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Bailout Ballpark
(www.truthdig.com)
The New York Mets have announced that their new stadium will still be called Citi Field. According to news reports, Citigroup will pay the Mets a trifling $400 million over...
Submitted about 20 hours ago by cdoherty on Economy | 0 Comments |
Forget GM's Plan -- Where's The Government's Plan? (www.thenation.com)
When Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi sent the Detroit automakers away and told them to come up with a plan, it made me want to put my head through a wall. Not because the automakers didn't need one...
Submitted 6 days ago by cdoherty on Economy | 0 Comments |
Burmese Comedian Gets 45-Year Prison Sentence
(us.oneworld.net)
A comedian was sentenced to 45 years in prison this week for criticizing the Burmese government's response to Cyclone Nargis, which devastated the country in May. Zargana and his associates, who were... More
Submitted 7 days ago by cdoherty on Burma | 0 Comments |
Forget About TARP
(www.talkingpointsmemo.com)
The $700 billion bailout package passed by Congress is small potatoes compared to the $7.4 trillion that the Fed has pledged to throw at the credit crisis, Bloomberg reports:...
Submitted 10 days ago by cdoherty on Economy | 0 Comments |
Iraqi Refugees in Syria Watch U.S. Security Negotiations (news.newamericamedia.org)
Iraqi refugees in Damascus watch developments in their country and in Washington with a mixture of hope and skepticism. NAM's correspondent reports.
Submitted 13 days ago by Rupa | 0 Comments |
President Obama and the New Liberalism
(www.chelseagreen.com)
Barack Obama gained immense popularity and won the Democratic Party’s nomination by running as a post-partisan candidate—he understood Americans’ desire to move beyond the bitter divisiveness of... More
Submitted 24 days ago by cdoherty on Economy | 0 Comments |
Iaqis seek more 'withdrawal' talks; U.S. says they're over (www.mcclatchydc.com)
The United States delivered Thursday what it said was the final text of the controversial accord on the stationing of U.S. forces in Iraq, but Iraq said more talks are needed before the government can... More
Submitted 27 days ago by cdoherty on OurTroops | 0 Comments |
Schapiro: What Governments Can Do to Rescue the Economy and Save the Planet
(www.chelseagreen.com)
Magazines like to tease their readers with headlines that promise answers to seemingly intractable problems. Such seems to be the intent of the lead story of the December 2008 issue of Mother Jones,... More
Submitted 29 days ago by cdoherty on Sustain | 0 Comments |
Rise in drug prescriptions may signal abuse (www.armytimes.com)
The sharp rise in outpatient prescriptions paid for by the government suggests doctors rely too heavily on narcotics, says Army Col. Chester “Trip” Buckenmaier III, of Walter Reed Army Medical... More
Submitted about 1 month ago by robertharding on OurTroops | 0 Comments |
The Towns are Taking Over
(www.chelseagreen.com)
In the battle to reverse our society’s effect on the planet’s climate, large governments and organizations are proving to be too slow to change course than most citizens would like. People looking... More
Submitted about 1 month ago by cdoherty on Sustain | 0 Comments |
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