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The F Word: Putting Some Bite Behind Elizabeth Warren
March 22, 2011
Paul Krugman called it “The War on Elizabeth Warren.” Yves Smith wrote about “The Elizabeth Warren Rorschach Test.” There's no doubt that the insightful Harvard professor turned administration official, tapped first to chair the Congressional Oversight Panel into the bank bailouts drives conservatives a little wild. And nothing drives them wilder than the prospect of her heading up a Consumer Finanacial Protection Agency that might actually protect consumers.
F Word: Learning Lessons from Socialist Hungary
October 12, 2010
In Hungary, state authorities have arrested the managing director of the company whose toxic red sludge flooded three villages last week The CEO, Zoltan Bakonyi, has been arrested and police have taken over security responsibility over all the company's Hungarian premises. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban asked Parliament Monday to put all the company's assets under state control. "Since this is not a natural catastrophe but damage brought about by people, the damages must be paid first and foremost not by taxpayers but by those who caused the damage," Orban said.
Vince Warren, Andrew Bacevich, and Philanthro-Feudalism
August 10, 2010
President 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, 2010
29 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.
Tamra Davis, The Heretics, and Small Steps on the Economy
July 23, 2010
In the 80s, before she directed Hollywood comedies like Half Baked and Billy Madison, Tamra Davis shot hours of footage of her friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. The young artist went on to international stardom before dying of a heroin overdose at age 27, and Davis went on to Hollywood. Our Got Docs? this week is "The Heretics" created by Joan Braderman of Women Make Movies. Braderman followed the now geographically dispersed New York feminist art collective from Venice, Italy to New Mexico, asking them what it was like to come together and challenge gender and power structures within the art world and how it shaped them as women and artists. Lastly, Danny Schechter comments on how small steps on economic recovery are not enough to remedy an economic meltdown.
Danny Schechter: Small Steps on Economy Not Enough
July 23, 2010
When the extension of unemployment benefits squeaked through the Senate, there was a sigh of relief among those in need, and cheers from Democrats who have not been able to move the unemployment needle or restore confidence in the economy. Putting money in the hands of wannabe consumers will create some bounce, but it doesn’t deal with the deep structural and systemic problems that worry economists and governments worldwide.
David Corn, Social Media, and the New Depression
June 30, 2010
What’s in a constitutional interpretation? As Thomas Jefferson once wrote to James Madison, “the principle is that the earth belongs to the living, and not the dead.” Over the centuries, many Supreme Court Justices have either upheld or lost track of this, on one hand interpreting the Constitution towards a more perfect union, on the other passively, calling the “balls and strikes” in accordance with the extant Constitution.
The F Word: Dangerous Experiment for Deficit Hawks
June 30, 2010
Top economics writers are sending some scary signals this week. Just as June unemployment numbers are due, Paul Krugman's declaring that we could be headed for a third Depression, and David Leonhardt, also writing in the New York Times quotes source after source saying “The world’s rich countries are now conducting a dangerous experiment.”
Battle in Seattle, Copenhagen Protests, and World AIDS Day
November 30, 2009
It's 2009, and the biggest front of global action is on climate change. The US has moved from the flat denials of the Bush era to an acceptance of the problem, but solutions still elude us. As always, the people will have to lead.
The F Word: Not Just Jobs Needed Now
November 30, 2009
It's not just jobs the nation needs, it's jobs with justice -- the sort government can create, not by thinking petty and small, but thinking big. The best thing that could happen at the president's summit with CEOs is for him to declare a massive government jobs program at genuinely living wages, and for him to demand that private employers shape up.

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