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Banning the Negative Book Review

Bob Garfield The New York Times
BuzzFeed’s heroic initiative will succeed even if it merely eradicates the depressing negativity that has for so long kept literary criticism from becoming a full-fledged economic sector, like agriculture, transport and erectile dysfunction.

Down in the Hole (Tom Waits)

 
Tom Waits performs all the somewhat sardonic verses of Down in the Hole, a song best known from the fragment that serves as the musical signature for the tv series The Wire. Find more Alt-Xmas music here.
 

We Are In a Class War

Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese PopularResistance.org
Persistence and Solidarity are Key Ingredients

Looming EADS Job Cuts Trigger Large-Scale Protest Action

Deutsche Welle
Thousands of employees at the European aviation and defense giant EADS have taken to the streets across Germany to protest looming job cuts. The company had said it would have to overhaul its sluggish defense business.