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Webバージョン  |  アップデート設定  |  登録解除 いいね ツイート 転送 http://endofsecrets.blogspot.com How 20 Tents Rocked Israel Posted by andrea on 14 January, 2013 Jonathan Cook When the Palestinian leadership won their upgrade to non-member observer status at the United Nations in November, plenty of sceptics on both sides of the divide questioned what practical benefits would accrue to the Palestinians. The doubters have not been silenced yet. read more The One Economic Problem Nobody Seems to Give a Damn About Posted by Beth on 14 January, 2013 Digby It remains one of the strangest and saddest aspects of our current economic debates that nobody seems to care all that much about our still painfully high unemployment. And it’s probably a lot higher than we know: (Photograph: The Associated Press) read more Welcome to Blockadia! Posted by lauren on 14 January, 2013 Melanie Jae Martin Jesse Fruhwirth Volunteers with the Tar Sands Blockade in Texas lock down to forest-clearing equipment while others support them. (Photo: Elizabeth Brossa)We are members of Peaceful Uprising and Utah Tar Sands Resistance, groups that are working to stop tar sands mining from beginning in Utah. read more The Five-Step Process to Cheat the Middle Class Worker Posted by andrea on 14 January, 2013 Paul Buchheit It's so artfully done, and so diabolical, that one can picture secret seminars in subterranean Wall Street meeting rooms, guiding young business recruits in the proven process of taking an extra share of wealth from the middle class. Their presentation might unfold as follows: 1. Boost productivity while keeping worker wages flat. read more How to Mobilise $2.8tr to Finance the Global Sharing Economy Posted by andrea on 14 January, 2013 Rajesh Makwana Adam Parsons Today, governments around the world are implementing programs of austerity that are reversing the social protections that people have fought for over many generations. By dramatically cutting public spending on social welfare and essential services, austerity measures are undermining human rights and threatening to unravel the basic fabric of society and community. But is there really no alternative to these unjust economic policies, as we are being led to believe? read more The Myth of Human Progress Posted by andrea on 14 January, 2013 Chris Hedges Clive Hamilton in his “Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change” describes a dark relief that comes from accepting that “catastrophic climate change is virtually certain.” This obliteration of “false hopes,” he says, requires an intellectual knowledge and an emotional knowledge. The first is attainable. read more The Pentagon as a Global NRA Posted by andrea on 14 January, 2013 Tom Engelhardt Given these last weeks, who doesn’t know what an AR-15 is?  Who hasn’t seen the mind-boggling stats on the way assault rifles have flooded this country, or tabulations of accumulating Newtown-style mass killings, or noted that there are  read more 登録変更 | 登録解除