The Comment Factory » Andrew Crook http://www.thecommentfactory.com Join And Start Writing Today! Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:52:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Down Under ideas don’t hold up http://www.thecommentfactory.com/down-under-ideas-dont-hold-up-1950/ http://www.thecommentfactory.com/down-under-ideas-dont-hold-up-1950/#comments Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:17:07 +0000 Andrew Crook http://www.thecommentfactory.com/?p=1950
  • As the global recession takes hold, the Left needs to get its house in order All over the world people are losing jobs and protesters are fighting back. But the Left needs to be in shape to combat the allure of the far-right in these...
  • The center-left has failed to capitalize on the financial crisis The global left needs to imagine a radical new regulatory framework with actual meaning in response to the current financial crisis. So far this hasn't happened, and it requires a...
  • G20 was trying to use the causes of the economic crisis to fix it The G20 was apparently conceived by Bush in concert with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, but its prescriptions are old and failed exercizes in neoliberal orthodoxy. ...
    • ]]>     http://www.thecommentfactory.com/down-under-ideas-dont-hold-up-1950/feed/ 1     As the global recession takes hold, the Left needs to get its house in order http://www.thecommentfactory.com/as-the-global-recession-takes-hold-the-left-needs-to-get-its-house-in-order-1713/ http://www.thecommentfactory.com/as-the-global-recession-takes-hold-the-left-needs-to-get-its-house-in-order-1713/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:13:11 +0000 Andrew Crook http://www.thecommentfactory.com/?p=1713
  • Down Under ideas don’t hold up Neither governments, nor old-style social movements, have the political or economic tools to deal with this current crisis. Global neoliberalism's iron cage has been bent out of shape, but it...
  • The Israeli Left has to get its house in order With the rise of the new reactionary government of Netanyahu and Lieberman, it is time for the Israeli Left to make themselves a serious alternative again...
  • Canadian youth and workers need to join forces to combat recession Johan Boyden reports...
    • ]]>     http://www.thecommentfactory.com/as-the-global-recession-takes-hold-the-left-needs-to-get-its-house-in-order-1713/feed/ 0     The end of the Patrick Bateman era http://www.thecommentfactory.com/the-end-of-the-patrick-bateman-era-1618/ http://www.thecommentfactory.com/the-end-of-the-patrick-bateman-era-1618/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:04:21 +0000 Andrew Crook http://www.thecommentfactory.com/?p=1618
  • New responsibilities for mining companies The industry-wide obsession with ‘sustainability’ and CSR started around the turn of the millennium as mining companies started to feel the effects of their bad reputation in their ability to...
  • Deciphering Obama’s smoke and mirrors in Copenhagen Meanwhile, the call to "mobilize" 100 billion dollars in climate financing by 2020 is vapor. As Hugo Chavez said, "If the climate were one of the biggest capitalist banks, the...
  • The Hidden Hunger: We need to invest in every human and create real foundations for cooperation The economic crisis was the result of unrestrained financial markets and a haywire capitalism that is anti-human. To get the best out of humanity we need to build up cooperation...
    • ]]>     http://www.thecommentfactory.com/the-end-of-the-patrick-bateman-era-1618/feed/ 0     G20 was trying to use the causes of the economic crisis to fix it http://www.thecommentfactory.com/g20-was-trying-to-use-the-causes-of-the-economic-crisis-to-fix-it-601/ http://www.thecommentfactory.com/g20-was-trying-to-use-the-causes-of-the-economic-crisis-to-fix-it-601/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:15:51 +0000 Andrew Crook http://www.thecommentfactory.com/?p=601
  • The center-left has failed to capitalize on the financial crisis The global left needs to imagine a radical new regulatory framework with actual meaning in response to the current financial crisis. So far this hasn't happened, and it requires a...
  • The Left failed to capitalize on the economic crisis We fluffed it, boys and girls. It has been obvious for some time that a fundamental crisis of social democracy was brewing, and that this was going to be deeper...
  • In the economic crisis we have to think about surviving rather than ‘living’ Reiner Kjell Hansen thinks about how he will have to adapt in his Canadian outpost to the global economic crisis....
