Paul Phillips

LATEST ARTICLES ( 506 )

• Will Jan Brewer Sign Anti-Gay Bill and More

  

  A good article in The Guardian on Arizona’s anti-gay bill that’s up for signature or veto by Republican Gov. Jan Brewer. It also includes information on the... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Cantor’s Fairytale Military Capabilities

  

  In opposition to my previous post, here’s a report on House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s stupefying views on military actions across the globe despite a... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Pentagon Proposed Cuts

  

  Sec. of Defense Chuck Hagel released the proposed military budget today bringing down the current war-footing of the U.S. military troop numbers to pre-WWII... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trouble in Venezuela

  

  I was hopeful when I first read that the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’ was flirting with socialist ideals and policies. He allied with Castro and... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “5 Billionaires Who Are Making Life Miserable for Ordinary Americans”

  

  A good article at Salon.com, picked up from Alternet, listing top 5 billionaire-supporters of right-wing conservative policies/movements that are detrimental... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• European Boycotts Against Israel Taking Effect

  

  A good article in the CSM regarding how boycott movements in Europe, which can only get worse, is beginning to affect Israel’s economy and what lies in the... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Academics Are Irrelevant, Sadly

  

  A good piece from yesterday in the NYT by Nicholas Kristof is a call to academia to become more relevant in today’s political theater. Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Afghanistan and The Gordian Knot

  

  The top story on the NYT website today is how Afghanistan’s Attorney General released 65 prisoners from the Bagram Airport Prison facility today for lack of... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Che Would Turn In His Grave

  

  A good article in the NYT about growing subsets of Cuban military officials (who are becoming small time entrepreneurs) living in new, sometimes gated,... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “The Day We Fight Back”

  

  A short piece in The Guardian on “The Day We Fight Back” protests that occurred Tuesday involving organizations and individuals against government surveillance... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Dispelling the Myth a Higher Minimum Wage Equals Job Loss, Microchips in Your...

  

  Minimum Wage MythPulitzer Prize-winning economist David Cay Johnston penned an op-ed crushing the myth that raising the minimum wage would equal a loss in jobs. Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Nye Wins Evolution/Creationism Debate

  

  An interesting, short piece at Salon.com reporting that a poll after the Bill Nye vs. Ken Ham, Evolutionist vs. Creationist, debate was won by Nye according to ... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Liberals/Progressives Not Leftist Tea Party Members

  

  A really good article in The Atlantic that contrasts the liberal/progressive members of the Democratic Party and the GOP’s Tea Party. Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Is Rolling-News Outdated?

  

  A great piece from The Guardians’ Media Blog giving several criticisms and argument points on how rolling-news channels (mainly what we see on cable news... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• FOX News Only: What Was Learned?

  

  A great piece at Salon by admitted left-of-Obama liberal John Haggerty on what he learned from not consuming any news outlets other than FOX News for a month, a... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Guantanamo Review Board

  

  A good article in The Guardian on the press’s chance to witness the “president’s inmate review board” being held at Guantanamo Bay aiming to free certain... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• China’s Elite Banks Off-Shore

  

  A good article in The Guardian from Jan. 21st reports that the members of the inner circle of power in China are grossing large sums of money through... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Obscenely Rich

  

  A piece at AlterNet by Lynn Stuart Parramore relates and analyzes the new “global super-rich” and their obscene level of opulence resulting from an apparently... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• NSA Actions Illegal, Gay Marriage in Virginia, and Other Tidbits of Info for...

  

  An independent review has found the NSA’s phone data collection to be illegal. Whether the actions are legal or illegal, we must simply ask whether they are... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Snowden Back to U.S. Possibly?

  

  This article in The Guardian reports that, in an MSNBC interview, U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric Holder said he would be willing to “engage in conversation” with NSA... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2014 CURRENT, POLITICS, SOCIETY