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Schechter: Facts No Longer Matter
May 02, 2011
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
Schechter: Why Wall Street Is Winning
Apr 26, 2011
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.
Schechter: Rise In Oil, Food Prices
Apr 24, 2011
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.
Schechter: U.S. Government Survives Shutdown
Apr 17, 2011
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.
Schechter: U.S. Government Survives Shutdown Threat
Apr 14, 2011
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.
Schechter: MLK Legacy & Economic Crisis
Apr 04, 2011
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 out about the twin evils of war and poverty.
Sharma: India’s Farmers Movement
Mar 23, 2011
I still can’t understand. Mohammed Bouazizi, a 24-year-old vegetable seller in Tunisia, sets himself on fire...
Schechter: Beyond Fukishima
Mar 21, 2011
A world in denial about nuclear risks…
Solomon: Nuclear Power Madness
Mar 15, 2011
Like every other president since the 1940s, Barack Obama has promoted nuclear power.
Street: Is Labor Ready?
Mar 12, 2011
Governor Scott Walker and his right Republican allies in the Wisconsin legislature might be a bunch of plutocratic, Koch-funded thugs, but...
Schechter: March Madness & Paralysis
Mar 09, 2011
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 shared language.
Sharma: Food Pirates’ Trap
Mar 02, 2011
Egypt paid the price, so will we if we ignore the Mahatma’s prescription: production by the masses, not for the masses.
Shah: Climate’s Fingerprint
Feb 23, 2011
For decades, deadly outbreaks of cholera were attributed to the spread of disease through poor sanitation. But recent research demonstrates how closely cholera is tied to environmental and hydrological factors and to weather patterns — all of which may lead to more frequent cholera outbreaks as the world warms.
Solomon: When “Good” Dictators Go Bad
Feb 17, 2011
A standard zigzag of political rhetoric went for a jaunt along Pennsylvania Avenue on Tuesday (Feb. 15) with a speech by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at George Washington University.
Schechter: Egypt Unrest & Discontent
Feb 15, 2011
It is now the long morning after, as protesters returned to Tahrir Square to clean it up and savor their victory.
Schechter: Egypt No Quick Fix
Feb 07, 2011
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.
Street: Obama & Egypt
Feb 06, 2011
The recent remarkable and revolutionary unrest in the Arab world and particularly in Egypt has created an awkward dilemma for Barack Obama and his administration.
Schechter: Egypt & Economic Crisis
Jan 31, 2011
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.
Shiva: GMOs Falsehoods
Jan 23, 2011
In February, the Minister of Environment Mr. Jairam Ramesh put a moratorium on Bt. Brinjal. He is now pushing trials of GM rubber on Kerala which is a GMO free State.
May 04, 2011
Obama, the Middle East, and the Re-Branding Game at Home and Abroad