Author Archives: Brooklyn Culture Jammers
Maggie Thatcher and the victory that bankrupted Britain
So we’re mourning (obviously not ALL of us) the death of Margaret Thatcher. I’m not a blasphemous man. She was a human being with feelings, she nurtured children and grandchildren. But in the US, we seem all to ready to give a pass on the public actions of our leaders in order to ‘spare the […]
Wikileaks lands in NYC–Event at Judson Tonight
Birgitta Jónsdóttir is a member of the Icelandic Parliament. That alone would be reason enough to pay attention to her. When Iceland’s economy melted down a few years ago, the government of Iceland held the banksters and speculators responsible and bailed out individuals stuck with underwater mortgages and foreign debt. They also stuck it to foreign […]
Will Kevin Ware get Workers’ Compensation?
An interesting question–why is it that an athlete playing in the most profitable collegiate sporting event in the United States can’t be sure his medical bills will be paid or his scholarship money will stay? Will Kevin Ware get Workers’ Comp?.
Will Kevin Ware get Workers’ Comp?
Let me say first that as the owner of two fractured tibia (now mended, thank God) and two fractured fibula (ditto), I have nothing but sympathy for Kevin Ware, the Louisville basketball guard who was gruesomely injured on Sunday in a game against Duke University. I also hereby own that I have not availed myself of […]
Don’t know much about history: Waterboarding is torture
My ire is piqued today by this report out of the Washington Post. In 2005, a woman working in a senior capacity for CIA Clandestine Operations took it upon herself to sign off on the destruction of videotape the agency had made of what critics have described as ‘torture’. It almost certainly includes waterboarding. That […]
Unemployment drags on
A pair of articles recently in the Huffington Post about unemployment. The first was about Ben Bernanke’s Federal Reserve, and its prediction that unemployment will stay above 6.5% for the next two years at least. The Fed thus sees no good reason to raise interest rates. Parenthetically, the lousy returns on savings and CD’s are […]
Bradley Manning and our helicopter attack memory hole
I’m just remembering how horrifying this scene in Charlie Wilson’s War was when I saw it in a movie theater. Now that we’ve seen the Wikileaks video of the Apache attacks on civilians, can somebody please tell me how we can pretend we’re more moral than the Soviets?
Heading down south
Purely personal. Down to clean out the last of my father’s things from his home in Virginia. Hardly a joy ride, and I break out in hives on trips south. While my parents weren’t physically able to do much for most of their retirement (thanks to tobacco), they didn’t have much to worry about in […]
Nova faulted for failing to disclose funder’s interest in drones
Originally posted on Rise Up Times:
NOVA faulted for failing to disclose funder’s interest in drones By Elizabeth Jensen Current.org, March 18, 2013 Editor’s Notes: If you have not seen it, this PBS program is an extremely slick propaganda piece for the use of military drones, those that carry the bombs and are being used…
Iraq at ten years out
A quick look at the Calendar (I HAVE been kind of busy lately) tells me we’re at the ten-year anniversary of the regrettable decision by our last president to go to war with people who had NOTHING to do with 9/11. On the Sunday before the war, my former church (Washington Square United Methodist Church) […]
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