Author Archives: MZR

Posted on Sep 26, 2011 By Chris Hedges It is 6 a.m. in the parking lot outside the La Fiesta supermarket in Immokalee, Fla. Rodrigo Ortiz, a 26-year-old farmworker, waits forlornly in the half light for work in the tomato … Continue reading →

Posted on Sep 14, 2011 By Robert Scheer It’s getting too late to give President Barack Obama a pass on the economy. Sure, he inherited an enormous mess from George W., who whistled “Dixie” while the banking system imploded. But … Continue reading →

Sept 13, 2011 By DAVID BROOKS During the summer of 2008, the eminent Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith led a research team that conducted in-depth interviews with 230 young adults from across America. The interviews were part of a larger … Continue reading →

By DAVID BROOKS  Sept 2, 2011 There’s a specter haunting American politics: national decline. Is America on the way down, and, if so, what can be done about it? The Republicans, and Rick Perry in particular, have a reasonably strong … Continue reading →

By Al Gore June 22, 2011 The first time I remember hearing the question “is it real?” was when I went as a young boy to see a traveling show put on by “professional wrestlers” one summer evening in the … Continue reading →

Posted on Jul 26, 2011 By Chris Hedges   The gravest threat we face from terrorism, as the killings in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik underscore, comes not from the Islamic world but the radical Christian right and the secular … Continue reading →

By David DeGraw, AmpedStatus Report The vultures are circling above the debt ceiling, along with the austerity and deficit hawks, ready to pounce on what little remains.   Before I get into the tragic comedy that is the deficit debate, I … Continue reading →

July 23rd, 2011 This article was written by an investment manager who works with very wealthy clients. I knew him from decades ago, but he recently e-mailed me with some concerns he had about what was happening with the economy. … Continue reading →

Posted on Jul 21, 2011 By David Sirota According to the U.S. government, the list of known bogeymen working to compromise American national security is long, and getting longer by the day. By my back-of-the-envelope count, we have shoe bombers, … Continue reading →

With global population expected to surpass 7 billion people this year, the staggering impact on the environment is hard to ignore. Robert Engelman for Yale Environment 360, part of the Guardian Environment Network guardian.co.uk,             Monday 18 July 2011 15.41 … Continue reading →