"It's about Profit"

I received this link in response to the "How Much Longer" post a while back:


"It's about profit. End the profit, and you end the problem."

Has anyone seen the film, "LORD OF WAR"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_War
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399295/

Little Lessons Learned so Early.

This is an email submission I received a while back With the start of another school year, I thought it apt to reprint the exchange here.

My daughter came home from Kindergarten:

"I hate it. My teacher is nice, but there aren't ANY brown kids, and no brown teachers. Not anywhere. I don't think they like brown people very much. They make them clean up after us, and call them by their first names."

After her first day in first grade:

"Mommy, the school is doing better! They let a brown lady teach music,and we get to call her by her big name!"

Big Government and the Big Easy

Article by Norm Ball on New Orleans and post-Katrina reconstruction:

"New Orleans languishes today in a state of economic disrepair. With disruptions to the normal balance of life so complete, the traditional paths to economic recovery--aid, grants, job programs, private charities--cannot take hold. The self-healing, virtuous circle has been severed: no jobs, no people, no people, no jobs. When economic activity comes to a dead stop, what or whom steps in as the Prime Mover?"

Tomgram:Lost in a Bermuda Triangle of Injustice

Tomgram: Lost in a Bermuda Triangle of Injustice
The Facts on the Ground

Mini-Gulags, Hired Guns, Lobbyists, and a Reality Built on Fear

Article about Guatanamo Bay, the Geneva Convention, and other little-known and out-of-the-limelight facts.

by Tom Engelhardt

Tom Engelhardt, who runs the Nation Institute's Tomdispatch.com ("a regular antidote to the mainstream media"), is the co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of The End of Victory Culture, a history of American triumphalism in the Cold War, The Last Days of Publishing, a novel, and in the fall, Mission Unaccomplished (Nation Books), the first collection of Tomdispatch interviews.