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Democracy Now! Barbara Ehrenreich on the Job Crisis & Wealth Gap

Noam Chomsky

A couple of months ago, I went to Mexico to give talks at the National University in Mexico, UNAM. It’s quite an impressive university – hundreds of thousands of students, high-quality and engaged students, excellent faculty. It’s free. And the city – Mexico City – actually, the government ten years ago did try to add a little tuition, but there was a national student strike, and the government backed off. (more…)

The debt agreement should finally make clear to Europeans that Barack Obama is not the progressive President they had hoped for. Instead, writes James K. Galbraith, he is a willful player in the Washington politics game. (more…)

Paul Adams BBC News, Washington

The story – and the controversy – about the detention of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay is familiar and well-rehearsed. (more…)

Dean Baker

Standard and Poor’s downgrade of U.S. government debt captured headlines across the country and around the world. It is a newsworthy event, but primarily as another colossal failure by a major credit rating agency. (more…)

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AP

A federal judge has ruled that former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld can be sued personally for damages by a former U.S. military contractor who says he was tortured during a nine-month imprisonment in Iraq. (more…)

The drought and famine in Somalia have killed more than 29,000 children under the age of 5 in the last 90 days in southern Somalia alone, according to U.S. estimates. The U.N. says 640,000 Somali children are acutely malnourished, suggesting the death toll of small children will rise. (more…)