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Globalization and its limits
Thomas Hartmann points out some simple truths about the economy ( Read more... ) -
Oh noes, now he's going to put condoms on all your children!!!
h/t Wires/AP via Salon
The Obama administration axes funding for the stupidity that is "abstinence only" sex ed. Apart from the lol-worthy fact that school districts that rely on abstinence only have higher rates of teen pregnancy and teen STD incidents than school districts which don't rely on abstinence only ( Read more... ) -
South End Press needs help
h/t unusualmusic via sex_and_raceSouth End Press is an independant publisher in Boston. They have a long history of supporting women, POC and radical political points of view. Nim Chimpsky and bell hooks among others have published with them. In fact, South End were the publishers of Sister bell's first non-fiction books "Ain't I a Woman?" and "Feminist Theory: From ( Read more... ) -
Wanted: A Third Reconstruction (The Americanization of the South)
Michael Lind makes a great argument examining the destructive results of the economic race to the bottom spear-headed by the New South, that pits US workers against each other in a nasty, corporation-takes-all model of economic development that panders to the already-wealthy. amreeka! um. well., economy, thinkingWhy food prices are going up: The role of the WTO
One of the things missing from many mainstream analyses of the food crisis is the role played by "structural adjustment" in frakking local farmers particularly in the poorest developing countries where the food shortages are currently the worst.
Thanks to unusualmusic's eagle eyes, there's this excellent article by Craig Mckintosh on the "Free Trade" and the ( Read more... )