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Occupy Oakland demonstrators shield themselves from an exploding tear gas grenade during a confrontation with the police near the Oakland Museum of California in Oakland, California January 28, 2012.

Police fired tear gas at hundreds of Occupy Oakland protesters who tried to take over a shuttered convention center on Saturday, arresting 19 people in the latest clash between anti-Wall Street activists and authorities in the California city. [REUTERS/Stephen Lam]

Read more: Police fire tear gas at Oakland protesters, 19 arrested

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Romare Bearden, Tenor Sermon, 1979

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With a brain trust like this, a lost decade for America looks likely – unless the citizenry can steer a different course.

January 22, 2012

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The American Economic Association’s annual meetings are a scary sight, with thousands of economists all gathered in the same place – a veritable weapon of mass destruction. Chicago was the lucky city for 2012 this past weekend, and I had just finished participating in an interesting panel on “the economics of regime change”, when I stumbled over to see what the big budget experts had to say about “the political economy of the US debt and deficits”.

The session was introduced by UC Berkeley economist Alan Auerbach, who put up a graph of the United States’ rising debt-to-GDP ratio, and warned of dire consequences if Congress didn’t do something about it. Yawn.

But the panelists got off to a good start, with Alan Blinder of Princeton, former vice-chairman of the US Federal Reserve, describing the public discussion of the US national debt as generally ranging from “ludicrous to horrific”. True, that. He asked and answered four questions.

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 NB: The holder of the reserve currency, which is being paid (negative real interest rates) to hold other countries’ debt cannot end up like Greece.

Artist Rashad Alakbarov uses suspended translucent objects and other found materials to create light and shadow paintings on walls. (via)

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Kika Thorne, Rips and holes, photocopy, holepunch, tears and crease, 2010 Drawing of light bending by the scientist James Clerk Maxwell, image research: Alex Muir. Artist of the day: Kika Thorne

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Hunter S. Thompson

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 Vitaly S. AlexiusBrain Storm, 2006

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Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of male and female being, refusing to privilege one over the other. The soul of feminist politics is the commitment to ending patriarchal domination of women and men, girls and boys. Love cannot exist in any relationship that is based on domination and coercion. Males cannot love themselves in patriarchal culture if their very self-definition relies on submission to patriarchal rules. When men embrace feminist thinking and practice, which emphasizes the value of mutual growth and self-actualization in all relationships, their emotional well-being will be enhanced. A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving.
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In November 1944, four female Italian anti-Fascist fighters relax as they await orders from their commander during their effort in support of Allied troops on the Castelluccio front.