Shock&Awe archives

Coping with public fear: “Bailouts only add to sense of panic,” O’Grady, The Independent (London) from Marian @ Marian's Blog 30 Sep 2008 1:00 am

[USA] [ Postcards from the Over-developed world] [ Wash, dc "Official"] [ Black america culture ethnicity] [ Capitali$m] [ UK US special relationship] [ Globalisation redux] [ Anti-Black Racism] [ Elections U.S.] [ Some other u.s. economy?] [ HR] [ MSM] [ "Black Is a Country"] [ Shock&Awe]
We're reading Sean O'Grady's article in today's Independent: "... no amount of taxpayer money, no vote in Congress or the Commons and no speech by a president or prime minister can now fully restore the confidence that has been drained...

posted 1:00 am at Marian's Blog

March Madness? Bombing, from Belgrade to Baghdad from Marian @ Marian's Blog 21 Mar 2008 6:08 am

[USA] [ Int'l dispatches] [ Wash, dc "Official"] [ Terror incognito] [ Political history] [ Oil] [ 1325 Women, peace, conflict] [ Shock&Awe] [ Mideast]
It's just days after the "Ides of March" - the date when the emperor Giulio Cesare was assassinated in Rome. In English we call him Julius Caesar. In English we also have a saying about March, that it "comes in...

posted 6:08 am at Marian's Blog

Genuine Progress Indicator? Measuring economies as if society mattered from Marian @ Marian's Blog 20 Mar 2008 7:16 am

[Gender] [ Racial pecking orders] [ Capitali$m] [ U.S. economy] [ Richfolk poorfolk] [ Everyday world] [ Some other u.s. economy?] [ save democracy now] [ Ivory Tower] [ Black Progressives] [ African diaspora] [ Climate-No nukes-Sustainability] [ Shock&Awe]
As so many consumer and exchange economies teeter on the brink, here's a fascinating index that could prove more useful to more people. Many of us are in the same time familiar with, yet put off by, words and terms...

posted 7:16 am at Marian's Blog

My greatgrandfather, Thomas Gudger, who died in Chanute, Kansas, 1913 from Marian @ Marian's Blog 13 Mar 2008 6:11 am

[Racial pecking orders] [ USA] [ Black america culture ethnicity] [ Home] [ Richfolk poorfolk] [ Political history] [ Anti-Black Racism] [ HR] [ MSM] [ save democracy now] [ Slavery world history: 10 May] [ Colored America] [ Shock&Awe]
Today I am writing to remember and honour Thomas Gudger, father of my maternal grandmother and her three brothers. I never met any of my grandmother's brothers. Thomas Gudger died on this day in March 1913, in a place called...

posted 6:11 am at Marian's Blog

Spitzer official misconduct could make way for David Paterson? from Marian @ Marian's Blog 11 Mar 2008 7:00 am

[politics] [ Gender] [ USA] [ Int'l dispatches] [ Gender&disaster] [ Gender&disaster] [ Gender&disaster] [ MSM] [ Black Progressives] [ Say Whaaa?!?] [ Shock&Awe]
I'm guessing that New York politico turned radio host Chris Owens has just had his story of the week - of the year - handed to him for his new show Black Politics w/ Chris Owens. And Eliot Spitzer effectively...

posted 7:00 am at Marian's Blog