American politics
After the U.S. Social Forum 2010: The potential for a multi-scalar strategy
In 1933, Mexican artist Diego Rivera completed his Detroit Industry fresco cycle. The abundant, controversial work, considered one the 20th century's outstanding achievements of monumental art, covers the four walls of the Garden Court in the Detroit Institute of Art.
Deficit hawks have swooped down on the U.S. budget
Getting out of the red is the new black. Deficit hawks have swooped down on the U.S. budget. This week, they attacked unemployment benefits.
Ultimately, they are going after Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid, the venerable programs once considered untouchable "third rails" of U.S. politics. These have been replaced by a new third rail, the defense budget. To really deal with annual deficits and a surging national debt, we are going to need to cut military spending.
We need some deficit doves.
Help bring Gary Freeman home to Canada
Douglas Gary Freeman (the former Joseph Pannell), an African-American, is married to a Canadian, and they have four Canadian-born children. He has been a well-loved and respected member of the community since his arrival in Canada in 1974. The Canadian government is now trying to prevent Freeman, who has lived the majority of his life in Canada, from returning home.
The Canadian government has deemed Freeman "inadmissible" to Canada on "national security grounds" based on the false assertion that he was a member of the Black Panther Party (BPP), which it further claims -- again with absolutely no historical foundation -- engaged in acts of terrorism.
Background
"With Liberty and Justice for Some" author Glenn Greenwald speaks!
Mar 12 2012 - 7:00pm
Location
St. Paul's University
Ottawa, ON
Canada
45° 25' 17.508" N, 75° 41' 49.8948" W
See map: Google Maps
Glenn Greenwald, the noted author and civil rights columnist at Salon.com, is coming to speak in Ottawa.
Published in August of 2011, Glenn Greenwald's most recent book is "With Liberty and Justice for Some"
Contact name:
Octopus Books
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U.S. politicians and archaic politics in a modern world
One has to wonder about the people who run the world, and those who hope to run it. Not many of them seem too interested in running it for the benefit of most of the people on it or for future generations. If they were, things would not be in such a mess today. The more I watch the performance of world leaders and those striving to be a leader, like the current crop of Republican presidential hopefuls south of the border, the more it is obvious that we are in a 21st-century society being governed by 18th and 19th-century thinking. That, of course, is assuming that there is much thinking going on at all.