Posts tagged work
Michael Hughes: General With the Runaway Mouth
Jun 24th
General Stanley McChrystal, who should have never been hired as commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, was let go yesterday for disparaging remarks he made about President Obama and his administration in an already historic Rolling Stone magazine interview .
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Loading ...Aaron Zelinsky: Borking Barak: Why the Right’s Newest Attack on Kagan Is Wrong
Jun 24th
This week, Republicans ramped up their newest attack on Elena Kagan: her praise in 2006 for Aharon Barak, Israel’s former Chief Justice. This line of attack is as baseless as it is unsound. In her 2006 remarks, Dean Kagan wasn’t sending a dog-whistle to the International-Cabal-of-Judicial-Activists that she would be a mini-Barak
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...David A. Love: The Texas GOP Is A Grand Old Piece of Work
Jun 23rd
The Texas Republican Party, that bastion of tolerance, goodwill and forward thinking, just released its policy platform . I can’t say I was surprised by the contents therein, but nevertheless, I was taken aback by the stunning absurdity emanating from a “mainstream” political party.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Sue Allon: Nothing Should Be Random About Rating Agency Assignments
Jun 22nd
Sen. Al Franken’s proposal to have rating agencies assigned to securitizations randomly by the SEC was rejected by a House-Senate Conference Committee this week, to my great relief. According to The New York Times “Deal Book” blog , the measure gained traction because it addressed the problem of issuers selecting which agency will rate their transactions
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Josh Mull: Crazy COIN Strategy: US-Pakistani Nuclear Deal
Jun 21st
I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Charity Tooze: World Refugee Day Illustrates Global Refugee Crisis
Jun 20th
World Refugee Day is the one-day of the year created to draw the world’s attention to the most vulnerable and disenfranchised people – refugees. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) 2009 Global Trend Report, there are approximately 15.2 million people classified as refugees around the world. This number only represents a portion of the displaced
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...James Love: Why Is the Obama Administration Not Standing Up for People with Disabilities?
Jun 18th
On Monday June 21, 2010, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will consider whether to adopt a work program on a treaty for persons who are blind or have other disabilities. Behind the scenes, the Obama Administration has been trying to scuttle the treaty, pressuring other countries to abandon support for the treaty, and proposing an alternative to the treaty that would do almost nothing to expand access to copyrighted materials. The recent U.S
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Kelly Nicholls: Far Worse Than Watergate: Report Reveals Widening Scandal Regarding Intelligence Agency as New Government Takes Office in Colombia
Jun 18th
As Colombians prepare to elect a new president on Sunday, a new report reveals the shocking details of the Colombian intelligence agency’s Watergate-like scandal, which went well beyond illegally spying on key players in the country’s democracy. The Department of Administrative Security (DAS), Colombia’s intelligence agency, actually orchestrated active efforts to sabotage the activities of Colombian judges, journalists, human rights defenders, international organizations and political opponents.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Daniel Cluchey: An Oil Well That Ends Well?
Jun 17th
This week, President Obama learned a crucial lesson about oil spills that so far has gone sadly unrealized by nearly a thousand dead birds : at a certain point, when the water becomes too thick to wade through, you have to take to the air. The president did just that on Tuesday evening, and ended up delivering a speech that, according to observers across the political spectrum, was more turkey than eagle — CNN’s Gloria Borger likened Obama to “a company man with a PowerPoint presentation,” while Slate’s Daniel Gross, in one of the stupidest string of words ever assembled, declared the effort so lacking that it was “almost enough to make you miss… the platonic ideal of the presidency of George W
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Naomi Oreskes: Shadow Elite: "Merchants of Doubt" — Do Scientific Denialists Have No Shame?
Jun 17th
In Shadow Elite , I trace the disturbing emergence over the past 2 decades of a new breed of unaccountable power broker. These players (I call those at the pinnacle ” flexians “) glide across roles of influence in government, business, media, and think tanks, use overlapping affiliations and information gleaned in one venue in other venues, and exploit a stranglehold on (should-be) public information to advance their own interests, not the public interest. Case in point is a group I call “the Neocon core,” longtime ideological allies who sold America on the need to wage war on Iraq, by subverting the standard government bodies and processes and branding their own version of the truth as the most authoritative
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Marjorie Faulstich Orellana: On Civil Discourse in Online Forums: Learning From Immigrant Youth
Jun 17th
On-line forums are a new space for the public sharing of opinions.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Brian Keane: BP Should Pay to Educate the Public About Clean Energy
Jun 16th
Dear Mr. President: Call me! (Hey, if Sarah Palin can demand a call from you, so can I.) We need to talk.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Monica Duffy Toft: Understanding Rationality in Religious Violence
Jun 14th
When I first began research into religion and global politics, I began by trying to approach it as I had most of my previous research: canvas previous efforts, formulate some new conjectures, and then seek out real-world evidence that might test them. It didn’t work. The main problem was that there was simply too little previous work to build on.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Rep. Mike Honda: AZ Law: Unconstitutional, Unsound, Ineffective and Un-American
Jun 11th
Much has been said about Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070, allowing state law enforcement officials to stop, question, detain and report individuals based on suspicion of undocumented status.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Richard (RJ) Eskow: Why This Ex-AIG Exec Is Protesting Treasury’s Backdoor "AIG Bailout"
Jun 9th
Life can only be understood backward, said Kierkegaard, but it has to be lived forward. That’s the only explanation I can offer for the strange turn of events that led to me becoming an AIG executive, then a progressive writer/blogger, and to my plans to speak tomorrow at a Treasury Department protest organized by my friend Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks. (Wednesday, 1:30 PM, 15th and Philadelphia, Washington.) What are we protesting
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...CIA Inspector General Position Vacant For 14 Months
Jun 8th
WASHINGTON — More than a year after the CIA’s inspector general stepped down, frustrated members of Congress are urging the White House to fill the internal watchdog position that was central in uncovering abuses inside the spy agency.
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