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Commentary Schechter: Egypt & Economic Crisis

Commentary, January, 31 2011 Danny Schechter
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This is an upstairs/downstairs story that takes us from the peak of a Western mountaintop for the wealthy to spreading mass despair in the valleys of the Third World poor.

Commentary Schechter: Is The Past Prologue?

Commentary, January, 19 2011 Danny Schechter
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Fascism is one of those words that sounds like it belongs in the past, conjuring up, as it does, marching jack boots in the streets, charismatic demagogues like Italy’s Mussolini or Spain’s Franco and armed crackdowns on dissent and freedom of exp...

Commentary Schechter: The Battle Over Austerity Measures Has Moved From The Suites To The Streets. What’s Next?

Commentary, December, 24 2010 Danny Schechter
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William Shakespeare put a key question this way; “To Be Or Not To Be?” Today’s economists and policy makers pose a different choice: to spend or not to spend.

Commentary Schechter: Mall Fever: Will Christmas Shopping Revive The Economy This Year As It Hasn’t In Years Past?

Commentary, November, 25 2010 Danny Schechter
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We have every retailer in every mall in America on their knees praying for a prosperous black Friday the day after Thanksgiving.

Commentary Schechter: Now That The Elections Are Over, What Kind of Economy Did Americans Vote For?

Commentary, November, 04 2010 Danny Schechter
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The Election is over. The Dems were thumped. They lost the House, even if they still have the Senate by a hair.

Znet Article Schechter: Cash And Carry: The Business Of American Politics And Politics As A Business

Znet Article, November, 01 2010 Danny Schechter
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We live in a country in economic distress. Millions are out of work and cutbacks in public services are pervasive at the city and state levels.

Commentary Schechter: The Secret War Between Wikileaks And The Pentagon, (And Some Media Outlets)

Commentary, October, 26 2010 Danny Schechter
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Analysing the media coverage of the latest WikiLeaks release reveals some interesting insights.

Commentary Schechter: Report from the Epicenter of Fraudclosures

Commentary, October, 18 2010 Danny Schechter
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In all of the economic issues we are dealing with, there is always a “back story, a deeper context” that is usually missing, “disappeared” like those Allende supporters in Chile in the l970’s who wanted to empower workers, not just rescue them whe...

Commentary Schechter: London Calling As The Economy Hovers On The Edge And Scholars Debate War And Terrorism

Commentary, September, 22 2010 Danny Schechter
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The British Capital pretty much looked like it did the last time I was here except for all the closed stores and businesses I passed on the way to the War and Media Conference that brought me here.

Commentary Schechter: A Lament For Labor Day

Commentary, September, 05 2010 Danny Schechter
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When your life and your work is as entwined as mine has been—fusing the personal and the political over all these years, it may be stretching things to consider yourself unemployed but that’s what I am as Labor Day approaches.

Commentary Schechter: Media Complicity in Financial Crimes

Commentary, September, 01 2010 Danny Schechter
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When you connect the dots in your writing or look for deeper explanations behind the decisions of policymakers, market makers and media-makers, it’s easy to be dismissed as a conspiracy nut.

Commentary Schechter: As The Obama Economic Team Bails, The System Fails To Generate Jobs. Are The Causes, Um, “Structural?”

Commentary, August, 10 2010 Danny Schechter
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In Washington, the Obama economic team has sprung a leak. First, Budget Director Peter Orszag, the calculating numbers savant, bailed. And now, “distinguished” economist Christina Romer, the only woman in that inner circle boys club has quit too.

Commentary Schechter: Whither The “Economic Agenda?”

Commentary, August, 04 2010 Danny Schechter
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As we move into the dog days of summer, and a coming Congressional recess, the Obama Administration has shifted its focus back on to the economy and wants to convince one and all that an economic recovery is just around the corner.

Commentary Schechter: Wall Street Criminals

Commentary, July, 11 2010 Danny Schechter
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1500 Bankers went to Jail After the S&L Crisis. Almost None Today.

Commentary Schechter: Memories And Misery In CNN Land While Homeowners

Commentary, June, 20 2010 Danny Schechter
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Somehow, I can’t escape CNN. Last Saturday I joined Ted Turner, Wolf Blitzer and more than 300 current and former CNN employees at a celebration of the network’s 30th anniversary at the National Press Club in Washington. I was there as one of the ...

Commentary Schechter: Why We Barely Know What’s Going On

Commentary, June, 15 2010 Danny Schechter
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Defending America covertly has become an ongoing theme for one more TV series. Salute the flag and praise NBC (GE) for its latest effort to persuade the population to accept the kind of secret operations that now drive the war in Afghanistan. The...

Commentary Schechter: Obama Talks Left To Move Right As Wall Street Criminals Are Given A Free Pass And Reforms Are Watered Down

Commentary, June, 01 2010 Danny Schechter
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Is The President The Kind of Leader Chairman Mao Warned Us About?

Commentary Schechter: Will There Be A Criminal Case Against Goldman Sachs?

Commentary, May, 03 2010 Danny Schechter
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Will Goldman survive the assault? Will the threat of criminal charges being pursued against the world’s leading investment bank spill over onto others on Wall Street? Is the criminalization of the crisis underway, or is all this just a maneuver?

Commentary Schechter: Going After Goldman

Commentary, April, 20 2010 Danny Schechter
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Fox Business News was engrossed in interviewing a blonder than thou reality TV bimbo when the news that the Securities And Exchange Commission was filing fraud charges against Goldman Sachs broke on Friday afternoon.

Commentary Schechter: To Organize Against Wall Street, We Need A Narrative Focusing On Crime And Massive Fraud

Commentary, April, 15 2010 Danny Schechter
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In politics, it’s always all about the narrative, about how issues are framed.

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