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By David Sirota — There are troubling consequences that come from the particular kind of export economy we’re building.
Posted on May 10, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — Washington journalism is like high school. It has the same cool kids, mean girls, social rankings and the big prom—the White House Correspondents’ Association’s annual dinner. But unlike what happens in high school, the insular behavior of the Washington media affects the whole nation.
Posted on May 10, 2012
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By Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch —
Conflict and intrigue over valuable energy supplies have been features of the international landscape for a long time. But we are now seeing a whole cluster of oil-related clashes stretching across the globe, involving a dozen or so countries, with more popping up all the time.
Posted on May 10, 2012
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By Robert Scheer — Once again President Barack Obama has come tantalizingly close to being terrific.
Posted on May 10, 2012
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By Joe Conason — Two incidents tested Mitt Romney this week—and both times, his ambition overwhelmed his judgment.
Posted on May 10, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — After Richard Mourdock defeated Sen. Richard Lugar by 20 points in Tuesday’s Indiana Republican Senate primary, he called, more or less, for one-party government.
Posted on May 10, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The Obama administration has chosen a distinctly American path that kept austerity at bay. As a result, the American economy has climbed out of the Great Recession more quickly than most of Europe.
Posted on May 10, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — Shareholder meetings can be routine, unless you are Bank of America, in which case it may be declared an “extraordinary event.”
Posted on May 10, 2012
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By William Pfaff — The weekend elections in France and Greece seem widely to have been taken, at least on the European and American left, as a solution to the great European economic crisis.
Posted on May 8, 2012
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By Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch —
After the first few years of the Great Depression there was a sense that “we’re gonna get out of it.” It’s quite different now. For many people in the United States, there’s a pervasive sense of hopelessness, sometimes despair. I think it’s quite new in American history. And it has an objective basis.
Posted on May 8, 2012
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By Col. Ann Wright — The Marine Barracks in Washington, D.C., is the showplace of the Marine Corps. It is also the home of officers and enlisted men of the Marine Corps who have been accused of sexually harassing, assaulting and raping female Marine officers and enlisted and civilian women who work there.
Posted on May 8, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Economic austerity is a dangerous, self-defeating intellectual fad. Perhaps I should say that’s what it was, given Sunday’s election results in Europe.
Posted on May 7, 2012
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Ernest Callenbach, author of the beloved 1975 utopian novel “Ecotopia,” died of cancer last month at the age of 83. Days later, a sort of farewell detailing his hopes for the world he left behind was discovered on his computer.
Posted on May 7, 2012
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By Chris Hedges — Retired Episcopal Bishop George Packard was arrested for the second time as part of the Occupy protests. His moral and intellectual courage stands in stark contrast with the timidity of nearly all clergy and congregants in all of our major religious institutions.
Posted on May 7, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The American Prospect, a center-left magazine (for which I have occasionally written) faces a financial crisis that could soon force it to shut its doors.
Posted on May 6, 2012
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