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Class in America

July 1, 2005 By David Eisenhower

The discussion of “class in America” has recently gone mainstream. The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Los Angeles Times each ran series examining income stratification and class mobility in the United States.

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Contra figures resurface to target Venezuela

April 29, 2005 By David Eisenhower

His “crimes” include acting as a democratically elected president of a sovereign Venezuela; rejecting the principles embodied in the Monroe Doctrine (i.e., “Latin America is the U.S.A.’s backyard”); challenging neoliberal doctrines that serve the interest of...

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War budget fuels drive for empire

March 4, 2005 By David Eisenhower

A full accounting of the annual costs of “permanent war” goes far beyond the official defense budget. But that is a good place to start.

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Global manifest destiny and U.S. base mania

January 21, 2005 By David Eisenhower

A doctrine to prevent “potential competitors from ever aspiring to a larger regional or global role” has been American policy since the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 1992, then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and his deputy,...

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Bushs four horsemen of economic policy

December 3, 2004 By David Eisenhower

George W. Bush is an old-fashioned kind of ruler. He imagines himself divinely chosen to serve his tribe of economic royalists. “By the rich, for the rich” is his governing philosophy.

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State of Working America looks bleak

October 22, 2004 By David Eisenhower

To survive, families have taken on more debt, with the ratio of household debt to disposable income reaching 108.3 percent.

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Oil rivalry, strife afflict the Caucasus

September 10, 2004 By David Eisenhower

Breakaway autonomous regions in the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Azerbaijan are creating a headache for the Bush administration’s geopolitical planners.

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Bush agenda is a cloud over civilization

July 23, 2004 By David Eisenhower

The Bush administration governs from a script commissioned by oil, finance and military interests. According to John Kenneth Galbraith, these corporate interests represent “a cloud over civilization.”

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