Saturday, March 15, 2008
Saturday Morning (Journalism) Quarterback
The top five stories worth reading from this past week in worth-reading stories:
This week we start with a roundup of stories from our occupations in the Middle East, with US aid to Afghanistan actually aiding insurgents who kill US soldiers. The Pentagon released (though did not publish) an exhaustive study that concluded there is no Al Qaeda-Iraq link!, something less than half of us seem to be aware of. The White House this week refused to close a loophole allowing contractors who work over seas to get away with massive fraud and waste of taxpayer dollars. Finally, The Nation reports on war and the working class.
The New York Times has a Dungeons and Dragons flowchart!
Salon has a great piece on the Americanization of Chinese Food.
In economics this week, Think Progress reminds us that President Bush is delusional. The Financial Times of London brings us a pair of stories on the growing weakness of the dollar, and the FED delaying the economic day of reckoning. The American Prospect reports on the American recession and growing economies. Barbara Ehrenreich pens a great column on the fall of the American consumer, and Alternet wonders if GDP reflects economic health?
Finally this week, professing literature in 2008.
This week we start with a roundup of stories from our occupations in the Middle East, with US aid to Afghanistan actually aiding insurgents who kill US soldiers. The Pentagon released (though did not publish) an exhaustive study that concluded there is no Al Qaeda-Iraq link!, something less than half of us seem to be aware of. The White House this week refused to close a loophole allowing contractors who work over seas to get away with massive fraud and waste of taxpayer dollars. Finally, The Nation reports on war and the working class.
The New York Times has a Dungeons and Dragons flowchart!
Salon has a great piece on the Americanization of Chinese Food.
In economics this week, Think Progress reminds us that President Bush is delusional. The Financial Times of London brings us a pair of stories on the growing weakness of the dollar, and the FED delaying the economic day of reckoning. The American Prospect reports on the American recession and growing economies. Barbara Ehrenreich pens a great column on the fall of the American consumer, and Alternet wonders if GDP reflects economic health?
Finally this week, professing literature in 2008.
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