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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 |
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 |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 18, 2009
Reports that Barack Obama is prepared to concede the public option in the health care bill (with some perhaps vague hope that it might be reinserted in a conference between the House and Senate on reconciling inconsistent provisions) expose the [...]
Posted in Health, Medicine, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged American politics, barack obama, death panels, Democrats, health insurance, healthcare, ideology, life chances, public option, Robert Reich, social democracy, social inequality, Sociology, structural inequality, us congress |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 5, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/jefferson_thumbo87o8686.jpg" align=left Karl Marx’ concept of ‘fictitious capital’ has enjoyed something of a revival recently – in the context of explaining the Global Financial Crisis. It’s interesting to observe [h/t Richard Metzger at Boing Boing] that Marx doesn’t appear [...]
Posted in Culture, Developing world, Economics, Immigration, Industrial Relations, International, Markets, Poverty, Security, Sociology | Tagged Capitalism, CCi, creative economy, creative industries, economic sociology, economy, Fernand Braudel, fictitious capital, finance capital, financialisation, Giovanni Arrighi, global financial crisis, globalisation, Immigration, insecurity, intellectual property, Karl Marx, knowledge economy, labour mobility, neo-liberalism, networks, Paul Keating, QUT, regulation school, Robert Metzger, Robert Reich, services, services economy, social inequality, Sociology, sub prime mortgages, symbolic analysts, Thomas Jefferson, work, world systems theory |
By Robert Merkel on October 20, 2008
In the discussion of this thread, Mark referred to this column by Guy Rundle, in which he argues easy access to credit has helped paper over the cracks in American society: In the wake of this crisis, blame is being [...]
Posted in Economics, USA | Tagged credit crunch, Guy Rundle, progressive taxation, Robert Reich |
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 |
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