Monthly Archives: July 2013

Just How Important is this LNG Port?

This is the project that Sean Dixon talked about on Sex and Politics a few weeks ago–the whole reason anybody wants fracking is so that they can sell natural gas to Europe, where it’s fetching prices three or four times what it gets here.

Kathleen does A GOOD DAY 2 PIE this Sunday!!! RSVP

Why: Because Kathleen Stansell is leaving the country for a while Who: YOU! Dear friends and fans of Dan Kinch and Kathleen Where: Brooklyn Arts Exchange, 421 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, Studio D When: Sunday July 14th, Promptly at 5:30pm, Doors Open at 5pm A note from Kathleen   Hello friends! I’m very excited to be inviting all my favorite New York […]

TRANSFORM NOW PLOWHARES NEEDS YOUR HELP

Originally posted on Transform Now Plowshares:
Transform Now Plowshares needs you to: Write a letter, send a postcard, and help others to send postcards to Judge Thapar. Click here to view the postcard to Judge Thapar on behalf of the Transform Now Plowshares.  Download it (PDF file) and take it to your local printer, get…

Has Washington’s Arrogance Undone Its Empire?

From Paul Craig Roberts, a former Reagan Treasury official–an overview of how our arrogance has undone our Empire. Bill Totten's Weblog by Paul Craig Roberts Institute for Political Economy (July 01 2013) No one likes a bully, and Washington’s NATO puppets have been bullied for six decades. British prime ministers, German chancellors, and French presidents […]

We’re spying on Europe (and they are p*ssed)

A history of US spying on Europe in the Cold War period and after. The quote that matters is from a former East German Stasi official who is both appalled and jealous of US intel capability: “It is the height of naivete to think that once collected this information won’t be used…This is the nature of […]