Robert Reich Edition

What Noam Chomsky has to say about globalization, why older is wiser, and proof that at least two of the three bozos who most wrecked the economy still don’t get it.

On a regular basis, Truthdig brings you the news items and odds and ends that found their way to Larry Gross, director of the USC Annenberg School for Communication. A specialist in media and culture, art and communication, visual communication and media portrayals of minorities, Gross helped found the field of gay and lesbian studies.

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It turns out grandma was right: Listen to your elders. New research indicates they are indeed wise — in knowing how to deal with conflicts and accepting life’s uncertainties and change.

Noam Chomsky: Globalization Marches On To date, growing popular outrage has not challenged corporate power. The future depends on how much the great majority is willing to endure, and whether that great majority will collectively offer a constructive response to confront the problems at the core of the state capitalist system of domination and control. If not, the results might be grim, as history more than amply reveals.

Jamie Dimon: The Most Dangerous Man In America Jamie Dimon is by far the most dangerous American banker of this or any other recent generation. He, and his successors, will lead us into great harm.

Iraq Foreign Embassies Bombed, Scores Killed The headlines out of Iraq Sunday are mainly owing to the consequences of the U.S. troop withdrawal from that country.

Robert Fisk: Glossy New Front in Battle for Hearts and Minds It’s sleek, it’s glossy, it’s in eloquent Arabic, Pashto and Dari, and it pours derision on American and NATO forces in Afghanistan; it is the brand new propaganda wing of the Taliban: not just Internet video of attacks on the Western armies in Helmand and Kandahar, but professionally produced magazines.

Terrifying Video: ‘I Don’t Need a Warrant, Ma’am’

From free books to e-books: how publishers are dealing with digital Publishers are re-thinking books for the digital era. Emma Barnett looks at the ways technology is changing the publishing industry.

Picking our brains: How many ways can we be conscious? You might think consciousness is like a light switch, either on or off. But the true picture now seems rather murkier, challenging our notions of awareness and free will, as well as raising issues of consent in coma patients.

‘HOLD ME back!’ is a part of Israeli folklore. It reminds us of our childhood. When a boy has a scuffle with a bigger and stronger boy, he pretends that he is going to attack him any moment and shouts to the spectators: “Hold me back, or I am going to kill him!” Israel is now in such a situation. We pretend that we are going to attack Iran at any moment and shout to the entire world: “Hold us back or … ”

Greenspan, Summers, and Why the Economy Is So Out of Whack I’m in the “green room” at ABC News, waiting to join a roundtable panel discussion on ABC’s weekly Sunday news program, “This Week.”