Progressive Review

• Meanwhile, furrthermore & on the other hand
  Federal government hiding pot research The power of a sane voice and at times of violence CEOs invading Washington Action notes UC medical workers strike Progress report: Unions & cooperatives Quotes A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. - Sir Barnett Cocks A committee is a gathering of important people who si […]
• 67,000 bridges require significant maintenance or repairs
  Stateline -  A bridge rated “functionally obsolete” does not meet current design standards for such things as lane width, often because current traffic volumes exceed what was expected when the bridge was built. In other cases, design standards have changed since construction. There are 84,748 bridges functionally obsolete bridges in the country, according t […]
• Recovered history: A young JFK admired Hitler
  Haaretz, Israel -     John F. Kennedy admired Hitler as a young man and felt fascism was right for Germany, according to a new book in German that mines the future president's diaries.According to Spiegel Online's article on the book, the 20-year-old Kennedy pondered on August 3, 1937: What are the evils of fascism compared to communism? On August […]
• Things to do about Monsanto
  From the Green Party's Shadow Cabinet: Immediate moratorium on development and certification of new pesticides and genetically engineered crops. A long-overdue, thorough, science-based examination of GMO and pesticide safety, by scientists not tainted by the revolving door or financial ties to agribusiness industry giants and all research, past and pres […]
• Entropy update: Remembering our veterans in the Hamptons
  NY Post - As the Memorial Day weekend kicks off the Hamptons party season, clubs on the East End have come up with increasingly innovative ways to serve boatloads of booze.Pricey champagne at up to $30,000 a pop will be flowing, including one bottle that’s so high-end, it’s chilled during a 10,000-foot free-fall and served by a skydiver.Derek and Daniel Koch […]
• Personal to all those writing about Obama's speech on terror war
  The only way to really understand what Obama means when he says something is to watch what he does. - Sam Smith_______________________________________________________ […]
• Thank God, there's always Jersey politics to keep our spirits up
  Daily Mail, UK - It was supposed to be a day about celebrating the Jersey Shore coming back together after the devastating impact of Superstorm Sandy.However, while the buildings and boardwalk of Seaside Heights can be repaired, it seems the relationship between New Jersey's governor and the area's most famous celebrities - the cast of MTV's T […]
• The downside of decriminalizng pot: it mainly helps young whites and drags out the drug war
  Observer, UK - The award-winning creator of The Wire, David Simon, has emerged as a critic of the 'racial bias' in the US debate on the war on drugsWhen Simon brought that heresy to London last week – to take part in a debate hosted by the Observer – he was inevitably asked about what reformers celebrate as recent "successes" – votes in C […]
• NY AG says mounting evidence banks are not living up to settlement agreement
  Reuters - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said there is mounting evidence that Bank of America, Wells Fargo and other banks violated the terms of a settlement designed to end mortgage servicing abuses.Schneiderman - who has said he plans to sue Bank of America and Wells Fargo for failing to live up to their obligations under the deal - said other […]
• World running out of water
  A conference of 500 leading water scientists from around the world has issued a stark warning that, without major reforms, "in the short span of one or two generations, the majority of the 9 billion people on Earth will be living under the handicap of severe pressure on fresh water, an absolutely essential natural resource for which there is no substitu […]
• Meanwhile, furthermore & on the other hand
  Questions & answers concerning the killing of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's would-be accomplice  The future of labor unions and community coalitions 759 bridges in Washington State have a worse rating than the one that collapsed Infrequently asked questions Concerning Barrack Obama's speech on drones, isn't he the same guy who said he was going to c […]
• Chicago school closings largest in history
  Diana Ravitch -  Never in U.S. history has a local school board - or any other board, appointed or elected - chosen to close 49 public schools.That's what the Chicago Public Schools did.Thousands of parents, students, and teachers objected, but Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his puppet board didn't care.Yesterday was a day of infamy in Chicago and in the h […]
• Police blotter
  Gawker - An eastern Pennsylvania woman was found guilty of first degree murder for stabbing her fiance to death just hours before their wedding last summer.Na Cola Franklin, 32, stabbed her fiance, Billy Brewster, 36, several times last August 11 at approximately 2 a.m., eight hours before their scheduled wedding, reportedly after Brewster came home drunk fr […]
• Entropy update: Detroit dictator wants to sell off city's art
  Detroit Free Press - Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr is considering whether the multibillion-dollar collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts should be considered city assets that potentially could be sold to cover about $15 billion in debt. Even the possibility has set off a sharp reaction. The DIA hired a bankruptcy lawyer to advise it, and philanthr […]
• Rebuilding America: Create a counterculture
  Another in our series on rebuilding America Sam Smith - Sane and decent America is acting like gays in the closet. Having been convinced by the corporate media and our leaders - either by being ignored or dismissed – that its views have no status or power, it accepts the unacceptability that has been assigned to it. What is missing is not just organization b […]