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Young: Latinobarometro 2010: Latin American Public Opinion

Znet Article, December, 07 2010 Kevin Young
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US foes are among the more democratic regimes in Latin America, according to their people, while US allies fare much worse.

Young: The Democrats' Choice, and Ours

Blog Post, December, 06 2010 Kevin Young
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The US's profound democratic deficit---not fears of "big government"---explains why 52 percent of the public sympathizes with the Tea Party. The Democrats’ political survival may ultimately depend on their willingness to abandon pro-corporate, mil...

Young: War Preparedness 101

BookReview, November, 25 2010 Kevin Young
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David Swanson’s new book refutes all the arguments used to justify wars, and is highly recommended for both general audiences and experienced activists.

Young: Army Enlistment Drops, Again

Znet Article, October, 20 2010 Kevin Young
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Staggering unemployment has failed to resuscitate a desperate US military---meaning that intensified counter-recruitment efforts can have an even more powerful effect.

Young: Listening to the Generals

Blog Post, September, 17 2010 Kevin Young
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US intellectuals and the corporate press have long shown an awing reverence for the country’s high-ranking military commanders. Of course, the concepts of “national interest” and “expertise” which those commanders allegedly embody inevitably remai...

Young: "They’re Running the Economy Into the Ground"

Znet Article, September, 03 2010 Kevin Young
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U.S. corporate media have taken aim at Latin American economic policies that diverge from Washington’s neoliberal prescriptions—despite those prescriptions’ contribution to the financial crisis.

Young: Counter-Recruitment Season

Blog Post, August, 14 2010 Kevin Young
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Counter-recruitment involves providing young people with information about alternatives to military enlistment. Here I make a pitch for the importance of counter-recruitment and a brief starters’ guide for those who might be inclined to engage in ...

Young: Good Left, Bad Left

Znet Article, July, 17 2010 Kevin Young
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Faced with a tide of protest in Latin America against the US and US-allied leaders, the US government has tried to limit its loss of control over the hemisphere. One strategy for doing so has involved promoting what it considers the "good," respo...

Young: Honduras, Iran, and the Propaganda Model

Znet Article, July, 05 2010 Kevin Young
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Government repression in Iran and Honduras in the summer of 2009 was at least roughly comparable. Consistent and honest news media could thus be expected to devote at least roughly comparable levels of attention and indignation to the two cases. I...

Young: Links to FPI list of alternatives

Forum Post, March, 11 2010 Kevin Young
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 Thanks for this article (and for all of your past writing!)...As you say, there are many other alternative funding sources that would involve "chopping from the top" rather than taxing workers, students, and the poor in the fo...

Young: Thanks...

Forum Post, January, 28 2010 Kevin Young
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Young: Democratic Deficits, Disillusion, and the Decline of the Democrats

Blog Post, January, 25 2010 Kevin Young
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The recent surge in right-wing populism has deep roots in US society and recent history, but an often-neglected factor behind this phenomenon is the failure or absence of progressive alternatives to a status quo that is extremely undesirable---in ...

Young: Nurturing the "Healthy Nucleus": Thoughts on How to Engage with the White Working Class

Blog Post, January, 22 2010 Kevin Young
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The Tea Party crowd should not be merely dismissed or mocked. In fact, many of the angry white people who have mobilized against "big government" probably share most of the fundamental grievances and values of people on the left.

Young: Review of Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

Znet Article, January, 04 2010 Kevin Young
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A review of Rebecca Solnit's amazing new book on human behavior in the aftermath of disasters

Young: The 2009 Latinobarómetro Poll

Blog Post, December, 15 2009 Kevin Young
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A brief summary of the major findings of the just-released Latinobarómetro poll, an annual poll covering 18 Latin American countries.

Young: Morally Right, Politically Popular, Economically Advantageous: Medicare For All

Blog Post, October, 11 2009 Kevin Young
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Proposals for single-payer health care not only constitute the morally superior solution to the health care crisis but are also overwhelmingly popular and promise huge economic benefits for ordinary people and for the economy as a whole. Without d...

Young: Listening to the Radicals: US History's Lessons on Compromise and the 'Politically Impossible'

Znet Article, September, 10 2009 Kevin Young
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Some thoughts on the role of radicalism and political compromise in US history, inspired by the ongoing debate over health care reform

Young: Obama and Latin America

Znet Article, July, 26 2009 Kevin Young
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Far from embodying any dramatic changes, President Obama’s foreign policy has thus far tended toward continuity or worse in most major areas.

Young: Review of Ha-Joon Chang, Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

Znet Article, June, 09 2009 Kevin Young
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A review of Ha-Joon Chang´s book Bad Samaritans

Young: US Policy and Democracy in Latin America: The Latinobarómetro Poll

Znet Article, May, 26 2009 Kevin Young
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A summary and analysis of the most recent Latinobarometro poll of Latin American public opinion, focusing on citizens' satisfaction with the state of their democracies. The 2008 poll, released this past November, shows that US friends in the regio...