By Susan Zakin — Some people think the book business in on its last legs. But others think it isn’t a business at all.
Posted on Dec 7, 2012
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The fiscal cliff draws nearer. The Republicans may be in the worse position because doing nothing puts them in an inferior place politically. But President Nixon’s Madman Theory—make your opponent think you’re crazy enough to put everyone at risk and they’ll back down—might be encouraging the stalemate. The “Left, Right & Center” commentators consider the heights and more on this week’s show.
Posted on Dec 7, 2012
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No, says the Nobel Prize-winning economist, who must be hoarse from repeating the same thing for the last four years: The United States is facing a jobs crisis, one that costs the savings, homes and dreams of millions of Americans and about $900 billion a year in lost productivity.
Posted on Dec 7, 2012
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By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt —
Will a publicly owned bank help Scotland avoid unnecessary debt and take control of its economic destiny as North Dakotans did in the U.S.?
Posted on Dec 7, 2012
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An activist observer of the negotiations in Doha, Qatar, this week dismissed offers by developed countries as “an empty shell, an insult to our futures. There is literally no point in countries signing up to this sham of a deal, which will lock the planet in to many more years of inaction.”
Posted on Dec 7, 2012
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The two major candidates took in the equivalent of the GDP of Sierra Leone in their quest for the White House—and that doesn’t count super PAC fundraising.
Posted on Dec 7, 2012
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By Robert Scheer — Reports in the business press tout a prime participant in the great banking hustle as a possible candidate to be the next Treasury secretary.
Posted on Dec 7, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Just this once, I wish I could write with pictures instead of words. That would make it easier to explain why the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who died Wednesday at 104, was one of my heroes.
Posted on Dec 6, 2012
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By David Sirota — To publish or not to publish? That was the debate in media circles this week after the New York Post printed a horrifying photo of a man named Ki Suk Han who had been pushed onto the subway tracks and was trying to avoid getting hit by a train.
Posted on Dec 6, 2012
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Hacktivist group Anonymous is going after the former owner of a “revenge porn” site that posted naked photographs of men and women along with their social media accounts. The pictures were often sent by vengeful exes and were published without the people’s permission.
Posted on Dec 6, 2012
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Former Bush administration White House press secretary Dana Perino offered up the piece of victim-blaming advice Wednesday while discussing the recent deaths of NFL player Javon Belcher and his girlfriend.
Posted on Dec 6, 2012
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By Tracy Bloom — A look at the day’s political happenings, including why Sen. Rand Paul is criticizing Republican leaders and a major GOP donor visits Washington.
Posted on Dec 6, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — It was Yogi Berra who supposedly said, "It’s very hard to predict things, especially about the future."
Posted on Dec 6, 2012
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By Robert Reich — If we had a functional government America would address three “cliffs” posing far larger dangers to us than the fiscal one.
Posted on Dec 6, 2012
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By Ralph Nader —
Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s new tour de force book “Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder” is a frame-of-reference altering work that a Wall Street Journal reviewer confessed he would have to read “again and again”
Posted on Dec 6, 2012
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If a federal judge doesn’t sentence him to life in prison, Pfc. Bradley Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst accused of handing hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables to the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, may want to run for public office.
Posted on Dec 6, 2012
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The Evergreen State began granting same-sex marriage licenses Thursday morning while crowds lit joints at a celebration beneath the Space Needle in Seattle.
Posted on Dec 6, 2012
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The conservative South Carolina senator announced Thursday that he would step down next month to run a conservative think tank.
Posted on Dec 6, 2012
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“At a time of high unemployment, soaring corporate profits and diminishing job quality, employee ownership offers an appealing, viable alternative to mainstream corporate capitalism,” writes Moira Herbst in The Guardian.
Posted on Dec 6, 2012
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By Pepe Escobar, TomDispatch —
In election 2012’s “foreign policy” debate, Iran came up no less than 47 times. Americans got virtually nothing substantial about Iran, while its (nonexistent) WMDs were hawked as the top U.S. national security issue. Now, with the campaign Sturm und Drang behind us but the threats still around, the question is: Can Obama 2.0 bridge the gap between current U.S. policy and Persian optics?
Posted on Dec 6, 2012
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By Richard Schickel — What makes “Hyde Park on Hudson” a good deal more than delightful is its lightly touched seriousness of purpose.
Posted on Dec 5, 2012
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By Joe Conason — If President Obama honestly wants to negotiate an agreement with Republicans before the year-end fiscal deadline, he must be deeply frustrated. And if he doesn’t really want to negotiate with them, then he should be delighted, for the same reason.
Posted on Dec 5, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Over the long run, the most important impact of an election is not on the winning party but on the loser.
Posted on Dec 5, 2012
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By Tracy Bloom — A look at the day’s political happenings, including a major backer of Mitt Romney’s failed presidential campaign lashing out at voters and what a new poll on gay marriage shows.
Posted on Dec 5, 2012
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What happens when you give your computer a $50 monthly budget and access to your Amazon account?
Posted on Dec 5, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — The 18th U.N. climate-change summit is taking place in the small but immensely wealthy Gulf emirate of Qatar, the largest per capita emitter of greenhouse gases in the world.
Posted on Dec 5, 2012
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“Surrender the Secret” will follow five women who have had abortions “on their journey together to ... healing and self-forgiveness.” Because obviously the best place for these women to heal is on an online reality show that is publicly shaming them for their life choices.
Posted on Dec 5, 2012
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The international treaty forbids discrimination against those with disabilities. So why didn’t Republicans want to pass it?
Posted on Dec 5, 2012
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Latino grade-school students don’t have many characters to identify with in the books provided in their classrooms. Researchers suggest the fact explains why fewer minority students develop strong reading skills.
Posted on Dec 5, 2012
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The celebrated musician, who died Wednesday at age 91 in a hospital in Connecticut, didn’t start out with the desire to perform one of jazz music’s iconic tunes.
Posted on Dec 5, 2012
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