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Myerson's Ode to Crony Capitalism William K. Black
This is the fifth installment in my series of article about the predictive and policy failures of Roger Myerson, Nobel Laureate in economics in 2007. My first two articles critiqued his claim that capitalism’s unique advantage over ...Tuesday, 18 June 2013 readmore... |
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David Brooks, Tom Friedman, Bill Keller Wish Snowden Had Just Followed Orders By Norman Solomon.
Edward Snowden’s disclosures, the New York Times reported on Sunday, “have renewed a longstanding concern: that young Internet aficionados whose skills the agencies need for counterterrorism and cyberdefense sometimes bring an anti-authority spirit that does not fit the security ...Monday, 17 June 2013 readmore... |
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Turkey Threatens Doctors and First Responders, Violates Medical Neutrality By Margaret Flowers, MD. This article was first published on Popular Resistance.
The Turkish Health Ministry issued a threat to take medical licenses to practice away from doctors who have been providing treatment to the protesters in Istanbul. They are ...Monday, 17 June 2013 readmore... |
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The Pope and the Kill List By David Swanson. This article was first published on War is a Crime.
In 1984 -- the year not the book, but it was fitting -- and five years before she died, Barbara Tuchman published a book called The March ...Monday, 17 June 2013 readmore... |
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U.S. and Colombian Auto Workers Keep GM in the Spotlight By Frank Hammer.
Union members in Detroit protested the firing of workers injured at a GM plant in Colombia, outside GM's shareholders meeting. Photo: Frank Hammer.
More than a few GM executives probably suffered indigestion over their eggs Benedict and croissants ...Saturday, 15 June 2013 readmore... |
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When The Public Is in Trouble, Public TV Gets Hammered By Danny Schechter
New York: It’s hard for me to feel sorry about the travails of the PBS News Hour where bland has been beautiful for years, and an obsessive loyalty to mechanistic balance—always veering right—has been in command for ...Thursday, 13 June 2013 readmore... |
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Susan Rice for National Security Advisor by Stephen Lendman.
Previous articles discussed her. Calling her controversial stops short of accurately characterizing her. Moral depravity explains best. Vishay Prashad calls her the "queen of interventionist hawks."
South African journalist Getahune Bekele said she's a "consummate ally of grubby ...Saturday, 8 June 2013 readmore... |
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The Secret Fukushima Poisoning the Bread Basket of the World By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese
Early in the morning of July 16, 1979, a 20-foot section of the earthen dam blocking the waste pool for the Church Rock Uranium Mill caved in and released 95 million gallons of highly ...Saturday, 8 June 2013 readmore... |
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“Why aren’t the 50% living in poverty protesting in the streets?” By David William Pear.
People get the government they deserve.Philosopher/scholar Joseph de Maistre said, "Every country has the government it deserves." HL Mencken said, "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and ... Thursday, 6 June 2013 readmore... |
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Woolwich murder — the “why?” should be obvious The brutal murder in Woolwich last week of Drummer Lee Rigby rightly caused shock and outrage. Inevitably there has been a media feeding frenzy about “terrorist” attacks and home-grown radicalisation. British Prime Minister, David Cameron, felt it n...Tuesday, 28 May 2013 readmore... |
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Economics for the 99%: Mainstream economics on budget cuts: dumb and dumber There is nothing so reactionary that most mainstream economists will not fervently advocate it. [cartoon from google images]
If you read The New York Times - not that I recommend it - you might have encountered an article by Eduardo Po...Thursday, 23 May 2013 readmore... |
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FORE! By William Fisher
It must have been the late 1950s and I couldn’t have been more than 18 – I hadn’t yet finished undergrad school. But I had a job on what was widely thought of as one ...Friday, 17 May 2013 readmore... |
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