Published on Monday, January 11, 2010 by The Telegraph/UK America Slides Deeper Into Depression as Wall Street Revels December was the worst month for US unemployment since the Great Recession began. by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The labour force contracted by 661,000. This did not show up in the headline jobless rate because so many Americans dropped [...]
Archive for January 2010
America Slides Deeper Into Depression as Wall Street Revels
January 11, 2010Did the CIA Deploy a Blackwater Hit Team in Germany?
January 10, 2010Published on Saturday, January 9, 2010 by The Nation Did the CIA Deploy a Blackwater Hit Team in Germany? by Jeremy Scahill German prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation into allegations that the CIA deployed a team of Blackwater operatives on a clandestine operation in Hamburg, Germany, after 9/11 ultimately aimed at assassinating a German [...]
Why I fight
January 9, 2010” I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovergien Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect Union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of [...]
How to Save Journalism
January 8, 2010Published on Friday, January 8, 2010 by The Nation How to Save Journalism by John Nichols & Robert McChesney The founders of the American experiment were even by their own measures imperfect democrats. But they understood something about sustaining democracy that their successors seem to have forgotten. Everyone agrees that a free society requires a [...]
Climate Reform’s Good, Bad, and Ugly
January 8, 2010Published on Friday, January 8, 2010 by The Media Consortium Climate Reform’s Good, Bad, and Ugly by Sarah Laskow The next United Nations climate change conference is almost a year away, and health care is still dominating the legislative agenda in Washington. That means climate reform opponents, from the coal industry to the global warming [...]
Obama’s Big Sellout
January 8, 2010Obama’s Big Sellout http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KlqYC-9_Fk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ2GTbwi9Cs&NR=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AldTJ5ctpRE&NR=1 Very Interesting interview!!
Media Vultures Are Coming: Freedom of Expression at Risk
January 7, 2010Published on Thursday, January 7, 2010 by CommonDreams.org Media Vultures Are Coming: Freedom of Expression at Risk by Ramzy Baroud As you flip through a range of channels on your TV or browse through a stack of newspapers and magazines at a newsstand, you may feel lucky about living in a world where such a [...]
Afghan War Kills 3 Children a Day: Report
January 7, 2010Published on Thursday, January 7, 2010 by Agence France Presse Afghan War Kills 3 Children a Day: Report by Lynne O’Donnell KABUL – Children are the biggest victims of the war in Afghanistan, with more than 1,050 people under 18 years old killed last year alone, according to an Afghan human rights watchdog. Afghan children [...]
Stricter Rules for Oil and Gas Leasing on Federal Land
January 7, 2010Published on Thursday, January 7, 2010 by ProPublica Stricter Rules for Oil and Gas Leasing on Federal Land by Sabrina Shankman Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has changed the procedures the Bureau of Land Management must follow before leasing federal land for oil and gas drilling, sending a message that the Department of the Interior aims [...]
My Journey Continues
January 6, 2010” A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” -Lao-Tzu I look at my life now and can see just how far I have come and even though I still have a long way to go; I know now that I will make it all the way. This quote [...]
