Anatomy of an Under-Reported News Story |
The Gulfstream jet still seems under wraps, but the DC-9 keeps turning up in interesting places:1. NTSB Order No. EA-5180 (US Government, Oct 2005)2. Sloppy Tradecraft Exposes CIA Drug Plane (Blog, Oc...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:51:00 GMT |
Is the BP Gulf Oil Spill Radioactive? |
Maybe I'm just suspicious because BP and government scientists seem to be consistently feeding the public misinformation about the extent of the ecological damage caused by the Gulf oil spill, but one...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Jul 2010 08:48:00 GMT |
Evidence that Big State-Sponsored Corporations are Dangerous |
Large corporations are dangerous. Such assertions I suspect are received by many as worthy of dismissal on the grounds of being liberal populism, but when one considers the history of British Crown c...
Posted by on Sat, 22 May 2010 07:06:00 GMT |
Notes on Hayek, Markets, and Socialized Medicine |
For some time now, I've been ruminating over a handful of Friedrich Hayek's ideas I came across while reading his book The Road to Serfdom. I can't say I agree with everything he says, but I take him...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:34:00 GMT |
Note on Market Thinking in Education |
"The risk of critical education is that if schools are constructed as genuine public spheres, outcomes are not guaranteed."-- Stanley Aronowitz, Introduction to "Pedagogy of Freedom"Similar to Friedri...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:42:00 GMT |
Pirate Party Holiday |
Without getting too philosophical about things, I would like to propose that here in the United States of Homeland Security, Columbus Day be re-christened as a national day of action, on which occasio...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:11:00 GMT |
Protests in the News |
In the news recently:Chinese human rights protesters are heroes in the US news.Iranian free-elections protesters are heroes in the US news.Western protesters against government incompetence at the Cop...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:58:00 GMT |
Subliminal Messages on PBS? |
I was watching the Newshour with Jim Lehrer the other day when Dr. Margaret Chan, Director General at the World Health Organization, came on the air to explain why the H1N1 swine flu virus should offi...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:38:00 GMT |
A lexical militarization of social organization |
"Of course ideas matter. But wars are fought by the military. Ideas don't fight each other."source: http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0602/p09s01-coop.htmlIf we all must be vigilant in the "War on Terror,...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:23:00 GMT |
A New Global Market for the Export of Democracy? |
If the Federal Reserve purchases Treasury Bonds, will the United States thereby "monetize" the Legislature?
Posted by on Wed, 27 May 2009 21:47:00 GMT |
