Monday, February 15, 2010
There are times when governments fight to keep documents secret to protect sensitive intelligence or other vital national security interests. And there are times when they are just trying to cover up incompetence, misbehavior or lawbreaking.
Last week, when a British court released secret intelligence material relating to the torture allegations of a former Guantánamo prisoner, [...]
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Also tagged Barack Obama, Binyam Mohamed, CIA, Courts, Crime, Detainees, Dick Cheney, George W Bush, Guantanamo, Intelligence, Law, MI5, Rendition, Torture, War Crimes
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The conservatives are winning the framing wars again – by sticking to moral principles as conservatives see them, and communicating their view of morality effectively. In the 2008 election, Barack Obama ran a campaign based on his moral principles and communicated those principles as effectively as any candidate ever has.
But the Obama administration made a [...]
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Also tagged Barack Obama, Corporatism, Democrats, DLC, Framing, George Lakoff, Language, Progressives, Rachel Maddow, Rahm Emanuel, Tim Geithner
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Shortly after Haiti was hit by a 6.1 aftershock on January 20, 2010, Amy Goodman and Kim Ives of Haiti Liberté report from the Port-au-Prince airport. Amy and Kim discuss how centuries of Western domination of Haiti has worsened the impact of the devastating earthquake, from the harsh reaction to Haiti’s independence as a republic [...]
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Also tagged Amy Goodman, Bill Clinton, Capitalism, Corporatism, Coup, Disaster Capitalism, Earthquake, Free Market, George HW Bush, George W Bush, Haiti, IMF, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Kim Ives, Privatization, Washington Consensus, World Bank
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Saturday, January 23, 2010
“A commitment to human rights starts with universal standards and with holding everyone accountable to those standards, including ourselves… When injustice anywhere is ignored, justice everywhere is denied. Acknowledging and remedying mistakes does not make us weaker, it reaffirms the strengths of our principles and institutions.”
Not Amnesty International’s words, but those of US Secretary of [...]
During the past 10 years, inflation-adjusted wages have stagnated or declined for working Americans; net job creation has been zero; and temporary, bubble-driven gains in the stock market have been erased.
This isn’t what Bill Clinton and the other “New Democrats” of the 1990s promised us.
Remember “the new economy“? In the second half of the 1990s, [...]
Saturday, November 21, 2009
FDR became a charismatic folk hero, in no small part because he defined himself as the scourge of Wall Street: Roosevelt offered himself as the leader in a fight against the “economic royalists” who, he charged, “had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people’s property, other people’s money, other people’s [...]
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Also tagged Banking, Barack Obama, Brookings Institution, Corporatism, DLC, Economic Royalists, Economy, FDR, Franklin D Roosevelt, Hamilton Project, IMF, Washington Consensus, World Bank
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