61st Way to Exasperate a Liberal: Arabic Muslim Plug-and-Play Foreign Policy

Jim Cook 3/28/2011
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How would you react if someone went on the radio to complain that “we haven’t identified yet who the opposition is to Barack Obama. We don’t know: is this led by interests from Belize? Or are we really better off, …

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Ali Alyami Speaks on Democracy (and Military Intervention?) in Saudi Arabia

Jim Cook 3/11/2011
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In the course of my preparations today for a protest against the Patriot Act in Washington DC at Noon tomorrow, I came upon another protest being held by Ali Alyami, Executive Director of the Center for Democracy and Human Rights …

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Donation for Overseas Development: Village Enterprise Fund

Jim Cook 3/7/2011
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Since we found that Kiva had been arranging international micro-loans at rates of high usury, we had managed to move our donations there to a small program in Nicaragua, the only one associated with Kiva that did not charge interest …

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Was I Paid to Discuss European Gaming in this Article?

Jim Cook 2/28/2011
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Heck, no. But if you come across any other online article discussing internet gambling based in deregulated Europe, chances aren’t so good. Business Web Solutions (add .org to find its website) offers its services to European gambling websites and a …

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#31 Way to Exasperate a Liberal: Rake in Millions in NFL Profit, Pay Sweatshop Workers Pennies

Jim Cook 2/5/2011
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$141,600,000.00: amount of money raked in by the Green Bay Packers in media fees alone during the Super Bowl. $0.08: amount of money paid to a worker in El Salvador for sewing an NFL-branded t-shirt that retails for $25.

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Rick Santorum: American Exceptionalism and the Consequences of Taxes (He’s Wrong)

Jim Cook 2/4/2011
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This past Monday, former Senator Rick Santorum made an appearance on New Hampshire radio personality Niel Young’s radio show to promote his flagging bid for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. My wife could only manage a few minutes listening in …

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#23 Way to Exasperate a Liberal: Blow Things Up To Protest Dictatorial Capitalism

Jim Cook 1/28/2011
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To the communists who blew up a boiler with a firebomb in the basement of the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland: You stupid gits. Have you listened to yourselves? “Our fight against the dictatorship of capital is focused …

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Mile Long Oil Spill Off Coast Of India

The Green Man 1/21/2011
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Offshore drilling operations spilled a mile-long stretch of oil along the coast of India today.

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Political and International Donations: Ballot Access News and the Village Enterprise Fund

Jim Cook 1/19/2011
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Every time someone buys one of our sweatshop-free liberal t-shirts through Skreened, we set aside two dollars from the profits: one dollar for donation to a domestic political cause and another dollar for donation to an overseas charitable effort. Our …

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UK Now a Secular Majority, Christian Minority Nation

Jim Cook 12/30/2010
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A nod of the nose to Secular News Daily for tipping me off to the results of the 2009 British Social Attitudes survey, just released this month. Back in 1985, 63% of respondents to the BSA identified themselves as Christian, …

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American Social Movement People, What Am I Missing?

Jim Cook 12/21/2010
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I had to travel all the way to Ireland to find an upcoming social movement activity of note (that is not one of the notable tonight: an Anti-War Movement General Meeting on January 29, 2011. A bit farther to the …

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Domestic and International Donations: ACLU and Charity:Water

Jim Cook 12/21/2010
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Whenever someone buys one of our sweatshop-free shirts at Skreened, we set aside a dollar to donate to a domestic political cause and another dollar to donate to charity for overseas assistance. This time, we’ve sent a donation to Charity:Water …

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PTTEP Admits Oil Spill Reached Indonesia

The Green Man 12/21/2010
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Confronted with clear evidence, PTTEP now admits that oil from the Timor Sea spill entered Indonesian waters.

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Zero Interest Microloan to Jose Antonio Molina Pineda

Jim Cook 12/18/2010
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Since we found out that Kiva’s international microloan partners were charging usurious annual interest and fee rates of often more than 50% and sometimes more than 100%, we halted our donations to Kiva and started issuing plain old micro-grants to …

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Irregular Times Microgrant: Village Enterprise Fund

Jim Cook 12/15/2010
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Nicholas Kristoff says the best thing Americans can do for poor people living in the Third World is to buy crap made in sweatshop factories where people don’t make enough money to support their families, because even though they’re exploitative …

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Irregular Times International Donation to Charity:Water

Jim Cook 12/6/2010
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Irregular Times’ commitment to support the uplift of people overseas is ongoing. This month, we’re sending a donation to Charity:Water. Thanks to a matching program from supporting foundations, 100% of every donation is used to build sanitary water systems in …

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The Execution Of Unity

Truman 11/30/2010
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King Charles the Fifth of the Netherlands outlawed heresy, leading to 43 years of religious violence, in which over 1,300 “heretics” were killed. The justification for the killings was the desire for unity.

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Interest-Free International Microloan: Alfredo Bonilla of Nicaragua

Jim Cook 11/20/2010
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At Irregular Times, we sell t-shirts that are made-in-the-USA because American shirt production is more favorable to workers and the environment than sweatshop production elsewhere. But we also recognize that restricting money flows to the third world won’t help conditions …

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