In The Secure and the Dispossessed, Nick Buxton and Ben Hayes have collected an unflinching survey of a species gone mad. The book’s subtitle is “How the Military and Corporations Are Shaping a Climate-Changed World.” In short, the Authoritarian Exceptionalist Military Corporate Complex is flamboyantly recognizing the hole it is in, and exponentially increasing the rate of digging, while hiring PR firms to redefine “digging” as “robust engagement in advanced resilient green
What About Weinstein’s Public Offenses?
Harvey Weinstein, I’ve just read, is “the disgraced Pulp Fiction producer.” But isn’t someone who encourages millions of people to think of murder and torture as super cool and fun already pre-disgraced? Doesn’t he arrive in the locked office with the actress cowering in the corner already publicly disgraced and intent on disgracing himself in private?
This is a man whom we have to thank for Reservoir Dogs, Gangs of New York, Kill Bill, Rambo, Inglorious Basterds, Django
Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Embracing Our Inner Empire
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“Bring the war home”: once, a long, lost time ago — in October 1969, to be exact — that slogan represented a promise made by the most radical wing of the vast movement against the war in Vietnam. Wearing football helmets and wielding lead pipes, that tiny crew of extreme leftists carried out what they
Focus: North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) – Oct 11, 2017
In a meeting with Trudeau, Trump says NAFTA talks ‘tough’ and failure possible: ‘If we can’t make a deal, it’ll be terminated and that will be fine’ – digitaljournal.com
Trump says separate trade pacts with Canada, Mexico could replace NAFTA – Fox Business
VIDEO: Trump says ‘we’ll see what happens’ regarding NAFTA – YouTube
VIDEO: Trudeau remains optimistic for a positive outcome to NAFTA negotiations – YouTube
VIDEO: Canada’s Justin Trudeau takes questions on NAFTA, US relations – YouTube
‘Mexico’s bigger than NAFTA’, will only remain in the trade pact if good for national interest: FM sends dire warning to US – RT America
Mexico warns that abandoning NAFTA could end broader cooperation with US against drug trafficking and illegal migration – The Guardian
Mexican senators lay out six ‘red lines’ for NAFTA renegotiation – WSJ
Mexican Senate chief backs complete withdrawal from NAFTA – panampost.com
Mexican business leaders say no NAFTA better than bad deal – Reuters
PBS’s Vietnam Acknowledges Nixon’s Treason
After reading and hearing wildly contradictory accounts of Ken Burns & Lynn Novick’s Vietnam War documentary on PBS, I decided I had to watch the thing. I agree with some of the criticism and some of the praise.
The documentary begins with the ludicrous idea that the U.S. government had good intentions. It ends with praise for the memorial in DC and its tragic list of names, without mention of the greater number of U.S. veterans of that war who have since died from suicide, much less the
Talk Nation Radio: US Provides Military Assistance to 73 Percent of World’s Dictatorships
This week on Talk Nation Radio we discuss the United States provision of weapons to dictatorships. We’re joined by Rich Whitney, who is an attorney from Carbondale, Illinois, now working as an appellate public defender. He is one of the founding members of the Illinois Green Party, currently serves on its Executive Committee, and in 2006 served as that party’s first-ever candidate for governor, winning over 360,000 votes, about 10.5 percent of the total. He is currently serving as
As U.S. Pounds Seven Nations, Congressional Committee Warns of Running Out of Bombs
Here’s an email you don’t see every day:
From: LOSING TIME <HASC.Drumbeat@mail.house.gov>
Date: Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 7:32 AM
Subject: LOSING TIME: We Are Running Out of Bombs
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