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Vince Warren, Hamid Dabashi, and the Crisis in Ireland
November 23, 2010The Republicans who will shortly be taking over the house after the recent elections have pledged to shrink the government and cut spending, but, Vince Warren notes, they seem to have no problem with "Big Government" when it's holding detainees indefinitely at Guantanamo Bay.The F Word: Solving the Irish Crisis
November 23, 2010The financial crisis in Ireland is leading to a political crisis on the heels of a bailout and more “austerity measures.” The coalition that currently rules is falling apart, the Green Party detaching from the prime minister's Fianna Fail party, and elections loom.BP spill, Chris Hayes & John Fugelsang, and Social Spending
May 24, 2010BP has yet to stop the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, and the Obama administration seems content to let them remain in charge. Or is it that whether or not they are happy with the state of affairs, huge corporations like BP simply have too much control of our government? According to Mike Papantonio, it's a little from column A, a little from column B: Ken Salazar, interior secretary, is a friend of oil companies and has certainly allowed them free rein, but at the same time, it's an age-old problem at this point that we've handed over too much government power to private companies.The F Word: Cutting the Net When We Need It Most
May 24, 2010At the very time when the social safety net is most needed, investors the world over are calling it a drag on the world economy. Main Street is hurting, and cutting its support will cut growth, not stimulate it. Yet what to do?The F Word: CA Banks: Who Are They Working For?
March 31, 2010Does it seem right to you that a state's ability to stay afloat should be the stuff of secretive betting pools? No? Well that's just what's going on.Katrina vanden Heuvel, the Media, and Green Jobs
March 31, 2010This Monday, suicide bombings rocked two stations in the Moscow Metro, killing 39 people. This is only the latest in a series of attacks on Russian civilians, stemming from the conflict over the Russian occupation of Chechnya.Gary Younge: Power and Democracy
March 23, 2010The flawed health care bill that finally made it through Congress might show the limitations of democracy in the U.S., but Gary Younge, correspondent for the Guardian and the Nation, assures us that it's worse in Europe.Health Care, Gary Younge, and Protesting Iraq
March 22, 2010The House of Representatives, under Speaker Nancy Pelosi, passed historic health care reform late Sunday night. That's a fact. Also a fact is that the bill is far from perfect, and legislators from all sides will be working to shape the bill more to their liking. Progressives regret the lack of a public option, let alone single payer, and the use of women's reproductive choice as a political football in the negotiations--Obama was forced into an executive order reaffirming the Hyde Amendment's commitment not to use federal dollars for abortions.Got Docs? The Battle of Durban II
December 18, 2009The subtitle of Rory O'Connor's documentary on the Durban II conference is "Israel, Palestine, and the United Nations." Two successive United Nations conferences on racism went down in disarray, boycotted by the U.S. and other countries and causing more controversy than they addressed--mostly because of anger between Israeli and Palestinian supporters. O'Connor takes a look at the way the conflict over Israel took over the discussion.Media Establishment, Mark Danner and Durban II
December 17, 2009Joe Lieberman hijacked news coverage for a while this week, but it was Howard Dean's defense of real health care reform that inspired White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to a snarling personal response. Ben Bernanke was anointed Time's Person of the Year despite a hold on his renomination and a bill passing the house to audit the Federal Reserve. Is the Establishment closing ranks around its own?
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