Essays:

• Tom Engelhardt, Burning Questions: What Does Economic "Recovery" Mean on an Extreme Weather Planet?, TomDispatch.com, 17 February 2009.
  
  Tom Engelhardt, Is Economic Recovery Even Possible on a Planet Headed for Environmental Collapse?, AlterNet.org, 19 February 2009.


• Jason Bradford, How to Start a Farm with No Land and Little Money, The Oil Drum, 19 February 2009.
  
  Roger K., The Anti-Economy: How the Pursuit of Private Fortunes is Destroying Community Wealth, The Oil Drum, 21 February 2009.


• Tim Lambert, Washington Post rejects the concept of objective facts, Deltoid, 20 February 2009.
  
  Denialism depends upon ignorance, mistaken arguments and, ultimately, dishonesty. The denialism blog offers a useful guide to identifying cranks and crank thinking/arguments.
  
  Charles J. Hanley, Lord Nicholas Stern Paints Dire Climate Change Scenario: Mass Migrations, Extended World War, The Huffington Post, 21 February 2009.
  
  Stern Review: The Economics of Climate Change, London: H.M. Treasury, 30 October 2006.


• Justin Raimondo, The Joan Walsh Syndrome: Liberals jump on Obama's war wagon, AntiWar.com, 20 February 2009.


• Paul Krugman, Decade at Bernie’s, NYTimes.com, 15 February 2009.
  
  Interactive Bank Failure Map, TheStreet.com, 17 February 2009.
  
  Eileen A. J. Connelly, Paul Volcker: Economic Crisis May Be Worse Than Great Depression, The Huffington Post, 20 February 2009.
  
  Tunku Varadarajan, Nouriel Roubini Says Nationalizing the Banks Is the Market-Friendly Solution, WSJ.com, 20 February 2009.
  
  Paul B. Farrell, 10 Dirty Tricks Wall Street Con Artists Will Pull to Keep the Rip-offs Going, AlterNet.org, 22 February 2009.
  
  Edmund L. Andrews, Andrew Ross Sorkin and Mary Williams Walsh, U.S. Is Pressed to Add Billions to Bailouts, NYTimes.com, 23 February 2009.


• Michael Collins, "Us versus Them" - The Money Party, The Smirking Chimp, 25 March 2008.
  
  An interesting essay. But it is not a review of a similarly titled book:
  
  J. Peter Scoblic. U.S. vs. Them: How a Half Century of Conservativism Has Undermined America's Security. Viking, April 2008. (publisher, Amazon.com.)


• Bryan Burrough, Death and Texas: Texas Has Had Its Day in the Political Sun, The Washington Post, 22 February 2009.
  
  While I sympathise with the author's relief/satisfaction at seeing the Bushies leave D.C., there are many things wrong with this essay.


• Paul Boutin, Low-Tech Fixes for High-Tech Problems, NYTimes.com, 18 February 2009.
  
  Lisa Katayama. Urawaza: Secret Everyday Tips and Tricks from Japan. Chronicle Books, April 2008 (publisher, Amazon.com).


• Joe Conason, There Was No GOP ‘Victory’, TruthDig.com, 18 February 2009.


• Pratap Chatterjee, The Military's Expanding Waistline: What Will Obama Do With KBR?, TomDispatch.com, 19 February 2009.
  
  Pratap Chatterjee, The military's expanding waistline, Salon.com, 23 February 2009.
  
  Chatterjee is the author of Halliburton's Army: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War, Nation Books, February 2009 (publisher, Amazon.com).
  
  Armand Biroonak, The Department of Defense Contractors, Institute for America's Future / OurFuture.org, 20 February 2009.
  
  Read more: Militarism article at Wikipedia; Andrew Basevich, The New American Militarism, Oxford University Press, 2005, 2006. (publisher, Amazon.com)


• Rick Perlstein, In which the blogger expresses a certain generosity toward conversatives, Institute for America's Future / OurFuture.org, 19 February 2009.
  
  Rick Perlstein, Queen of Fleece, Institute for America's Future / OurFuture.org, 03 February 2009.


• Soros sees no bottom for world financial "collapse", Reuters.com, 21 February 2009.
  
  Jennifer Ablan, Roubini: Nowhere near end of crisis, Reuters.com, 20 February 2009.


• I still find Glenn Greenwald one of the most insightful writers around:
  
  The right-wing nuts are as nutty as ever:
  Glenn Greenwald, Fox News "war games" the coming civil war, Salon.com, 22 February 2009.
  
  Fawning propagandists continue falling over themselves with gestures of submission:
  Glenn Greenwald, Ryan Lizza's People Magazine love letter to Rahm Emanuel, Salon.com, 23 February 2009.
  
  And the Washington establishment-loving politicians & propagandists continue singing the same song:
  Glenn Greenwald, The "Americans want bipartisanship" myth, Salon.com, 24 February 2009.


• * George Lakoff, The Obama Code, The Huffington Post, 24 February 2009.


• Ben Armbruster, Sanford Offers Unemployed South Carolina Resident ‘Prayers’ Instead Of Stimulus Funds, Think Progress, 23 February 2009.