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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 Neoliberalism No More: Making Common Cause to Defeat the Harper Agenda Posted by lauren on 28 January, 2013 Stephen Harper has an agenda and it is all about turning Canada into a resource-extraction economy. He would like to make sure that nothing and no one stands in the way of exploiting the oil and the gas, the minerals and the water. read more To End Extreme Poverty, Let’s Try Ending Extreme Wealth Posted by lauren on 28 January, 2013 Sam Pizzigati Apologists for inequality have a standard retort to anyone who calls for a more equal distribution of the world’s treasure. If you took all the wealth of the wealthy and divvied it up equally among all the poor, the retort goes, no one would gain nearly enough to accomplish much of anything. read more Employees? Consumers? Feh! Posted by jon on 28 January, 2013 Harold Meyerson Should the Supreme Court uphold it, last Friday’s decision by three Reagan-appointees to the D.C. Circuit Appellate Court appears at first glance to rejigger the balance of power between Congress and the president. read more Is Obama About to Blow His Climate Credentials? Posted by lauren on 28 January, 2013 Fred Pearce Faced with rising anger from environmentalists last year over his plans for a transcontinental pipeline to deliver treacly Canadian tar (Photo: tarsandsaction via Flickr)sands to Texas oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico, the CEO of TransCanada, Russ Girling, expressed surprise. After all, his company had laid 300,000 kilometers of such pipes across North America. "The pipeline is routine. read more White Power to the Rescue Posted by lauren on 28 January, 2013 Chris Hedges On a windy afternoon a few days ago I went to a depressed section of North Memphis to visit an old clapboard house that was once owned by a German immigrant named Jacob Burkle. Oral history—and oral history is all anyone has in this case since no written read more Pentagon's New Massive Expansion of 'Cyber-Security' Unit is About Everything Except Defense Posted by lauren on 28 January, 2013 Glenn Greenwald As the US government depicts the Defense Department as shrinking due to budgetary constraints, the Washington Post this morning announces "a major expansion of [the Pentagon's] cybersecurity force over the next several years, increasing its size more than fivefold." read more The GOP's Class Warriors: Makers, Takers, Fakers Posted by jon on 28 January, 2013 Paul Krugman Republicans have a problem. For years they could shout down any attempt to point out the extent to which their policies favored the elite over the poor and the middle class; all they had to do was yell “Class warfare!” and Democrats scurried away. In the 2012 election, however, that didn’t work: the picture of the G.O.P. read more Only Three Choices for Afghan Endgame: Compromise, Conflict, or Collapse Posted by jon on 28 January, 2013 Ann Jones KABUL, Afghanistan – Compromise, conflict, or collapse: ask an Afghan what to expect in 2014 and you’re likely to get a scenario that falls under one of those three headings. read more The Poison We Never Talk About in School Posted by jon on 28 January, 2013 Bill Bigelow The most dangerous substance in the world is barely mentioned in the school curriculum. Coal. According to the International Energy Agency, burning coal creates more greenhouse gases than any other source—including oil. James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and arguably the world’s foremost climatologist, has called coal “the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on the planet.” read more FDR's Four Freedoms: Diminished and Defiled Posted by jon on 28 January, 2013 Paul Buchheit If asked why we live in a great country, an American is likely to respond: "Because we are free." Fortunately for the respondent, explanation is rarely required. Freedom is difficult to define, and today it seems to exist more in our minds than in reality. In a 1941 Message to Congress Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to explain what it means to be free. He outlined the "four essential human freedoms": read more 登録変更 | 登録解除