Every once in a while, a movie comes along which captures, as a metaphor, the times that we are living through. That film is “No Country for Old Men.” It’s based on a novel by Cormac McCarthy. The flick is the creation of the Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan. It is a gem of a movie--grim in effect and dark in vision. In it, the villain, a sociopath, (think “Bush-Cheney Gang”) is winning; and the good guy, the Sheriff, (read “The People”), is ready to call it quits!

By Mike Whitney

11/24/07 "ICH" -- - Reality has finally caught up to the stock market. The American consumer is underwater, the banks are buried in dept, and the housing market is in terminal distress. The Dow is now below its 200-Day Moving Average -- the first big "sell" signal. Anything below 12,500 could trigger program-trading and crash the market. The increased volatility suggests that we are watching a "real time" meltdown.

Interested in writing or editing for the amazing Indypendent Reader, now in it's sixth issue and easily the most important Baltimore radical print project currently in existence?  Or interested in helping revitalize the Baltimore Indymedia website (which needs far more DIY-journalists and site editors and far less trolls and wingnuts in order for it to fulfill its promise as an open platform for social movement-based online media activism)?  Then come to the first of a series of monthly public meetings to be held on the first Wednesday of every month, intended to help get new people involved in both of these really important projects…

News Junkie Scott's Blog (11/26/07)

Black Diamonds, a documentary about Mountaintop Removal Coal mining, will be shown as a benefit screening, November 27, 7pm at The Charles theater in Baltimore.