All Views Articles for 2011-09-08
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Joseph Stiglitz How to Put America Back to Work The country is — or should be — focused on jobs. Some 25 million Americans who want a full-time job can’t get one. The youth unemployment rate is as much as twice that of the already unacceptable... Read more |
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Glenn Greenwald Cheering for State-Imposed Death At last night's GOP debate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry was asked by Brian Williams about the 234 executions of death row inmates over which Perry has presided -- "more than any Governor in modern times... Read more |
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Ben Adler Nonsensical Argument About Job Creation Dominates GOP Debate There was a lot of agreement in Wednesday evening’s Republican debate hosted by MSNBC and Politico at the Reagan Presidential Library: Ronald Reagan is awesome and would have agreed with everything... Read more |
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David Korten The Path to Real Prosperity A new jobs plan is thinking too small. What we need is a new economy. Read more |
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Abby Rapoport Education Inc.: How Private Companies Profit from Public Schools It's not hard to imagine Pearson’s vision of utopia. Read more |
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John Buell The Folly of Pocket Book Politics A conservative friend of mine likes to say that he votes his pocket book. The push to cut taxes, roll back environmental regulations, eradicate unions, and reduce the size and scope of the safety net... Read more |
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Katrina vanden Heuvel Who Will the Super Committee Fight For? While President Obama’s highly anticipated jobs speech seems to be all political junkies are paying attention to today (that is, if you’re not a football junkie), attention must also be paid to the... Read more |
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Soumaya Ghannoushi Libya Now Set To Be Scene of Multiple Battles A growing rift between the National Transitional Council and local leaders exposes conflicting visions for Libya's future Read more |
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Nada Alwadi Bahrain’s Movement Alive Regardless of Media Neglect He runs impulsively and courageously, carrying his country’s flag as if he were carrying his own dream. He looks young, athletic, and fearless. He jumps over a bridge’s fence and runs to the place... Read more |
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Robert Naiman Jobs Plan? End the Wars, Save 400,000 Jobs President Obama is preparing to deliver a major address to a joint session of Congress on Thursday, outlining his plans for spending and tax cuts to create jobs. Read more |
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Brian Tierney The Fight for Jobs and Justice, Then and Now It’s not everyday that the president of the United States talks about the last fight that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Read more |
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Tom Engelhardt Let’s Cancel 9/11: Bury the War State's Blank Check at Sea Let’s bag it. Read more |
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Peter Rothberg Tell President Obama: Jobs, Not Cuts This Thursday, September 8th, President Obama will give a speech laying out his plan to combat stagnant job growth and create new economic opportunities for millions of hurting Americans. He is also... Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Captives to the Logic of Violence A decade later. The abyss keeps deepening, the wars keep squandering our blood and treasure beyond all logic except the logic of violence. What ended on Sept. 11, 2001, it sometimes seems, was human... Read more |