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The Sustainable Seafood Myth
(Photo: Jameel Winter / Flickr) Stroll by any Whole Foods seafood counter and you will see color-coded fish: Green for fully sustainable, yellow for partially sustainable, and red …
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30 Years Ago Today: The Middle Class Died
President Reagan walks along the White House colonnade, 1981. (Photo: Wikimedia) From time to time, someone under 30 will ask me, "When did this all begin, America's …
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Obama on the Backs of the Poor
President Barack Obama in the Oval Office, July 11, 2011. (Photo: Pete Souza / White House) What are we to make of the Obama-brokered deal on debt …
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How Change Happens: A Threefold Strategy
This is part of a series of blogs based on excerpts adapted from the 2nd edition of Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth. I …
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Is Wisconsin Ground Zero for the “American Spring” or a Third Party?
Protesting provisions of Governor Walker's Budget Repair Bill, February 2011, Madison, Wisconsin. (Photo: Richard Hurd / Flickr) People watching the news over the past week might have …
America in Decline
Corporate power's ascendancy over politics and society both political parties far to the right of the population.
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Does Al Jazeera’s American Debut Give Hope for Media Diversity?
Al Jazeera English made its United States television debut this week, continuing the network's transformation in the eyes of the American public and government from dangerous machine to respectable …
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Debt Ceiling Deal: Wrong Diagnosis Leads to Wrong Treatment for What Ails the Economy
The stock market's decline as the debt-ceiling deal was sealed says it all. Wall Street doesn't buy the reliance on magical thinking behind this deal – that it will …
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Bringing on the “Obama Recession” by Forgetting the Lessons of Keynes and FDR
“The economic experiments of President Roosevelt may prove, I think, to be of extraordinary importance in economic history, because for the first time — at least I cannot recall …
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The US Doesn’t Have a Debt Problem. It Has a Crisis of Values
Default was the best option. The shameful and dangerous debt ceiling deal passed into law yesterday made that clear. It is rooted in the grand bargain that the political …