ILF POST

By Janne Poynter For my New Year’s Resolution I’m kicking my diet – my Doom Diet that is. I resolve not to ingest and dish out as much doom and gloom.
I’m sure the continuous intake of bad news is driving me bonkers, not to mention damaging my health. How much catastrophe can [...]

By Linc Bloomfield When the US government makes a bad foreign policy decision or, worse, adopts a disastrous national security strategy, is it because the leaders are stupid or incompetent? Or is it because the machinery of government that nourishes them — the information flow, hierarchical structures, elaborate committee process, organization charts — are a [...]

By Douglass Carmichael Capitalism seems to be central, and I am asking, with the idea of reversing the worst trends, such as income concentration, to change a bit the dynamics of capitalism. But we need to be clear that “capitalists” and the political process they mostly control, are part of the system but not the [...]

By Ralph Keyes What to call the conflict in Iraq? Many newspapers and television networks ‘Fox excepted, of course’ are now calling it a civil war. The administration prefers “sectarian conflict.” They’re also partial to “the central front in the war on terror,” having exhausted “Operation Iraqi Freedom.”

By Harlan Cleveland If the Baker-Hamilton Report was intended as a bombshell, it was one of the scatter-shot kind that spew shrapnel in all directions. Everyone who has commented seems to feel wounded by one or another piece of it, while praising the pieces that fly in other directions.
-The military proposals focus on training [...]

By Gloria Feldt With W, up is down and down is sideways. We’ve grown inured to the duplicity, the sleight of hand, the wink while Haliburton profits as our sons and daughters die in Iraq, the ruthlessness with which the 1 percent get richer while the rest of us get a burgeoning [...]

By Charles Lindblom A few weeks or so ago I agreed, even if not confidently, with the frequent charge that contemporary culture is corrupted by an excessive pursuit of those values that can be bought and sold, neglecting values that cannot. Thus in the pursuit of gourmet delights, ever more splendid autos, foreign travel, [...]