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Weird Corporate Behavior
Mar.04.2006
It all started just before Christmas when an armed police officer barred
my spouse, a 40-year-old sociology professor, from leaving the Regal
Elmwood Theater. If she wanted to continue walking the 10 yards to the
exit door, the officer informed her, she would have to pull down her
hood until she was outside. Or she could be arrested. Of course the
pulling down the hood part goes against everything our mothers taught us
about winter attire—that we put on our mittens and hoods before we go
out into the cold. But the man giving the order had a gun and
represented the power of the state.
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Extreme Hypocrisy: The Sex Lives of Republicans
In early November of 2004 I wrote about George W. Bush's first post-reelection appointment - his selection of anti-abortion activist Dr. W. David Hager to head the FDA's Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee. This was the same Dr. Hager who wrote that women suffering from PMS need only to turn to the bible for help. In his private practice he refused to prescribe birth control medication to unmarried women. As a Republican political activist Hager opposed the sale of birth control drugs he identified as abortifacients. In essence, by putting an avowed opponent of reproductive health in charge of reproductive health drugs, Bush followed suit on his four-year track record of putting wolves in charge of hen houses.
(May.27.2005)
Welfare to Wal-Mart
Americans are junkies. We're addicted to consumerism. We're addicted to things--and China is our main supplier. China is the man. In 2004, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, we imported a whopping $197 billion worth of goods from China, and exported $35 billion worth of goods to them, chalking up an I.O.U. for $161 billion in the process. China is the main supplier feeding our consumer habit, but Wal-Mart, according to the Congressional Committee on Education and the Workforce, is China's biggest street pusher, responsible for slinging up to one eighth of the Chinese goods sold in the United States. If Wal-Mart were a country, it would be China's seventh largest trade partner.
Eighty percent of the more than 6,000 factories supplying Wal-Mart merchandise are located in China. This reality is shocking to Americans who've bought in to Wal-Mart's "All American" corporate persona. Thanks in large part to Wal-Mart, whose sales make up a full two percent of the United States' Gross Domestic Product, China's U.S, dollar reserves are estimated to be approaching a half trillion dollars.
(May.12.2005)
A Tale of Two Elections
Comparisons of recent stolen elections
(Dec.03.2004)
Bombing Our Way to Hell
Thanksgiving is usually time for my annual rant against our seasonal dive into the abyss of hedonistic consumerism. Friday is my favorite holiday - Buy Nothing Day! I usually write a story or two and do a few radio interviews about fetishistic consumption, obsessive compulsive shopping and apocalyptic materialism in the face of environmental holocaust, national and personal economic ruin, and most annoying of all - boring consumption-oriented conversation. And I try to make a joke or two - maybe about the annual slaughter of Christmas trees.
But not this year. This isn't time for business or business disruption-as-usual. This is shaping up to be a particularly bloody holiday season - and the blood is on our collective hands.
(Nov.28.2004)
I’ve Been to Bass Pro
Do big box chain stores really stand any chance of saving your local economy?
(Jul.24.2004)
Our Nasty Racist Little War in Haiti
Uncovering info on the war against Haiti
(Jun.20.2004)
Strange Fruit in Abu Ghraib
Observations about the torture and photographs from Abu Ghraib.
(May.16.2004)
Scandal Fatigue
If the Bush administration and their backers around the country have proven themselves adept at anything, it’s their proclivity for creating outrageous scandals. Initially, this band of shameless clowns seemed to be making journalism quite easy, providing a steady stream of moral and ethical transgressions to report on – so much so that there’ve been ample scoops to go around, which each of us in the alternative press focusing on a different Republican outrage each week. The problem is that it’s now three years later, and the stories just keep on coming faster and faster, leaving us little time to give them the coverage that they each deserve, while keeping us from covering our old beats, whatever they were.
(Apr.04.2004)
Punishing Martha
(Mar.22.2004)
Bush Strikes Out in Haiti
The Boston Globe article begins like this: "Thousands of Demonstrators chanting anti-American slogans encircled the US Marine-occupied National Palace here yesterday ." Reuters news service cites protestors exclaiming, "We're going to burn down the palace with the Americans inside. We have weapons and we are ready to fight." Knight Ridder news service reports that 5,000 protestors marched on the national palace "shouting anti-Bush slogans" and protesting the US occupation of their country.
(Mar.17.2004)
Terrorist Teachers, Mel Gibson's Nazi Dad, George Bush's Crusade Against [Gay] Marriage and the Tragedy of Haiti
Terrorist Teachers, Mel Gibson's Nazi Dad, George Bush's Crusade Against [Gay] Marriage and the Tragedy of Haiti
(Mar.07.2004)
The Ten Worst Corporations of 2003
The wickedness that corporations did in 2003.
(Feb.17.2004)
Primary Tales from the Crypt
One hundred and twenty thousand Midwesterners from the second whitest state in the union caucused two weeks ago, and if we’re to believe the media spin, the earth has trembled. When the dust finally settled – and there’s a lot of dust in Iowa – former Democratic frontrunner, Howard Dean was reduced to a mumbling fool, with Johns Kerry and Edward rising to take his place. Dick Gephardt, who finished a distant fourth, dropped out of the race. Iowa has spoken.
