There's Somethin' Happenin' Here

Rock group Buffalo Springfield (including Stephen Stills and Neil Young) perform their most influential song, For What It's Worth.

The Evolution of Mars

NASA reconstructs five billiion years of the history of Mars in a breathtaking animation. There were once lakes and blue skies.

Air Merger

Signe Wilkinson cartoonistgroup

A Resounding No Vote from Machinists at Boeing

Dominic Gates The Seattle Times
Members of the International Association of Machinists have overwhelmingly rejected a contract proposal that would have eliminated their defined benefit pension plan, increased their health insurance costs, and provided wage increases that would have amounted to a pay cut over the contract's eight-year proposed term.

Book Review: Capitalism Gone Wild

Michael Hirsch The Indypendent, October 2013 - Issue #191
Review of George Packer's "The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America." This American life is a mess. As responsible as they were for instigating the Great Recession, Wall Street and the securities industry were not the business centers solely at fault for the lead-up to the collapse. An outsized military budget, imperial wars, the decline of unions as counterweights to corporate excesses and the flight of manufacturing overseas played their parts, too.

Tidbits - November 14, 2013

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