From Salon’s The rise and fall of an American beer: “Ever since Budweiser was sold to Belgian brewing monster InBev on Sunday, beer drinkers have been sighing that a piece of Americana has been lost. They’ve got it all wrong. During its rise to President for Life of Beers, Budweiser ended up crushing dozens of [...]
April 25, 2008 – 11:11 am
From Alternet’s Food Riots Erupt Worldwide: “World food prices rose by 39 percent in the last year. Rice alone rose to a 19-year high in March — an increase of 50 per cent in two weeks alone — while the real price of wheat has hit a 28-year high. As a result, food riots erupted [...]
[Updated with a better excerpt] From the New Left Review’s Structure vs Conjuncture: “The Democrats’ electoral-legislative strategy and likely future trajectory make manifest the transformation of the American polity over the past half-century. From the hegemony of liberalism, in which the Democrats made the running and to which the Republicans had to adapt, this has [...]
NewsWeek asks How Long Will America Lead the World?: “There is, of course, a thing called history, but history is something unpleasant that happens to other people.”
April 23, 2006 – 12:09 pm
The Telegraph is reporting that the company that makes Moleskine notebooks are up for sale. “The Italian maker of a small black notebook once used by Vincent Van Gogh, Henri Matisse and Ernest Hemingway” is selling the company because, get this, they’re too successful. With only 13 people, the company made almost 13 million euro [...]
March 24, 2006 – 10:54 am
A group of concerned citizens and Internet bigwigs such as Microsoft and Google are petitioning Congress to get them to stop the wire companies such AT&T and Verizon from instituting unfair practices regarding the data that travels over the Internet, such as having a premium “fast lane” for companies that are willing to pay for [...]
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