I write a lot of posts. In 2010 I published 293 posts including this one. I went back and looked through them and picked out some that didn't get the attention I think their subjects deserved, to include in this year end retrospective.
If you wrote or read some posts over the past year you thought deserved more attention than they got, please link to them in the comments with a short excerpt.
January 29
Republicans try to muddy causes of 2008 Financial Crisis
In an attempt to make the facts from the inquiry into the financial crisis fit into their rigid free market ideology the Republicans on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission are resorting to historical revision.
February 1
Profiting from Egyptian Hunger & Failure of US's stability centric Foreign Policy
Following the unpredicted fall of the Soviet Union US Foreign Policy doctrine shifted from an anti-communist centric foreign policy to a stability centric foreign policy. I think this happened because it would maintain U.S. ties and influence with a number of authoritarian governments, and because Corporate America wanted to take advantage of these regimes' susceptibility to bribery, their suppression of their indigenous labor movements, and these regimes' lax regulatory structures.
As the US's stability centric foreign policy is unraveling in spectacular fashion across North Africa and the Middle East, we learn that American commodity speculators have become the unlikely agents of revolution and upheaval in the region. Predatory commodity speculators in the U.S. are driving up food prices across the region, and fueling the unrest:
June 19
Romney says Obama was wrong to get START Treaty
Mitt Romney is saying that Obama should have gotten more concessions from the Russians in the START Treaty, and blames Obama's inexperience for not getting them.
September 20
Learned Helplessness has made Americans passive spectators in the Class War
One of my most vivid memories of the big protests against the War in Viet Nam was while these huge protests were going on in front of the White House Nixon made a point of watching football games on TV in the West Wing and made sure reporters knew that to drive home the point that he was ignoring the tens of thousands of protesters. Reagan was the same way as were the Bushes. Americans have learned that their Government won't respond to their protests, and even worse that the media routinely gives protests scant attention.
Please add links to posts you thought got overlooked in the past year and deserve more attention.
December 15
New Pew Poll: "Republican Party Seen as Extreme and Uncompromising"
The poll has the ominous title (for Republicans) Frustration with Congress Could Hurt
Republican Incumbents pdf
This poll is full of bad new for Republicans with the central point being the public is painfully aware of the Republicans' radicalism and intransigence over the past year. An image the Republicans in congress is very unlikely to alter as Republicans are trying to extort more concessions using the threat of another government shutdown.
December 18
Trans mountain Tar Sands Pipeline project gets infrastructure, more tankers, long term contracts
Public officials in B.C. are very upset about the lack of input and consultation with the National Energy Board in its decision that will allow increased tanker traffic and allow Kinder Morgan to make long term contracts that will lead to increased tanker traffic through Burrard Inlet which includes Vancouver's harbor. These long term contracts will also make the financing doubling the capacity of the Trans mountain Pipeline to move more oil from the Canadian Tar Sands to ports on the Pacific.