I can’t help but think the media is placing a little too much credence on what Iowans think. First off, the Iowa debate was quite a bit skewed to a few rather bizarre Iowa-specific topics, mostly regarding corn. Hence, gasohol subsidies played a uniquely large role in determining the Iowa outcome. Topics important to other Americans, like, say, mass transportation or even fisheries, held no importance in Iowa.
(Feb.01.2004)
Bush Celebrates Martin Luther King’s Birthday with a Trip to Mars (and Atlanta)
Where are Bush's priorities? Cerainly not here on Earth. Bush celebrates Martin Luther King by raising money while others celebrate more in keeping with his spirit.
(Jan.26.2004)
Saddam Saddam
Observations about the capture of Saddam Hussein.
(Jan.21.2004)
The Lackawanna Six and Rambo III
Setting the record straight about the Lackawanna "terrorist sleeper cell".
(Dec.29.2003)
The Buffalo News Spins the Bicycle Trial
Start to finish coverage of the Buffalo News' misreporting of the Critical Mass trial.
(Dec.13.2003)
The Bush Assault on Reality
Rescuing news from the memory hole.
(Dec.13.2003)
Our Brave New World of Voting
Back in August I wrote about America’s ongoing “soft coup” – arguing that military and intelligence community brass were turning against the Bush posse en masse. My theory was based on the fact that the strongest exposes
written about the Bush administration last summer all cited former military and CIA officials as their primary sources. This trend has continued unabated, with current officials in Langley and the Pentagon joining their retired comrades on the Bush-bashing bandwagon. New stories come out daily about hawks and spooks defecting to the tofu brigade and telling all about how the Bush team misled the American people and plunged the nation into a needless war. And the formerly compliant media has deviated from the Bush administration script, bringing the military’s anti-Bush message right into America’s TV viewing pens.
(Nov.04.2003)
Felony Journalism
Police officers acting more and more like the foot soldiers of imperialism. There's no justice in "criminal justice".
(Oct.24.2003)
Hurricanes, Haudenosaunee War and 9/11’s Thirtieth Anniversary
Three Relatively Unrelated Stories for Your Perusal.
(Sep.26.2003)
Ashcroft is in the House
IN the aftermath of Ashcroft's mangling of the Bill of Rights.
(Sep.15.2003)
Ashcroft on Tour
John Ashcroft's legacy of loonacy.
(Sep.06.2003)
The New American Coup
Military personnel revolting over Bush behavior
(Aug.30.2003)
Why The Lights Went Out
How utility corporations make out and the rest of us make due.
(Aug.24.2003)
Meanwhile in Afghanistan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia
Updates on war hot spots around the globe.
(Aug.16.2003)
The Uncooling of America
The black dot campaign has begun, corporate logos begin to pay the price for the actions of the corporations they represent.
(Jul.27.2003)
The Power of Nonviolence (Biking in Buffalo Part II)
A Critical Mass bike ride gets out of hand but demonstrates the power of non violence.
(Jun.12.2003)
Poisoning Our Lawns
Perfect Lawn Mania kills people and pets.
(Jun.09.2003)
Kodak's Toxic Moments
Basically... Kodak SUCKS!
(May.29.2003)
Suppressing the 9/11 Report: Ask Them No Questions and They’ll Tell You No Lies
The media has missed again. Where's the 9/11 report?
(May.22.2003)
Frederick Douglass, Jay Leno and Private Jessica Lynch:
Revisionist History: Unrevized
(May.15.2003)
Biking in Buffalo
Bicyclist are not second class citizens, why are they reviled for trying to improve your air quality and their own health?
(May.10.2003)
The Bush Family and Fundamentalist Islam
An examination of the strange sybiotic link that runs between the Bush family and the Islamic Fundamentalists.
(May.01.2003)
Toppling Reality: Image Warfare in Iraq
Prepackaged media ready to hammer the boob tube.
(Apr.16.2003)
Tell Me Again What This War is All About
The shifting focus of the war and the rest of the uncovered story.
(Apr.14.2003)
Spinning the War
False reporting, under reporting and unreporting for our new unreality.
(Apr.03.2003)
Un-embed Your Mind
Unlearn what you have learned. Open your eyes and Un-embed your mind.
(Mar.27.2003)
Disturbing The Peace: Creepy "FReepers" Target Activists
Reports on the anti-anti-war movement and its disturbing "dark side".
(Mar.12.2003)
Powell, Plagiarism, Taxes and War
Did Powell make a convincing case? Follow the money trail.
(Mar.07.2003)
Unprecedented New Global Movement Means Code Orange for Bush & Blair
A report on the Feb 15th march in New York City.
(Mar.07.2003)
Baghdad On The Hudson
Interesting facts about Iraq, American propaganda and impending war.
(Feb.12.2003)
Saddam and Corporate America
What role has corporate America played in arming Iraq?
(Jan.09.2003)
Was Journalism Murdered?
Part two of a critical look at the reporting surrounding the death of Paul Wellstone
(Dec.26.2002)
Kissinger's Back
A look into the qualifications of the man selected to head up the investigation into domestic terror
(Dec.12.2002)
Was Paul Wellstone Murdered?
Doubts About America
(Nov.28.2002)
Making Sense of a Bad Election
A look at some of the facts behind the Nov 2002 elections.
(Nov.21.2002)
Confronting Our Own Demons
America's Wars are often against enemies we create.
(Nov.07.2002)
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