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Op-Ed
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Is Jamie Dimon Really Out of the Woods With Shareholder Thumbs Down on Splitting CEO/Chairman Roles?
Having weak parts of the JP Morgan operation subject to tougher board oversight is a far cry from having an independent chairman, but it is still a clipping of …
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Justice Postponed in Guatemala: Rios Montt and the United States Evade Reckoning With the Past
The world is witnessing the gradual establishment of new standards of accountability across borders.
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Excel Spreadsheet Error: Lessons from the Reinhart-Rogoff Controversy
Baker explains why the silly spreadsheet error was important for the debt debate controversy: it allowed for a real debate.
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Consumerism and Its Discontents
The US millennial generation and their elders are wrestling with the fundamental edict of capitalism: Buy and you shall be happy.
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The Halfway “Obama Doctrine“
Robert Parry: Obama's ‘middle road’ is not acceptable to Americans who favor the ‘cold-turkey’ response to the Bush-Cheney ‘anything-goes’ behavior after 9/11.
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The End of the Beginning of the End
William Rivers Pitt: The noose is tightening around the necks of average people, and more become radicalized with each passing day.
Hancock’s Reaper Drone; Remote Control There and Here
Ed Kinane: "As Hancock wages its cowardly wars on the people of Afghanistan and on Upstate Drone Action, we will persist in exposing the drone war crime in our …
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Tales in a Kabul Restaurant
We who live in countries that support NATO, that tolerate this occupation, bear responsibility to hear the tales told by Afghans who are trapped by our war of choice.
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Los Angeles Citizens Vote to Regulate Medical Marijuana: State Oversight Would Help Clarify New Regulations
Yesterday, the citizens of Los Angeles voted to regulate medical marijuana by voting to pass Proposition D, one of three medical marijuana regulation measures on the ballot. The Proposition …
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The Path to Illegalization and the Invisibility of the State
Mariame's post (linked here) on anti-blackness prompted some further reflection on militarization and also on merit-based immigration, extending the question of who and what is rendered invisible. One of …