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Gateway Policies: ISIS, Obama and US Financial Boots-on-the-Ground

President Obama’s neo-Cold War is not about ideology or respect for borders. It is about money and global power. The current battle over control of gateway nations – strategic locations in which private firms can establish the equivalent of financial

Posted in The WIP Talk

How Can Obama Get Clinton Voters? Be Straight With Them

by Nomi Prins – USA – Hillary Clinton’s speech has been highlighted, delivered and duly dissected. Bill’s, too. But, as focus shifts to Obama, the elephant in the hall that will linger past the DNC convention for the nearly 9

Posted in Economy, FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics, Special Election Coverage

It’s the Profits Stupid! Exxon’s Rising Take from America: Will the Proposed Gas Tax Holiday Really Help?

by Nomi Prins – USA – How sad. Exxon Mobil, the universe’s largest publicly traded company, which also happens to be enjoying some of its biggest profits ever thanks to the almost doubled price of oil during the past year,

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Posted in Economy, FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics

Eliot Spitzer or the Subprime CEOs – Which Crime Should Really Call Up Outrage?

by Nomi Prins – USA – The Starbucks, sidewalk and subway comments continue to flow abundant as New Yorkers processed the country’s latest made-for-TV sex scandal. The reality that New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, Time Magazine’s former Crusader of the

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Posted in Economy, FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics

Obama vs. Clinton: Neither Experience nor Change Will Overcome Politics as Usual

by Nomi Prins – USA – Depending on the measure of ‘liberalness’ used to evaluate past voting records, there is next to no difference between Clinton and Obama. In fact, with all her emphasis on ‘experience’ and his on ‘change,’

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Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics, Special Election Coverage

The State of Whose Union?

by Nomi Prins – USA – Earlier this week, speaking for Washingtonia and unburdened by high expectations, President Bush said “all of us were sent to Washington to carry out the people’s business.” The question remains – exactly which people?

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Posted in Economy, FEATURE ARTICLES

Will Bush’s Stimulus Package Work? It Depends on Who You Ask

by Nomi Prins – USA – As the middle and poorer classes get crushed under a mounting pile of debt, and living costs grow faster than wages, we’re becoming a country of two classes: the top 1% and everyone else.

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Posted in Economy, FEATURE ARTICLES

And Justice for All: We Must Reverse Our Zeal to Incarcerate

by Nomi Prins – USA – The movie, Atonement, is a heart-breaking love-story, a historical WWII saga. Without giving away the ending, which must be seen to be adequately felt, it tells the tale of two lovers’ lives irrevocably changed

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Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics

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