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 African-American issues, Barack Obama, Climate Change, Development and Growth, Economy, Environment, Films, Gay and Lesbian Rights, Media, Natural Gas/"Fracking", Sustainability  No Responses »
Dec 042012
THE HEADLINES

  BLACK EMANCIPATION: LINCOLN’S HORSE-TRADING OR FREDERICK DOUGLAS’S STRUGGLE?   Louis Proyect deconstructs the message behind the Stephen Spielberg movie “Lincoln” based on a screenplay by Tony Kushner. While ostensibly about the 16th U.S. President, the Kushner/Spielberg effort seems more like an indirect ode to the present one, depicting Lincoln as, like Obama,  a wheeler-dealer [...]

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The Fiscal Politics of Abraham Lincoln

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Feb 112011
The Fiscal Politics of Abraham Lincoln

As off-the-wall as it may seem, Republicans in Congress and their conservative base are waging a rhetorical war against an “insidious” policy to “debase our currency” that was first initiated by…President Abraham Lincoln. You see, our 16th president was also the first to issue paper currency backed solely by the federal government, not gold or [...]

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