Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Month March 2011
How to save taxpayers $6 billion a year
Repeal the subsidy on corn ethanol, says Sen. Jim Webb and Sen. Dianne Feinstein. They have introduced a bill to do so. Corn ethanol is wasteful and an obvious giveaway to agribusiness. Other methods of making ethanol are much more…
UN says small farms can feed the world
Small-scale farms that practice agroecology – sustainable, indigenous techniques including animal husbandry – can double worldwide food production in ten years, experts say. A new report by the United Nations says world hunger and weather-related crop losses are issues which…
The Manichean anti-imperialist left and the Libya bombings
Harry’s Place dissects the arguments of the UK Stop the War Coalition (which basically is a front for UK-SWP) on why to oppose intervention in Libya. But they make it too complicated. Groups like SWP believe anything US /UK does…
WSJ confirms my theory on disaster capitalism
It’s the new disaster capitalism. Capitalism creates disasters through greed while captured governments stand by idly. It’s the new disaster capitalism. Capitalism creates disasters through greed while captured governments stand by idly. Tepco, the operator of the crippled nuclear plant,…