ONCE AGAIN

Kevin Zeese reports upon the campaign to elect Dennis Kucinich President. Who could be motivated to support Kucinich? We all know what's going to happen; Kucinich will be snowballed by the pro-war forces in the party, a pro-war candidate will win, and the Kucinich "forces" will pledge their undying support to that candidate and his promises of more war. Meanwhile the execs at Tribune Corporation (and their stenographers) are desperate to tell us, two years before the election, that voters would prefer McCain over Clinton. USA! USA! We can win the war in Iraq!

EVIDENCE OF OUR UNECOLOGICAL ATTITUDE TOWARD NATURE

can be found in the way it treats us... see Jason Hribal's narrative of when animals resist their exploitation...

AN ATTEMPT AT GIVING MYSELF AN ETHNIC IDENTITY

that isn't "white" or "American" or something obscene like that:

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The West   Your accent is the lowest common denominator of American speech. Unless you're a SoCal surfer, no one thinks you have an accent. And really, you may not even be from the West at all, you could easily be from Florida or one of those big Southern cities like Dallas or Atlanta.
The Midland
Boston
North Central
The Inland North
Philadelphia
The South
The Northeast
What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

Rats! It didn't work!

BIOFUELS ARE AN ENVIRONMENTAL DEAD END

David Pimentel summarizes it here...Gristmill expands on it here... from Philpott's article:

Deforestation, falling water tables -- these are hardly the hallmarks of a fuel source that can reasonably be called "renewable," much less an agriculture strategy designed to maintain food-production capacity. And rising prices for food commodities, without other social reforms, will only translate to more misery for the global south.

WHAT'S UP WITH THIS?

It's all a game, and you're the pawns...

THE JURY-RIGGED ADMINISTRATION

From Dictionary.com:

jury-rigged

adjective
done or made using whatever is available; "crossed the river on improvised bridges"; "the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear"; "the rock served as a makeshift hammer" [syn: improvised]

Patrick Cockburn's most recent piece in the Independent is, of course, about Iraq -- but one of his observations should require us to take notice: "The overriding political purpose of the US administration in invading Iraq was to retain power at home. It would do so by portraying Mr Bush as 'the security president', manipulating and exaggerating the terrorist threat at home and purporting to combat it abroad. It would win cheap military victories in Afghanistan and Iraq. It would hold 'khaki' elections in which Democrats could be portrayed as unpatriotic poltroons." So let's be clear on this: we've had two rigged elections, one in 2000 and one in 2004, a mass media that bails out the Head Politician time and time again, and a war, just so the elite (by now having been refitted to neoliberal standards of domination) could have George W. Bush as its President.

Is Bush the remaining excuse to continue the charade?

APARTHEID LIVES!

Apparently the Department of Fatherland, er, Homeland Security has incorporated US support for the old South African apartheid regime into its databases: see here...