S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Nov 19, 2009, 7:17 am
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Nov 17, 2009, 8:35 am
The AP discovers an example of America's democratic class struggle: When it comes to paying for health overhaul, Americans see just one way to go: Tax the rich. That finding from a new Associate...
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Nov 16, 2009, 2:36 pm
On Palin's charisma According to Max Blumenthal's latest article, Sarah Palin cannot "…be easily criticized." She sits beyond the reach of rational criticism because she has acquired, it wo...
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Nov 12, 2009, 11:51 am

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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Nov 11, 2009, 6:42 pm
Having considered the historical repudiation of state socialism (1989) and market fundamentalism (2008), historian Eric Hobsbawm suggests that mere institutional reform will prove inadequate to the un...
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Nov 10, 2009, 10:30 am
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cThe 11/3 Projectwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth Care Crisis
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Nov 2, 2009, 6:53 am
It's kinda over, seems to be over, could be over, but...don't hold your breath. As Mike Whitney explains: Yesterday's report from the Commerce Dept. confirmed that the economy expanded in...
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Nov 1, 2009, 8:48 am
GoldmanSachs666 has a useful map which depicts the political entwinement of the federal government and Goldman Sachs. It can be found here.
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Nov 1, 2009, 7:45 am
Mikhail Gorbachev's take on the need for reform in the United States: Three years ago I was speaking in the Midwest, and an American asked me this question: "The situation in the United States is...
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Oct 31, 2009, 1:02 pm
The purge of the moderates continues TPM reports that: In a huge development in the NY-23 special election, Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava has announced that she is suspending her campaign, ci...
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Oct 29, 2009, 11:16 am
This day marks the 80th anniversary of Black Tuesday, the stock market crash that signaled the onset of the Great Depression.
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Oct 29, 2009, 10:59 am
Rachael Maddow and Glenn Greenwald expose here the corruption of Joe Lieberman (Asshole-CT) and Evan Bayh (D-IN): Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Oct 29, 2009, 10:20 am
When buzzards hide among the doves It is a case that has to be made, and Michael Neumann makes it: Antisemites have flocked to criticism of Israel precisely because criticism of Israel is so amply j...
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Oct 28, 2009, 5:32 pm
The Teabaggers are having conniptions. In their minds the Countdown to Judgment Day has begun. Obama and the Democratic Party threaten the republic. They have usurped the power that rightfully belongs...
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Oct 28, 2009, 7:11 am
The occasion: The health care reform debate. The victim: The citizens of the United States. The victimizer: Joe Lieberman, Asshole-CT. The Wall Street Journal reports: The push by Senate Majority Lea...
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Oct 28, 2009, 6:41 am
The Guardian warns that: Ehud Olmert, Israeli prime minister during the Gaza war, would probably face arrest on war crimes charges if he visited Britain, according to a UK lawyer who is working to ex...
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Oct 27, 2009, 6:04 pm
The pertinent deed happened in late September when Rep Alan Grayson (D-FL) called ex-Enron lobbyist and current Federal Reserve senior adviser Linda Robertson a "K Street whore." One can listen to the...
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Oct 26, 2009, 9:11 pm
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Oct 25, 2009, 9:08 am
This is one to savor as the world plunges into the abyss One may find this sentiment expressed in the Guardian: One of the City's leading figures has suggested that inequality created by bankers...
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Oct 19, 2009, 9:54 am
Can't trust that day October 19 marks the 22nd anniversary of the Black Monday stock market crash.
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Oct 10, 2009, 9:47 am
The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cBend It Like Beckwww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorMichael Moore
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Oct 7, 2009, 7:43 am
Wednesday, October 7 marks the eighth anniversary of America's Operation Enduring Freedom and Britain's Operation Herrick in Afghanistan.
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Oct 7, 2009, 7:30 am
Serge Halimi of Le Monde Diplomatique surveys journalism's current condition before stating the obvious: The internet has not destroyed journalism. It has been stumbling for some time under the w...
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Oct 5, 2009, 8:05 am
Their shameless gloating over the Chicago Olympic bid decision aroused Krugman's ire. Krugman concludes that: …at this point, the guiding principle of one of our nation's two great politica...
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Oct 4, 2009, 2:23 pm
This is a republication of a post that was first published on 9.24.2009. The text had been corrupted, though. * * * * * * * As my trip to "dahntahn" Pittsburgh yesterday (9.23) made plain,...
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Oct 1, 2009, 7:04 pm
Nearly all is quiet today in Pittsburgh. Only the groaning over the most recent heartbreaking Steelers' loss loudly breaks the silence. The G-20 Summit concluded on Friday, so too the street clash...
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Oct 1, 2009, 12:35 pm
Eric Stoner adopts this project in his recent article for AlterNet, and he rightly does so. Consider these statements by this supposed radical socialist: When recently asked if a younger Barack Obama ...
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Sep 29, 2009, 7:07 am

