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Memo to Mayor Bloomberg: JPMorgan Blow-Up Is Not a “Hiccup” – It’s a Giant Warning
The tone-deaf, gold-plated, Wall Street-worshipping mayor of New York City rushes to defend Jamie Dimon. New York's Mayor Bloomberg rarely loses an opportunity to rush to the defense of …
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A Radical Idea to Transform What Kids Learn in School
Exxon-Mobil is airing education-reform television ads. In the one I’ve seen most often, implicit and explicit messages are simple and clear: (a) We live in a dangerous, technologically complex …
Why Protest NATO?
In many ways, Afghanistan is worse off under NATO's Groundhog Day-like reign of terror than it was before. For more than five years now, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has …
Obama Might Want to Look Forward in 2012, but America’s Torture Legacy Will Keep Staring Back
In 2002, Maher Arar was stopped while on a layover at John F. Kennedy International Airport on his way home to Canada. US officials detained Arar for two weeks …
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What Have Rich People Done for You Lately?
(Image: CartoonArts International / The New York Times Syndicate)So a former partner of Mitt Romney's at Bain Capital says, in a new book, what Mr. Romney probably believes: we …
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How the US Press Lost Its Way
People often wonder what happened to the American press after it distinguished itself in the 1970s by exposing the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. How did the U.S. news media …
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Knowledge Work Under Cognitive Capitalism
What do the Austrian-born, self-styled "social ecologist" and management theorist Peter Drucker and the Italian autonomist Marxist scholar Paolo Virno have in common? At first blush, little beyond their …
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Henry A. Giroux: The Occupy Movement and the Politics of Educated Hope
American society has lost its claim on democracy. One indication of such a loss is that the crises produced on a daily basis by crony capitalism operate within a …
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JPMorgan and US-Europe Banking Contagion: Is Another Global Financial Crisis Brewing?
Late last week, the financial markets were rocked with the announcement that the biggest, and heretofore assumed most stable US bank, J.P. Morgan, lost $2 billion in recent months. …
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Did the Norwegians Have a Revolution?
For the better part of a century, some visionaries have been trying to break out of the dominant belief that there are only two means of forcing change: reform …