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Marshall Plan

A Long Twilight Struggle: America's Role in an Age of Terror

Linda R. Monk, J.D. | Posted 01.01.2010 | World

Read More: Politics, Muslim, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Terrorism, Al Qaeda, Marshall Plan, Lawrence Wright, Looming Tower, World War II, World News
Linda R. Monk, J.D.

Kennedy's phrasing is often used to describe the Cold War with communism, but I think his "twilight struggle" referred to the human condition itself.

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U.S. Fears $53 Billion Spent On Reconstruction In Iraq Will Go To Waste

nytimes.com | TIMOTHY WILLIAMS | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq Reconstruction, Stuart W. Bowen Jr., Marshall Plan, Iraq War, Gao, Iraq, Reconstruction, Nouri Al Maliki, Government Accountability Office, Politics News

In its largest reconstruction effort since the Marshall Plan, the United States government has spent $53 billion for relief and reconstruction in Iraq...

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Imagine if the Today's Right-Wing Were Around for Nuremberg

Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama-Bows-to-Japanese-Emperor, Right Wing Media, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Nuremberg Trials, Marshall Plan, Rush Limbaugh, Demagogue, George W. Bush, Bow-Gate, King Abdullah, Right Wing, Glenn Beck, Ksm, Bill O'Reilly, Barack Obama, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

The right-wing radicals, unanimous in their agreement that KSM should not be tried in the U.S. courts, aren't just crazy, they're un-American. We don't take people out and shoot them without trials.

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On Julie & Julia, the Fake Movieland France and My Non-Buttery Menu

Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: M.F.K. Fisher, Food Recipes, Lamb, Julie and Julia, France, Paris, French Women, Moroccan, June Platt, Javier Domingo, Marshall Plan, Menu, Cooking, Le Cordon Bleu, Julia Child, Julie Powell, Entertainment News
Barbara Probst Solomon

This past weekend, I was dumbfounded at the movie vision of a 1948 Paris resplendent with sumptuous food portrayed in Julie & Julia. That year much of Europe was suffering from starvation.

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The Italian Job: What the 2009 G8 Summit Must Deliver on Health and Aid for Africa

World Vision | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

Read More: Italy, Foreign Aid, G8, Un, Africa, Health, Millenium Development Goal, Marshall Plan, World Bank, g20, G-20, World News
World Vision

While non-G8 donors are responsible for a quarter of the total African aid increase since 2005, and are delivering on their side of the deal, aid from the G8 countries has actually fallen.

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The Academic Man's Burden

Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 10.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Poverty, Africa, Jeffrey Sachs, Business School, Marshall Plan, Bill Easterly, Economics, Economy, Subsaharan Africa, Bretton Woods, Paul Collier, United Nations, League of Nations, Academia, Politics News
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort

Academics are laggards, eternal followers that lack the ability to innovate and continue to inhabit a world of quantitative models oftentimes not descriptive of today's reality.

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Sachsterly

Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 10.04.2009 | World

Read More: Jeffrey Sachs, Poverty, Economics, John Maynard Keynes, Marshall Plan, Microfinance, Bill Easterly, Global Poverty, Dambisa Moyo, World News
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort

The rescue of the bottom billion is only a reality if Mr. Sachs and Mr. Easterly put their outstanding intellectual skills to work instead of trying to win a debate that academics will perpetuate so long as they exist.

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The Annan Plan

Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 10.04.2009 | World

Read More: Marshall Plan, Africa, President Truman, Central Banks, Kofi Annan, Multilateralism, Soviet Union, World News
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort

A Marshall Plan for Africa would fight and stop the expansion of heartless capitalism in Subsaharan Africa and increase agricultural output beyond pre-independence levels.

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Challenging Conventional Wisdom

Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, International Trade, Marshall Plan, Drug War, Globalization, Free Trade, Manufacturing, Protectionism, Afghanistan War, Afghanistan, Hanoi-Vietnam, Vietnam, Mexico, Iraq, Politics News
Sen. Fritz Hollings

I don't think we'll ever teach Afghan warlords to like democracy and grow cotton instead of poppies.

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Why Countries Like Haiti Matter to the Well-Being of Everyday Americans

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.15.2009 | World

Read More: Environmental Degradation, Poverty, Marshall Plan, Illegal Drugs, Third World, Deforestation, Jean Bertrand Aristide, Breaking News, Immigration, International Security, Development, Un, International Republican Institute, Economic Development, Haiti, Barack Obama, World News
Robert Creamer

The world economy is not a zero sum game. For us to be richer, someone else doesn't have to be poorer. In fact just the opposite is true.

