Month: March 2011

If you are basically powerless in a conventional sense, you’re only truly effective option is non-violent protest. Until recently this was pretty much limited to civil disobedience and getting your ass beaten by thugs on...

Not Agribusiness “farmers” (i.e., large corporate “persons” who receive lots of government assistance) but real human farmers struggling to raise their families in rural Wisconsin. And they showed they...

With the systemic failure of the Japanese nuclear power industry, it looks like the industry is going to have to activate its busy bees to flood the internet and airwaves with apologists. Talking points will have to include: 1....

What’s amazing, is that I didn’t feel a thing. The powerful earthquake that unleashed a devastating tsunami Friday appears to have moved the main island of Japan by 8 feet (2.4 meters) and shifted the Earth on its...

Wesley Clark lays out his prerequisites for military action, applies them to Libya, and concludes: Given these rules, what is the wisest course of action in Libya? To me, it seems we have no clear basis for action. Whatever...