Eco Mots

Obama and the Alaskan Nut-job governor… how to decide?… let’s see, Obama is FOR “clean” coal (an oxymoron of the first degree) and “safe” nuclear power (another one)… the Alaskan will be off her rocker FOR drilling, warring, babymaking, suppressing dissent (oops, wait, Obama will probably be for suppressing dissent too, but he won’t have […]

Pot-purring

Dimitri Orlov, whose book “Reinventing Collapse” I mentioned in the last post, has a very illuminating blog post out explaining the events in George, Abkhazia and South Ossetia in a way that you just can’t get from all the propaganda organs we’re normally subjected to… I also recommend Asia Times where there’s been a lot […]

History Past and Present

On the Chinatown Labor History tour (part of Laborfest) Charlie Chin, the artist in residence at the Chinese Historical Society, gave an incredibly well composed and articulate walking tour. He didn’t cover labor so much as the whole history of Chinese in the U.S. up to the present. One of many tidbits I learned […]