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The Future of Bush's Past

Stuart Blumin | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Herbert Hoover, Healthcare System, Karl Rove, Carbon Emissions, Harry Truman, George W. Bush, Environmentalism, Passing the Buck, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, History, Environmental Protection Agency, Environment and Government, Marshall Plan, Middle East, Nato, Environment, Department of Justice, Health Care System, Health Care, Politics News
Stuart Blumin

History will identify the Bush-Cheney administration as the last holdout of the Age of Carbon, using its crucial eight years to block every effort to end the reign of fossil fuels.

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Trillions and Quadrillions

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 02.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Marshall Plan, Manhattan Project, Economy, Peak Oil, Warren Buffett, Bernard Madoff, Global Warming, Apollo Project, Business News
Patrick Takahashi

The world needs to spend $45 trillion to halve planet-warming carbon dioxide by 2050.It's hard to focus on global warming when oil is selling for $40 a barrel and it is freezing outside.

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Marshall Plan Lessons for Iraq

Nicolaus Mills | Posted 02.06.2009 | Home

Read More: Iraq, Marshall Plan, Foreign Policy, Home News
Nicolaus Mills

MARSHALL PLAN LESSONS FOR IRAQ By Nicolaus Mills A soon-to-be-released government study of the American-led reconstruction of Iraq, which President ...

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A Marshall Plan for Education to Restore America's Prestige in the World

Stephen Shames | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Educational Opportunities, Education, Marshall Plan, Harry Truman, Africa, Education Reform, Schools, Teaching, Politics News
Stephen Shames

The financial crisis has taught us that in today's global economy, America's fortunes are inseparable from Main Streets of other countries. Today's flat world will rise or fall as one.

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List Of Government Expenditures That Cost Less Than Credit Crisis Bailout

The Big Picture | Barry Ritholtz | Posted 12.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Government Bailout, Credit Crisis Bailout, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Credit Crisis, Bailout Biggest Government Expenditure in History, Marshall Plan, Louisiana Purchase, Business News

Whenever I discussed the current bailout situation with people, I find they have a hard time comprehending the actual numbers involved. That became a ...

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Billions and Trillions Revisited

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 11.14.2008 | Green

Read More: Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, Marshall Plan, Manhattan Project, Economy, Global Warming, Apollo Project, Billions and Trillions, Green News
Patrick Takahashi

The average annual U.S. Department of Energy renewable energy budget over the past decade has been less than $1 billion a year.

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Whoops, We Might Be On the Verge Of Economic Calamity

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Peak Oil, Marshall Plan, Manhattan Project, Global Warming, Economy, Apollo Project, Crude Oil Prices, Bailout, Crude Oil, Congressional Bailout, Henry Paulson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Great Depression, Politics News
Patrick Takahashi

Do you get a sense that we are beginning to lose control?

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Stop Dreaming Joe Biden and Democrats and Do the Right Thing

Joe Lauria | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Europe, US Military, Dreams, Marshall Plan, Cia, Georgia, Russia, Militarism, Joe Biden, Permanent Bases, Barack Obama, Democratic Convention, Joe Biden Convention, Joe Biden Convention Speech, Politics News
Joe Lauria

Europe has had public health care, free universities and a greener economy for decades now. But in America we still dream of such things. Joe Biden couldn't stay away from the word.

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Today's Wonderful News for Planet Earth

Bob Ostertag | Posted 08.07.2008 | Green

Read More: Green News, Peak Oil, Renewable Energy, Marshall Plan, Green Energy, Global Warming, Gore Plan, Climate Change, Green News
Bob Ostertag

Gas went up to $4 a gallon and Americans cut out nearly 10 billion miles of driving in one month. This is real, measurable, verified data that shows that we can solve the climate crisis.

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Billions and Trillions

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 08.06.2008 | Green

Read More: Marshall Plan, Manhattan Project, Peak Oil, Renewable Energy, Pickens Plan, Green Energy, Global Warming, FREE Green Energy Age, Apollo Project, Gore Plan, Green News
Patrick Takahashi

Laid end to end, a billion one dollar bills would circle the globe at the equator four times. How far does a sum of one billion dollars go these days?

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