A friend directed my attention to this National Post editorial on the recently announced Canada-EU bilateral free trade negotiations.
The free trade announcement was somewhat under the radar due to, well, some big supposedly-free market collapsing. “Free trade,” seems to have become secret code for “bad news for people.” I’d argue especially so when the [...]
“If American foreign policy had a gift shop, what would it sell?”
“We buy souvenirs at the end of a trip, to remind ourselves of the experience. What do we have to remind us of the events of the last eight years?”
More at America: The Gift Shop.
h/t Wooster Collective
Some interesting but underreported developments at the OPEC Summit in Vienna, a day before America entered a 24-hours-long 9-11 trance.
The Saudi delegation to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) vowed to ignore the OPEC decision to cut oil production in the wake of falling prices and a weakening in flawed indicators that have [...]
Mark at BoingBoing points us to an essay by Douglas Rushkoff in response to the RNC speeches:
I felt a bit nauseous watching the Republican convention last night. I’m very much a give-the-benefit-of-the-doubt kind of guy, so I try to listen to the arguments people make even when they’re made in over-the-top or patronizing [...]
Amy Goodman’s unlawful arrest has become a coalescing moment in opposition to the RNC.
These are comments she made to the SFGate following her release.
I feel so dirty still writing about the RNC again. Yet, it is too shocking to stop.
What’s not a shock is that Palin is a very godly woman. Unexpectedly, she’ll be helping her petrol-elites here in Alberta with the power of prayer. Yes, not only does Palin believe that the occupation of Iraq is [...]
Absent from blogging lately. Taken aback by a series of very foul and jarring run-ins with AB-Tory MPs and ambitious young Albertans. Somewhat relatedly, work on a blogging project I’m hoping to release in the next week has distracted me. This upcoming project has developed as a personal coping mechanism for the profound disgust I [...]
Ken Layne, managing editor of Wonkette has a great piece at some AOL-TimeWarner blog, Political Machine:
The United States of America is bankrupt, morally and financially. This country stands for nothing but bad loans, brute force and blind consumption. Everything is literally crumbling, from our roads and bridges to our financial system to our “bring all [...]
Bill Moyers, one of the last journalists alive in the United States, has a biting and brief indictment of American petrocracy at Bill Moyers Journal on PBS [VIDEO].
Oh no, they told us, Iraq isn’t a war about oil. That’s cynical and simplistic, they said. It’s about terror and al Qaeda and toppling a dictator [...]
Bush was naturalizing citizens in Monticello, today. AP reports:
Anti-war protesters shouted out calls for Bush’s impeachment on nine occasions during Bush’s brief remarks, and the president responded by saying he agrees that “we believe in free speech in the United States of America” [...]
The last six Fourth of July holidays have taken place amid [...]