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• Elizabeth Warren’s QE for Students: Populist Demagoguery or Economic Breakthrough?

  
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  By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Only one proposal promises relief for millions of students whose loan interest rates will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent this July—Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s “Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act.” Related Entries June 13, 2013 Warren Asks White House for ...
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• The Muslim Brotherhood: an Islamist movement’s evolution ‘from opposition to power’

  
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  It wasn’t too long ago that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and related Islamist groups were considered reformist or moderate enough to be trusted as credible democratic actors in the Middle East’s political transitions. But few will emerge from reading an authoritative …
  6 days ago

• Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie Official Trailer (2013)

  
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  Long before O’Reilly and Beck, Morton Downey, Jr., was tearing up the talk-show format with his divisive populism. Between the fistfights, rabid audience, an… The post Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie Official Trailer (2013) appeared first on Entertainment Online Magazine .
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• Galloway may stand for London Mayor “versus a Transvestite”

  
  Shiraz Socialist — Authority: 513
  Reblogged from Tendance Coatsey : Galloway for London Mayor: “Real Labour versus a Transvestite.” George Galloway  has announced on Russia Today (where else?) that he intends to fight  Boris Johnson  for the job of Mayor of London, despite the present incumbent already insisting he will not stand for ...
  1 week ago

• Libertarian Populism: How to Sell Ideas to the American People

  
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  In case you haven’t noticed, there is a big debate about the future of the conservative movement and the Republican Party. On one side you have the status quo — those who continue to grow government and get the United States in perilous military engagements overseas — and on the other, there is a new brand of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Friday Talking Points [260] -- So You Think You Can Rant?

  
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  "You know, after watching the popularity arc of such Tea Party favorites as Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, I cant help but wonder why they dont just skip over what appears to be the hardest part of becoming famous for them -- the part about serving in office. Why not just go straight towards being a media darling ...
  2 weeks ago

• Indonesia’s next parliament: celebrities, incumbents and dynastic members?

  
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  Authors: Yoes C. Kenawas and Fitriani, RSIS Earlier this year in April, Indonesian political parties submitted their lists of legislative candidates for the 2014 General Election. Among the candidates are 10 current Cabinet Ministers,15 relatives of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the wives of two ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Modest Tea Party Proposal

  
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  Michele Bachmann has announced her retirement from Congress. I consider this good news for a very selfish reason: her name is just too easy to misspell. Youre typing along, and where there should be a double letter there isnt... and then a little later there is one where there shouldnt be. Its annoying.
  2 weeks ago

• Welfarism 25: Centenarians and Populist Legislators

  
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  Being populist and highly welfarist to get high public and voters support is a scourge of many legislators and politicians. They propose more public spending, or more anti-business policies just to say they have authored or co-authored a pro-poor bill or law. One such law is the mandatory discount of 20 percent + 12 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Noam Chomsky describes anarchism

  
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  Noam Chomsky defines anarchism : Well, anarchism is, in my view, basically a kind of tendency in human thought which shows up in different forms in different circumstances, and has some leading characteristics. Primarily it is a tendency that is suspicious and skeptical of domination, authority, and hierarchy. It ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bernie Sanders sums up what we can learn from Denmark

  
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  At Reader Supported News, Bernie Sanders notes that Denmark and the United States are very different countries, but insists that there are lessons the U.S. can learn from Denmark: While it is difficult to become very rich in Denmark no one is allowed to be poor. Health care in Denmark is universal, free of charge ...
  3 weeks ago

• Enemy intelligence: ban the word “community”

  
  Shiraz Socialist — Authority: 513
  Intelligent comment from behind enemy lines. We occasionally publish worthwhile comment from unlikely sources. It should go without saying that this does not mean that we endorse the overall politics of the author, or indeed, everything in the article itself… By Iain Martin ( Daily Telegraph 24 May) ...
  3 weeks ago

• Nicaragua denies entry to International Democrats

  
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      Nicaragua’s Sandinista government has denied entry to a delegation from the International Democrat Union . The group of four Latin American and European parliamentarians headed by Venezuelan former governor Henrique Fernando Salas (right) and opposition congressmen Carlos Berrizbeitia …
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• Loongate: Farage makes his move

  
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  To slightly misquote PG Wodehouse: “Loon is calling to loon like mastodons bellowing across primaeval swamps”… The ad above appears in today’s Daily Telegraph: a good choice as, together with the Mail and Express , it’s become more or less the unofficial mouthpiece of Ukip. Today’s edition also ...
  4 weeks ago

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