How Green is Obama?

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Sunday August 17, 2008 · 7:16 PM PDT

2008/08/17 · 19:16

Here's an interview I recently did that I thought might raise some good discussion here.

Joshua Frank

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Thursday July 31, 2008 · 11:23 AM PDT

2008/07/31 · 11:23

It was at the onset of the Nazi era that coal-to-liquid technology came to the forefront of modern energy science. In the latter part of the 1920s, German researchers Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch developed the initial processes to liquify the dark rock into fuel. The procedure was utilized throughout World War II by both Germany and Japan. In fact, coal-to-liquid technology largely fueled Hitler’s bloody campaigns, as Germany had little petroleum reserves but held vast amounts of coal deposits throughout the country. Not too unlike the United States’ fossil fuel status today.

Joshua Frank

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Monday July 21, 2008 · 12:06 PM PDT

2008/07/21 · 12:06

The following is an excerpt from Red State Rebels: Tales of Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland just released by AK Press edited by Jeffrey St. Clair and myself. This is one of the essays I contributed. Find out more information about the book online at www.RedStateRebels.org.

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Saturday July 12, 2008 · 7:06 PM PDT

2008/07/12 · 19:06

Warning: This is shameless self-promotion. Well, actually I'm not promoting myself but I book I co-edited with Jeffrey St. Clair and contributed essays to that was just released by AK Press called Red State Rebels: Tales of Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland. Check out our site at RedStateRebels.org.

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Saturday July 05, 2008 · 11:55 AM PDT

2008/07/05 · 11:55

The following is an excerpt from the new book Red State Rebels: Tales of Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland, published this month by AK Press. To learn more about the book, please visit http://www.RedStateRebels.org.

Joshua Frank

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Sunday February 24, 2008 · 11:25 AM PST

2008/02/24 · 11:25

Barack Obama, hoping to shore up major victories in the delegate rich states of Texas and Ohio early next month, is going after Hillary Clinton’s ever-dwindling base of working class voters. The Illinois senator is hoping to stimulate their passion for his campaign by proposing to stimulate the weak economy by spending $210 billion on new jobs. Obama says his government sponsored employment program would allocate $150 billion over 10 years to create 5 million jobs in environmental industries.

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Wednesday September 26, 2007 · 10:47 PM PDT

2007/09/26 · 22:47

Something is terribly wrong with the Congressional Black Caucus. There has been for decades. For starters the pro-black organization doesn’t represent the majority of black people in the Untied States. As a matter of fact, one could rightly argue that the Black Caucus is anti-black. Sounds excessively harsh, I know. But let’s take a look under the hood of one the most influential blocs of politicians in Washington.

Joshua Frank

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Tuesday April 10, 2007 · 3:34 PM PDT

2007/04/10 · 15:34

This article was first published at BrickBurner.org

The Inevitable Collapse

The precipitous decline of antiwar sentiment within the Democratic Party has been on grand display over the past few months. The majority of leading Democrats say they oppose the war in Iraq, but still refuse to cut funding. And when Bush vetoes the pork-swollen appropriations bill, which he’s promised to do, the Democrats have pledged to compromise, rewrite the bill, and grant President Bush exactly what he wants: more cash and no timetable for troop withdraw from Iraq.

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Wednesday April 04, 2007 · 2:29 PM PDT

2007/04/04 · 14:29

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Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein of California silently resigned from her post on the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee (MILCON) late last week as her ethical limbo with war contracts began to surface in the media, including an excellent investigative report written by Peter Byrne for Metro in January. MILCON has supervised the appropriations of billions of dollars in reconstruction contracts since the Bush wars began.

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Friday December 01, 2006 · 12:46 PM PST

2006/12/01 · 12:46

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The Montana Formula

He’s not exactly the type of Democrat you’d be likely to see backslapping New York City fat cats on their way into an elaborate fundraiser for Hillary Clinton. In fact, Jon Tester, the senator-elect from Montana, isn’t your typical Democrat. He’s almost not a Democrat at all, or at least not the kind we’re used to seeing run around Washington these days. In fact Tester ran his campaign against Senator Conrad Burns (MT-R) on just that platform. He was tired of the scandals and dishonesty that engulf our national politics and professed that the polluted Beltway could use a little Montana house cleanin’. Voters agreed, and Burns, who had ties to the now incarcerated powerbroker Jack Abramoff, was defeated in one of the tightest races in state history.

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Tuesday October 24, 2006 · 7:53 PM PDT

2006/10/24 · 19:53

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When the admirable Tiberius upon becoming emperor, received a message from the Senate in which the conscript fathers assured him that whatever legislation he wanted would be automatically passed by them, he sent back word that this was outrageous. "Suppose the emperor is ill or mad or incompetent?" He returned their message. They sent it again. His response: "How eager you are to be slaves."

-- Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Read More

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Monday September 25, 2006 · 11:03 PM PDT

2006/09/25 · 23:03

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Aaron Dixon isn't accustomed to selling out his ideals for career or political gains. Despite decades of community activism, as a former Black Panther and now a Green Party candidate for US Senate, Dixon's legacy has yet to be tainted by concessions or compromise. Read More

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