For your daily dose of irony, Russian troops are now maintaining order in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, two breakaway provinces of Georgia (which of course split from the Soviet Union just before it dissolved).

Russia apparently supports the split but is now saying that it won't recognize them as countries, something that was considered possible as ( Read more... )

So apparently that whole Scientology protest day went off in a (somewhat) big way, with roughly 9000 people worldwide. Lazy got the better of me and i didn't go to the Boston protest (i had planned to ride by and check it out). Did anyone go? There are some good pictures and videos of the London protests here. Debatable how much good it will do, ( Read more... )

It's Tuesday, and it's super ( Read more... )

So i got a little burnt out last week with working on our grant and haven't written shit. Oops ( Read more... )

Man, so much happens, and when i miss a day or two it snowballs and i feel like i'm way behind. I don't know exactly why i'm stressing- it's not like it really matters.

Things i wanted to talk about:

--How i'm a bit disappointed that Canada backed down and took the US and Israel off their "torture watchlist," but it's understandable- you can't ( Read more... )

I had stuff in my head about Obama's comments regarding Reagan, but my brain is too shot from work today to make any sense of it. What do you guys think? I don't buy that he was idolizing Reagan for actions against the Civil Rights and Women's Equality movements, which is what some seem to be implying or outright saying ( Read more... )

On Science Friday this morning, Ira had Lester Brown talking about environmental policy and such(link). He supports the idea of a carbon tax (as opposed to cap-and-trade), saying that we (the US) could reduce income tax and replace that revenue with carbon tax. But say that actually works, and carbon output goes way down. Then the carbon tax ( Read more... )

I meant to post this the other day. While listening to a debate over Barack Obama on the Democracy Now! podcast, I was struck by this statement from Glen Ford:

How did that redound to the benefit of black people for the United States to have a black-put a black face on imperialism, on aggressive war, on violations of international law? How does ( Read more... )

In an attempt to be more informed, i've been listening to a lot of news podcasts lately, mostly BBC World News and the Democracy Now! War and Peace report. I'm a fan of the podcasts, since i listen to my ipod most of the day at work anyway, it works well for me ( Read more... )

Politics, politics politics ( Read more... )