Welcome Kossacks! And CounterPunchers!

Welcome visitors from DKos (and elsewhere)! Markos' plug for our report on how base closings will affect the South has driven a lot of new traffic to our site. We're glad you came by.For those who don't know, Facing South is the blog of the Institute for Southern Studies -- a progressive, non-profit "think tank/act tank" founded by Julian Bond and civil rights veterans in 1970. We're still at it, offering a voice for the progressive South and resources for social change. We're perhaps best known for our award-winning investigative magazine, Southern Exposure, which in recent issues has published hard-hitting expose's of war profiteers in Iraq, the corporate-backed "tort reform" movement, predatory bankers, and other abusers of corporate and government power.You can find out more about our take on the South and what we're trying to do with this blog here. And if you want to stay in touch, sign up for our email newsletter (also called Facing South) in the upper right hand corner.Thanks again. Keep your eyes on the prize.UPDATE: Welcome also to visitors from CounterPunch, whose editors were kind enough to make us a Website of the Weekend.