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Andrews: Blowback II
Blog Post, September, 02 2012
John Andrews
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Did Blowback I change anything?
Green: Norman Finkelstein on Gandhi, Non-violence and the Occupy Movement
Blog Post, September, 01 2012
James Green
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On August 25th, 2012 Occupy Brooklyn TV sat down with Norman Finkelstein – political dissident and world renowned scholar on the Israeli-Palestine conflict – to talk about Gandhi, the Occupy movement, Julian Assange, the economic crisis, and a pos...
Tripathi: Assange, Pinochet and Diplomatic Double Dealing
Blog Post, September, 01 2012
Deepak Tripathi
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Analysis of Ecuador's decision to grant political asylum to the WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange and diplomatic confrontation with Britain.
Kavanagh: Social Security in the Great Jambalaya
Blog Post, August, 31 2012
Jim Kavanagh
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Is there a Social Security crisis or not? To hear some tell it, the Social Security Trust Fund* is insolvent, nothing but a collection of “worthless pieces of paper.” To hear others tell it, the Social Security Trust Fund has a surplus of 2.5 tr...
Emersberger: Lack of Press Freedom Shields “Reporters Without Borders” From Exposure
Blog Post, August, 30 2012
Joe Emersberger
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Lack of Press Freedom Shields “Reporters Without Borders” From Exposure
Bohmer: Support the Grand Jury Resisters: End the Grand Jury
Blog Post, August, 30 2012
Peter Bohmer
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I am writing in strong support of the grand jury resistors who have recently been subpoenaed by the Federal Grand Jury in Seattle and to demand that the subpoenas be withdrawn, that all materials taken in the related raids be returned to their ow...
Wilson: Family Farm Diabetes: Foodies, Farm Justice “Allies” and "The Big Hog"
Blog Post, August, 30 2012
Brad Wilson
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One of the symptoms of diabetes, which we hear so much about these days, as a consequence of the food crisis, is that people lose their limbs, which must then be cut off. First it may be just a toe, then a foot, then the lower leg, then the whole ...
Wittner: The Republican "Small Government" Fraud
Blog Post, August, 29 2012
Lawrence Wittner
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Although the GOP claims to be the party of small government -- even libertarianism -- in reality it is equally comfortable with big or small government, as long as it serves the wealthy and powerful.
Bybee: Paul Ryan Epitomizes the Big Shift in the Republican Party
Blog Post, August, 29 2012
Roger Bybee
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Paul Ryan and the GOP formerly used cultural issues such as abortion, God, guns, and gays to lure votes, and once in office, dropping those issues in favor of an agenda to enrich the top 1%. But increasingly, the Republicans are pursuing both a...
Bybee: Paul Ryan carpet-bombed factories of district, then strafed first-aid stations
Blog Post, August, 27 2012
Roger Bybee
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Paul Ryan;s economic policies have imposed immense suffering, and he has greeted this misery by seeking to cut off all crucially-needed forms of assistance.
Emersberger: Note to Peter Beaumont Re Civility, Honest Engagement and telling readers to F*** Off
Blog Post, August, 26 2012
Joe Emersberger
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Note to Peter Beaumont Re Civility, Honest Engagement and telling readers to F*** Off
Breslau: The "incitement index" incites
Blog Post, August, 26 2012
Daniel Breslau
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The "incitement index" released by Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs calls incitement the main obstacle to peace. And under incitement it gathers not only calls to violence, but promotion of an ethos of struggle, and references to Palestine a...
Kavanagh: No Account: The Social Security Hope-a-Dope
Blog Post, August, 25 2012
Jim Kavanagh
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So let me understand the strategy: FDL gathers a gazillion signatures on their internet petition, with Joe Biden’s “guarantee” in bold italics, and sends it off to Obama campaign headquarters with the stern warning that they are going to “Hold Th...
Evans: IOPS: Interim Goals?
Blog Post, August, 24 2012
Mark Evans
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A discussion on IOPS interim goals including some suggestions etc...
Jones: The Grind of Austerity: Sadness and Hope
Blog Post, August, 24 2012
Chris Jones
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More reflections on the impact of austerity on the island of Samos and an attempt to assess and identify some of the issues which seem to be, at this time, inhibiting our resistance.
Kavanagh: Too Many Cooks: The Syrian Demise
Blog Post, August, 23 2012
Jim Kavanagh
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The Assad/Alawite regime is cooking in a stew of its own penchant for brutality, which has folded into the cleverness of the United States and Saudi Arabia in crafting a strategy for hijacking “Arab Spring” anti-authoritarian uprisings for counter...
Emersberger: Assange, Treviño, and the Limits of Debate in the Corporate Press
Blog Post, August, 23 2012
Joe Emersberger
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Assange, Treviño, and the Limits of Debate in the Corporate Press
Lewis: What are schools really for?
Blog Post, August, 23 2012
Stephen Lewis
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This isn’t a rhetorical question. This short article isn’t even a polemic. I’m posing a genuine question - as the question mark implies. Honestly I really don’t know. I went through the English education system and, later on, studied at Universiti...
Lewis: Thoughts on the Limits of Economic Prediction
Blog Post, August, 23 2012
Stephen Lewis
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Economics doesn’t seem able to predict anything of great import. It certainly didn’t seem able to predict or even, after the fact, explain the recent banking and financial crisis; the repercussions of which will be felt by millions for decades to ...
Lewis: Humpty Dumpty Economics – The Myth of Dematerialization
Blog Post, August, 23 2012
Stephen Lewis
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There is an English expression that tells us that you can’t make omelettes without breaking a few eggs. This is usually taken to mean that in order to achieve something or make progress there are often losers in the process – true enough though a ...
