Entries (RSS)Archive for March, 2009
Time to Choose: Us or Them?
President Obama, we hired you to make sweeping changes, not to be a servant of the status quo. Yet on the economic crisis in particular, you seem to be a prisoner of a complacent, self-serving orthodoxy that is preventing you from doing what needs to be done.
Posted by eatbees on 22 Mar 2009 at 18:28 under Economy, Politics.
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Behind the Crisis
If we’re going to learn anything from the economic crisis we’re in, we need to make sure that the same elites aren’t in power coming out of it that got us into it to begin with.
Posted by eatbees on 18 Mar 2009 at 20:26 under Economy, Politics.
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A Win for Democracy in Pakistan
There were scenes of jubilation in Pakistan today at the news that Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has been restored to his role as Chief Justice. Chaudhry has become a popular hero for holding powerful elites accountable before the law, and his restoration means that a popular movement has won out over those same elites.
Posted by eatbees on 16 Mar 2009 at 17:05 under Civil Rights, Politics.
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Inequality and the Global Crisis
We need to admit that it may be impossible to return to the magical days of easy growth and abundant resources. What if this is a crisis of scarcity? What if much of what we’ve called wealth for the last fifty years was illusory? Even the best policies will never rebuild what we had, if our way of life was unsustainable in the first place.
Posted by eatbees on 12 Mar 2009 at 17:48 under Anarchy, Economy, Politics.
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Snow
Snow photos.
Posted by eatbees on 01 Mar 2009 at 14:58 under Personal.
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