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Thursday night Madrid’s city centre offered a glimpse of what Western democracies have become, as thousands of unarmed nonviolent civilians with their hands up in the air shouting “these …

(Photo: SpeakerBoehner / Flickr) Have you seen, anywhere, in any media, or even heard reported or repeated on NPR, the following sentence? “We have changed our assumption …

(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 …

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 …

US Marine Infantrymen from Kilo Company, 3/6 Marines carry their gear out to US Army rotary wing helicopters from the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade prior to an air assault …

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 …

Washington - Standard & Poor’s removed the United States government from its list of risk-free borrowers for the first time on Friday night, a downgrade that is freighted with …

Belgrade, Serbia - The NATO peacekeeping mission in Kosovo (KFOR) and Belgrade have reached an agreement to end a tense standoff in the Serb-dominated northern Kosovo after nearly two …

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 …