While rummaging aroud YouTube today I came across an intriguiging video dating to the "end" of the Cold War, or so we are lead to believe. Two years ago, I would have brushed aside the critique of the U.S. body politic as a cynical, self-serving, self-aggrandizing statement by one Yuri Bezmenov
Currently I am working on an essay, and researching the literature on "sustainability" in preparation. And in all likelihood you could put most of that literature into the paper shredder, and delete most of its electronic files, and in the end you would be endangering neither the planetary ecosystems nor the people who live within them one bit.
Why?
In the last few days a hack of DNC information has been posted to the web in a variety of places including 'proper mainstream media entities" such as the Washington Post as well as a variety of blogs. A good bit of the hack, known as Guccifer 2.0, was provided to wikileaks and there is huge internet musing on what it may be.
Really interesting and informative interview with Rana Foroohar about her new book, Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and The Fall of American Business. Some highlights:
So glad for this site.
Intelligent discourse.
No hunter/killer groups. Feel free to disagree! What a concept.
So pleased to see those on the FP. (I did expect my posts would magically appear there. Nope. Right hand column. So be it. Those there deserve to be there. (I'm talking to you Big Al.)
Progressives need a place such as this. ToP has proven to be shills and exploiters for financial gain.
I don't know if we can succeed. But at least...
I am a long time lurker at TOS since the Dean days. Favorite writers include FishOutofWater, Pluto, Meteor Blades, and Cassiodorus. Now I come here and go to Naked Capitalism. Hoping to stir up a little interest in Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate for POTUS. In case you didn't know, Hillary has been going around saying good things about Bush I and Bush II....
How to begin a revolution? You disarm the opposition. What is the greatest tool used to control/misinform the 99%? The mainstream media. To whom do we pay a monthly fee for this suppression? The mainstream media! Ie. Comcast and others like them.
Despite the recent flurry of media attention that has been directed toward transgender people, they and their health needs remain poorly understood, experts say.
Yesterday The Lancet published a series of articles on the health, social and legal conditions in which transgender people live.
Many of the health challenges faced by transgender people are exacerbated by laws and policies that deny them gender recognition.
