Articles > October 2010
October 2010
Asian Cities at Risk
Original source: IRIN News BANGKOK, 20 October 2010 (IRIN) - Well-run, well-built cities can be among the safest places on earth to be when disaster strikes.
Poem: The One-Leaflet Theory of Revolution
O God, O Muse, O Creative Spirit,O shades of Revolution from generations gone,I chasten my heart and bend my knee to implore you,Send down,to one so tired of working and waiting,to one who winces with twinges of guiltover a sinful night of dinner and music,Send to this exhausted brainthat text...
The Tide Has Changed: A Musical Essay and a Lesson in Humanity
If one tried to fit music compositions into an equivalent literary style, Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble’s latest release would come across as a most engaging political essay: persuasive, argumentative, rational, original, imaginative and always unfailingly accessible.But unlike the rigid politicking of politicians and increasingly Machiavellian style of today’s political essayists – so brazen they no longer hide behind illusory moral façades - the band’s latest work is also unapologetically humanistic.Those familiar with the writings of Gilad Atzmon - the famed ex-Israeli musician and brilliant saxophone player, now based in London – can only imagine that Gaza was the place that occupied his thoughts as he composed The Tide Has Changed.The title track, an 11-minute melody, transmits the host of emotions that engulfed many of us when Israel began mercilessly pounding the resilient and hostage Gaza Strip in late 2008.
Old Trees and a Railroad Station in Stuttgart
A retired engineer of 66 loses an eye, forced from its socket by water cannon at short range.
Republicans "Pledge" to Slash Veterans Benefits
Democrats ramped up their campaign against a Republican Party takeover of Congress this week with charges that the Republicans want to eliminate some veterans benefits passed in the Democratic-controlled Congress.
Does Oil Drilling Cause Earthquakes?
EarthTalk® From the Editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: What, if anything, fills the empty space underground created by the extraction of billions of gallons of oil? Could oil drilling be one of the causes of increasing amounts of land settling and sinkholes in oil rich areas? Can it cause earthquakes? -- Linda Anderson, Sedona, AZ The crude oil (and natural gas) we drill for the world over is, for the most part, stored in tiny pores within rock up to only about three miles deep in the Earth’s hugely dense crust.
Recession's Impact on Black and Latino Families
While much of the corporate media, most political pundits and much of the country's elected leadership would like to characterize America as a "post-racial" society in which "colorblindness" rules, newly released data reveals that racially-based economic inequalities may be at their worst levels since the 1990s.According to fresh statistics from the Census Bureau, the recession and the housing crisis have most adversely affected African American and Latino families.
Death and Profits: The Utility Protection Racket
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) is a multi-billion-dollar privately owned, publicly regulated utility whose main function is to make enormous profits for its shareholders at great cost to ratepayers.
Hungry for Answers
When Paul Krugman and Martin Feldstein – Reagan's Chief Economist, Trilateral Commission, Group of 30.... – concur that there is literally no end in sight to the 10 percent - plus unemployment levels, and no known path to recovery without another major shift leftward in US politics; and that there is a 1 in 3 chances of another recession next year; and a 1 in 10 chance of catastrophe in the event of another "externality" (unpredicted war, climate crisis, currency shock, etc); and that the global scope of the crisis spells no cure through trade – its time sharpen our understanding of exactly what's happening to capitalism.
Celebrating German Unity and Fighting Back
Once again the time has come in Germany for bells to ring, fireworks to explode, politicians to declaim and media to drench us with joyful, endless reminders of events of twenty years ago and the evils they overcame.
