I missed this story last week, and it's an important one. If you want evidence that Disaster Capitalism - the termed coined by Naomi Klein in her brilliant book "The Shock Doctrine" is still the dominant tactic of free market militants, look no further than what is being proposed ...read more

Margaret Thatcher stated the following after the war with Argentina in 1982: The spirit of the South Atlantic was the spirit of Britain at her best. It has been said that we surprised the world, that British patriotism was rediscovered in those spring days. It was never really ...read more

In a great interview with Chris Hedges, Ralph Nader explains why he thinks reform is virtually impossible without professional and sustained activist organization: While protests are useful, Nader does not see any possibility for reform until there is a widespread effort to ...read more