It’s holiday season. And besides I've been feeling too grumpy to take the news "straight." So I came up for a ditty for today. You're welcome to send us yours. Here's mine: The President asked the banks to meet, and the bankers said they might, but the weather was just too awful and the timing w...
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The subtitle of Rory O’Connor's documentary on the Durban II conference is "Israel, Palestine, and the United Nations." Two successive United Nations conferences on racism went down in disarray, boycotted by the U.S. and other countries and causing more controversy than they addressed--mostly be...
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Bob Dylan releasing a Christmas album might have thrown some longtime fans, but even with this album Dylan’s proving his social consciousness: all artist's royalties from sales of the record go to Feeding America. Hope you like his version of "Little Drummer Boy."
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"But I thought, why can’t an architect design exciting things to help the poor in their own communities? I can't tell you how happy I was the day the first boat school took the waters. It was really my dream." Mohammed Rezwan told the Washington Post about his floating schools in Bangladesh, a c...
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The economy seems to be stabilizing a bit, but as we?ve discussed many times, people are still suffering and jobless. Yet Citigroup is getting more tax breaks, and Ben Bernanke is Time?s Person of the Year. Matthew Yglesias writes: ...it demonstrates a very specific class skew?extraordinary inte...
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Joe Lieberman hijacked news coverage for a while this week, but it was Howard Dean’s defense of real health care reform that inspired White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to a snarling personal response. Ben Bernanke was anointed Time's Person of the Year despite a hold on his renomination a...
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Joe Lieberman hijacked news coverage for a while this week, but it was Howard Dean’s defense of real health care reform that inspired White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to a snarling personal response. Ben Bernanke was anointed Time's Person of the Year despite a hold on his renomination a...
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President Obama spoke of "seeing firsthand" what happens in Afghanistan when he visited Walter Reed. But in the latest segment from Brave New Films' Rethink Afghanistan, veterans point out that at best Obama’s only seen a second or third-hand version of what they saw and dealt with every day.
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When word broke last night that Joe Lieberman had taken the health care bill hostage and that it appeared the White House and Senate Majority Leader Reid were ready to cave, progressives howled. The process by which one so-called centrist can make unreasonable demands to get a bill passed has ma...
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Jennifer Utz, the filmmaker behind From Baghdad to Brooklyn, provided us this video report on Cole Miller, who founded a group No More Victims to support children in Iraq wounded by the war and without access to basic health care.
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