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Vince Warren, Andrew Bacevich, and Philanthro-Feudalism
August 10, 2010President Obama was elected with fanfare and promises to restore the rule of law and accountability to the justice system, specifically around indefinite detentions at Guantanamo. But the upcoming trial of Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen taken into custody when he was just 15, seems to belie those promises.The F Word: Charity or Philanthro-Feudalism?
August 10, 201029 million unemployed or looking for work, that’s the latest estimate, and you’d think it’d concentrate the mind in Washington. 29 million, or over 16 percent of us, need jobs and services and help to stay afloat, and to pay mortgages and grocery bills and – sigh – private health insurers.Christian Parenti: BP & the Changing Energy Economy
July 7, 2010If the United States government is the largest energy consumer in the world, asks Nation contributing editor Christian Parenti, why doesn't it use its massive buying power to support real green, clean energy technologies--instead of subsidizing the catastrophic failures of oil giants like BP?Christian Parenti, LGBT Youth Behind Bars & Katrina vanden Heuvel
July 6, 2010If the United States government is the largest energy consumer in the world, asks Nation contributing editor Christian Parenti, why doesn't it use its massive buying power to support real green, clean energy technologies--instead of subsidizing the catastrophic failures of oil giants like BP?
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