I just corresponded with Dennis O’Neil, a friend in NYC, and it put me up to an idea. In nutshell, the left has been caught flat-footed by this financial crisis, the exceptions being handful of financial historians and lefty economists like Henry CK Liu, Michael Hudson, Peter Gowan, and Loren Goldner… to name a few. [...]

What do you think of when you hear the words “Viet Nam AntiWar Movement” or “AntiWar Movement of the Sixties”? The odds are that you think of a peaceful, colourful, noisy demonstration of hippies and college kids confronting the uniformed forces of State power — peace signs and tie-dye, protesters placing flowers into the barrels [...]

…and chat about it, the Homeland Security series at Insurgent American is plodding along through Part 8. All earlier parts are linked at the bottom. Homeland Security is a hook. Homeland (with “land” being the operative word). Security… from fear and danger. It’s topical, no? IA’s point of view, such as it is, is that [...]

Read the links. Goes to show you… if you reject the underlying assumptions and look into things on your own, you can be a better predictor of events than mainstream journalists, think-tank denizens, CIA analysts, economists, or computer modeling. It’s Sunday; I’m tired; so I am going to engage in some plain old I-told-you-so’s, not [...]

The Hidden Agenda Behind Bush’s Biofuel Plan By F. WILLIAM ENGDAHL That bowl of Kellogg’s Cornflakes on the breakfast table, or the portion of pasta or corn tortillas, cheese or meat on the table is going to rise in price over the coming months as sure as the sun rises in the East. Welcome ladies [...]

Posted at Huffingtonpost. See the tempest at KOS (linked at Huffpo). Note how no one will reply to the accusation of Orientalism. Thier own racism is absolutely invisible to them, and they do not even understand when the demonstrate it with their chattering about elections. Repeat after me: Stay on the reservation. Stay on the [...]

by Audrey I received an email from the mother of one of my students last week, directing me to a news story involving her son. He and two other area youth created a mural in downtown Mount Clemens, in a public space by a fountain. They used sidewalk chalk – the chunky kind that you’d [...]