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Palestine Investor Conference Lost Amid Flotilla Fallout
Amid the days of turmoil surrounding the Israeli raid on the aid flotilla headed for Gaza in which nine died, thousands of corporate investors and international donors, including US …
Uptick in Afghan Attacks Tests US Forces
Camp Wilderness, Paktia Province, Afghanistan - With the first high-pitched cracks of AK-47 fire, the Afghan National Army soldiers jumped out of their unarmored Ford Ranger pick-up truck and …
“Lure People Into That Calm and Then Just Totally F—k Em: How All of Us Pay for the Derivatives Market
For the Wall Street reform package currently making its way through Congress to work, it has to accomplish two broad goals: It must take a huge bite out of …
“Free-Market Fundamentalism” Is an Invention of Progressives
The right showed once again that they have no allegiance whatsoever to the free market when House Republicans pushed through a bill that would prohibit the Federal Housing Authority …
The Incendiary Danger of Unchecked Power: Bibi as Bullyboy
Take a large dose of hubris, combine it with Lord Acton's famous dictum (“power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely”), and you emerge with an explosive, reckless …
E.J. Dionne Jr. | In Defense of Two-Handed Economists
Washington - Will politics slow our economic recovery? Will world leaders who pulled us back from the brink of a new Great Depression throw in the towel before the …
Obama Wants $50 Billion for States and Cities
President Obama wants Congress to spend more money to help states and localities struggling with huge deficits. But he does not want to call it a stimulus package, apparently. …
Stealth Superpower
The future is no longer in plastics, as the businessman in the 1967 film The Graduate insisted. Rather, the future is in China. If a multinational corporation doesn’t shoehorn …
A “Prophecy” Worth Watching
Orson Welles and John Houseman were preparing to mount a production in June 1937 in New York City called “The Cradle Will Rock,” a musical written by Marc Blitzstein …
News in Brief: President Obama Demands Accountability From BP, and More
BP continues to dominate the front pages: The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal report that President Obama plans on forcing the energy giant to establish …