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By Mark Bahnisch on April 27, 2009
Such is the madness of the media cycle these days that if you’re going to write about a significant event whose occurrence is predictable (say, an annniversary or a milestone), you have to get in a few days early to [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Media, Politics, USA | Tagged barack obama, FDR, first 100 days, first hundred days, Gary Younge, Guardian, journalism, Media, Obama administration |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 14, 2009
[Via Rob Corr] John Quiggin, with his customary acuity and clarity of thought, has outlined a social democratic agenda post the Global Financial Crisis in a paper [pdf] for the Whitlam Institute. A social democratic response to the crisis must [...]
Posted in Disasters, Economics, International, Markets, Policy, Sociology, USA | Tagged AIG, barack obama, credit markets, credit swap defaults, derivatives, economic policy, equity markets, G20, GFC, global financial crisis, ideology, John Quiggin, Larry Summers, Markets, Michael Perelman, neo-liberalism, Obama administration, Policy, practices, regulation, risk, social democracy, Tim Geithner, US government, Wall Street, Whitlam Institute |
By Guest Poster on January 27, 2009
In the 2005 “dramatic documentary” The American Ruling Class, big oil heir turned Harper’s editor turned armchair socialist Lewis Lapham narrates the career choices confronting a group of shiny young Yale graduates. With their future at the crossroads, Lapham asks, [...]
Posted in Activism, Ethics, Policy, Sociology, Technology, USA | Tagged Alain touraine, class, Ethics, Lewis Lapham, neo-liberalism, Obama administration, Obama staffers, Politics, public service, social change, social movements, Sociology, Technology, USA, Wall Street, welfare policy, West Wing |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 8, 2009
This post provides space for a continuation of the discussion on the previous thread about the Israeli attacks on Gaza. As a discussion starter, there’s a wealth of interesting commentary at Open Democracy. Paul Rogers looks at the current situation [...]
Posted in Disasters, Ethics, Foreign policy, Imperialism, International, Law, Middle East, Palestine, Politics, USA, War | Tagged Bush administration, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Middle East, Obama administration, Open Democracy, peace, violence |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 5, 2009
Since the previous thread on the Israeli attacks on Gaza was becoming unwieldy with 425 comments to scroll through, and several commenters requested a new thread, comments are continued on this thread from here. Update: A new post on the [...]
Posted in International, Middle East, Palestine, Terrorism, War | Tagged Bush administration, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Middle East, Obama administration, peace, violence |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 29, 2008
Hilzoy has something pointed to say about the “pornography of destruction” engulfing the Gaza strip and adjacent areas of Israel: One of the many things that makes the Israeli/Palestinian conflict so utterly dispiriting is that it’s impossible to think of [...]
Posted in Disasters, Foreign policy, Imperialism, Middle East, Palestine, Terrorism, USA, War | Tagged Bush administration, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Middle East, Obama administration, peace, violence |
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