Iraq
The Occupation of Iraq
During the occupation of Iraq, there was wanton destruction of the academic heritage of the country ... a disgace.
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People
Paul 'Jerry' Bremer
Paul 'Jerry' Bremer was the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Iraq from May 2003 to June 2004.
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People ... US Politics
Mitt Romney
Rachel Maddow ... February 3, 2011 taking Mitt Romney to task about his take on the economy. What really is worse?
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People ... US Politics
Rick Santorum
Rachel Maddow ... February 3, 2012 ... Not on the ballot in Indiana!
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People ... US Politics
Scott Walker ... GOP Governor of Wisconsin
Rachel Maddow ... February 3, 2012
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Accountability, Society and Economy
NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman going after banks
Marcy Kaptur got it right 3 years ago ... then Attorney General Eric Schneiderman about holding banks accountability
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People
Jared Bernstein
Successful high profile economist who has been an adviser to Joe Biden
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Military, Society and Economy
Iraq War Veterans
Rachel Maddow ... St Louis has had a parade with big turnout. Who will be next?
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Housing, Society and Economy
Stopping foreclosure auctions
Rachel Maddow ... Hey Ho Ho .. Pre Occupy 'Occcupation' stoping foreclosure auctions by singing in court!
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People ... US Politics
Scott Walker
Rachel Maddow and Republican Scott Walker on the 'right to work' efforts.
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Business, Society and Economy
Facebook
Facebook users brace for site's redesign ... Facebook has a history of privacy snafus - but its two latest features seem to be a step in the right direction.
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Law, Society and Economy
Holding Wall Street Accountable
NY's Attorney General Schneiderman sues banks in foreclosure effort
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Energy, Society and Economy
New World Order in the Global Energy Sector
New Alignments? The Geopolitics of Gas and Oil Cartels and the Changing Middle East
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People
Queen Elizabeth
Sixty years ago today (February 5th), 25-year-old Princess Elizabeth was on holiday in Kenya when she received the news that would change her life forever – her father, King George VI, had died and she was now Queen.
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People ... US Politics
Newt Gingrich
February 5, 2012 Spin spin spin ... Newt Gingrich, the Catholic Church and the secular government. Give me a break!
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Law, Society and Economy
Why Do Dangerous Financial Criminals Roam Free?
Prosecutors like Eric Schneiderman need cops on the beat to put financial crooks behind bars. But thanks to Bush, these cops are missing in action.
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Regulation, Society and Economy
Glass-Steagall Act
A chronology tracing the life of the Glass-Steagall Act, from its passage in 1933 to its death throes in the 1990s, and how Citigroup's Sandy Weill dealt the coup de grâce.
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Activism, Society and Economy
Fault Lines: History of an occupation
AlJazeera English tells the story of Occupy Wall Steet in its FaultLines series.
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Activism, Society and Economy
Occupy Wall Street
What's next for Occupy Wall Street?
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Technology, Society and Economy
Home building ... Structured Insulated Panels (SIPs)
A prescriptive way of using SIP as a cost effective way of home construction in the USA
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People
Muhammad Yunus
Fortune Picks Yunus as One of 12 Greatest Entrepreneurs
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People
Muhammad Yunus
An interview with The Guardian ... the comments are interesting and reproduced below
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Dialog, Society and Economy
Nation of Change
A set of subjects being discussed by Nation of Change members
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Law, Society and Economy
User Agreements
Intuit ... Turbo-Tax
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Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
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Organizations
American Legislation Exchange Council (ALEC)
PLACE HOLDER ... details needed
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Law, Society and Economy
User Agreements
Smartdraw software
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Afghanistan
US in denial: Watershed in Afghanistan
Marwan Bishara ... Diplomatic statements have ignored the strategic and psychological battles won by the Taliban.
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Dialog, Society and Economy
Importance of many perspectives
Some of the subjects being reported on AlJazeera in April 2012
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Politics, Society and Economy
Why nations fail?
Dan Hind ...
A new book highlights the role of politics in prosperity - a point that Europeans and Americans ignore at their peril.
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Ghana
Gold scamming in Ghana
Africa Investigates ... My kind of journalism ...A Ghanaian journalist explains his resolve to name, shame and jail gold scammers, whatever the cost to his safety.
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Technology, Society and Economy
Google Drive
More and mnore technology .... but what are we going to do about digesting substance?
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Law, Society and Economy
Why Do Dangerous Financial Criminals Roam Free?
Prosecutors like Eric Schneiderman need cops on the beat to put financial crooks behind bars. But thanks to Bush, these cops are missing in action.
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Politics, Society and Economy
2012 ... Inside Obama's Campaign
The president's reelection machine is gearing up to mobilize millions of volunteers. But are they too fed up to turn out?
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Politics, Society and Economy
Republican policies in 2012!
Rachel Maddow on the rewriting of the Republican policy platform as of April 26, 2012
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Politics, Society and Economy,
Education
Rachel Maddow highlights huge difference between Obama and the Repubican positions on education
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Crimes against humanity, Society and Economy
War crimes court finds Charles Taylor guilty
April 2012 ... Decision on former Liberian leader is first ever judgement of a former African head of state by an international court.
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Terror Bombing, Society and Economy
Dozens injured in Ukraine bombings
Ukraine, April 27 2012 ... At least 27 people wounded by four consecutive explosions that ripped through the eastern city of Dnipropetrovsk.
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Incentives, Society and Economy
Rents are too high: The Apple edition
Dean Baker ...
Many economists wonder whether society could get the same effort from entrepreneurs if financial rewards were decreased.
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Economics, Society and the Economy
Adam Smith
It is not only Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations that matters, but also the background and context described in his Theory of Moral Sentiment
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Economists, Society and Economy
Economic Theorists of history
Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Max Weber, John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman
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Taxation, Society and Economy
David Cameron and the offshore connection
Dan Hind ... Questions about links between Britain's rulers and the obscure world of offshore finance signal a need for transparency.
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Energy, Society and Economy
What the IMF should say and think about the global oil industry
Johnny West ... In over 50 countries, local production in the oil extractive industries plays a major role in politics and the economy.
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Energy, Society and Economy
The IMF and oil: It's the politics, stupid
Producer nations should take serious steps to mitigate against volatility and economic disparity among their citizens.
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Activism, Society and Economy
The 25th Anniversary of ACT-UP
Rachel Maddow Show ... telling something of the 25 year story of ACT-UP
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Health, Society and Economy
Doctors back denial of treatment for smokers and the obese
UK survey finds 54% of doctors think the NHS should have the right to withhold non-emergency treatment
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People, Society and Economy
Jim Yong Kim as World Bank President
William G Moseley on A more radical choice for World Bank president ...
Jim Yong Kim's background means he is much more likely to change the status quo at the World Bank and bring reforms.
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People, Society and Economy
Vladimir Putin
People & Power ...
In search of Putin's money ...
People & Power investigates claims that Russia's political supremo has amassed a secret multi-billion dollar fortune.
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People, Society and Economy
The killing of Osama Bin Laden
Pakistan reveals efforts to hunt down Osama bin Laden ...
One year since embarrassment of Bin Laden's Abbottabad death, Pakistan is moving itself closer to centre of events
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People
President Obama
Warrior in Chief ...
THE president who won the Nobel Peace Prize less than nine months after his inauguration has turned out to be one of the most militarily aggressive American leaders in decades.
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