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Occupy’s Banking Instincts

by WS Editors | Jul 15, 2012 | Economy

Occupy Wall Street is gone from Zuccotti Park and most public spaces, yet the protest movement that came to life last September is still alive, often working in small, focused groups. In May, I contacted Cathy O’Neil, who facilitates one of two OWS Alternative Banking groups that meet weekly in New York. “We just submitted an […]

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The Fissures in Modern Iraq

by Deborah Horan | Jul 1, 2012 | Foreign Policy, Politics

Suicide bombings have dominated recent news reports from Iraq, but reporters have paid less attention to explosive political and sectarian forces that threaten to tear the country apart. Since the last U.S. combat troops left Iraq in December, rival members of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s governing coalition have been maneuvering to replace him. Removing a […]

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The Center Cannot Hold

by WS Editors | Jul 1, 2012 | Foreign Policy

Former diplomat Peter Galbraith might have compromised his integrity by investing in oil ventures in Kurdistan and writing about Iraq without revealing that he was advising the Kurds at the same time. He was prescient, however, in The New York Review of Books in 2004. He wrote: In my view, Iraq is not salvageable as […]

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Romney’s Anti-Muslim Arab

by WS Editors | Jul 1, 2012 | Foreign Policy, Politics

Walid Phares is an odd member of Romney’s foreign policy team. The Lebanese-born Christian teaches at the National Defense University. During the 1970s and ’80s, Phares was the leader of a Christian militia in Lebanon. He founded a small Christian political party (according to the Institute for Policy Studies’ Right Web blog) and subsequently threw […]

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The Romney Doctrine: Russian Enemies, Military Might, and Very Familiar Faces

by WS Editors | Jul 1, 2012 | Politics

The last time Mitt Romney ran for president, his foreign policy positions seemed cautious and contrived, in particular when compared to John McCain’s visceral support of intervention, hegemony, and big military budgets. Speaking at a Council on Foreign Relations conference in 2008, McCain advisor Max Boot ridiculed Romney’s ambivalence on Iraq. “Mitt Romney can claim […]

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Bad Faith Documentary

Bad Faith

“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns

Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones

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“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024”Variety

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