Roger Hickey: This Week: Obama’s Deficit Commission – or Pete Peterson’s?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 25th, 2010 4:50 am by HL
Roger Hickey: This Week: Obama’s Deficit Commission – or Pete Peterson’s?
On Wednesday Wall Street multi-billionaire Peter G. Peterson, who has pledged to spend a billion dollars to panic Americans about deficits in order to get…
Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup
In case you missed it, this week saw the launch of HuffPost Hill, our afternoon email newsletter covering the Washington political scene — from what’s happening on the Hill and who’s in and who’s out at the White House to the latest DC news and buzz. It’s a new media spin on the old afternoon newspaper — both a breezy and useful daily recap and a timely look at what’s ahead — made to be read on your handheld. You can sign up here. And if you, like the rest of the world, are getting lost in the complexity and opacity of the financial reform debate, let our new video editor Ben Craw be your guide through the myriad metaphors the media have used to explain things — starting with the Goldman Sachs fraud case. And here’s a link to his earlier video mashups.
Valerie Taliman: United States Re-examines Opposition to UN Declaration
NEW YORK – Political tides are turning as international support for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples continues to grow, putting…
Civil Rights Advocates Vow To Challenge Arizona Immigration Law
PHOENIX — Arodi Berrelleza isn’t one of the targets of Arizona’s new anti-illegal immigration law – he’s a U.S. citizen. But the 18-year-old high school…
