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Off and Running : Recovery Bill Big on Transit, Green Energy, Science
Obama Recovery program provides $8 billion for high-speed rail. Pictured is a high speed rail project that Californians voted for in 2008.Progressives, Obama keep promise to jumpstart clean energy, economy. By Joseph Romm / February 14, 2009 Years from now, … Continue reading
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Tagged Economic Recovery, Green Jobs, Obama Administration, Sustainability, Transit
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The Republican Taliban Are in the Cat Bird Seat
Charge!: Republican Chairman Michael Steele calls forth the forces of reaction.‘The price of determined obstructionism will be much higher for the nation, but the Republicans clearly care only about their own political fate.’ By Sherman DeBrosse / The Rag Blog … Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, Economic Stimulus, Obama Administration, Republican Party
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Medical Marijuana : Raids Continue But Policy Change in the Air
The message is clear, said UCLA professor Mark Kleiman, a former Justice Department official and an expert on crime and drug policy. ‘It is no longer federal policy to beat up on hippies.’By Devlin Barrett / February 7, 2009 See … Continue reading
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Tagged DEA, Drug Law Reform, Drug War, Medical Marijuana, Obama Administration
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Behind the Daschle Headlines : Blacklisting of Progressive Economists
Progressive left out of the picture: Portrait of Leo Hindery from the July 14, 2007 New York Times. Photo by Damon Winter / NYT. ‘Leo Hindery, one of the few business leaders to use his wealth to challenge deregulation, corporate … Continue reading
Republicans and the Stimulus Plan : Betting on Hard Times
Kentucky Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell has stopped short of threatening a filibuster to stop the stimulus plan. Photo by AFP. It is in the interest of the GOP to complain endlessly about waste and to throw up road blocks at … Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, Economic Stimulus, Obama Administration, Republican Party
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Robert Scheer on Obama : Follow the Money!
Obama’s economic team, unveiled last November: the fixers helped create the problem. Photo by Sally Ryan / NYT.‘While the new president has already proved to be a brilliant and super-competent agent of change in so many ways, in matters of … Continue reading
Chomsky on Obama: ‘The Carefully Framed Deceit Is Instructive’
Obama on Israel-PalestineBy Noam Chomsky / January 26, 2009 Barack Obama is recognized to be a person of acute intelligence, a legal scholar, careful with his choice of words. He deserves to be taken seriously – both what he says, … Continue reading
Fixing the Economy : A Comprehensive Plan from Progressive Economists
We deny that there is any conflict between the need to get the economy moving again by creating jobs, and the long term goals of green technologies, national health insurance, and a fairer distribution of income. In fact, higher wages … Continue reading
John Thain, Ex of Merrill Lynch : Flush Here
Former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain. Not Clark Kent. Photo by Albert Watson / Fortune. If you enjoy an item which carries a punch line — esp. one which is unexpected–then this item deserves your reading. Clarification: a blogger started … Continue reading
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Tagged Bank Bailouts, Corporate Profits, Finance, Obama Administration, Tim Geithner
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Hilda Soliz : Republicans Stalling Nomination of Progressive for Labor Secretary
Conservative Wyoming Sen. Michael Enzi, chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, is working hard against the nomination of Rep. Hilda Soliz for Labor Secretary. Photo by David Zalubowski / AP. These guys on the right … Continue reading
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Obama Government Bombs Pakistan
Obama bombs Pakistan – from warrantless wiretaps to bombing in countries we are not at war with and who understandably object to this invasion and murder of their people. I am not euphoric yet. Substitute “Austin” for “Pakistan” in the … Continue reading
