Category Archives: GLOBALIZATION

Gambling On Hunger: Amid A Food Crisis, Why Do Republicans Want To Keep Regulators At Bay?

Posted on Thursday, February 17, 2011 by meganwilson

By Zach Carter and Ryan Grim HUFFINGTON POST Big price spikes are good for traders holding onto wheat or oil contracts, allowing them to stuff more money into their wallets while families struggling to make ends meet thousands of miles … Continue reading →

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The hidden roots of Egypt’s despair

Posted on Monday, January 31, 2011 by meganwilson

By Danny Schechter Al Jazeera The economic crisis is driving political protests sparked in part by US financial speculation. The question is, why aren’t Americans up in arms too as inflation at the pump and the grocery store drives prices … Continue reading →

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The Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto: What Now?

Posted on Friday, January 28, 2011 by meganwilson

By Ronnie Cummins Organic Consumers Association, Jan 27, 2011 “The policy set for GE alfalfa will most likely guide policies for other GE crops as well. True coexistence is a must.”   –  Whole Foods Market, Jan. 21, 2011 In the … Continue reading →

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Gap Between Rich And Poor Named 8th Wonder Of The World

Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2011 by meganwilson

The Onion “It’s breathtaking,” said Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, a longtime champion and benefactor of the rift’s conservation. “After all we’ve been through in recent years, there’s no greater privilege than watching it grow bigger and bigger each day. … Continue reading →

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Think Again: American Decline

Posted on Monday, January 24, 2011 by meganwilson

By Gideon Rachman Foreign Policy “We’ve Heard All This About American Decline Before.” This time it’s different. It’s certainly true that America has been through cycles of declinism in the past. Campaigning for the presidency in 1960, John F. Kennedy … Continue reading →

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Should GE’s Jeffrey Immelt Really Be Leading Our Job Creation Strategy?

Posted on Saturday, January 22, 2011 by meganwilson

By Scott Paul HUFFINGTON POST You would have difficulty finding a company that has outsourced more jobs and closed more American factories than GE. There is no swifter way to alienate working class voters than to name an outsourcing CEO … Continue reading →

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2010 Hottest Year on Record: The Graph That Should Be on the Front Page of Every Newspaper

Posted on Friday, January 14, 2011 by meganwilson

By Peter H. Gleick HUFFINGTON POST Climate change is worsening, fast. The National Climate Data Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has just announced that for the entire planet, 2010 is the hottest year on record, tied with … Continue reading →

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Map of the recent mass animal deaths

Posted on Thursday, January 13, 2011 by meganwilson

Posted by Nick Eaton SFGate I didn’t realize just how many bizarre cases of mass animal deaths have occurred in the past month, until I saw the custom Google Map shown above. Birds and fish have been dying en masse … Continue reading →

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The Progressive Case Against Obama’s New Team

Posted on Tuesday, January 11, 2011 by meganwilson

By Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research HUFFINGTON POST This is the small matter that leads progressives to be unhappy with the renewed dominance of the Clinton economic team. If progressives had devised policies that … Continue reading →

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Economists: It Doesn’t Look Good For U.S. Economy In Next Decade

Posted on Sunday, January 9, 2011 by meganwilson

By Mark Felsenthal Reuters … the United States has failed to learn its lesson from the financial crisis and continues to implicitly back its largest financial institutions. To hear a number of prominent economists tell it, it doesn’t look good … Continue reading →

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