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China as No. 1? Don’t Bet Your Bottom Dollar
The minute China’s economy falters, the country’s rulers have a problem on their hands that could potentially make the Arab Spring look mild by comparison. (Photo: M Shades/Flickr) …
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Transcript: Remarks by President Obama on Osama bin Laden
East Room 11:35 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United …
Corporate America’s War on Political Transparency
Public Citizen President Rob Weissman, Public Citizen President, blogging at Citizen Vox, the blog of Public Citizen. It’s a modest notion. Companies that bid for …
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Bin Laden Dead, Says Obama
Tweet Washington — Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the most devastating attack on American soil in modern times and the most hunted …
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Ecological Scarcity, Poverty and Development
The Triple Crisis Blog is pleased to welcome Edward B. Barbier, John S. Bugas Professor of Economics at the University of Wyoming, as a regular blogger.
Canadian Parliamentary Election: Know Your ABCs – Anyone but Conservatives
Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, at 2010 G8 Summit and Toronto G20 Summit. (Photo: Remy Steinegger / World Economic Forum) To a majority of Americans, there …
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“What Will Happen to Me?“
(Image: Good Books) “What Will Happen to Me?” Howard Zehr and Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz (Good Books, 2010) $14.95US/$14.95CAN, ISBN-10: 9781561486892 In 2004, …
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History of Seventies Activism Debunks “Me Generation” Myth
(Image: Rutgers University Press) The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism Edited by Dan Bergen Rutgers University Press, 2010 Thirty-five years ago, journalist Tom …
Disaster Tourism: Honest Altruism or Insensitive Voyeurism?
A man walks through what remains of a police station destroyed in fighting between Hamas and Fatah forces, in Gaza City, Wednesday, June 20, 2007. (Photo: Tyler Hicks / …
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Questioning Obama’s Americanism
Some Americans, especially on the Left, seem to have almost forgotten that Barack Obama is an African-American whose rise to the presidency was one of the most unlikely political …