Archive for September, 2008

Pentagon Bailout Fraud. Lootingof American Taypayers.

Posted on September 28, 2008. Filed under: activism, book review, bush, iraq, politics | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

From TomDispatch
Let’s start with the money the Bush administration has already thrown at the war in Iraq. According to the June congressional testimony of William Beach, director of the Center for Data Analysis, the war has cost $646 billion so far. The new defense budget for 2009 tacks on another $68.6 billion for Iraq [...]

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Rise of Porn Culture and Abu Ghraib

Posted on September 26, 2008. Filed under: book review, porn, pornography, sex, sexualized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Over at Broadsheet on Salon is a great interview with Carmine Sarracino, the coauthor of: “The Porning of America: The Rise of Porn Culture, What It Means, and Where We Go From Here
You write in your book about the Abu Ghraib scandal. What did it reveal about American sexuality?
What it revealed is that when [...]

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Green Jobs Now. America’s number one resource isn’t oil, it’s people.

Posted on September 25, 2008. Filed under: activism, climate crisis, economics, economy, joblessness, jobs, politics | Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Sign the “I’m Ready” Petition

According to Van Jones, there is only one comprehensive solution to the present economic mess: put America back to work retrofitting and repowering America with millions of green-collar jobs.
Van’s leadership on this issue is one of the many reasons we had him speak at Netroots Nation in July–and the reason [...]

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