Month: January 2011

Virtually Speaking Liberally

~ susie

What We Believe
Sat, Jan 29, 2PM SLT  (pacific), 5pm eastern

Jay Ackroyd and Stuart Zechman present the voices of liberalism, of individual citizens speaking out about what American liberalism (or progressivism) means to them, and to our country’s future. Featuring recorded and live voices of members of the VSS media panel, citizen activists and electeds.

LISTEN | chat | call in: on the web at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/virtuallyspeaking/2011/01/29/virtually-speaking-liberally-what-we-believe

Topics, background material, advance questions http://blog.virtually-speaking.com/

STUART “Centrism IS an ideology” ZECHMAN  –  is a provocative member of the blog commentariat, most frequently posting at TIME’s Swampland.  An entrepreneur and technologist, he brings those perspectives to a New Liberal analysis of policy and politics.

http://my.firedoglake.com/stuartzechman/
http://twitter.com/stuart_zechman
http://avedon.blogspot.com/

JAY ACKROYD
An economist by training and IT professional, Jay contributes to Duncan Black’s Eschaton blog. As host of Virtually Speaking, Jay  talks with scholars, authors, pundits and public officials: a balanced sampling of established and emerging voices represents progressive thought in the contemporary, public, political conversation.

He can be be found on gchat, AIM, Facebook and Twitter as jayackroyd. Jay is a principal at Inside the Culture, a market research firm that uses social media and webcam applications to disseminate authentic, real-time trend data and conduct virtual focus groups.

Ripples

~ susie ~ 5 Comments

There’s no question that Israel is the stone in the pond whose ripples wash over Americans. Our national security problems are mostly attributed to our unwavering and unthinking support of Israel. People in the Middle East are obviously pissed off about that.

So when it comes out that America has made a mockery of Palestine’s desperate capitulations in the hope of winning a peace settlement, well, people get even more pissed off. Because as it turns out, the Palestinians have offered just about everything the Israelis wanted — and got shit on, not just by Israel, but by the U.S.

I’ve had a theory for a while that the oil situation is much worse than we can even imagine, because I can’t imagine what else would be driving such short-sighted foreign policy in the Middle East. Unless our leaders really are just that stupid, and I’d rather not think about that.