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ZNet Article Popular protagonism becomes a mere slogan if people do not have the opportunity to make their opinions known and take decisions in areas where they participate: (geographic spaces, workplaces, educational establishments, interest groups). If the ... -
- Saturday, Mar 20, 2010
ZNet Article The China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA), went into effect on 1st of January this year. For China, the benefits are clear, but Southeast Asia will be paying a big price for a bad deal. -
- Friday, Mar 19, 2010
ZNet Article A reading of the CIA's latest report on "the world in 2025" supplies hardly any information that an ordinary observer of the global economy and politics would not have known. On the other hand, it allows us to better know the way the ruling class ... -
- Wednesday, Mar 17, 2010
ZNet Article The headlines about Greece's financial problems have provided a great backdrop to renewed attacks from the deficit hawks on Social Security and Medicare. Never mind that none of it really makes any sense. Not making sense is virtually a prerequisi... -
- Tuesday, Mar 16, 2010
ZNet Article In the last part of our interview about the global economic crisis with economist Robin Hahnel, the discussion moves onto how the left has and should react to it. -
- Sunday, Mar 14, 2010
Commentary Standing before an audience at the Brookings Institute on March 8, a day before meeting U.S. President Barak Obama, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou made the case that today’s European crisis involves American interests and that today there ... -
- Wednesday, Mar 10, 2010
Commentary What will it take? What are they waiting for? What part of the reality of a systemic crisis that will get worse don't they get? -
- Sunday, Mar 07, 2010
Video The current crisis has exacerbated the effects of neoliberalism and hugely increased inequality, with money going from labor to capital. -
- Friday, Mar 05, 2010
ZNet Article This is the second of a three-part interview about the global economic crisis. -
- Wednesday, Mar 03, 2010
ZNet Article Most projections now show that the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries will have extraordinarily high rates of unemployment for several years to come. While there are differences across countries, in most the unemploym... Commentary Everyone is discussing what Fortune magazine is calling the "Greek maelstrom" and everyone is pointing the finger at someone else. Whose fault is it? The Greek government is accused of cheating and allowing Greeks to live beyond their means. The E... -
- Sunday, Feb 28, 2010
ZNet Article Various political demagogues and Wall Street interests have mounted a campaign to convince Americans that despite persistent massive unemployment for the foreseeable future, more than 15 million people underwater on their home mortgages, and two u... -
- Friday, Feb 26, 2010
ZNet Article Robin Hahnel is Professor of Economics at American University. His most recent book is Economic Justice and Democracy. He is co-author with Michael Albert of The Political Economy of Participatory Economics. He was interviewed about the global eco... -
- Thursday, Feb 25, 2010
ZNet Article That is a question that members of Congress should be asking. The Humphrey Hawkins Full Employment Act, which governs the Fed's operation, requires the Fed to pursue price stability and full employment, which is defined as 4.0 percent unemployment... -
- Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010
Commentary Scrambling to stabilize the current Greek financial crisis inspectors from the European Commission, European Central Bank, and International Monetary Fund descended on Greece the eve of today's 24-hour general strike. It was the second such strike... -
- Sunday, Feb 21, 2010
Commentary A Review of "Lets Make Money", a film by Erwin Wagenhofer. Distributed by Bullfrog Films, 2008 -
- Thursday, Feb 18, 2010
ZNet Article The President of Argentina, Cristina Fernández, recently fired the head of the central bank, Martín Redrado, when he rejected the government's plan to use $6.6 billion of international reserves to pay off debt. -
- Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010
ZNet Article It has been more than three years since the housing bubble began to deflate. During this time, nationwide house prices have fallen by close to 30 percent, after adjusting for inflation. Millions of people have lost their homes and tens of millions... Commentary You know you're living in a chaotic situation when (1) the mainstream media are constantly surprised by what is happening; (2) short-term predictions by various pundits go in radically different directions and are stated with many reserves; (3) th... -
