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Posts published in “Day: March 31, 2011

Make No Mistake

Taking in Charles Ferguson's excellent documentary, Inside Job, about the dark doings of Wall Street in our time, I confess I was awestruck all over again at the complete surrender of Obama to the very…

Bird’s Eye View

Greetings one and all. If you are sitting comfortably then I shall begin. First up I must offer apologies on behalf of Gloria Ross and her crew for the cancellation of the monthly Barn Sale…

Lives & Times Of Valley Folks: Bill Harper

A couple of Saturdays ago, and in a significant break with ’tradition’, Bill somehow managed to get an invite to my house to do his interview and after opening a couple of beers we sat…

The Play’s The Thing

“More relative than this—the play's the thing / Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.” — William Shakespeare Yes, it will only be a staged reading in a tiny theater on the fringes of…

You Fish On That Side, We’ll Fish On This Side

Dear Dr. Zack, Please help me, as I am about to lose my mind, or what's left of it. For the past few years, instead of people saying “First of all ... Secondly, thirdly, fourthly…

‘Food Sovereignty’ In NorCal: A Conversation With Raj Patel

Raj Patel's first book, Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, can be read as a ten-chapter exegesis on the ills of global capitalism, as manifested by its gut-wrenching stranglehold over…

Cruzin’ For A Bust

  It has taken more than a year just to get to the preliminary hearing in the Juda and Hugo Cruz case. Juda is the father, Hugo is the son. They are co-defendants. The Cruzes…

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