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Fed Bashing at the G-20: A Return to the Gold Standard Anyone?
A strange thing happened on the way to the G-20 meetings: world elite opinion has turned against the Federal Reserve’s “quantitative easing” (QE) program, the only significant “Keynesian” macroeconomic …
Advocates Say Democrats Fumbled HIV/AIDS Funding Before GOP Takeover
The GOP's midterm election gains and partisan disputes in Congress have put struggling HIV/AIDS programs in a precarious situation. Republicans took control of the House of Representatives last week …
Stephen Pitt | The Koch Brothers’ Solution
The gift from a right-wing chief justice and his comrades was too much to pass up. Corporate of the Koch Kind is quickly permeating everything and, with the Citizens …
E.J. Dionne, Jr. | A Same and Spineless Duck?
Washington - The lame-duck session of Congress that kicks off this week will test whether Democrats have spines made of Play-Doh, and whether President Obama has decided to pretend …
Who Decides How the Oppressed Should Fight Oppression?
An American activist once gave me a book she had written that detailed her experiences in Palestine. The largely visual volume documented her journey in the occupied West Bank, …
Clyburn Will Get House Post, Avoiding Democratic Spat
Washington — Speaker Nancy Pelosi will create a new leadership post for Rep. Jim Clyburn as Democrats prepare to cede control of the House of Representatives to Republicans in …
The Missing Immigration Debate
Chicago - If I were a member of the third largest minority group in the United States, I'd be really frustrated that the immigration issue continues to be discussed …
Burma: After Suu Kyi’s Release, Dangerous Time Sets in
Bangkok - A dilapidated colonial villa on the banks of the Inya Lake in Rangoon, Burma’s largest city, has regained its identity as a home – instead of a …
William Rivers Pitt | A Small Fraction of a Man
George W. Bush was all over my television this past week, all over the newspapers, and the feelings inspired by his sudden reappearance are almost beyond my capacity to …
The Photographic Look at the People of California’s Central Valley: Toolville and Its Bad Water
Toolville, California - Toolville is a tiny colonia, or unincorporated and informal settlement of about a hundred families, in the rural San Joaquin Valley, just a couple of miles …