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Recession, Depression, Collapse
Wednesday, 16 April 2008, 2:11 pm | Carolyn Baker
" ICH " -- - Interesting, isn't it, that mainstream economists need a so-called economic guru like Alan Greenspan to confirm that the U.S. economy is in recession? If the maestro says it is so, then it is. If he doesn't, then the "downturn" has a silver ... More >>
American Lockdown: Law Enforcement Out Of Control
Wednesday, 10 October 2007, 2:24 pm | Carolyn Baker
In my recent article " The End Of America: The Police State Is Right Here, Right Now " I included experiences of escalating intimidation on the part of law enforcement in the United States within recent months. I must confess that when I cite such incidents, ... More >>
Bush's Bogus Bailout: Tony Soprano Economics 101
Monday, 3 September 2007, 2:48 pm | Carolyn Baker
We have only begun to see the reverberations of the mortgage meltdown. They will be as sweeping and mindboggling as global warming or an earthquake measuring 10 on the Richter scale. More >>
The Joyride That Was The American Empire
Sunday, 12 August 2007, 2:34 pm | Carolyn Baker
A few days ago a friend called me just after hearing Michael Panzner on the Thom Hartmann show on Air America. My friend wanted me to read Panzer's book, Financial Armageddon and see what I thought. Apparently, Panzer's radio interview remarks were ... More >>
Godfather Govt.: A Way Of Life Is Not A Scandal
Wednesday, 21 March 2007, 2:26 pm | Carolyn Baker
Historians study not only the past but using their analysis of the past, speculate about how the future might unfold. However, historians are not psychics; we can’t predict the exact occurrence of events with specificity, but we can analyze past ... More >>
Carolyn Baker: In Debt We Trust
Monday, 12 March 2007, 2:32 pm | Carolyn Baker
This week the Senate Banking Committee has begun an investigation of credit card companies and that industry’s lending practices of which Chairman, Carl Levin of Michigan said , “Millions of families…are kept in debt and are in over their ... More >>
No Change Until You Change How Money Works
Tuesday, 6 March 2007, 6:35 pm | Carolyn Baker
All-too frequently I encounter activists who don’t like to talk about money. While they crusade loudly for “economic justice”, they resist talking about their own relationship with money as if it were somehow an X-rated topic on par with sexuality ... More >>
Children Of Men: Denial Keeps You From Seeing
Tuesday, 16 January 2007, 3:14 pm | Carolyn Baker
Director Alfonso Cuaron has adapted P.D. James’ 1993 futuristic novel written in the genre of George Orwell into a stunning film that many people will not see—dare not see, because it depicts the world we all fear we are being catapulted into at ... More >>
Real Deal: U.S. History Uncensored - Introduction
Tuesday, 31 October 2006, 3:56 pm | Carolyn Baker
American inventor and entrepreneur, Henry Ford, is famous not only for his astounding success in making the automobile available to nearly every American family in the 1920s, but also for his famous quote: “History is bunk.” Many historians, offended ... More >>
Cloning Enron: Propagating Economic Collapse
Wednesday, 8 February 2006, 4:55 pm | Carolyn Baker
A Mapping The Real Deal Special THE CLONING OF ENRON: Propagating Economic Collapse by Carolyn Baker More >>
Carolyn Baker: America As The Jackson Jury
Thursday, 16 June 2005, 12:37 am | Carolyn Baker
As I watch the puerile, middle-aged miscreant walk away unscathed from one of the most media-hyped trials in the history of the nation, a particular word reverberates in my mind: collusion. The word which literally means co-illusion implies the sharing ... More >>
The Religious Right (2): Pushing A Deadly Addiction
Tuesday, 17 May 2005, 11:56 am | Carolyn Baker
In recent article, I promised readers that I would address the mindset of the religious right as an addiction. In order to do so with accuracy and clarity, it is first necessary to define addiction and clarify the terms, Christian fundamentalism and Dominionism. More >>
Carolyn Baker: An Anti-American Terrorist Movement
Thursday, 12 May 2005, 11:23 am | Carolyn Baker
When I was in college, I wrote a research paper that changed my life forever. I had grown up in a fundamentalist Christian family living in the buckle of the Bible Belt where I was fed a steady diet of racism and Cold War anti-communism. More >>
Activists And Accountants - Absolute Allies
Tuesday, 29 March 2005, 10:50 am | Carolyn Baker
Traditionally, activists and business management majors have seen each other as enemies. MBA graduates perceive activists as financially clueless retreads from the sixties--philosophy majors clad in tie-dye, while activists typically shun accountants with their buttoned-down, ... More >>
Imminent Destruction of American Higher Education
Monday, 7 February 2005, 2:19 pm | Carolyn Baker
This past week, I had the delightful opportunity of being interviewed for a soon-to-be-released documentary, ''Beyond Five Senses'', which focuses on social justice, world events, and the simultaneous, hopeful evolution of human consciousness. More >>
Dominionist Dementia: What's JC Got To Do With It?
Saturday, 18 December 2004, 7:31 pm | Carolyn Baker
As we navigate the religious holiday season and attempt to psychologically and spiritually prepare ourselves for the ''second'' (or third or fourth or fifth) term of the current regime, I thought it might be appropriate to examine this fellow Jesus whom the Dominionists ... More >>
Carolyn Baker: American Born Addicted To Happiness
Wednesday, 1 December 2004, 10:12 am | Carolyn Baker
Last week, as I do every November 22, I reflected again on that day in Dallas forty-one years ago, my second year in college, when John F. Kennedy was assassinated. More >>
Carolyn Baker: How Progressives Gave The Election
Monday, 15 November 2004, 2:23 pm | Carolyn Baker
Only one week after the 2004 Presidential election in the U.S., alternative media is buzzing with appalling statistics regarding glaring voting irregularities and blatant corruption of the electoral process. Yet it is unlikely that so-called progressives ... More >>
Carolyn Baker: Now What? & 30 Illusions
Tuesday, 9 November 2004, 1:13 pm | Carolyn Baker
Now What? & 30 Illusions by Carolyn Baker I believe that what I am going to say here is truly a ''matter of our life and death'', to borrow the title of More >>
Carolyn Baker: Stepford America
Thursday, 10 June 2004, 3:15 pm | Carolyn Baker
Next month, Americans will flock to theaters nationwide to be amused by the performances of Nicole Kidman, Bette Midler and Matthew Broderick in a remake of ''The Stepford Wives.'' I hope to see it myself. More >>
