Posts in: Politics
- Why they hate us: World politics in a nutshell
- I’m about half way through Noam Chomsky’s book Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance, and on page 163, how the world works became abundantly clear. Chomsky writes: The year 1958 was highly significant in world affairs. The Eisenhower administration identified three majjor crises: Indonesia, North Africa, and the Middle East. All involved oil producers [...] [18 Sep 2007]
- Recommended: “You Are What You Grow”
- Please stop by the New York Times and read Michael Pollan’s article on the United States’s farm bill and its implications for national health, global economics and immigration. Just one nugget from the article: By making it possible for American farmers to sell their crops abroad for considerably less than it costs to grow them, the farm [...] [21 Apr 2007]
- ‘Hillary 1984’ and what might it all mean?
- UPDATE: Blog Exposes Creator of Ad Portraying Clinton as Big Brother (NYTimes.com, login required). Turns out the creator is a now-former employee of political consultancy that has worked with Obama’s campaign. UPDATE 2: Fears of a YouTube Swiftboat Wired News on why this is a big deal. I’m sure by now you’ve seen the Hillary 1984 ad [...] [20 Mar 2007]
- Race and immigration
- From yesterday’s New York Times: Study of Immigrants Links Lighter Skin and Higher Income From the article: The scholar, Joni Hersch, a professor of law and economics at Vanderbilt University, looked at a government survey of 2,084 legal immigrants to the United States from around the world and found that those with the lightest skin earned an [...] [29 Jan 2007]
- Link dump: Aug. 7, 2006
- State of the Blogosphere, August 2006 Dave Sifry releases his update on the ‘blogosphere.’ One trend worth noting: folks are goofing off at work. According to this report, English-language posting occurs between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. with an additional ‘about to get off work’ spike at 5 p.m. Zend compatibility and mysqli If Zend compatibility is on, [...] [7 Aug 2006]
- Recommended viewing: “America: Freedom to Fascism” trailer
- For the not-so-paranoid conspiracy theorist in all of us. [22 Jul 2006]
