December 2010
20 posts
WatchIndian Human Rights Activist Dr. Binayak Sen Sentenced to Life in Prison in Widely Criticized Ruling
Renowned Indian physician and human rights activist Dr. Binayak Sen has been sentenced to life in prison on charges of sedition and conspiracy. Described as Indian’s most famous political prisoner, Dr. Sen is known as the “physician of the poor.” We play an interview with Dr. Sen,...
“All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the...”
– Emma Goldman, My Further Disillusionment in Russia (via elitc)
WatchDoug Henwood interviews Joshua Holland about some of the most common lies about the American economy and the reasons each of those lies are false. Fittingly, Holland recently wrote a book called “The 15 Biggest Lies about the Economy.”
The interview serves is a good 20 minute antidote to the economic idiocy so often peddled on television and in the editorial pages of the...
there for a reason
Wal-Mart CEO Bill Simon:
And you need not go further than one of our stores on midnight at the end of the month. And it’s real interesting to watch, about 11 p.m., customers start to come in and shop, fill their grocery basket with basic items, baby formula, milk, bread, eggs, and continue to shop and mill about the store until midnight, when electronic—government electronic...
There are no independents.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s approval ratings have sunk to the lowest level of his presidency, so low that he’d lose the White House to Republican Mitt Romney if the election were held today, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.
The biggest reason for Obama’s fall: a sharp drop in approval among Democrats and liberals, apparently unhappy with his moves toward...
From before the Obama election but still so relevant:
If a Democrat wins the presidency, no matter who it is, I’ll consider them guilty until proven innocent. I’ll give them zero benefit of the doubt. I won’t feel one shred of hope or optimism about their impending time in power, and in fact I’ll expect the worst. I’ll take every positive thing they say as a...
The Republican Party has two goals: enrich the...
As economist and columnist Paul Krugman wrote this weekend, if Republicans get the permanent extension of the Bush tax cuts they’re playing for—whether it comes now or in two years—the only way our government will be able to make up the cost is to mutilate Social Security and Medicare. The GOP leadership knows this. Its goal isn’t just to give money to rich people;...
Citizen Radio interviews Bertha Lewis, formerly of...
A nice exterior, but hollow at its core.
Here was the largest collection of sophisticated social theorists since the Frankfurt School held its last garden party, and in an entire day the most that they could say about a controversy that was swirling around them was, “well Marty was a nice guy.” - Robert Paul Wolff
More on the proper reaction to Harvard feting a bigot.
