Posts tagged “politics”
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“Powering Down” on Japan’s energy use in the wake of the tsunami
March 23, 2011
Motoyuki Shibata, noted translator of American literature and a University of Tokyo professor, emailed me, “I don’t know how much longer we can stay calm. Since the nuclear plants are down and we are not going to have the amount of electricity necessary for the way of life we have been used to, we need to figure out a drastically new way of living and that’s easier said than done.”
Tags: energy, japan, linh dinh, love like hate, politics, tsunami
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New review of Brian Kahn’s Real Common Sense at Publisher’s Weekly
March 2, 2011
“Well-intentioned reflection on what it means to be a citizen in today’s imperfect America”—Publishers Weekly
Tags: American values, brian kahn, democracy, politics, progressive, publishers weekly, real common sense, right wing, tea party
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Linh Dinh in the Guardian: “America’s automobile mania”
March 2, 2011
All over America, there are many roads without sidewalks. Many communities are built just for the car. Lawns, often vast, encroach right to the curbs. America’s 307 million people own about 150m cars. Entire blocks are reserved for parking garages. Walking on a road shoulders, one can feel like a vagrant or a prowling criminal.
Tags: car culture, domestic policy, linh dinh, love like hate, politics, suburban sprawl, the guardian
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Peter Hart on “Huffington, Olbermann and Corporate Media” at CommonDreams.Org
February 10, 2011
“Just weeks ago, cable giant Comcast swallowed NBC . . . MSNBC is now in the hands of Comcast–a corporation that, like most other giant corporations, is likely to be skittish about left-of-center programming. The sudden departure of Keith Olbermann left many wondering if his soon-to-be new bosses had anything to do with it . . . In the meantime, progressives who want progressive media free of corporate control have options: Democracy Now!, Common Dreams, AlterNet, Truthdig, GritTV and The Real News Network, to name just a few. Big corporations aren’t lining up to swallow them up–which means they’re doing something right.” - Peter Hart
Tags: huffington post, oh really factor, peter hart, politics
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Linh Dinh on the Egypt Riots and the Collapse of Society
February 2, 2011
In the wake of the recent Egypt riots, Linh Dinh, author of Love Like Hate, has published a list of ten things that we can learn about what happens when society breaks down…
Tags: egypt, linh dinh, love like hate, politics, riot
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Video of Ted Rall speaking at University of Michigan
February 2, 2011
Click here to watch a video recording of Ted Rall’s talk at the Hatcher Library Gallery at the University of Michigan on December 2, 2010.
Tags: anti-american manifesto, politics, ted rall, university of michigan, video
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Linh Dinh in Dissident Voice: “We’re Number Three!”
January 26, 2011
If bad, corrupt and neglectful government and atrocious health care are signs of third-worldness, then much of the United States is already there. We’re number three! Our brand of Third World is unique, however. We have managed to become both over and under developed.
Tags: article, dissident voice, linh dinh, love like hate, politics
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Aung San Suu Kyi featured in the New Yorker
January 26, 2011
Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and [Burma's] most popular politician now spends much of her time at the headquarters of the National League for Democracy, the main opposition party in Myanmar, meeting with Party members, ethnic leaders, and senior aides.
Tags: aung san suu kyi, new yorker, politics, voice of hope
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“Project Censored” covered by The Christian Science Monitor
January 7, 2011
“Since its founding in 1976, Project Censored’s work has entered the world of the Internet, cable television, blogging, and the “crowd sourcing” of news where anybody with a smart phone can “publish” or “broadcast” via social media like Twitter. But Mickey Huff, Project Censored’s current director, says the project remains relevant – perhaps more so these days – as a goad to the media . . . ‘In the US, corporate media help create an excited delirium of knowinglessness on a hyperreal landscape where the end result is a confused and alienated public – from FOX to CNN, and across the AM radio dial, we increasingly have vitriol not virtue, gossip not fact, surface not substance.’ That’s an assertion that shouldn’t be censored.” - Brad Knickerbocker, Christian Science Monitor
Tags: christian science monitor, politics, project censored
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Ralph Nader’s letter to the New York Times
January 7, 2011
“There are plenty of distinguished progressive champions lobbying, rallying, exposing, suing and organizing at the national, state and local level. Yet they have been mostly left out of the mass media . . . Meanwhile, the Tea Partiers have seen their modest initiatives hugely magnified and therefore expanded by major media. This has mainstreamed the radical right, including Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter and Pamela Geller, as well as the most extreme neoconservatives who still receive media attention despite their deceptive, disastrous Iraq war-mongering.” - Ralph Nader, letter to New York Times
Tags: articles, new york times, only the super-rich can save us, politics, ralph nader
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Paul Verhoeven in the Wall Street Journal’s “Speakeasy”
April 14, 2010
The moderator of the discussion [at the IFC in New York City on April 8], Slate contributor Eric Hynes, noted that the filmmaker’s dour explanation of Jesus’s world “sounds just like a Paul Verhoeven movie.”
The response was immediate. “Yeah,” Verhoeven said, “but I didn’t invent it this time.”
— From the Wall Street Journal’s “Speakeasy” blogTags: articles, interviews, jesus of nazareth, paul verhoeven, politics, religion, speakeasy, wall street journal
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David Swanson on GritTV with Laura Flanders / at McNally Jackson
December 2, 2009
Daybreak author David Swanson stormed through New York yesterday with two appearances: one on GritTV with Laura Flanders, the other at McNally Jackson Books with John Nichols and Mark Crispin Miller. Check out video of both below.
Tags: current events, david swanson, daybreak, grittv, john nichols, laura flanders, mark crispin miller, mcnally jackson, new york city, politics, videos
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Gary Null calls for action against Monsanto-friendly food safety bill
March 25, 2009
What could be wrong with a bill requiring greater oversight of food production and greater enforcement of food safety regulations in the United States? According to women’s health advocate, nutritionist and Seven Stories author Gary Null, there’s one major problem with HR 875 (or the “Food Safety Modernization Act”): it’s the first step toward placing America’s food supply firmly under the control of GM food-producing corporations.
Tags: agriculture, be a healthy woman, ecology, food-mood connection, gary null, get healthy now, hr 875, monsanto, politics, radio
“politics” Posts
- Mar 23, “Powering Down” on Japan’s energy use in the wake of the tsunami
- Mar 2, New review of Brian Kahn’s Real Common Sense at Publisher’s Weekly
- Mar 2, Linh Dinh in the Guardian: “America’s automobile mania”
- Feb 10, Peter Hart on “Huffington, Olbermann and Corporate Media” at CommonDreams.Org
- Feb 2, Linh Dinh on the Egypt Riots and the Collapse of Society
- Feb 2, Video of Ted Rall speaking at University of Michigan
- Jan 26, Linh Dinh in Dissident Voice: “We’re Number Three!”
- Jan 26, Aung San Suu Kyi featured in the New Yorker
- Jan 7, “Project Censored” covered by The Christian Science Monitor
- Jan 7, Ralph Nader’s letter to the New York Times
- Apr 14, Paul Verhoeven in the Wall Street Journal’s “Speakeasy”
- Dec 2, David Swanson on GritTV with Laura Flanders / at McNally Jackson
- Mar 25, Gary Null calls for action against Monsanto-friendly food safety bill
