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Schechter: The Martin Luther King Legacy and The Global Economic Crisis
Commentary, April, 04 2011
Danny Schechter
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Before he went over that mountain top in that week in an April like this one back in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr, said he had already seen the other side, as he spent his last days on earth fighting for the garbage men of Memphis while speaking ou...
Schechter: Beyond Fukishima
Commentary, March, 21 2011
Danny Schechter
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A world in denial about nuclear risks…
Schechter: March Madness & Paralysis
Commentary, March, 09 2011
Danny Schechter
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The term class war has been extricated from the archives of another era, while divisions over the future of the economy have become a battleground in which the adversaries yell at each other, but rarely engage in any discourse with each other in a...
Schechter: Egypt Unrest & Discontent
Commentary, February, 15 2011
Danny Schechter
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It is now the long morning after, as protesters returned to Tahrir Square to clean it up and savor their victory.
Schechter: Mummies and Dummies: Leave Or Stay, The Egyptian Crisis Will Only Get Deeper With No Quick Fix Likely
Commentary, February, 07 2011
Danny Schechter
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The tomb may be the appropriate metaphor not only for wannabe President forever Hosni Mubarak but also for the 30 plus year neo-colonial economic system that he has presided over.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
