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Inflation Hawks Demand That Britain Leap Into Folly (2)
(Image: CartoonArts International / The New York Times Syndicate) The economist Adam Posen of the Bank of England gave a talk recently about British monetary policy that …
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“Another Kind of Fukushima?” Asks Whistleblower Robert Gilkeson
No, I didn't make up the whistleblower title for Registered Geologist Robert (Bob) H. Gilkeson. For his important work on groundwater contamination at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, in …
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The Dangerous Hi-Jinks of the GOP’s Juveniles
I’ve spent enough of my life in Washington to take its theatrics with as much seriousness as a Seinfeld episode. A large portion of what passes for policy debate …
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Islam-Baiting Doesn’t Work
During the 2010 midterm election campaign, virtually every hard-charging candidate on the far right took a moment to trash a Muslim, a mosque, or Islamic pieties. In the wake …
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America’s Disappeared
(Photo: meggesje) Dr. Silvia Quintela was “disappeared” by the death squads in Argentina in 1977 when she was four months pregnant with her first child. She reportedly …
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WikiLeaks: Haiti Disaster Capitalism’s Latest Electroshock Patient
Naomi Klein was asked today about what additional case studies she would add to future editions of her 2007 “Shock Doctrine”. Klein's answer: Greece and Wisconsin. Fair …
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Why Did Congress Waste Six Months
Washington - The House Republican strategy to link a normally routine increase in the nation's debt limit with a crusade to slash spending has already had a high cost, …
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The Audacity of Free Trade Agreements
Congress could vote any day now to strike a new blow against already-battered U.S. workers and the unemployed. Committees in the House and Senate recently marked up …
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Climate Regulations a Job Killer? Quit Crying Wolf
(Photo: A6U571N) There’s an old adage that if you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. That seems to be the unofficial motto of the …
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Neocons Fume Over US Boat to Gaza
Demonstrators on the American boat, “The Audacity of Hope” at a port near Athens, Greece, June 30, 2011. (Photo: Nadia Shira Cohen / The New York Times) …