Paul Jay

From Joe McCarthy to Glenn Beck -- Time to End Fear of the Witch Hunt

Paul Jay | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paul Jay, Obama, Glenn Beck, Mark Twain, The Real News, Joseph McCarthy, Barack Obama, Politics News

To right the American ship, we must jettison the ghosts of the cold war, confront all the babble about God and country, and openly talk about what modern socialist and democratic public policy might actuallylook like.

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Alliance With Warlords Makes War Strategy Hopeless

Paul Jay | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stanley McChrystal, Paul Jay, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, World News

There is no magic answer to Afghanistan. A good place to start would be to tell our leaders that projecting American power does not serve us, no matter how much oil, gas or minerals there may be.

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Why the Furor Over McChrystal?

Paul Jay | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stanley McChrystal, Paul Jay, The Real News, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Politics News

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Weekly Pulse: U.S. Social Forum Tackles Health Issues

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.S. Social Forum, Social Justice, Paul Abowd, Jamelle Bouie, Bayer Aspirin, RH Reality Check, Corporate Toxics Information Project, Exxonmobil, The Climate Desk, Ussf, Michael Ash, Birth Control Pill, The Real News Network, Oil Spill, Mother Jones, Gulf, Sustainability, Kathleen Reeves, Paul Jay, Dr. Donald Berwick, Washtenaw Reds, Healthcare Reform, In These Times, The Washington Independent, Detroit, Politics News

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Tens of thousands of progressive activists are converging on Detroit this week for the U.S. Social For...

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Afghans Must Embrace US Troops by Day, Taliban by Night

Paul Jay | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kandahar, Paul Jay, Kandahar-Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, World News

Mohammed Junaid, a research scholar of Pashtun decent, says the people of Kandahar are caught between the US army and Taliban; they will not support the US offensive.

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Canadian Gold Company Sues El Salvador for $100 Million

Paul Jay | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paul Jay, El Salvador, Real News, Canadian-Mint-Gold, Mining, Canada, World News

Sixty percent of the world's mining companies are registered in Canada, yet there is not a single Canadian law regulating their activities abroad.

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Weekly Audit: Congress Must Get Tough On Wall Street

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democracy Now!, The American Prospect, Tbtf, Lobbyists, Regulation, Jobs, Kevin Drum, Unemployment Rate, Kai Wright, Alternet, Wall Street Reform, Unemployment, Mother Jones, Paul Jay, Financial Crisis, Juan Gonzales, Wall Street, The Real News, Matt Taibbi, Stacy Mitchell, Lobbying, Financial Reform, Taibbi, YES! Magazine, Layoffs, Colorlines, Amy Goodmamn, William Black, Deregulation, Banks, Tim Fernholz, Too Big to Fail, Economy, Home News

by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger Congress returns from its April recess this week with financial reform at the top of its to-do list. With mil...

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'Let the Pitch Forks do their Job'

The Real News | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paul Jay, The Real News, Bernanke, Fed, Federal Reserve, Politics News

Andrew Cockburn, producer of American Casino Pt2: From Greenspan's "faulty ideology" to today's Fed. We need your support now more than ever. Help...

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Revolutionary Guard in Charge

The Real News | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paul Jay, Iran Revolutionary Guard, Babak Yektafar, The Real News, Iran Election, World News

Massive protests as Revolutionary Guard consolidates power, likely to expand economic control.

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Single-Payer Advocates Protest Senate Hearing

The Real News | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Socialized Medicine, Harvard University, Senate Finance Committee, US Senate, Health Care Reform, Paul Jay, Washington DC, Senator Baucus, Single Payer Healthcare, Health Insurance, The Real News, Health Care, Politics News

Opponents of a single-payer plan say Americans will never accept socialized medicine. But according to a 2008 poll, when Americans were asked what they thought of socialized medicine, 45 percent said it would be better.

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The American Way of War

The Real News | Posted 05.25.2011

The American Way of War is Eugene Jarecki's latest book. Jarecki is an award-winning dramatic and documentary filmmaker whose previous film Why We Fig...

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Meet the Man Trying To Change The Face of The American Media

Ben Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Horrified at the corporate media's acquiescence to the White House during 9/11 and the run up to the war in Iraq, Jay decided to set up his own organization, the Real News Network

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Iran Debates Obama Negotiations

The Real News | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nuclear Power, Hezbollah, Iran, Hamas, The Real News, Ahmadinejad, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Hilary Clinton, Kyl-Lieberman Amendment, Iran Revolutionary Guard, Washington, Paul Jay, Gareth Porter, Iran Negotiations, World News

Hours after returning from a fact-finding mission to Iran, Gareth Porter sat down with The Real News Network to discuss his findings. Gareth responds to recent Obama statements toward Iran.

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India-Pakistan Relations Stable

The Real News | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mumbai Attacks, Islam, India, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Terrorism, Pakistan, Kashmir, India-Pakistan, Violence in Mumbai, Army of the Righteous, Siddharth Varadarajan, Islamic Fundamentalists, Paul Jay, Lashkar-E-Toiba, Politics News

With the violence in Mumbai at an end, and the city beginning to return to normal, the question of response is moving to the front of the conversation.

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