1. Beyond the triple crisis: a green new deal
(News/World News)

...ching [financial crisis] since the end of the second world war", said former chairman of the United States Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, in March 2008; the "largest financial shock since ...

2. Competition for Main Street
(News/World News)

... nations work to put the global financial system back in business. The agenda is staggering. The United States is ill equipped to deal with it smartly, not to mention wisely. We have a brain-dead lam...

3. Anti-Democratic Nature of US Capitalism is Being Exposed
(News/World News)

... liberalisation are calling for massive state intervention to rescue collapsing ...

4. Brazilian Navy burning money
(News/Democracy in Middle East)

...azilian Navy. This case just demonstrate us that you can't talk about democracy of vote only, if the State money isn't applied correctly. Brazil has a democratic and free election system. Yes....

5. Wall street government
(News/World News)

Black Tuesday may have plunged the United States into the Great Depression but it was a sense of hopelessness; the feeling that nothing one could personally do would improve things that kept us in

6. America’s financial meltdown: lessons and prospects
(News/World News)

...global financial system of the 2000s, and why the predicted collapse of this system begins in the United States. The deregulated economy The former chairman of the Federal Reserve in the United Stat...

7. Heroes of Human Rights and Democracy in China
(News/World News)

...rsquo;s Board of Directors Richard Gephardt, who is the former House Minority Leader. Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky and House Foreign Affairs Committee Cha...

8. When Money Is Speech, Speech Is Not Free
(News/World News)

...lso allowed for raising contribution limits to in U.S. Senate races, with the threshold varying based on state population. Writing the (5-4) majority opinion (pdf), Justice Alito said, "Differen...

9. Bolivian Political Crisis
(News/World News)

   By Jim Shultz    In La Paz today, President Morales and two key state governors, Rubén Costas of Santa Cruz and Mario Cossío of Tarija, signed an agreement to beg

10. Judge lifts gag on Boston students over transit security
(News/World News)

...n three MIT students who were barred from talking publicly about security flaws they discovered in the state's automated mass transit fare system, even as a lawyer for the agency acknowledged the s...

11. Xbox 360 to be usead as electronic voting system ?
(News/World News)

...e need to go where young Americans are," said Heather Smith, executive director of Rock the Vote, in a statement. "There's no doubt in our minds that many are on Xbox 360 and Xbox Live." M...

12. Cuban Punk musician arrested due 'dangerousness'
(News/World News)

... morality". Habitual drunkenness, drug addiction and anti-social behaviour are all signs of a state of dangerousness, which carries a sentence of up to four years in jail. There h...

13. Saakashvili?s Statement on Russia? Action
(News/World News)

Here is the written statement by the president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, concerning Russia’s recognition of the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent of Georgi

14. Climate Camp Besieges Power Station in UK
(News/World News)

...nce this report on BBC 5 Live), presumably basing this wholly inaccurate claim on a confusingly worded statement by Kent Police which reports that "Police boats and the Medway Ports Authority Harbo...

15. Afghanistan?s Vietnam portent
(News/World News)

...ng media and military analysts since 2003 of possible parallels between the war in Iraq and the United States imbroglio in Vietnam that ended so humiliatingly in 1975. The argument is most prominen...

16. Debtonation: how globalisation dies
(News/World News)

...d market failure on 9 August 2007 is that when the financial sector faced meltdown it had to rely on the state - in the form of central banks in United States, Europe and Japan alike - to intervene in...

17. The politics of protection: Bush Strategy?
(News/World News)

...tion of Kurdish leader and current Iraqi president, Jalal Talabani), has come to thrive under the United States occupation? And since al-Qaida in Iraq represents perhaps 1% or less of the insurgent st...

18. Venezuela: is Hugo Chávez in control?
(News/World News)

...Venezuelan street. Just as the president's socialism jostles uneasily with the habits of an oil-rich state, the conviction that a new tyranny is settling into place ignores abundant evidence that ...

19. Racism and Democracy: 50 years since Little Rock integration
(News/World News)

...ontrol the angry crowds. It was the first time in 80 years that federal troops had been sent to a former state of the Confederacy. Yet, half a century later, there are signs of progress and strife in...