posted a quote from his 2000 interview with Borlaug. For those unfamiliar with him, Borlaug was the most famous pioneer of the “Green Revolution” seeds of the 1960s, credited with a drastic expansion in food production. The claim that Borlaug saved a billion people from starvation is a persistent meme on the Internet.”
Bill to Make it Easier to Track Cell Phone Signals on Way to Governor
“A
bill that would make it easier for law enforcement to track down a missing
person through a wireless device is on its way to the governor.” I'm sure
these powers will only be used for good.
US Prosecutors Indict Blagojevich
“Prosecutors in the US have indicted former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich on corruption charges.”
“Did you know that the United States of America, the Land of the Free, puts a larger portion of its population behind bars than any country on earth? Thanks in large part to the War on Drugs, Americans lock more of their own in cages than do the thuggish Russians or those 'Islamofascist' Saudis.”
A new journal edited by Shawn Wilbur.
Good discussion on Walmart between Roderick T. Long, Sheldon Richman, Stephan Kinsella, Kevin Carson, and many others.
Listen to How the FDIC Seizes a Bank
“The Lehr und Wehr Verein (Instruct and Defend Association) was a Chicago-based socialist military formation founded in 1875.”
Chris Lempa's primer on food preservation. Direct pdf download.
Aim That Rage Against the Corporate Fee Machine
A
photo blog.