Green New Deal

We Need a Green New Deal

Marcy Winograd | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Boeing, San Pedro Post Office, Unemployment, Aerospace, San Pedro, Green Jobs, Wpa, The New Deal, Green New Deal, Jobs, Roosevelt, Los Angeles News
Marcy Winograd

We need a Green New Deal that would fund jobs to develop renewables in solar and wind, and build light rail in all the major metropolitan areas, particularly sprawling Los Angeles.

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Obama Must Tame Finance at G-20 Summit: Here's How

Ann Pettifor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Debt, G20 Summit, Bank Lending, Deflation, Bailout, Financial Sector, Lending, Financiers, President Obama, Green New Deal, Aig, Monopolisation, Economic Recovery, Pittsburgh, g20, Business News
Ann Pettifor

We are in the middle of a monumental political conflict with very high stakes. On one side: politicians and regulators battling for the interests of middle-class Americans. On the other: the banks.

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Suffering in El Centro: Cigars in Sacramento

Ann Pettifor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Budget Crisis, Deficit, State Budgets, Unemployment, Budget Cuts, Green New Deal, Economic Stimulus, Sales Tax, Business News
Ann Pettifor

California's economy is in free fall. This appears to be of little concern to Governor Schwarzenegger, who instead prefers to focus his energy, attention and political capital on the ballooning state budget.

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We Need a Green New Deal

Norman Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreclosures, Green New Deal, Social Justice, President Obama, Carbon Emissions, New Deal, Iraq, Democrats, Ice Caps, Economic Equity, Arctic, Environment, Afghanistan, Republicans, Global Warming, Senate, Green News
Norman Solomon

Seventy-five years after the start of the New Deal, and nearly 40 years after the first Earth Day, the need for basic change on behalf of social justice and ecology is clear.

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America: The Bank-Owned State

Ann Pettifor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tarp, Goldman Sachs, Labor, State-Owned-Enterprises, Bail Out, Wall Street, Abraham Lincoln, Green New Deal, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, Business News
Ann Pettifor

The US administration has itself been hijacked, and America is now, effectively, a Bank-Owned State. Democracy has been usurped by what Abraham Lincoln called 'the Money Power'.

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Public Pressure Made A Difference At The G20 - Here's Why

Paul Hilder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green New Deal, Pressure, Avaaz, Unions, Green Hard Hats, Green Recovery, g20, Gordon Brown, Sarkozy, Hu Jintao, Merkel, Obama, London Summit, London-United Kingdom, United Kingdom, World News
Paul Hilder

It's far from time to go home and chill in satisfaction. But unprecedented processes have been put in motion to fix global finance.

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UN's Green New Deal: Rich Should Work On Energy, Poor On Water

AFP | 16 Hours Ago | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green New Deal, Water, Water Crisis, Green Energy, Un, Green Economy, Green Politics, Green News

The United Nations called Monday on rich nations to forge a "Global Green New Deal" that puts the environment, climate change and poverty reduction at...

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"Green New Deal" For South Korea: $38.1 Billion

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea said Tuesday it will invest 50 trillion won ($38.1 billion) over the next four years on environmental projects ...

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Ban Ki-moon: We Need A Green New Deal

The Independent | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Climate Change Conference, Ban Ki-Moon Poznan, Ban Ki-Moon, Climate Change, United Nations, European Union, Green Growth, Green New Deal, Ban Ki-Moon Climate Change, Ban Ki-Moon Green New Deal, Ban Ki-Moon Economic Crisis, World News

Together, we face two crises: climate change and the global economy. But these crises present us with a great opportunity - an opportunity to address ...

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Yes We Did! But There Is a Lot More to Do

Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Heck of a Job, Bill Clinton, Fema, Van Jones, Ronald Reagan, John Boehner, George W. Bush, Senate Races, Palin Pro-American Areas, Green New Deal, Real Americans, Jeremiah Wright, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, House Races, Mark Begich, Voter Turnout, Bill Ayers, Brownie, Jimmy Carter, Jeff Merkley, Joe Lieberman, Obama African American, Hurricane Katrina, President Obama, Obama Election Day, HuffPost Election Analysis, Election Day, Sarah Palin, HuffPost Election Reaction, Obama Presidency, Obama President, Election Analysis, John McCain, Obama Wins, Election Day 2008, Joe Biden, Election Results, Election, Presidential Results, Election Reaction, Presidential Election, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

Obama has not hit a home run; he has merely earned the right to step into the batter's box.

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A Green New Deal Would Require A Broad Coalition

The Nation | Van Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Green New Deal, Green Bailout, Green Collar Jobs, Green Jobs, New Deal, Economy, Environment, Green Economy, Van Jones, Fdr, Green News

In the New Deal period, it was a broad electoral coalition that moved the government onto the side of ordinary people, not FDR alone. Farmers, workers...

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White House Whistle-Blower Reveals Bush Admin's Environmental Foibles

New York Times | Felicity Barringer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green New Deal, Cdc, Global Warming, Clean Air Act, Climate Change, Dick Cheney, Environment, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Whistle-Blowers, Cheney Global Warming, Epa, Bush Global Warming, Cheney Cover-Up, EPA Testimony, Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, G8 Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Green News

Jason K. Burnett, Washington's environmental whistle-blower du jour, is an example of a once rare, now almost common, phenomenon: a political appointe...

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Remember Global Warming? That's Okay, Most People Apparently Don't, Either

Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: G8 Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hurricanes, Van Jones, Cheney Global Warming, Bush Global Warming, Epa, Al Gore Nobel Prize, Green New Deal, Climate Change, An Inconvenient Truth, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Claire McCaskill, Carly Fiorina, Global Warming, Clean Air Act, 2008 Presidential Election, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

What has the public reaction to the Bush administration's decision to pass the buck on global warming for a year (a year we may not be able to spare) been? Vast silence.

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