Occupy Movement Can Help Restore Hope
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 3rd, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Occupy Movement Can Help Restore Hope
Noam Chomsky, In These Times
Delivering a Howard Zinn lecture is a bittersweet experience for me. I regret that he’s not here to take part in and invigorate a movement that would have been the dream of his life. Indeed, he laid a lot of the groundwork for it.If the bonds and associations being established in these remarkable events can be sustained through a long, hard period ahead — victories don’t come quickly — the Occupy protests could mark a significant moment in American history.
Obama Could Bring Down Entire Dem Ticket
David Hill, The Hill
Last week’s column asserting that the president is unelectable has triggered strong responses. Democrats, in particular, seem to think my judgment is premature. It strikes them as ridiculous that anyone could make such a “bold prediction” so far in advance of the 2012 election. Hey, that’s what we do, as seasoned political professionals, as pollsters. But I must stress that I am not so much making a personal prediction as drawing an informed conclusion based on all the numbers available. I do this in each election cycle for other candidates, and…
Rivals Move to Make Romney Earn NH Win
Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
DURHAM, N.H. — Snow is on the ground from Bedford to Berlin, yard signs are competing for dwindling space along the roads, and the airwaves are about to come alive with familiar-sounding campaign ads.When Secretary of State Bill Gardner announces the date of the New Hampshire primary on Wednesday morning — widely expected to be Jan. 10 — it will kick off the final 10-week window of opportunity for the other Republican candidates to challenge Mitt Romney's longstanding dominance in the polls here and make things interesting in the first-in-the-nation primary state.Romney holds a…
The High Price of Cheap Money
Peter Hartcher, The American Interest
Time magazine starred Alan Greenspan on its cover in 1998 for cutting interest rates, naming him one as of three people comprising a “Committee to Save the World.” Eleven years later, the same magazine indicted him as one of three people most culpable for the great economic collapse of 2008–09. Then, in 2009, Time named Greenspan’s successor, Ben Bernanke, as “Man of the Year” for cutting interest rates as part of “an effort to save the world economy.” Guess what comes next in this sequence of praise and blame,…
