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Znet Article Bloice: Austerity Meets Resistance and the Democratic Will

Znet Article, May, 21 2012 Carl Bloice
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The economic elites on both sides of the Atlantic have suddenly seen their plans for the future run into a volatile foe: democracy

Znet Article Bloice: Amid Europe's Crisis - A Surge from the Left

Znet Article, May, 08 2012 Carl Bloice
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What is happening in France is not a unique turning point but one of many indicating that winds of change are blowing fiercely from Prague to Athens

Znet Article Bloice: The "Hot Potato" of the Summit of the Americas: Cuba's Absence

Znet Article, April, 18 2012 Carl Bloice
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There are 43 nations participating in the Summit of the Americas; only two – the U.S. and Canada – oppose Cuba’s participation

Znet Article Bloice: On Both Sides of the Pond: Bad News for Young Black Workers

Znet Article, March, 23 2012 Carl Bloice
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The jobless rate for young black male jobseekers in Britain rose from 28.8 percent in 2008 to 55.9 percent at the end of last year

Znet Article Bloice: Obama's Ominous Arming of Despots in the Gulf

Znet Article, January, 07 2012 Carl Bloice
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The invasion and occupation of Iraq was all about oil, and the current effort to militarily shore up some of the most reactionary regimes in the Middle East is all about oil

Znet Article Bloice: A Pall Over the Holidays - the Joblessness Crisis Intensifies

Znet Article, December, 19 2011 Carl Bloice
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"Over 20 per cent of companies say that employment in their firms will never return to pre-recession levels"

Znet Article Bloice: "Bipartisan" Plotters Still at Work - Target Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid

Znet Article, November, 17 2011 Carl Bloice
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"In Washington, `shared sacrifice' and `balanced approach' have become code for expecting everyday Americans to compound their sacrifice"

Znet Article Bloice: When We All Are Doing Better

Znet Article, October, 24 2011 Carl Bloice
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"We all do better when we all are doing better"

Znet Article Bloice: Obama Job Plan: the Promise and the Drawbacks

Znet Article, September, 19 2011 Carl Bloice
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Obama seems to have figured out that the public is more concerned with unemployment than deficit reduction

Znet Article Bloice: The Jobs Crisis is About People's Lives - Not the Next Election

Znet Article, July, 17 2011 Carl Bloice
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The jobs crisis should be considered a national emergency

Znet Article Bloice: The Reality Behind the Jobless Stats and Politics of Inaction

Znet Article, June, 13 2011 Carl Bloice
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The unemployment rate for black males went from 17 percent in April to 17.5 percent in May - the highest for any group

Znet Article Bloice: His Home is Not My Home

Znet Article, May, 30 2011 Carl Bloice
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Right now the lives of millions of people are being rendered increasingly precarious

Znet Article Bloice: Does Official Washington Care about the Jobless, Really?

Znet Article, May, 20 2011 Carl Bloice
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Neither major party can escape responsibility for a lack of alarm and action.

Znet Article Bloice: Intergenerational Demagoguery about Social Security

Znet Article, April, 03 2011 Carl Bloice
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Thomas Friedman was on a roll last week, putting forward one sweeping declaration after another - as he is wont to do.

Znet Article Bloice: The Attack on Libya - A Bad Idea and Not What it Seems to Be

Znet Article, March, 27 2011 Carl Bloice
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On Sunday, the British Observer newspaper remarked editorially, "Without calls to action by the Arab League, it is doubtful President Obama would have shifted his initial stance of wary caution. But that consensus might not hold in the event of pr...

Znet Article Bloice: Will Protests Prompt Obama to Focus on Economic Development and Human Rights in Africa?

Znet Article, February, 27 2011 Carl Bloice
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Shortly after this year got underway, two military leaders from Gabon visited air bases in Germany for a three day sojourn with some of their U.S. counterparts.

Znet Article Bloice: Saving Social Security & the Poisonous Chalice

Znet Article, January, 17 2011 Carl Bloice
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Returning from the sunny climes of Hawaii to the nation's still frigid capital, President Obama will, over the next couple of months, face the greatest challenges of his time in office.

