Remember the blonde with the gold circle pin who was the standard of everything you couldn’t live up to in high school? She reminds me of the handmaiden of globalist greed that masquerades as our foreign policy.
We assume everybody secretly wants to be like us. But we never ask ourselves: does this mean that everybody [...]
(This is the transcript of Hot Copy No. 42, my regular pod cast for The Student Operated Press).
Scott McClellan, the former White House spokesman, has written a book confirming some of the public’s worst suspicions about the presidency of George W. Bush. McClellan (inset) says, among other things, the White House lied us into [...]
It’s interesting how eager both the left and the right wings are to pull the trigger on Scott McClellan, the former White House spokesman, who has written a book confirming many of our worst suspicions about the Bush Administration.
If he knew his bosses were lying about Iraq and Valerie Plame, the CIA undercover agent whom [...]
Greg Palast, the outré investigative reporter, claims the Iraq war and the subsequent surge are a global swindle— read about it here— a conspiracy of government and industry to pick our pockets and to hell with the future.
How much truth there is in this, if any, remains to be seen. But considering the sheer amount [...]
(This is the transcript of Hot Copy No. 40, Del Marbrook’s regular podcasts for The Student Operated Press)
The most frustrating aspect of journalism is its daily failure to challenge society’s assumptions.
When television reporters say General Motors or Ford have decided to downsize, they say something like, “Heavily unionized General Motors announced a plan to downsize [...]
“He’s the preeminent leader in the securitization sector.”—which means he probably helped engineer the mortgage crisis.
Where but in Manhattan can you eavesdrop on such snatches of conversation? But that’s what I heard walking behind two suits this morning in midtown. The conversation was like sushi: mercury, what mercury?
Since the end of World War II it has been gospel in the United States that all development is good. It creates jobs and fuels consumption. It’s never rapine, bad for the environment or corruptive of the public weal.
Farmers sell land to developers, developers lop off the tops of mountains for resorts, concrete spreads, [...]
Books have been written about why Americans vote against their best interests. I approach the question through the offices of my failing cook top. Leafing through Consumer Reports, it’s apparent to me I must spend at least $700 to replace it decently. That got me to thinking about all the other little marvels in [...]
Read More... The news that General Motors, reporting a record $722-million fourth-quarter loss, is offering buyouts to all 74,000 of its unionized employees suggests to me that we need to talk about what nations are for.
Are they for getting out of the way of global corporations? Except when it’s necessary for the sons and daughters of [...]
An extraordinary phenomenon in which a hostage begins to identify with and grow sympathetic to their captor. Named for an episode that occurred in Stockholm in August, 1973 when an armed Swedish robber took some bank workers captive, held them for six days and stole their hearts.
Does this definition of Stockholm Syndrome sound familiar? Could [...]
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