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Quick link: Who goes to right wing rallies, and why?
By Kim on August 24, 2011
I don’t always agree with Bernard Keane but I think he is right on the money on the question of the demographics and motivations of participants in right wing rallies such as the recent ones in Canberra, in his first [...]
Posted in Activism, Featured, Politics, Sociology | Tagged 1975, barack obama, bernard keane, Coalition, convoy of no confidence, Julia Gillard, Politics, Race, rallies, right wing, roundtable, sexism, Sociology, Tea Party | 95 Responses
So, does that make Obama Sauron?
By Mark Bahnisch on July 31, 2011
Titanic battles between good and evil are fantasies, and the debt ceiling crisis illustrates what can happen when the fantastic power of ideology prevails.
Posted in Disasters, Economics, Featured, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged barack obama, debt ceiling crisis, GOP, ideology, libertarianism, neo-liberalism, Paul Krugman, Rand Paul, Republicans, roundtable, Tea Party, US politics | 72 Responses
Obama, class politics and the debt ceiling crisis
By Mark Bahnisch on July 20, 2011
The tortuous negotiations over the US sovereign debt ceiling probably feature in our minds as a threat to our economic well being. Or for American politics junkies, the maneouvring could be uppermost. It’s worth putting the negotiations in a different perspective.
Posted in Disasters, Economics, Featured, Imperialism, Politics, USA | Tagged American politics, barack obama, debt ceiling, empire, fiscal policy, ideology, Jodi Dean, John Boehner, Michael Perelman, Politics, Roman empire, Schumpeter, us congress | 45 Responses
Who was Gillard’s speech for?
By Robert Merkel on March 10, 2011
From the sounds of it, Julia Gillard’s speech to Congress was a pretty thorough suck-up job, whose themes would have fitted right in to Tim Pawlenty’s godawful campaign ad (previously mentioned on LP here). So, who was it aimed at? [...]
Posted in Foreign policy, USA | Tagged barack obama, John Boehner, Julia Gillard, United States Congress, us congress | 69 Responses
CPD post: Eltham on the demise of climate change bills
By Guest Poster on July 29, 2010
During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s upcoming collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next [...]
Posted in Climate change, federal election 2010, USA | Tagged barack obama, Ben Eltham, cap and trade, CPD, ets, Federal Election 2010, Thinking Points, us congress | 1 Response
Tar sands, Obama and oil spills
By Brian on June 17, 2010
That image, which you can easily find by googling, is perhaps becoming emblematic of tar sands mining. At Treehugger in 2008 this: Environmental Defense has called Alberta’s tar sands ‘the most destructive project on earth’, but perhaps the UN’s senior [...]
Posted in Climate change | Tagged barack obama, barry brook, Christiana Figueres, Copenhagen climate change conference 2009, Gulf of Mexico oil spill, James Hansen, Maude Barlow, Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), PETM, Robert Reich, Storms of my Grandchildren, tar sands, the venus syndrome | 82 Responses
Obama's real world economic experiment
By Mark Bahnisch on January 26, 2010
Responding to the loss of Ted Kennedy’s Massachussetts Senate seat to Republican Scott Brown, Barack Obama is set to announce a three year discretionary spending freeze. (Note that military spending is apparently compulsory not discretionary.) Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.Com thinks [...]
Posted in Economics, International, Markets, USA | Tagged andrew leonard, Australian politics, barack obama, blue dog democrats, Brad DeLong, Coalition, deficits, Economics, Evan Bayh, firedoglake, G20, GFC, global financial crisis, growth, herbert hoover, ideology, Liberal Party, nate silver, Paul Krugman, Politics, recession, Robert Reich, Salon, spending freeze, stimulus, US politics | 71 Responses
Bernanke's confirmation in doubt
By Mark Bahnisch on January 26, 2010
A number of US financial blogs are reporting that Ben Bernanke faces a chance of failure to be confirmed by the American Senate for a second term in office. James Bianco at The Big Picture has all the details, and [...]
Posted in International, Markets, Politics, USA | Tagged alan greenspan, barack obama, Ben bernanke, central banks, Fed, federal reserve, global finance, global financial crisis, gordon brown, health care, ideology, James Bianco, Markets, Massachussetts, Naked Capitalism, neo-liberalism, Politics, Scott Brown, Senate, The Big Picture, us economy, US politics, Wall Street | 15 Responses
Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts Senate seat lost: The politics of anti-politics
By Mark Bahnisch on January 20, 2010
News is just coming in that Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat in Massachusetts has been lost by the Democrat, Martha Coakley, to the Republicans’ Scott Brown. FiveThirtyEight.Com has the margin at 52-47 and that blog will be well worth watching for [...]
Posted in Culture, Foreign Elections, Politics, USA | Tagged anti-politics, barack obama, David Hirst, Democrats, filibuster, GFC, living standards, Main Street, Martha Coakley, Massachussetts, nate silver, Republicans, Scott Brown, Senate, special election, super majority, Ted Kennedy, unemployment, US politics, Wall Street | 88 Responses
Two strikes against 'extreme capitalism'
By Mark Bahnisch on January 5, 2010
As Derek Barry observes in a comprehensive post, the Productivity Commission has weakened its recommendations on corporate governance and remuneration. Business groups were reportedly complaining about ‘risk’ and ‘uncertainty’. (Intriguingly, those appear to be two of the most common litanies [...]
Posted in Economics, International, Markets, Politics, USA | Tagged ALP, barack obama, bonuses, business lobby, CFMEU, executive pay, extreme capitalism, GFC, global financial crisis, gordon brown, john sutton, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Labour, Markets, productivity commission, Rudd government, toxic debt, two strikes | 23 Responses
Open Democracy's retrospective and prospective look at the decade/s
By Mark Bahnisch on January 3, 2010
Open Democracy has asked a range of its contributors to answer the following questions: A volcanic decade in global politics ends amid deep unease about the world’s ability to rise to key 21st-century challenges. openDemocracy writers draw breath and look [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Climate change, Developing world, Economics, Environment, International, Markets, Politics, Security, Sociology, Terrorism, The Web, War | Tagged agriculture, Authoritarianism, barack obama, China, civil liberties, Climate change, conflict resolution, Copenhagen, decade, democratisation, Developing world, development, ecology, end of history, food security, GFC, global financial crisis, global politics, globalisation, human rights, humanitarianism, inequality, international law, Madagascar, Mark Lynas, millennium goals, neo-liberalism, Open Democracy, peacekeeping, retrospective, statism, Terrorism, torture, UN, USA, War, world economy | 12 Responses
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