This is What Democracy Looks Like
By Austin Thompson - Dec 8th, 2008 at 2:49 pmIn the face of massive job cuts–over 500,000 were lost in the month of November alone–a group of factory workers at a Republic Windows and…
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An Economic Mandate We Can Believe In
By Austin Thompson - Dec 1st, 2008 at 9:30 amLast week, when discussing his vision for the US economy, President-elect Barack Obama for the first time expressed a “mandate to move the country in…
Chasing Robert Rubin
By Austin Thompson - Nov 25th, 2008 at 5:28 pmFormer Secretary of Treasury Robert Rubin’s fundamentalist free-market, pro-business performance as former President Clinton’s economic guru angered activists , labor unions, and others who favored…
Obama’s Economic Team: Good or Bad for Economic Justice?
By Austin Thompson - Nov 25th, 2008 at 5:06 pmI’ll be completely honest. In November’s presidential election I was a single issue voter. I voted for the candidate who I thought would shift the…
Colin Powell Gets It Right on Taxes
By Austin Thompson - Oct 20th, 2008 at 10:55 amConservatives have done a pretty effective job of framing taxes as “a burden, an affliction, and an unfair punishment” on Americans that should be cut…
The Unconventional Wisdom of John Kenneth Galbraith
By Austin Thompson - Oct 15th, 2008 at 11:18 amIn tonight’s final, high stakes presidential debate between John McCain and Barack Obama, the American economy will likely take center-stage once again. But to gain…
Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Controversial Death Penalty Case
By Austin Thompson - Oct 14th, 2008 at 4:50 pmThe US Supreme Court has made a controversial decision, refusing to hear the case of a Georgia death-row inmate who many believe has been denied…
Prediction: The Republicans Will Play the Afghanistan Card
By Austin Thompson - Aug 29th, 2008 at 11:24 amOn Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention, the Democrats focused on security but left an opening for John McCain and the Republicans to attack…
International Activists Sail for a Free Gaza
By Austin Thompson - Aug 22nd, 2008 at 4:17 pmForty-six activists, including a Holocaust survivor, are sailing from Cyprus to Gaza seeking to deliver supplies and raise awareness about the the heinous ongoing humanitarian…
The Tension Between Russia and the U.S. Isn’t Just About Ideas
By Austin Thompson - Aug 18th, 2008 at 9:15 amRecently, the pro-American president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, claimed on CNN that the Russian military actions in his country were designed "to kill the idea…
Paraguay Inaugurates a Leftist President
By Austin Thompson - Aug 15th, 2008 at 4:39 pmAnother victory for the spread of economic democracy in Latin America may be on the horizon in Paraguay. Today, the small South American country formally…
Washington’s Unraveling Consensus?
By Austin Thompson - Jul 14th, 2008 at 2:20 pmAmerica and its prized post-World War II economic institutions (World Bank, International Monetary Fund) are losing their grip over the developing world. At least that’s…
All Eyes on Bolivia
By Austin Thompson - Jun 23rd, 2008 at 7:13 pmTarija, a gas-rich province in Bolivia, voted Sunday to establish greater autonomy from the country’s socialist government and its president, Evo Morales. Morales inherited a…
Obama’s Middle East Problem
By Austin Thompson - Jun 8th, 2008 at 12:30 pmObama is playing loose with his position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Arab world is taking notice. Four days after delivering a speech before…
Pakistan’s “Merchant of Menace” Lashes Out
By Austin Thompson - Jun 5th, 2008 at 12:30 amFor decades the name A.Q. Kahn has been synonymous with the clandestine trade of nuclear weapons expertise to America’s enemies. The Pakistani nuclear scientist (and…
