Re: the tragic sinking of a South Korean Naval Ship, a good read (as always) from Fareed Zakaria on CNN: But here’s the dilemma. If China is going to play a larger role in the region, in Asia, what does it say when the country they have the maximum influence on — they have really [...]
If you’re not watching Fareed Zakaria’s program on CNN (or on Podcast :), you’re missing out on what we all lament news programs should be like when we watch The Daily Show rip apart the bobble-heads and noise-chambers of Fox and MSNBC.
He’s back with a new MUST READ about healthcare: It’s a situation that one would have thought would be sobering enough to snap Congress into real action for once. Instead, they did the exact opposite, doubling down on the same-old, same-old and laboring day and night in the halls of the Capitol to deliver us [...]
Arianna brings something up that I don’t think a lot of us worry about. She says (about the Van Jones scandal where he allowed himself to be associated with the 9/11 Truther movement by signing their petition): If the sliming of Van Jones is an indication of how things are going to be, a lot [...]
Naomi Klein goes through some terms that Obama superfnas might be feeling now that we know single-payer healthcare is off the table, as he has kept us from even confronting the crimes of the Bush years, as Wall St. rakes in billion from the bailout, as… By Naomi Klein – April 15th, 2009 … Hoper [...]
My Favorite Rolling Stone Author, Matt Taibbi, has a fantastic (and fantastically long) article on the financial crisis; where we are, how we got here and where we’re going. Here’s a snip: The most galling thing about this financial crisis is that so many Wall Street types think they actually deserve not only their huge [...]
With all of the Obama economic plan-talk, how come no one is framing these issues as the failures of Friedmanite economic theory vs. the benefits of Keynsian economic theory? We have already argued Keynes vs. Friedman in the public sphere and we seem to have to come to agree to disagree – split along party [...]
Pitch Interactive, from Madison Wisconsin does some really nice Data Visualization work. The above image is from a spread they had in Esquire Magazine (the issue with the E-Ink on the cover). Check them out.
Last Spring I read the Shock Doctrine and for a few months I was an evangelist for it’s ideas to everyone I talked to. But somehow the Shock Doctrine’s central thesis wasn’t the most present thing in my mind during this week’s financial meltdown. I guess I was so distracted by the Fed Chairman Ben [...]