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Barack Obama And the Question of “Universal Rights”
Barack Obama made a bold move in participating in a “town hall” meeting with Chinese students in Shanghai. However, on the basis of the Al Jazeera English account of this meeting (taken from both wire sources and their own staff), he...
Not to be Trusted with Problem-Solving?
John Nichols’ latest post to his blog (The Beat) on the Web site for The Nation may have come up with the perfect rejoinder to my recent grousing about the prevailing attitude at the G20 preferring growth to problem-solving: The G20 Summit that...
Financial CHUTZPAH
I always appreciate the chutzpah of speaking truth to power, and I see that the last time I did this the Chutzpah of the Week award involved military power. It thus seems appropriate that this week’s award acknowledge a similar act of speaking...
More Than 100 Million of the World’s Poorest Benefit From Microcredit
More than 106 million of the world’s poorest families received a microloan in 2007, surpassing the goal set 10 years earlier, according to a report released on 26 January 2009 by the Microcredit Summit Campaign. Microloans are used to help people living...
Trying to Recover a “Real Economy”
Thursday, October 16, 2008 Trying to Recover a “Real Economy” Marie Cocco’s column for today’s Washington Post, reproduced, as usual, on Truthdig, has the great title, “It’s the Jobs, Stupid;” and that is...
