check your progressive self
The Nation
Salon.com
Alternet
National Labor Committee
this is what democracy sounds
like
sustainable, "natural" capitalism:
it's about time
if we had an economic system modeled after Paul Hawken's
Natural Capitalism or
Bill McKibben's Deep
Economy ... the world would be a saner place
every American should watch: the
story of stuff
some examples of a system lacking an ethical compass:
Sicko
NLC: The Hidden Face
of Globalization (preview; or buy the complete
documentary)
Who Killed the Electric
Car
The Corporation
Wal Mart: The High Cost of Low
Price and Frontline:
Is Wal-Mart Good for America?
Iraq
for an excellent overview of the Bush administration's
blunders, miscalculations and lies before and during the Iraq war, check
out:
Frontline: Bush's
War, Parts I and II
(you can watch it online)
Peter Galbraith's book "The
End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End"
(2006)
The "lovers of democracy" may have missed the 2006
poll reporting that a majority of Iraqis want an immediate
withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq:
Iraq Body Count reports that
as of February, 2008 there have been over 82,000 civilian
deaths from violence since U.S. invasion in 2003
read a young Iraqi blogger's first-hand
account of what has happened in Iraq
or listen
to Iraqi intellectuals discuss why they fleed Iraq and what they left
behind.
on the eve of Congress' vote to authorize use of
force in Iraq, The
Nation predicted in
October of 2002 the war would be a human rights disaster, built on
phony propaganda. read what they said in
early '07.
history
check out the
book Howard Zinn says every American should read to uncover what their
high school history textbook didn't teach them.
ponder why the films of renowned documentary filmmaker and activist John
Pilger never air publicly in
the United States. many are viewable on that bastion of free speech,
YouTube. i've compiled a list for you.
priorities
top military spenders in the world, according to GlobalSecurity.org:
1. United States $466 billion
2. China $65 billion
3. Russia $50 billion
4. France $45 billion
funny
Kevin Bacon linked to Al Qaeda
Who
Do I Have to Blow to Win the Bancroft Prize In American History?
Middle
East Conflict Intensifies as Blah, Blah, Blah, Etc. Etc.
As
a Working Mom, It's Hard to Find Time to Masturbate
Ask
A Bee
Lucky Charms Phases
Out Oat Pieces
holiday cards: 1,
2
peaceful
progression smoke alarm
how
you know you're in a coma
Lonely Island:
Nintendo
Lonely Island: The
'Bu (Episode 1)
Phil Hartman: Unfrozen
Caveman Lawyer
Will Ferrell as George
Bush on global warming
Dick in A Box
(if you haven't already seen it 20 times)
Steve Martin: Five
Wishes for Christmas
Dinosaur!!!
5 cats that look like Wilford
Brimley
friends
and family
check out the work of a Los Angeles-based guitarist,
filmmaker and Wellesley High School
legend