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“Targeting” the Poor in Thailand
u2018Inflation targetingu2019 has become the cause for much controversy in Thailand. The issue in question is clear. When a countryu2019s central bank functions with the belief that it can …
Are There Borders for the 99%?
The power of the caravan rests on a different framework, one that challenges our understanding of international borders in an era when transnational corporations are increasingly overshadowing the primacy …
Obama Says One Thing in Spotlight, Another Behind Closed Doors
The president does not want the public to know that what he is saying in the spotlight of the campaign trail is the opposite of what he is negotiating …
Carbon Trading Scheme Close to Collapse
By 2020, countries that are signatory to the Kyoto protocol will have accumulated more than 17 billion tonnes of surplus emission reduction permits, a new study shows. This enormous …
Dirty Money: Cities and States Addicted to Soliciting for Corporate Favors
Airbus wasnu2019t coming to Alabama for free: state and local officials had offered the company an incentive package worth more than $158 million for the plant.
How to End Hard Times? Reduce Inequality
A new report from a United Nations group details how low inequality promotes economic growth u2014 and blasts away at a status quo where the most profitable firms end …
Election Countdown 2012: Despite Employment Rates, Obama Declares That the US Is Not In Decline, and More
The Election Countdown gives news from across the country as we get closer to November.
Uncle Sam Is Watching You: Stop FISA Renewal
This week, Congress prepares to abuse the Constitution again, by extending its 2008 amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Echoing ALEC’s Playbook, the Real Story of Scott Walker’s Tort “Reform“
Walker's first move as governor was to outline ALEC-model legislation.
Mitt Romney, Monsanto Man
As deliberately vague as Romney is, heu2019s moved publicly in Monsantou2019s direction on the companyu2019s genetically engineered ethanol and farm subsidies, appears aligned with it on labeling.