I keep seeing this image of Franklin Roosevelt rolling
over in his grave.
What might have our late, great President perturbed?
Today's debate about how to get the economy going
again.
Since the start of the Great Recession, the U.S.
economy has shed more than 7 million jobs, 208,000 of
them in Pennsylvania. We are living through the deepest
economic contraction since the Great Depression.
In the 1930s, Roosevelt stabilized financial markets
and...
1 Fans Struggle: Just Why Do They Support Sarah?
2 Unemployment Rates by County
3 A Garth Brooks(-like) Critique of WalMart
4 Journalism in 10: Nick Penniman on the Future of Media
5 Visualizing Empires' Decline
Sarah Palin Book Signing
On November 20, 2009, Sarah Palin visited Columbus, OH
as part of her book signing tour for "Going Rogue."
When her supporters were asked broad questions about
why they why they thought she should be president, the
responses were vague: She's "real." She'll "stick up
for America."
This NEW LEFT MEDIA film was produced and edited by
Chase Whiteside (interviews) and Erick Stoll (camera).
Should we use taxes to deter financial speculation?
Yes, say top British officials, who oversee the City of
London, one of the world's two great banking centers.
Other European governments agree - and they're right.
Unfortunately, United States officials - especially
Timothy Geithner, the Treasury secretary - are dead set
against the proposal. Let's hope they reconsider: a
financial transactions tax is an idea whose time has
come.
The dispute began back in August, when Adair Turner,
Britain's top financial regulator, called for a tax on
financial tra...
Who is Really on Trial in the Khalid Sheik Mohammed
Case?
This trial is as much about showing the world that
America is a country dedicated to the rule of law,
as it is holding Mohammed and his cohorts to
account for their alleged crimes.
This July 2009 photo downloaded from the Arabic
language web site www.muslm.net shows a man identified
by the site as Khalid Sheik Mohammed. (AP Photo/
www.muslm.net)
The decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged
mastermi...
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November 24, 2009
Contact:
Joanne Landy jlandy@igc.org Tel: 212-666-4001
Thomas Harrison Tel: 212-255-2892
A Call for the U.S. to End Its Wars in Afghanistan and
Pakistan
U.S. Anti-War Group Sends Declaration and 1300+
Signatures to President Obama
NEW YORK, N.Y., November 24, 2009 The New York-based
Campaign for Peace and Democracy sent a declaration
yesterday to President Barack Obama entitled "We Call
for the United States to End Its Wars in Afghanistan
and Pakistan!" The text of the declaration is below and
a full list of signers can be seen at the CPD website,
http://www.cpdweb.org/stmts/1014/stmt.shtml
A number of groups are planning to hold demonstrations
and protests in Copenhagen during next month's climate
summit.
Is global warming the new globalization? Environmental
activists are hoping that demonstrations at next
month's climate summit in Denmark can forge a protest
movement like the anti-globalization movement seen
after the WTO riots in 1999. But the Danish authorities
have other ideas.
It recalled ancient Greek tragedies. The Social
Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), founded in the 19th
Century, is the country's oldest party, and now its
saddest one. On September 27th it suffered its worst
election defeat since 1897, losing six million former
voters and ending up with only 23 percent of the vote.
It had been in government office for eleven years, as
boss with the Greens under Gerhard Schroeder and as
junior partner under Angela Merkel since 2005. Now it
must share the less glorious opposition seats in the
Bundestag with the Greens, as rivals, and the
frequently despised and feared Left party. What a
disastrous comedown for a once proud party!
A Call for the U.S. to End Its Wars in Afghanistan and
Pakistan
U.S. Anti-War Group Sends Declaration and 1300+
Signatures to President Obama
November 24, 2009
NEW YORK
The New York-based Campaign for Peace and
Democracy sent a declaration yesterday to
President Barack Obama entitled "We Call for
the United States to End Its Wars in
Afghanistan and Pakistan!" The text of the
declaration is below and a full list of
signers can be seen at the CPD website,
http://www.cpdweb.org/stmts/1014/stmt.shtml
"As President Obama nears a decision on sending
more troops to Afghanistan, we want the world
to know that there are millions of Americans
opposed to U.S. military interventi...
While he was in China, Barack Obama made a bizarre
declaration that the US government must reduce its
budget deficits in order to avoid "a double-dip
recession." The remark was alarming because it suggests
the president may not fully understand the country's
economic predicament. Deficit spending is a cure for
our troubles, not the cause. If Obama follows through
and actually reduces the red ink, the Great Recession
could be born again with new fury.
In an interview with Fox News, the president said: "It
i...
"In the next 60 seconds, 10 children will die of
hunger," says a United Nations World Food Programme
(WFP) online video. It continues, "For the first time
in humanity, over 1 billion people are chronically
hungry."
The WFP launched the Billion for a Billion campaign
this week, urging the 1 billion people who use the
Internet to help the billion who are hungry. But if you
think that hunger is far from our shores, here is some
food for thought ... and action: The U.S. Department of
Agricu...
