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Going Down In An Up Economy

Columnists Arnold Hamilton - January 13, 2011 0

BY FROMA HARROP In the typical economic downturn, Americans thrown out of work make a deal with Euthenia, the Greek goddess of prosperity. They say [in their heads]: We will get through this. We’ll move in with family, find any part-time job. All we want is an assurance that good times will eventually return for […]

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The Blame Game

Columnists Arnold Hamilton - January 12, 2011 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH Within an hour of the tragic shooting in Arizona, it had begun. The Blame Game. The effort to score political points. The attacks on the ugliness of the political debate mimic the very ugliness they condemn. The sheriff blamed Rush Limbaugh. Liberal bloggers went after conservative talkers. Conservative talkers lashed right back at the […]

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Power From The Banks And To The People

Columnists Arnold Hamilton - January 12, 2011 0

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Populist banker. Now those are two words you rarely see linked together. But Thomas Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, truly is a rarity. Firmly rooted in small town Iowa and Kansas, he has never aspired to be part of the Wall Street-Washington power elite, and he has […]

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Crazy Gunman, But A Political Attack

Columnists Arnold Hamilton - January 11, 2011 0

BY FROMA HARROP House Speaker John Boehner seemed truly appalled by the murderous rampage against Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and constituents at a supermarket in her Tucson, AZ, district. But the Republican’s contention that this was “an attack on all who serve” wasn’t quite right. The apparent gunman, Jared Lee Loughner, may be a 22-year-old […]

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The American Way Of Torture

Columnists Arnold Hamilton - January 7, 2011 0

BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN Just over the edge of 2011 and this fresh new decade, torture is now solidly installed in America’s repressive arsenal. Not in the shadows where it has always lurked, but up front and central, vigorously applauded by prominent politicians. Rituals of coercion and humiliation seep through the culture, to the extent that […]

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When Moral Hygiene Becomes A Lethal Mistake

Going Down In An Up Economy

The Blame Game

Power From The Banks And To The People

Crazy Gunman, But A Political Attack

The American Way Of Torture

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