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Muppets, Fox News and the Looney Tune right
December 14, 2011The sheer wackiness of its anti-Muppets hysteria suggests that Fox News has become a parody of itself - but it represents a powerful political constituency.
Read more“The Sprit Level” and the dynamics between economic and social conditions
December 13, 2011A study of dozens of surveys regarding wealth and, the things we associate with the quality of life, seems to come to the surprising conclusion.
Read moreObama in Osawatomie
December 12, 2011The President's speech in Osawatomie was the true "pivot" towards jobs and away from the austerity debates of last summer for which workers, occupy protesters and tens of millions more have been waiting.
Read moreEconomic depressions increase the threat to democracy
December 12, 2011There is a rising threat to democracy, a direct result of the economic crisis and how the powers that be deal with it. We must change the failed austerity politics of our country to a politics...
Read moreNo cheering for fiscal treaty in the streets of Europe
December 12, 2011Cutbacks and layoffs have touched off huge street protests, general strikes, and the collapse of governments.
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