DEMOCRATS AWOL ON CLASS WARFARE

New, wage-reducing rules for overtime were approved by the House, and most of the current crop of Dem Presidential candidates fell asleep on it.

News flash to working people: the parasites who compose the Establishment don't care about you. You have to fight if you want even a tiny piece of the world you built. Organize!

ECOSOCIALIST CRITIQUE OF HEINBERG'S BOOK: IRAQ PRIVATIZATION

Richard Heinberg's "The Party's Over" is a constant citation for the left neoMalthusians who love to post to the Green Alliance board, also to this strange board GreensUSA founded by some of the former board's more angst-ridden members. At any rate, my critique of Heinberg's premises is given in a post here. I'll put longer posts on this Weblog when blogger.com gets it fixed.

In other news, there's an incisive article now available on Zmag's site about US plans for Iraq and a good piece on Arthur Mitzman's new book...