The B u l l e t Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 441 December 17, 2010 « Previous [print_link] Next » Murray Smith IT IS NOW POSSIBLE to begin to draw a tentative balance sheet of the vast movement against the reform (or more exactly, counter-reform) of the pension system in France over the last [...]
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By Stephen Lendman | [print_link] As if on cue, major media reports hailed “the Comeback Kid.” In Obama’s December 22 press conference, Reuters’ Caren Bohan asked: “You racked up a lot of wins in the last few weeks that a lot of people thought would be difficult to come by. Are you ready to call [...]
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Part II concludes an assessment of Obama’s year two. Lessons from the Gulf The aftermath of last April’s Deepwater Horizon disaster left Big Oil again triumphant, thanks to the Obama administration’s close industry ties, conspiring with BP in the greatest ever environmental crime. At the time, Public Citizen’s Tyson Slocum said BP has “the worst [...]
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By ALAN WOLFE Book Reviews: HOLY IGNORANCE When Religion and Culture Part Ways / By Olivier Roy Translated by Ros Schwartz.259 pp. Columbia University Press. $27.50 Every winter Fox News, seeking to stir up anger through the land, uncovers evidence of a war on Christmas. Secular humanists ignorant of religion and hostile to its traditions, someone [...]
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