Article published in Amauta with permission from the author by Harvey Wasserman The mystery has been solved. Where is this “new reactor renaissance” coming from? There has been no deep, thoughtful re-making or re-evaluation of atomic technology. No solution to the nuke waste problem. No making reactors economically sound. No private insurance against radioactive disasters by terror or error. [...]

Source: The Nation by Sebastian Jones February 11, 2010 President Obama spent most of December 4 touring Allentown, Pennsylvania, meeting with local workers and discussing the economic crisis. A few hours later, the state’s former governor, Tom Ridge, was on MSNBC’s Hardball With Chris Matthews, offering up his own recovery plan. There were “modest things” the White House [...]

Article published in Amauta with special permission from the author Source: The Independent How do you regulate banks effectively, if the Senate is owned by Wall Street? by Johann Hari January 29, 2010 This week, a disaster hit the United States, and the after-shocks will be shaking and breaking global politics for years. It did not grab the same press [...]

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Read also Wisdom at 100: Defend Democracy Against the Corporate State below Source: Reuters January 21, 2010 WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court struck down on Thursday long-standing limits on corporate spending in U.S. political campaigns, such as this year’s congressional races and the 2012 presidential contest. The ruling was a defeat for the Obama administration and the campaign [...]

Source: Mother Jones by Joseph E. Stiglitz January 2010 It is said  that a near-death experience forces one to reevaluate priorities and values. The global economy has just escaped a near-death experience. The crisis exposed the flaws in the prevailing economic model, but it also exposed flaws in our society. Much has been written about the foolishness of [...]

Source: Firedoglake by Jane Hamsher December 30, 2009 There is tremendous fear rising on both the right and the left that the announced intention of Congress – to force every American to pay tribute to private corporations, with no government alternative – sets a dangerous and frightening precedent with implications far outside the scope of health care. If the [...]

Source: The Crisis Papers by Earnest Partridge December 28, 2009 “Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.” -Richard Feynman The same sort of public relations wizardry that once convinced a sizeable portion of Americans that cigarette smoking was harmless, that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and had a hand in the 9/11 attacks, [...]

Source: Common Wonders by Robert C. Koehler December 23, 2009 “This amendment starts from the premise that health care is a human right, and that every citizen, rich or poor, should have access to health care, just as every citizen has access to the fire department, the police or public schools.” And for a moment last week the fog [...]

Fuente: IPS por Claudia Ciobanu* COPENHAGUE, 8 dic (IPS) – El comercio de carbono y los mecanismos de compensación les sirven a los países industrializados para no reducir sus emisiones contaminantes ni ofrecer asistencia a las naciones en desarrollo, advirtieron activistas presentes en Copenhague para la conferencia de la ONU sobre cambio climático. Los ambientalistas sostienen que no [...]