Month: May 2007

Predatory Payday Lending

That’s the issue that B.R.E.A.D. (our local church based social justice group) is taking on at next week’s meeting. According to George, our rector, this is the first issue the group has taken on where there are...

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COINTELPRO

I don’t have a lot to say today. Call it a snark-out. But everyone should know about COINTELPRO. Not a whole lot has changed.FINAL REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE TO STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH RESPECT TO...

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Dennis Ross: a shill for Israel’s right wing

On December 10, 2006, in An Open Letter to the New York Times, entitled, Smearing Jimmy Carter, Hugh Sansom took the New York Times to task: The New York Times has now joined the slander campaign against President Jimmy Carter...

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The Post-Veto Strategy

Greg Sargent, TPM Cafe, has some interesting inside information about what Democrats on the Hill are thinking about for a post-veto strategy. The two options being talked about most are: (1) Sending Bush a short-term funding...

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The Food Supply and Working to Make it Safe

We know there is a problem in the human food supply.  We do not know how big that problem is or how long we have had it.  We would not know about the problem if it were not for the suffering and death of beloved pets...

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