Month January 2008

Green Party presidential debate

(Candidates Kat Swift, Jared Ball, Cynthia McKinney, Jesse Johnson and Kent Mesplay) Former House member Cynthia McKinney and others participated in the debate. Cindy Sheehan was a moderator. Ralph Nader spoke but did not participate in the debate, he hasn’t…

Why the Big Slurp doesn’t work

Danger Room on the government wanting to snoop on all Internet traffic. Of more interest to observers of intelligence activities is the issue of quality vs. quantity and the slow creep towards doom that these efforts foretell. The fact that…

Highway to financial Hell

Nearly 10 million American households, or 9.2 percent, don’t have bank accounts of any kind, according to Federal Reserve data.Those folks rely on payday lenders, pawnshops, rent-to-own stores, tax-refund lenders and other high-cost, quick-cash lenders to get by each week.…

Forgotten revolutionaries of the civil right movement

How Southern communists, socialists and expatriates paved the way for civil rights. That’s the title of the WaPo book review of Defying Dixie, The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950, by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore. As Gilmore demonstrates, the real and…