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Real Hope Is About Doing Something
On Dec. 16 I will join Daniel Ellsberg, Medea Benjamin, Ray McGovern and several military veteran activists outside the White House to protest the futile and endless wars in …
Robert Reich | National Fiscal Hypocrisy Week
Welcome to National Fiscal Hypocrisy Week. Today (Monday), Congress takes up a measure delaying by one month a scheduled 23% cut in federal reimbursements to doctors. The cut will …
Clock Ticks on Immigration Reform Bill
New York - Democratic lawmakers will attempt to summon up their waning power by using the so-called "lame duck" session of Congress to pass what will likely be the …
Cancún Opens for GREEN Business But REDD Will Destroy Indigenous Forest Cultures
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) COP16 opens this week in Cancún, Mexico to discuss green business (November 29 – December 10, 2010). No one is …
Julian Assange and Glenn Beck: Reality and its Alternates
For those who pay attention to the battle of ideas that constantly goes on in the United States, two people presently have center stage. One is a man whose …
Yahoos in Charge: Taking It Out on the Kids…and the Grandkids
One of the major talking points issued by the Republican Party to its newly elected members of Congress is that they should always say in interviews that they are …
Rick Wolff | The Crisis and Obama’s Decline
The economic crisis that Obama rode to victory in 2008 also rode him down in the 2010 elections. Obama and his economic advisors badly "mismanaged the crisis." While the …
News in Brief: Obama to Freeze Federal Worker Pay, and More
Obama to Freeze Federal Worker Pay
A Memo to Tea Party Senators
Some of the newly elected Tea Party senators, including Rand Paul and Pat Toomey, have already said there is good reason to reduce the hyper-bloated Pentagon budget. However, it …
Baker and Weisbrot | International Community Should Reject Haiti
Washington, D.C. - Haiti's elections, which were fraught with widespread irregularities and the arbitrary exclusion of political parties, should be rejected by the international community, Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of …