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Maersk has ordered 10 ultra-green container ships from Daewoo. Their energy consumption and carbon output will be half the norm, and get this, every part of the ship is labeled and 90% of it can be recycled at the end of its life. Not only are these ships way better for the environment, they [...] This is a protest anyone, regardless of political affiliation, can get behind. Most large corporations in the US pay little or no federal income tax. US Uncut is targeting Bank of America, who received billions from the government last year yet pays less taxes than the average US household. If this happened in any [...] It’s not like what the Koch Brothers and Scott Walker are attempting is something new. Big money continually tries to subvert and influence politics. But usually it’s done more subtly and out of sight. The banksters do their influence-peddling behind closed doors so the public has much less idea what’s going on. But Scott Walker [...] Mother Jones sums it up well after a lengthy piece parsing the reasons for the collapse of unions and the Democratic Party as progressive forces in the US. Over the past 40 years, the American left has built an enormous institutional infrastructure dedicated to mobilizing money, votes, and public opinion on social issues, and this [...] Derek Diedricksen built it out of discarded materials and gives a guided tour. Jetson Greene has more. The Kabuki Theater that is the California budget crisis continues. Republicans ask for the moon, then perhaps unknowingly use a classic Saul Alinsky tactic, while Gov. Brown freezes state hiring except for his staff and whomever else he might want to exempt. On Feb. 15, California Republican legislators demanded Gov. Brown enact his $12 [...] Adapted from my post at California Greening. In a recent edition of the Modesto, CA Bee, Victor Davis Hanson questions politically popular farm subsidies. In times of massive deficits, why are we borrowing millions to subsidize profitable agri-business? It really becomes very clear what is happening when you scrape away the political rhetoric and [...] There will not be peace and stability in Libya until Qadaffi and his children(who have proven themselves to be every bit as thuggish and deranged as their father) are dead or in prison. If he just steps down, then a fellow thug will take his place. This is not a peaceful revolution like in Egypt. [...] The fight against the [UK budget] cuts is central to green politics, including the fight against climate change. Green politics is also not simply about the environment – one of the core values of green politics, together with non-violence, ecology and grass-roots democracy, is social justice. US biologist professor Barry Commoner puts it rather well. [...] Topics: Maybe Qadaffi should be assassinated. But the US shouldn’t do it. Libyans don’t appear to want outside help and may well be able to do it themselves. This is as it should be. But what if US military made available to all photos of Libyan troop movements? CIA operative Raymond Davis was arrested [...] |  | ||||
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