How GOP Candidates’ Economic Plans “Screw the Middle Class”
The details are in the first four minutes of this video:
Professor Juan Cole on the Iranian Scientist Murders
From Professor Juan Cole’s Informed Comment blog:
The countries most eager to stop the Iranian program are Israel, the United States and Saudi Arabia. So they are the ones with motive.
The means, a sticky bomb, is commonly used by radical militias in Iraq.
The opportunity belonged to an Iranian who could move freely and had his [...]
National Day of Action Against Citizens United: January 21, 2012
Press Release by Occupy Nevada County:
Saturday, January 21, is the second anniversary of the Supreme Court decision, Citizens United vs. the Federal Elections Commission, which overturned decades of campaign finance law and allows unlimited corporate funds to flood our election system. On Saturday, a coalition of local groups is hosting a Festival and Teach-In in [...]
Who’s Systematically Murdering Iranian Nuclear Scientists?
Who’s bumping off Iranian nuclear scientists?
Cui bono? (Who benefits?)
Who, besides the U.S. and Israel, has been obsessing about the purported development of Iranian nuclear weapons?
Glenn Greenwald comments:
In January, 2010, a remote-controlled bomb attached to a motorcycle killed Masoud Ali Mohammadi, 50, who “taught neutron physics at Tehran University.” In November, 2010, two separate car bombs [...]
APPLE Center Slated to Close After 2 1/2 Years of Sustainability Education
Editor’s Note: The following press release was issued today by APPLE (Alliance for a Post-Petroleum Local Economy):
Nevada City – In the coming weeks, there will be big changes for the Alliance for a Post-Petroleum Local Economy (APPLE), Nevada County’s leading sustainability education non-profit organization. The organization is shifting gears to focus more on grassroots organizing [...]
Special Nevada County Screening of Documentary, “THRIVE”
By Reinette Senum
The Special Nevada County Screening of the documentary, THRIVE, has just hit gold. The creators and hosts, Foster and Kimberly Gamble, of the riveting film have agreed to attend IN PERSON rather than via Skype as originally planned. Nevada County has the remarkable opportunity to come together utilizing the most talked about documentary [...]
Op-Ed by Sharon Delgado: “Occupy Moves to Amend”
By Sharon Delgado
In December, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow show featured a segment on Occupy Nevada County, which had held a rally to protest foreclosures and had successfully intervened to postpone an eviction. Since then several realtors and people facing foreclosure have contacted the local Occupy group with offers and requests for help. The public has been [...]
Why Entrepreneurs Flourish More in Welfare States (and Not so Much in U.S.)
Mike Kimel, co-author of Presimetrics, has a good blog post over at Angry Bear. He looks at evidence that entrepreneurial risk-taking is enhanced in societies that backstop such risks with a basic high-level of social support (“welfare states”). This is completely contrary to the laissez-faire myth of rugged individualism. It may also help explain why [...]
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