News Briefs

There are Chambers, and then there are Chambers

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News Briefs for December 31, 2010, from The New Hampshire Gazette, Volume 255, No. 7, posted on Monday, January 17, 2011. The concluding portion of this fortnight’s Rant discusses the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s central but unadvertised role in initiating the Right Wing’s propaganda war almost forty years ago. While that sordid story can be readily found by anyone who looks for it, relatively few Americans are likely to be aware of it. In more recent years, though, the U.S. Chamber has been far less bashful about its pro-oligarchy agenda.* As a result of its increasingly thuggish behavior, the national Chamber has finally begun to …

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Tell It, Bernie!

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News Briefs for December 17, 2010, from The New Hampshire Gazette, Volume 255, No. 6, posted on Saturday, January 15, 2011. The damnedest things have been happening on the floor of the U.S. Senate — people are telling the truth. Well, one person is. On November 30th Bernie Sanders stood up and delivered an 1,875 word parcel of that rare commodity. “There is a war going on in this country,” said the Senator from Vermont, “and I am not referring to the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan. I am talking about a war being waged by some of the wealthiest and most powerful people in …

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Seabrook Re-Licensing, or, Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

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News Briefs for December 3, 2010, from The New Hampshire Gazette, Volume 255, No. 5, posted on Wednesday, February 2, 2011. On Monday Doug Bogen from the Seacoast Anti-Pollution League (SAPL) sent us a notice of a public hearing of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to be held last Tuesday morning at the Portsmouth Public Library. In case it might be of use, we quickly posted that notice on our website. The hearing appears to be the result of a petition filed by SAPL, the New Hampshire branch of the Sierra Club, and a Maryland-based organization called Beyond Nuclear. They wanted, they said, “a fair …

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