Europe Points the Way to a Better World

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Thursday March 29, 2007 · 6:28 AM PDT

2007/03/29 · 06:28

Joseph Stiglitz argues that, despite all the flaws, the European Union represents a tremendous success story that could serve as a model of democracy, human rights, sustainable prosperity with social justice, and peaceful conflict resolution for other societies to follow:

Project Syndicate: Europe's Success Points the Way to Better World

. . . the European project has been an enormous success, not only for Europe, but also for the world. . . .

. . . the driving motivation of the EU's founders was long-lasting peace. Economic integration, it was hoped, would lead to greater understanding, underpinned by the myriad interactions that inevitably flow from commerce. Increased interdependence would make conflict unthinkable.

The EU has realized that dream. Nowhere in the world do neighbors live together more peacefully, and people move more freely and with greater security, than in Europe, owing in part to a new European identity that is not bound to national citizenship.

This stands as an example that the world should emulate - one of shared rights and responsibilities, including the obligation to help the less fortunate. . . .

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Tuesday October 18, 2005 · 6:33 PM PDT

2005/10/18 · 18:33

Cross-posted at MyDD and Booman Tribune

Right-wing theorists have a strategy for dealing with the impending conservative crack-up, from Iraq to the economy - blame it all on the Bush administration:

The neocons develop an exit strategy -- a political one

President George W. Bush may have no military exit strategy for Iraq, but the "neocons" who convinced him to go to war there have developed one of their own -- a political one: Blame the Administration.
Their neo-Wilsonian theory is correct, they insist, but the execution was botched by a Bush team that has turned out to be incompetent, crony-filled, corrupt, unimaginative and weak over a wide range of issues.

We cannot let them get away with this. Read More

With Friends Like These . . .

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Saturday May 28, 2005 · 10:40 PM PDT

2005/05/28 · 22:40

Just another installment in that long-running series "The Mystery of the Self-Loathing Liberal."

Ruy Teixeira has a new post up on Donkey Rising where he takes liberals to task for being boring on education:

Democrats have not benefitted more from education issues because they have had little new and exciting to say to voters about these issues. Instead, they have repeated the same old tired refrain ("more money!"), which has just reinforced voter stereotypes about Democrats and certainly hasn't made make them look like the party of reform and change.

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Tuesday April 26, 2005 · 2:46 AM PDT

2005/04/26 · 02:46

It is a well-known fact that the United States has the highest level of economic inequality of any developed country.

When faced with this reality, Conservatives will typically argue that in a country like the United States, economic inequality doesn't matter, because economic mobility is high here. People in the United States can more easily move upward in the income distribution compared to other advanced countries.

Well, a report just put out by Britain's Sutton Trust and the London School of Economics effectively punctures this myth of American economic mobility.
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What Kind of Foreign Policy Do Americans Want?

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Tuesday January 25, 2005 · 11:42 PM PST

2005/01/25 · 23:42

Much has been made of the Democrats' supposed inability to formulate a foreign policy vision that resonates with the American people. It's surprising, then, that what most Americans, both Democrats and Republicans, seem to want in a foreign policy is far closer to liberal Democratic positions than conservative Republican ones.

Over at Donkey Rising, Ruy Teixiera has an important post about the recent report "Opportunities for Bipartisan Consensus: What Both Republicans and Democrats Want in US Foreign Policy," published by The Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA). Read More

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