Economic/Political Satirists -
• *Bill Maher
• *Mark Russell
• *Barry Crimmins
• *Jimmy Tingle
• *Will Durst
• *Reno

Ecological/Environmental Economics (looong-term extended self-interest) -
• Herman Daly's *International Society for Ecological Economics
• Lester Brown's *Worldwatch Institute
• The *Sierra Club
• *Greenpeace

• U.S. *Association of State Green Parties, State of *Massachusetts Green Party, and *daily Green commentary from midstate NY
• Martha Marks' *Green Elephants (Republicans for Environmental Protection)

• Chuck Collins' *United for a Fair Economy (targets the widening income gap)
• Amory Lovins' *Rocky Mountain Institute (focused on alternative energy)
• Paul Ehrlich's *Population Connection, nee ZPG (Zero Population Growth)
• *GrassRoots Recycling Network

• *The Other Economic Summit ("TOES") - inclusive counterpart of exclusive G7 summit each summer
• *International Cooperative Association (now focused on employee ownership generally)

• Michael Moore's *Militia
• Bucky Fuller's *World Game
• Banyacya's *Hopi Warning - our focus on endless material growth creates qoyannosqatsi, "world out of balance" - same warning from Hoka in high Andes (they hosted BBC team for 2 weeks in early 1990s)

Standard Economics (cheerleading, short-run, narrow self-interest) -
• London's *The Economist magazine, and following, some of their top website picks -
• Brad DeLong's *economic book reviews
• Bill Goffe's Internet *Resources for Economists - 100s of economic website links
• OECD's comprehensive links to the *statistics offices in many countries
• Nouriel Roubini's *Debate on the Global Financial Crisis
• MIT Economics badboy *Paul Krugman (far preferable to Harvard's "shock therapist" Jeffrey Sachs)
• America's top econ research institute, *NBER
• The economics dept. of *The Mining Co.'s search engine
• A standard but skeptical econ webzine, *The Dismal Scientist
• London's *Financial Times
• New York's *Wall Street Journal (pinnacle of cocksure short-run cheerleading)
• Pasi Kuoppamäki's *economic jokes

Political Links

Presidential Links in order of candidate quality:
Ralph Nader
Dennis Kucinich
John Kerry

pResidential link - "the most crooked, lying group" since the Harding administration & Tammany:
George W. Bush & his big government, budget-busting, Iraq-detouring neo "conservatives"

Discussion community for national & world political & governmental issues:
Bare Politics

Massachusetts

• "Let's have a grand coalition of Massachusetts small parties - and that includes the Massachusetts Republicans - to counterbalance the overwhelming Democratic registration here and give us back a 'horse race' after the Primaries in this state." - Phil Hyde
• "You don't have to be a Democrat to be a good person, especially in Massachusetts, where 'Democrat' has become the default setting, and decades as The Establishment have lulled Democrats into stacking the deck and sloping the playing field."
• 'Dictator-Democrat' Rep. Tom Finneran repeatedly resisted the Mass. Clean Elections mandate passed by referendum of Mass. voters, began refusing to fund the initiative and finally sneaked a repeal in a midnight session on a cowardly voice vote. Result? Massachusetts has the second-lowest number of contested elections in the entire 50 states. No choice but to vote for Comrade Finneran and his pals. This type of obstruction of the public plants the seeds of terrorism because Finneran has told Massachusetts citizens, "My way or the highway - you don't count."

For the context of other Massachusetts (and nationwide) races, check out these websites -

• *Politics1
• *Vote Smart
• *Democracy Network
• *D.C.'s Political Report

Click here for the candidates in the 2000 race for one of the Senate seats in Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy, incumbent, and here for MORE POLITICAL LINKS.