Znet Article Bloice: An Historical View from the "Sanctimonious" Left

Znet Article, December, 20 2010 Carl Bloice
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Smarting from the complaints within his own party about the tax deal he and the Republican leadership had hatched, an increasingly defensive President Obama said," this is the public option debate all over again."

Znet Article Bloice: Yeah, It's the Economy, Sherlock

Znet Article, November, 07 2010 Carl Bloice
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The bloggers were right, "it was about the jobs, jobs, jobs," Dave Johnson wrote on the Campaign for America's Future webpage election day.

Znet Article Bloice: The Centrists Still Just Don't Get It

Znet Article, October, 13 2010 Carl Bloice
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Thomas Friedman joins a growing list of pundits, across the political spectrum who sound, Jeremiah-like, describing our times in apocalyptic terms.

Znet Article Bloice: Illusion, Reality & Courage in Iran

Znet Article, June, 26 2009 Carl Bloice
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In the movie "The Year of Living Dangerously" the little guy Billy Kwan, brilliantly played by Linda Lee, gives a news reporter Guy Hamilton, played by Mel Gibson, a talk about Indonesian puppets - the kind on sticks, which you can now sometime fi...

Znet Article Bloice: New Jobless Stats: Still "Less Terrible"? Not for Some

Znet Article, June, 18 2009 Carl Bloice
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Over the course of last month the average work week declined to its lowest point since 1960s and the numbers of people out of work for over six months rose to 3.9 million.

Znet Article Bloice: African Americans and the Economic Crisis

Znet Article, April, 22 2009 Carl Bloice
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Biden was quite out front about it. On the same day the newspapers were trumpeting the news that President Obama had felt a "glimmer of hope" in the economic situation, the Vice-President was telling CNN that we can expect unemployment to increase...

Znet Article Bloice: States' Budget Crises: Share the Pain and Share the Dough

Znet Article, December, 21 2008 Carl Bloice
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It's probable that by the time this is read, officials in San Jose, Ca. will have eliminated athletic programs from all 11 of the city's high schools. It might not seem like much to some, given the declining economic situation in the country and t...

Znet Article Bloice: Holiday Gloom in Silicon Valley

Znet Article, December, 07 2008 Carl Bloice
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A couple of days before Thanksgiving one of my downstairs neighbors matter of factly told me he had lost his job. He'd been abruptly laid off by a local information technology startup company. 'They let go so many people I don't know how they are ...

Znet Article Bloice: Prescription for an 'Ailing' Industry: Take it Over.

Znet Article, November, 20 2008 Carl Bloice
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It is hemorrhaging fast and no end to the bloodletting seems to be insight. No question something has to be done about the auto industry. But what? As usual, the preferred answer depends your vantage point. As usual, when courses of action are pro...

Znet Article Bloice: Who Woulda Thought?

Znet Article, November, 08 2008 Carl Bloice
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Just a small group of brothers sitting around at my place watching the Oakland Raiders lose again. During a commercial break, the subject of the next week's election came up. "Seriously, would you have ever thought, in your wildest imagination, th...

Znet Article Bloice: Halloween 2008 - The Horror of Foreclosures

Znet Article, October, 19 2008 Carl Bloice
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As Halloween neared in 2006, the looming mortgage crisis was already apparent and now two years later the horror of it all hasn't gone away. It keeps getting worse. We've spent the last few months talking about the possibility that two million peo...

Znet Article Bloice: Capitalism Reaches a Crossroads

Znet Article, October, 03 2008 Carl Bloice
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'Even now, someone somewhere is penning a book with a snappy title The End of Capitalism,' columnist Philip Stephens, associate editor of the Financial Times wrote recently. Not to worry, he continued, that's not about to happen. However, eight da...

Znet Article Bloice: More of Bush? It Could be Worse

Znet Article, September, 21 2008 Carl Bloice
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It's not clear whether or how long the Republicans can maintain this pretense. Stretching this stage-managed ABC-TV 'interview' over four episodes will not hide the fact that the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate is best kept away from microp...

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