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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...

Znet Article Bloice: Avoiding the Bleedin' Obvious

Znet Article, September, 07 2008 Carl Bloice
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The opening line of Kevin Phillip's new book says the 'most worrisome thing' about the present economic situation in the U.S. is 'the extent of official understatement and misstatements - the preference for minimizing how many problems there are a...

Znet Article Bloice: Taking the Train to a Clean Environment, a Sustainable Economy & Jobs

Znet Article, June, 03 2008 Carl Bloice
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There was once a train that ran straight from downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica on the coast. I think it was painted red - memory being what it is and being that is was when I was a kid. My family would leave home in South Central and be at the...

Znet Article Bloice: Hunger, Housing, Heating Oil...and the War

Znet Article, May, 03 2008 Carl Bloice
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The news that Spam (the kind you eat) sales were on the rise should have been enough of a tip-off, but with sales at Starbucks slackening you knew things were getting bad. The number of people applying for food stamps - by people who would never h...

Znet Article Bloice: An Uncertain Time for Capitalism

Znet Article, April, 19 2008 Carl Bloice
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Don't take it from me. The august Financial Times said it last Saturday: 'It is not just the credit crisis. Popular fears of globalization, discontent with high oil and food prices, rising income inequality within nations - all have contributed to...

Znet Article Bloice: Basra, Baghdad and Beyond

Znet Article, April, 06 2008 Carl Bloice
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It is the logic of foreign military occupation faced with a popular insurgency that five years after invading Iraq, U.S. and British planes were at week's end bombing Iraqi cities.

Znet Article Commentator: Obama Race Speech Analysis

Znet Article, March, 23 2008 Black Commentator
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Commentary and analysis of 10 members of the BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board...

Znet Article Bloice: More Bad News from the Job Market

Znet Article, February, 09 2008 Carl Bloice
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I had turned in my seat to look down the bar but I couldn't help overhearing the guy behind me when he told his friend, 'I don't want to be mean but I think I am going to buy a foreclosure.' He said there were real deals in another county for cond...

Znet Article Bloice: The Elite Huddle in Davos

Znet Article, January, 31 2008 Carl Bloice
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When over 2,500 delegates gather at the plush resort town of Davos, Switzerland a week from now, they will have a lot on their plate. They had planned to open the annual meeting of the international elite with discussions of the environment and te...

Znet Article Bloice: Confronting New and Even Bleaker Job Prospects

Znet Article, January, 14 2008 Carl Bloice
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Once again, disturbing statistics have come from the government. Once again, the question being asked is what the figures portend for the country's overall economy.

Znet Article Bloice: Condi on the Ropes?

Znet Article, November, 28 2007 Carl Bloice
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Condoleezza Rice is being set up. The neo-conservatives that surrounded her in the Bush Administration when the Iraq war was plotted and launched are regrouping, distancing themselves from the White House and mobilizing against the

Znet Article Bloice: When All is Said and Done: It's the Occupation

Znet Article, October, 15 2007 Carl Bloice
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  The reason there is no progress toward ending the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians and a more general move toward peace in the Middle East is that some people are opposed to it and there is a widespread notion floating ...

Znet Article Bloice: We're an 'Emerging Market' in Big Trouble

Znet Article, September, 29 2007 Carl Bloice
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The term 'emerging mar...

Znet Article Bloice: Let's Go Bomb Iran

Znet Article, September, 15 2007 Carl Bloice
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Last Friday, CNN's senior political analyst did at segment on Presidential candidate Rudy Giulia...

Znet Article Bloice: The Debt Crisis is Deep and Ominous

Znet Article, August, 31 2007 Carl Bloice
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At 7:30 a.m., only a few hours after the New York Times hit the streets August 6th, with a front page story on the difficulties holders of subprime mortgages were having, mortgage broker Jack Kunkel was in front of his computer, clearly upset. The...

Znet Article Bloice: Denying Poverty Amid a 'Looming Economic Crisis'

Znet Article, August, 06 2007 Carl Bloice
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A very strange article...

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