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Open Obama Inauguration thread
By Mark Bahnisch on January 20, 2009
If you’re staying up to watch Barack Obama’s inauguration as 44th President of the United States of America, Crikey has a good guide to coverage and commentary on tv, live streaming, live blogging and twitter. Locally, Hoyden About Town is [...]
Posted in Afghanistan, Blogging, Economics, Film, TV, Video etc, Foreign policy, International, Iraq, Media, Middle East, Nationalism, Politics, The Web, USA | Tagged Afghanistan, America, Australia, barack obama, coverage, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, global financial crisis, global politics, healthcare, inaugural address, inauguration, Iraq, live blogging, Martin Luther King, Robert Gates, US alliance, us economy, US politics, War, world politics | 93 Responses
G20 Summit: A new Bretton Woods?
By Mark Bahnisch on November 16, 2008
The G20 Summit has come and gone, and if today’s coverage in the Australian press is any indication, the most important of the tea leaves to be read is whether George W. Bush snubbed Kevin Rudd over the “Kirribilli leak”. [...]
Posted in Economics, International, Media, Sociology, USA | Tagged Adolf Berle, australian media, barack obama, Bretton Woods, Capitalism, derivatives, FDR, financial markets, financialisation, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, free markets, G20, George W. Bush, global financial crisis, Great Depression, international finance, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, neo-liberalism, New Deal, political economy, regulation, securitisation, Sociology, summit | 60 Responses
Exit Nixonland, stage left?
By Mark Bahnisch on October 30, 2008
Writing in Salon, Gary Kamiya describes the near hysteria to which “movement conservatives” are reduced in confronting a likely Obama victory: …typical of the Limbaugh-inflected (or infected) movement as a whole is the apocalyptic attitude of right-wing columnist Mark Steyn, [...]
Posted in Culture, Economics, Feminism, Foreign Elections, History, Media, Polls, Poverty, Race, Religion, Sociology, The Web, USA | Tagged American history, American politics, Andrew Cockburn, arthur schlesinger, barack obama, blogosphere, Book review, cable television, Culture Wars, evangelicals, FDR, Fox news, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Gary Kamiya, John McCain, nixonland, religion and politics, religious right, Richard Nixon, rick perlstein, Sociology, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 | 43 Responses
US economic crisis policy links post; and Obama and the economy
By Mark Bahnisch on October 2, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/fdr.jpg" align=left One point of view that’s been expressed about the financial markets crisis can be summed up by something I read at Crooks & Liars today: Have you noticed that every person suddenly knows everything there is to [...]
Posted in Economics, Foreign Elections, Poverty, Sociology, USA | Tagged barack obama, blogosphere, credit crisis, economic policy, economic sociology, Economics, FDR, financial markets, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Karl Polanyi, New Deal, New New Deal, political economy, Sociology, TARP, us economy, US election 2008, us treasury, USA Election 2008, Wall Street | 10 Responses
Obama ♥ Jesus
By Kim on August 18, 2008
Joan Walsh at Salon asks whether America is “now officially a Christian nation”. She’s thinking of this – Obama’s appearance along with John McCain at Pastor Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church: One of the candidates for president strolled onto the stage [...]
Posted in Culture, Economics, Foreign Elections, Industrial Relations, Poverty, Religion, Sociology, USA, War | Tagged american election 2008, barack obama, Bill Clinton, church and state, evangelicals, faith and politics, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John McCain, neoliberal economics, Robert Reich, social democracy, Sociology, theocracy, US election 2004, US election 2008 | 39 Responses
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