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Saturday 02 April 2011

Return to Wisconsin: The Beginning or the End?
Andy Kroll, TomDispatch: "In the February weeks I spent in snowy Madison, Wisconsin, that line of Didion's, the opening of her 1967 essay 'Goodbye to All That,' ricocheted through my mind as I tried to make sense of the massive protests unfolding around me. What was I witnessing? The beginning of a new movement in this country - or the end of an existing one, the last stand of organized labor? Or could it have been both?"
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Sky-High Oil Prices Here to Stay
Aprille Muscara, Inter Press Service: "As the Arab world continues to pitch and heave with flashes of popular uprisings here and sparks of brutal crackdowns there, analysts are painting a grim picture of the regional unrest's economic consequences, predicting the persistence of high oil prices in the coming years… Rising oil demand from economies climbing slowly out of the global financial crisis and emerging markets growing rapidly pushed prices to 90 dollars per barrel by December 2010."
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Paul Krugman | Extensive Outsourcing Leads to Trouble
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "There's a new article in the March/April edition of the Washington Monthly making the point that the United States needs federal bureaucrats to manage spending, including spending on private contractors, and that understaffing the government - which we're doing already, and will do more of if the right gets its way - actually increases the deficit. I agree. 'In practice, cutting civil servants often means either adding private contractors or ... resorting to the belief that industries have a deep capacity to police themselves,' John Gravois writes."
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