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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Sep 28, 2009, 1:29 pm
 
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Sep 26, 2009, 8:13 am
Bob Herbert of the New York Times recently pointed out that: A clash is coming. President Obama may be reconsidering his idea of substantially increasing the number of American troops, but no one at ...
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Sep 24, 2009, 2:12 pm
As my trip to "dahntahn" Pittsburgh yesterday (9.23) made plain, the G-20 Summit has already worked a kind of bad magic on the everyday political and social life of the city of Pittsburgh. I say this...
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Sep 23, 2009, 9:07 pm

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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Sep 23, 2009, 7:15 am
Trust and serve it to succeed. This is the advice Robert Scheer has given Barack Obama at this crucial juncture: The Obama revolution, and there was the hope of one, might still succeed. But only if ...
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Sep 23, 2009, 6:43 am
Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Sep 22, 2009, 10:05 am
A stop on the road to dictatorship in America Chris Hedges recently interpreted the repression implemented by the federal government and the local governments in the Pittsburgh region as follows: Th...
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Sep 20, 2009, 8:12 am
…it's because they are hypocrites! John Cole considers here this shameless dishonesty and does so with respect to the big fuss the right often makes about ACORN and, for that matter, Barack Oba...
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Sep 19, 2009, 3:08 pm
Dissident Voice first published this essay on 9.19.2009. The version given below is identical to the original save for fixes applied to a typo and grammatical mistake I had missed. * * * * * ...
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Sep 19, 2009, 9:19 am

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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Sep 14, 2009, 12:11 pm
IPS reports: The United Nations is surprised at the continued rise in global military spending — particularly at a time when the international community is grappling with a spreading financial cris...
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Sep 12, 2009, 7:06 am
The new moonshine When the times are tough the tough make do, according to the Guardian: Some people cancel holidays abroad, others stage yard sales or start shopping at low-cost supermarkets. To th...
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Sep 9, 2009, 7:57 am

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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Sep 6, 2009, 10:22 am
Economists struggling with their anomalies Paul Krugman recently wrote a Bildungsroman about the economics profession for the New York Times Magazine.
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Sep 3, 2009, 11:34 am
Mike Whitney's latest take on the economic crisis: The U.S. economy is at the beginning of a protracted period of adjustment. The sharp decline in business activity, which began in the summer of ...
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Sep 3, 2009, 9:28 am
This time he exonerates Hitler!
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Sep 2, 2009, 4:00 pm
About which Jane Hamsher writes: The White House is making the calculation that the hit they suffer when they drop the public plan is only with the "far left," that they can survive that and actually...
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Aug 28, 2009, 8:09 am
And William Greider wrote it: The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer can be thought of as the Potemkin village of American democracy. Every evening, it presents a prettified version of political debate — eve...
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Aug 27, 2009, 9:28 am
Joshua Holland suspects that: Many observing these debates from abroad have probably concluded that we, as a nation, have finally gone completely mad. And it's hard to argue otherwise. How sane ...
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Aug 26, 2009, 12:57 pm

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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Aug 26, 2009, 11:30 am
Dean Baker opines: It would be an insult to the tens of millions of people who have lost their jobs, their homes, and/or their life savings to see Bernanke reappointed. Failure should have consequenc...
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S Z. posted an article on All tied up and nowhere to go - Aug 25, 2009, 9:03 am

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