There are a lot of Lincoln biographies and analysis come to the market lately on the 100 years anniversary of Lincoln. Hen y Louis Gates has his book on Lincoln too. It is the “Lincoln on Race and Slavery”. Root.com is the website of his book.
The shocking truth is that Lincoln is not really [...]
The Free Market, Financial Style
How the Scam Works
By MICHAEL HUDSON
“Newspaper reports seem surprised at how high banks are bidding for the junk mortgages that Treasury Secretary Geithner is now bidding for, having mobilized the FDIC and Fed to transfer yet more public funds to the banks. Bank stocks are soaring – [...]
There are too many on the poverty issues of Africa. The ways to do it is to blame the poverty relief failure on the head of state, on the system of aid, on the people itself, on the economic system or business model of aid.
There is no genuine help to the Africa continent at [...]
Tonight Charles Rose show has Paul Krugman and two NYT writers on the panel discussing today release of Obama toxic waste management policy.
The market is up 500 point today. But they way market reaction to the announcement can be treated as the option market game that is only for the short term [...]
It is almost 2 o’clock again. The day is spent in running around the city for sightseeing or house watching. There are time for serious matter such as eating and shopping to support the eating. There are time to sit down and read about the current mess and way to improve it.
The new president is [...]
30 years of CSPAN is about the same period I have been in US. What do I have on this channel of public service? I really wish it have more popular science author on the show. The list is available on the Wikipedia about pop science writer. It is very long
I would like to [...]
The bunch of literature writers of the past on CD were never mentioned in the mainstream media any more. This is something that reflects the dark side of the society of the time of USA when these author living.
This is why they are not part of the thing spin machine likes to focus [...]
Azar Nafisi has mentioned something about Science coming from the philosophy tradition and the Max Weber talking about religion influence of science vaguely to counter the view of Marx that all development, science included was having a material basis and materialism is the foundation of all human development in a society.
Then there is some [...]
The reading of the writing process and the creative process of how to incorporate characters that one knows nothing about because of lack of information, into the story seamlessly is very interesting.
The idea comes to the writer in serendipitously such as hearing a song, viewing a play, reading another story, etc.
To use the [...]
The addressing the role of education in building the agency of criticality in building democracy is the heart of the current education problem.
The reading, math, and writing are just red herring. The taking test and doing well in the test are also red herring too. The calling for longer school time and more teacher [...]
Watching Tim Gaithner interview and the report on Washington about the plan of US treasury and FED to rescue the banking system prompts me to think what a lesson of “too big to fail”.
This is good lesson in life. This is how a country comes to decline in its real power and reputation around [...]
The US secretary of energy, Steven Chu, has an interview with CR Show last night. He is rather unremarkable person. This is the ability to state the obvious or to promote the department as a tool to get to the hope and dream of the nation. The economy is seriously need a boost. He can [...]
The latest common theme on the CR Show and many other CSPAN shows is the hope that Silicon Valley would bring in light of the dire straight economic condition.
The Google, the Twitter, the Nvidia, the Apple, BlackBerry’s RIM, etc. are the savers of the day, are they? This is the media campaign of raising hope [...]
“Founding father of the AME church” Richard Allen is a black man who has a profound influence in the mind set of the previous black generation to seek freedom outside USA. WEB DuBois is one of them, and many other artist and writer to call Europe home.
Richard Newman is the history professor pens this [...]
I don’t know all the thoughts cross my mind have any connection with each other. Or it is just a flash back.
The image of official manipulate the news to cover up the fact of an undercover agent was involved in the event comes back in my mind. This is the story of a HK movie. [...]
The connection of Max Weber, Karl Marx
This is an observation on the Wikipedia.org that Weber writing the essay “Protestant and the Capitalism” is to rebut the theory of Karl Marx that everything is based on the materialism need of the human being. This is a pure academic effort on the part of Max Weber.
However, [...]
Dmitry Shlapentokh a professor of history at Indian University South Bend, has an article on the Omid satellite of Iran and the Sputnik satellite of USSR. The point is the all the propaganda of the West about the despotic rules of these third world countries would lead these countries to nowhere economically and scientifically.
But reality [...]
