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An Incomplete List of Interesting Stuff

General 

• • An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth (Bruce Mao) 

  • Eugenics: Can (Bad) Theories Influence Public Policy?

  • How Ignorant are We? by Rick Shenkman  

  • How informed are you? Take The Pew News IQ Quiz to find out.

  • More Quizzes: Environment, Business, Economy, Transport)

  • Human Population Explosion 

• The Birthday Probability

  • The Milgram Experiments

• The Stanford Prison Experiment

  • Up In The Air (S. M. Hersh)

Environment

• • Global Warming and Food Choices: you can even calculate how much CO2 you produce with each meal 

  • Sludge makes Electricity in Akron, OH 

  • The story of Stuff  (Glosary & Fact Sheet)

  • UN Warns of Urgent Environmental Problems (NYT)

Economics

• • Deregulation and the Price of Electricity (NYT)  

  • Externalities: Garbage Dumping in Oceans (The Independent) 

  • Federal Discretionary Budget 

  • For Richer (Krugman)   

• Private Prisons: Profits of Crime

  • Poverty is Poison (Financial Times) 

  • Stock Traders and Drug Addicts: What do they have in common? (NYT) 

  • Trading Democracy? (PBS-Bill Moyers) 

• Unpaid Overtime (The Herald, UK)

  • Wage Labour and Capital (Karl Marx) 

  • The Conservative Nanny State (Dean Baker)

  • The Corporation (DVD)

Health Care 

• • Health Care: The Akron Beacon compares Ohio to Ontario, Canada (2008) 

• Health Insurance: Paying and Not Getting it 

Government

• • James Madison (Quotes) 

  • Pentagon Military Analyst Program (docs, audio files, & photos) NYT 

• Track the votes your local Senators and Representatatives are casting

• Trac-Reports: Information about Federal Enforcement and Spending

  • Ten Steps to Close Down an Open Society ( Naomi wolf)

  • The US Constitution 

  • The National Security Archive  

  • The US National Archive 

• The CIA's Family Jewels

  • Trilateral Commission 1974: The Crisis of Democracy 

  • The United Nations General Assembly 61st Session (2006) 

  • United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women   

History  

• Chile and the United States

  • German Propaganda Archives 

• Hitler's Speeches

  • Fascism

• Fascist Italy

  • Labor Movement in the US  

  • Mussolini, Benito on Fascism 

  • Race, Gender, and Class (Michael Parenti) 

  • Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis (Bill Moyers) 

• Slavery in the US

  • The English Peasant Revolt 1381 

• The History of the Nazi Party

  • The Kissinger State Department telcons 

  • The Negroponte File  

  • The Records of the Federal Convention (Max Farrand)   

  • The Robert Gates File 

  • The Struggle of History (Michael Parenti) 

• The Federalist Essays

  • US Hostages, Iran (1979)

• US Policy in Guatemala

  • White Slavery in the US  

  • Women's Rights Movement 

Favorite Blogs

• Tiny Revolution

• Lenin's Tomb

• Beat the Press

• How Stupid Are We?

• Animal Ethics

Literature and Film

• Books

• Movies   

• Interesting Quotes