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- What I would Change About the World: Democratize International Institutions, democratize election and media funding
- Current Project: Bachelors in International Development Studies
- Influences/Heroes: Noam Chomsky, Dean Baker, Ha-Joon Chang, Michael Albert, Mark Weisbrot, William Tabb, Thich Nhat Hahn, MLK Jr
- Political Bent: Participatory Economics/Social Anarchist
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- peterzylstramoore voted up WikiLeaks Cables Reveal "Secret History" of U.S. Bullying in Haiti at Oil Companies’ Behest 1 year ago
The Nation magazine, in partnership with the Haitian weekly newspaper, Haïti Liberté, has launched a series of reports based on more than 19,000 classified U.S. diplomatic cables... more
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- peterzylstramoore voted up WikiLeaks Documents Reveal U.S. Knowingly Imprisoned 150 Innocent Men At Guantánamo 2 years ago
The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has begun releasing thousands of secret documents from the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay that reveal the Bush and Obama administrations... more
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- peterzylstramoore voted up "The People's Budget" 2 years ago
Robert Pollin discusses the Congressional Progressive Caucus budget proposal. Bio Robert Pollin is Professor of Economics and founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute... more
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- peterzylstramoore voted up S & P Debt Warning Sends Stocks Tumbling 2 years ago
Standard and Poor's debt warning to the United States took it's toll on Wall Street Monday, as stocks dropped more than 1 percent by the closing bell. The credit agency downgraded U.S.... more
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- peterzylstramoore voted up Solving the Deficit: Interactive Calculator allows you to see how different choices affect the deficit in the US 2 years ago
The CEPR Deficit Calculator There is considerable concern that the debt burden that United States will face by the end of the next decade will place serious strains on the government and the... more
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- peterzylstramoore posted Solving the Deficit: Interactive Calculator allows you to see how different choices affect the deficit in the US to Community 2 years ago
The CEPR Deficit Calculator There is considerable concern that the debt burden that United States will face by the end of the next decade will place serious strains on the government and the... more
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- peterzylstramoore voted up Response to the S&P Warning on US Bond Rating 2 years ago
WEISBROT: I think it's kind of ridiculous. First of all, I'm not sure why people would take S&P seriously. After the hearings, congressional hearings that they had after the... more
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- peterzylstramoore posted Response to the S&P Warning on US Bond Rating to Community 2 years ago
WEISBROT: I think it's kind of ridiculous. First of all, I'm not sure why people would take S&P seriously. After the hearings, congressional hearings that they had after the... more
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- peterzylstramoore voted up Is "Three Cups of Tea" Writer Greg Mortenson a Fraud? 2 years ago
NEW YORK – A bombshell 60 Minutes report has left the writer’s Three Cups of Tea memoir—which earned him millions and made him a humanitarian folk hero—in tatters. Lloyd... more
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- peterzylstramoore commented on Is "Three Cups of Tea" Writer Greg Mortenson a Fraud? 2 years ago
We need to be careful not to over-react in the sense that a lot of charitable organizations do a lot of good in different parts of the world. It is a good indicator of the need for regulation... more