    • ]]>     http://www.thecommentfactory.com/g20-was-trying-to-use-the-causes-of-the-economic-crisis-to-fix-it-601/feed/ 4     Obama’s hands will be tied http://www.thecommentfactory.com/obamas-hands-will-be-tied-400/ http://www.thecommentfactory.com/obamas-hands-will-be-tied-400/#comments Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:49:14 +0000 Andrew Crook http://www.thecommentfactory.com/?p=400
  • Hired Hands: Obama, Gaza, and MPs expenses We do not live in a totalitarian society - the public potentially has enormous power to interfere. The goal, then, is to persuade the public that corporate-sponsored political choice is...
  • Barack Obama’s inauguration and the relaunching of American progressivism Simon Hall takes a look at inauguration speeches through history and hopes this time around Barack Obama will be relaunching American progressivism. ...
  • Barack Obama is the perfect ‘black candidate’ for the liberal establishment Barack Obama is the perfect black candidate for the liberal establishment because he tows the line on all matters of race, poverty, and the black experience in the U.S. When...
    • ]]>     http://www.thecommentfactory.com/obamas-hands-will-be-tied-400/feed/ 1     Business journalists need to look at the roots, not the tree http://www.thecommentfactory.com/business-journalists-need-to-look-at-the-roots-not-the-tree-279/ http://www.thecommentfactory.com/business-journalists-need-to-look-at-the-roots-not-the-tree-279/#comments Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:56:30 +0000 Andrew Crook http://thecommentfactory.com/?p=279
  • Journalists still have way to go embracing social media Social media offers everything the authors suggest in terms of disseminating news, finding story ideas and sources, monitoring sentiments and discussions, researching individuals and organisations, and keeping up on topics...
  • Documentary tells story of Burma’s undercover journalists This year, a documentary film that portrays the plight of these audacious undercover journalists is in the running for an Oscar as Best Documentary Feature. Burma VJ, directed by the...
  • Police brutality at G20: The revenge of the citizen journalists A combination of aggressive, violent policing, and a complicit press, sees that the curtailment of civil liberties and stifling of freedom of speech goes unchecked...
    • ]]>     http://www.thecommentfactory.com/business-journalists-need-to-look-at-the-roots-not-the-tree-279/feed/ 2     The center-left has failed to capitalize on the financial crisis http://www.thecommentfactory.com/the-center-left-has-failed-to-capitalize-on-the-financial-crisis-153/ http://www.thecommentfactory.com/the-center-left-has-failed-to-capitalize-on-the-financial-crisis-153/#comments Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:03:18 +0000 Andrew Crook http://thecommentfactory.com/?p=153
  • The Left failed to capitalize on the economic crisis We fluffed it, boys and girls. It has been obvious for some time that a fundamental crisis of social democracy was brewing, and that this was going to be deeper...
  • Epochal nature of financial crisis must be grasped by unions The truly epochal nature of this crisis needs to be registered before a proportionate response can be mustered, and I have the sinking feeling that as far as the labour...
  • G20 was trying to use the causes of the economic crisis to fix it The G20 was apparently conceived by Bush in concert with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, but its prescriptions are old and failed exercizes in neoliberal orthodoxy. ...
    • ]]>     http://www.thecommentfactory.com/the-center-left-has-failed-to-capitalize-on-the-financial-crisis-153/feed/ 1     Back to basics, please http://www.thecommentfactory.com/back-to-basics-please-56/ http://www.thecommentfactory.com/back-to-basics-please-56/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:26:33 +0000 Andrew Crook http://thecommentfactory.com/?p=56
  • The Palin Effect A look at the reaction amongst real Americans to the Republican National Convention and the speeches of McCain and Palin....
  • The further demise of Christopher Hitchens Christopher Hitchens has endorsed Barack Obama for president because he thinks Sarah Palin is a religious fanatic. But didn't he vote for George W. Bush in 2004? ...
  • The Palin sideshow: a dangerous liability Sarah Palin is not ready to be vice-president; in fact, it's hard to think what she is ready for. But her continued presence in U.S. national discourse is distracting people...
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