I know that there are bigger issues at play in Syria than destroyed old buildings, but this makes me very, very sad. “The Assad government’s primary concern is to destroy the rebels, and the opposition’s fighters want to remove Assad from power,” said Ed Husain,...
Author: Erik Loomis
Marc-William Palen provides a response of sorts to my connections between the Gilded Age and today, as well as others who have made the comparison such as Paul Krugman. Palen.
A very good piece on the trickiness of Superfund attempts to clean up rivers. Is it better to clean up the toxic sludge at the bottom of rivers flowing through.
For conservatives, Paul Ryan's one possible weakness is that he's not vociferously anti-union enough. After all, he supports the Davis-Bacon Act. He also voted for the auto bailout. But don't let this fool anyone. There's a particular kind of union Ryan likes: a corrupt building...
Arizona Congressman Jeff Flake moves the mainstreaming of overturning the 17th Amendment another step forward. Yes, an increasing number of right-wingers want to repeal the constitutional amendment allowing for the.
I suppose that maybe this was a misspoken statement, but it certainly seems to fit with the rest of the Republican response to Obama to blame the national drought on.
This story about the siphoning of water from the Sacramento River to the big corporate farms and cities of southern California says a lot about the future of water resources in the West, and the nation more broadly. Water is the #1 issue in western...
Who else is just ecstatic at the possibility of Catfood Commission Erskine Bowles as Secretary of the Treasury? I know I can't wait for the Obama Administration to start negotiations.
It's really hard to see how Adam Davidson's tenure at NPR can continue after this powerful report linking his "journalism" to his real job as a paid shill for the.
For this week's Forestry Friday post I want to follow up on last week's discussion of drug cartels destroying the forests of Mexico by bringing this story into the forests of California. A team of scientists at UC-Davis conducted a study about recent deaths in...
Color me less than shocked that people are gaming the carbon credit system, creating unintended consequences that actually hurts the environment.
I've read a lot of writing by members of the Industrial Workers of the World. Propaganda, songs, pamphlets, newspapers, posters, etc. The I.W.W. may have been completely ineffective at actual.