Barbara Ehrenreich | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The white working class, which usually inspires liberal concern only for its paradoxical, Republican-leaning voting habits, has recently become newsworthy for something else: according to economist Anne Case and Angus Deaton, the winner of the latest Nobel Prize in economics, its members in the 45- to 54-year-old age group […]
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Economy
The GOP Race as America’s Hunger Games
Nomi Prins | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – Fact: too many Republican candidates are clogging the political scene. Perhaps what’s needed is an American Hunger Games to cut the field to size. Each candidate could enter the wilderness with one weapon and one undocumented worker and see who wins. Unlike in the fictional Hunger Games for […]
Turkey reels as Putin imposes Stiff Economic Sanctions
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Russian sanctions announced by President Vladimir Putin on Saturday could have a severe impact on the Turkish economy. It is not clear whether President Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu did not expect this severe a reaction to the shoot-down of a Russian fighter […]
‘Very Soon’ US forces will Arrive in Syria; Russia bombs near Turkey
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Turkey’s government is very unhappy today about developments in Syria. President Obama’s special envoy, Brett McGurk, said Sunday that the some 50 men from special operations forces will arrive in Syria in the very near future. But Turkey has been upset that the US troops will […]
Climate Change to throw 100 mn. People into Poverty
By Thalif Deen | (Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – The UN’s heavily-hyped Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were approved by more than 160 world leaders at a summit meeting in September, are an integral part of the world body’s post-2015 development agenda, including the eradication of hunger and poverty by […]
#ExxonKnew Escalates as NY Att’y Gen. Subpoenas Oil Giant Over Climate Crimes
By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – “‘Exxon Knew’ just joined the category of truly serious scandals,” said 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben “Just as New York’s Teddy Roosevelt took on the Standard Oil Trust a century ago, New York’s attorney general has shown great courage in holding to account arguably the richest […]
Fury as Probe Demanded into Exxon’s Historic Climate Crime
By Jon Queally, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – A broad coalition of community groups along with prominent leaders from the nation’s top civil rights, environmental, and indigeneous people’s movements on Friday sent a joint letter to the U.S. Department of Justice demanding a federal investigation into allegations that oil giant ExxonMobil knew about […]
Top Five Things Congress Should investigate instead of Benghazi
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – – The fruitless carnival barking that was the GOP Benghazi inquisition did the nation the disservice of taking focus off the things really wrong with US policies, and places there really was wrongdoing. So here are some suggestions for real investigations: 1. We still don’t know why Bush-Cheney […]
Did Hillary just Win the Presidency because Biden couldn’t Raise $2 bn. this Fall?
Patty Culhane | (Aljazeera English) | – – “United States Vice President Joe Biden has said will not run for president in 2016, ending months of indecision and removing one of Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s biggest potential obstacles to the party’s nomination. Patty Culhane reports.” Aljazeera English: “Biden says he won’t contest 2016 US presidential […]