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The Dirt on Erskine Bowles: The Tame Half of Bowles-Simpson
While Bowles may be able to control his temper and his vocabulary better than Simpson, those are not credentials for dictating the future of the Social Security and Medicare …
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Mitt’s Gift of Gaffe
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Cutting a Deal
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After Five Years: Report Card on Crisis Capitalism
After five years of crisis - with no end in sight - it's time to evaluate what happened, why and what needs to be done.
A Primer on the Colonialism of Israel’s Settlers
Successful settler colonies displace or exterminate the indigenous sovereignty.
Numbers Tell of Failure in Drug War
When policy makers in Washington worry about Mexico these days, they think in terms of a handful of numbers: Mexicou2019s 19,500 hectares devoted to poppy cultivation for heroin; its …
Sand Land: Frac Sand Mining in Western Wisconsin
The rush to drill for unconventional gas, enabled by a process popularly known as
The Paraguayan Coup: Agribusiness, Landowners, Media Elite and US Lead to Destabilization
It has been nearly two weeks since the parliament of Paraguay orchestrated an institutional coup that removed President Fernando Lugo from power and installed vice president Fernando Franco in …
Election Countdown 2012: Drone Pilots May Practice by Tracking Civilian Cars, and More
Occupy. #NatGT: u201cThe hundreds of thousands who participated in Occupy protests last fall did not trek to Philadelphia.u201d And? The value of a conference is in the deliverables: A …
A New Europe: Growing Beyond Growth for True Democracy
u201cGrowthu201d is, once again, the buzzword of the moment among Europeu2019s politicians, thanks to Francoise Hollande, the milquetoast Socialist recently elected to succeed Nicolas Sarkozy as President of France.