Huck Gutman
Huck Gutman, a professor at the University of Vermont, was formerly Chief of Staff to U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
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Views Tuesday, June 11, 2013 An Administration Ruled by Fear The protagonist of a long series of detective novels, the admirable Inspector Maigret, would see a mystery at the heart of what goes on in America. How is it that violence barely disturbs us, yet we protect ourselves against its manifestation by a massive state apparatus dedicated to searching through the lives of ordinary Americans? Read more |
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Views Thursday, July 27, 2006 A Modest Step Toward Fixing Our Health Care System Almost unnoticed last week, a federal judge ruled that a recent Maryland statute requiring Wal-Mart to spend more on health care was invalid under federal law. Read more |
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Views Wednesday, July 19, 2006 Lying about the Ruinous Cost of the War in Iraq While Congress was in session this week debating such momentous issues as whether to prevent the courts from interfering with the Pledge of Allegiance and whether to make it illegal to use women's bodies to raise stem cells (in point of fact, all stem cells are taken from in vitro fertilization), a remarkable report came out in a minor government committee, a report on the cost of the US "global war on terrorism." What is particulary revealing in the report is its provision of very specific numbers for the cost, in dollars, of the Iraq War. Read more |
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Views Friday, July 08, 2005 The Worst US President Ever? Bush is quite likely the worst president in the 200-year history of the United States. This has enormous implications for the international community, since his country is not a small republic like the Maldives or Andorra, but a global behemoth. His power as the most powerful man on earth derives not from a particular intelligence or set of talents, but by virtue of his position as the leader of the dominant military and economic nation on our planet. Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 21, 2005 Through The Prism of Human Collectivity William Wordsworth tells us that it is only in retrospect that one can sort out what has been most significant, most telling, in our experience. In his epic poem The Prelude he writes, Read more |
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Views Wednesday, January 26, 2005 Speedy Gonzales & The Rule of Law What does it mean that Alberto Gonzales is about to be approved as Attorney General of the USA? That this particular appointee of President George W Bush will become the chief law enforcement officer of the American nation? Read more |
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Views Sunday, January 23, 2005 Man-Made Tsunami The world's largest seismic dislocation since the 1940s which occurred in the Indian Ocean on the 26th of December was catastrophic. When two tectonic plates shifted under the Andaman Sea, they created a tsunami of terrible intensity, wreaking immense destruction in Sumatra, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, even the east coast of Africa. At first 20,000 deaths were reported; as of the moment of my writing, the death toll has climbed to more than 150,000. Five million are reported homeless. Read more |
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Views Friday, January 14, 2005 Man-Made Tsunami Continued: Waves of Devastation This article is a continuation of Gutman's Man-Made Tsunami . . . Read more |
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Views Wednesday, December 01, 2004 Packaging Violence As I write, the radio, television and newspapers are consumed by an incident that occurred in Detroit, a large city in the USA's Middle West. As a professional basketball game between the Detroit Pistons and the Indiana Pacers was entering its final minute, a hard foul by an Indiana player named Ron Artest led to a reprisal by the Detroit player he fouled. Ben Wallace reached out, shoved his hand to Artest's neck, and half throttled half pushed his opponent. A fight between the two teams broke out. Read more |
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Views Thursday, November 11, 2004 US Elections: What Happened? "WHAT HAPPENED?" That was the entire message I received by e-mail from a friend in Kolkata the day after the Americans voted for President, and elected George W Bush to a second term. Read more |