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Commentary Schechter: Defending the Internet and Exposing Symbolic Politics

Commentary, September, 21 2011 Danny Schechter
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Censorship is being sold as a way to promote public safety

Commentary Schechter: Obama Readies Jobs Plan While the Right Plans to Scuttle It in a Country Facing Economic Apocalypse

Commentary, September, 04 2011 Danny Schechter
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The magic wand is being readied in the White House as the President and his minions finally unwrap the mother of all jobs plans

Commentary Schechter: “Monetizing” Electoral Politics: TV Networks Are Out To Sell, Not Tell

Commentary, August, 22 2011 Danny Schechter
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Campaign spending in the 2012 US election could reach $6-$7 billion

Commentary Schechter: As Economy Crumbles, Media Goes into Ritual Politics Mode

Commentary, August, 17 2011 Danny Schechter
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As the nation careens towards a nose dive, its trivia time again on TV

Commentary Schechter: Systems Collapse When the Irrational is Considered Rational

Commentary, August, 11 2011 Danny Schechter
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A closer look, usually in times of crisis, offers a window into another kind of financial world, a world of panic and fear

Commentary Schechter: As the Dog Days of Summer Approach, Politicians Rest Before Returning to the Fray

Commentary, August, 06 2011 Danny Schechter
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the public is mad, but also depressed by the lack of leadership and a sense they can win

Commentary Schechter: The Kabuki Play on Capitol Hill Comes Right Before the Deal

Commentary, July, 31 2011 Danny Schechter
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The Wall Street powercrats are high stakes poker players and this was one game they knew they would win

Commentary Schechter: The Blue Eyes of Terror Challenge the World to Respond

Commentary, July, 26 2011 Danny Schechter
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While Bin Laden castigated crusaders, Breivik salutes them in a 1518 page manifesto of madness

Commentary Schechter: As The World Marks International Mandela Day Mandela’s Legacy Is Debated

Commentary, July, 18 2011 Danny Schechter
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The question is: which Mandela will be memorialized?

Commentary Schechter: Durban South Africa, Friday Night at the Movies

Commentary, July, 15 2011 Danny Schechter
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So here I am in one of the most beautiful corners of the world and yet under the surface, it is seething with conflicts

Commentary Schechter: “Don’t Know Much About History,” South Africa’s Youth Face a Grim Future

Commentary, June, 27 2011 Danny Schechter
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Kids know more abut Mandela than the movement he led, an expression of the celebrity worship that dominates youth culture

Commentary Schechter: Why Are We Banking on Banks To Promote economic Recovery?

Commentary, May, 26 2011 Danny Schechter
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What was missing was any notion of intentionality and premeditation, systemic fraud and CRIME

Commentary Schechter: Strauss-Kahn and The Secret Culture of Aggressive Sexuality

Commentary, May, 21 2011 Danny Schechter
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What needs to be examined is how the crimes of the rich and powerful are treated

Commentary Schechter: Why Facts No Longer Matter in the Media Discourse

Commentary, May, 02 2011 Danny Schechter
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The shame of it is that they know what they are doing, know what the impact of what passes for “coverage” will be, but do it anyway

Commentary Schechter: Why Wall Street Is Winning

Commentary, April, 26 2011 Danny Schechter
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Two years ago as financial reform was put on the U.S. Congressional agenda, a skeptical Senator, Dick Durbin of Illinois, spoke of the power of the banks over the country’s legislative process.

Commentary Schechter: The Scam Behind The Rise In Oil, Food Prices

Commentary, April, 24 2011 Danny Schechter
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The global economy and its recovery, and the living standards of millions of plain folks, are now at risk from the sudden rise in oil and commodity prices.

Commentary Schechter: U.S. Government Survives Shutdown Threat But Last Minute Deal Only Postpones More Series Economic Warfare.

Commentary, April, 17 2011 Danny Schechter
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The Capitol Hill battlefield is still for the moment as the Easter holidays approach and the combatants get a break from the heated polemics and overnight bargaining sessions.

Commentary Schechter: U.S. Government Survives Shutdown Threat

Commentary, April, 14 2011 Danny Schechter
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The Capitol Hill battlefield is still for the moment as the Easter holidays approach and the combatants get a break from the heated polemics and overnight bargaining sessions.

Commentary 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...

Commentary Schechter: Beyond Fukishima

Commentary, March, 21 2011 Danny Schechter
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A world in denial about nuclear risks…

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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.

Commentary 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.

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.

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...

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