Ten Years After the Financial Crash (tags)
US economic statistics are dubious since financial markets are based on financial products and money out of nothing. Tax havens, micro-second betting, stock buybacks and corruption through lobbying are market-distorting and cause revenue shortfalls.
Interview with Gore Vidal (tags)
An interview with novelist, historian, and American patriot Gore Vidal.
Katrina: What Went Wrong (An Alternative View) (tags)
More could have been done.
We Need One Senator's Vote Tomorrow (tags)
We Need One Senator's Vote Tomorrow...Barbara Boxer may be the key.
Bush's Hidden Majority
What Went Wrong? Wrong Candidate, Lying Media, Ignorant Voters (tags)
For progressives to come back from this election disaster, the first step will have to be to break the corporate media’s stranghold on information, which has produced a nation of uninformed and misled voters (or non-voters).
9/11 and Anthrax - FRAMING ARABS (tags)
Except that we know for a fact that the Anthrax didn't come from the Middle East. It isn't Saddam's or Osama's, it's the very best high quality mil-spec Anthrax home grown at Fort Detrick, Dugway, and USAMRIID.
Dignity, Solidarity and the Penal Colony (tags)
The Last Essay. I am honored to post with my name and hopefully await what respect Real Democracy teaches by its practice in a civil society.
What Went Wrong in Genoa? - A Movement at a Crossroad (tags)
The Genoa G8 meeting, and the anti-globalization protests planned against it, were doomed from the start--as much by geography as by recent events in Italy's political history. If the movement reads the lessons of last week's tragedy correctly, it could still reap a reward. PNS Analyst Paolo Pontoniere is a correspondent for Italy's leading print and online magazine, Panorama. He can be reached at PMPurPont@aol.com.