- Monday, Feb 15, 2010
ZNet Article The political establishment continues to be obsessed with the victory of Scott Brown in the Massachusetts Senate race. In fact, they are so obsessed they managed to almost completely overlook the success of two important tax initiatives in Oregon ... -
- Saturday, Feb 13, 2010
ZNet Article If we are to believe the G-7 finance ministers, Haiti is on its way to getting something it has deserved for a very long time: full "forgiveness" of its foreign debt. In Port-au-Prince, Haitian economist Camille Chalmers has been watching these de... -
- Tuesday, Feb 09, 2010
ZNet Article Two recent books on the future, both seeking to interpret selected aspects of a rapidly moving, technologically complex world, are each deeply flawed but well worth examining for what's missing. Video Asia and US crisis... ZNet Article The country faces a serious crisis in the form of a manufactured crisis over the budget deficit. This is a crisis because concerns over the size of the budget deficit are preventing the government from taking the steps needed to reduce the unemplo... -
- Monday, Feb 08, 2010
Commentary If freedom is defined by a state’s non-participation in economic processes, as the Heritage Foundation suggests, then Haiti today would win first prize, as after the earthquake, it has no government at all. -
- Friday, Feb 05, 2010
ZNet Article Jan. 21, 2010, will go down as a dark day in the history of U.S. democracy, and its decline. -
- Wednesday, Feb 03, 2010
ZNet Article Ever since Keynes wrote The General Theory in the 30s, economists have understood the mechanism for escaping the sort of slump the economy faced in the Great Depression. The key point was to generate demand. The government had to do something - an... -
- Saturday, Jan 30, 2010
ZNet Article One of the most important promises made by President Obama in his State of the Union address has been largely overlooked his promise to “crack down on violations of equal pay laws, so that women get equal pay for an equal day¹s work.” -
- Tuesday, Jan 26, 2010
ZNet Article The Senate's decision on approving Ben Bernanke for a second term as chair of the Federal Reserve Board is coming down to the wire and the Wall Street crew is once again pulling out all the stops. To get the 60 votes they need for Senate approval ... -
- Wednesday, Jan 20, 2010
ZNet Article President Obama proposed a tax on the country's largest banks to help recover the money lost under the TARP program. This tax is a positive step. However, it will not come close to recovering the losses incurred in the bailouts and it will do almo... - All Newest Economy
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ZNet Article Popular protagonism becomes a mere slogan if people do not have the opportunity to make their opinions known and take decisions in areas where they participate: (geographic spaces, workplaces, educational establishments, interest groups). If the ... -
- Saturday, Mar 20, 2010
ZNet Article The China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA), went into effect on 1st of January this year. For China, the benefits are clear, but Southeast Asia will be paying a big price for a bad deal. -
- Friday, Mar 19, 2010
ZNet Article A reading of the CIA's latest report on "the world in 2025" supplies hardly any information that an ordinary observer of the global economy and politics would not have known. On the other hand, it allows us to better know the way the ruling class ... -
- Tuesday, Mar 16, 2010
ZNet Article In the last part of our interview about the global economic crisis with economist Robin Hahnel, the discussion moves onto how the left has and should react to it. -
- Sunday, Mar 14, 2010
Commentary Standing before an audience at the Brookings Institute on March 8, a day before meeting U.S. President Barak Obama, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou made the case that today’s European crisis involves American interests and that today there ... -
- Wednesday, Mar 10, 2010
Commentary What will it take? What are they waiting for? What part of the reality of a systemic crisis that will get worse don't they get? -
- Friday, Mar 05, 2010
ZNet Article This is the second of a three-part interview about the global economic crisis. -
- Wednesday, Mar 03, 2010
ZNet Article Most projections now show that the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries will have extraordinarily high rates of unemployment for several years to come. While there are differences across countries, in most the unemploym... Commentary Everyone is discussing what Fortune magazine is calling the "Greek maelstrom" and everyone is pointing the finger at someone else. Whose fault is it? The Greek government is accused of cheating and allowing Greeks to live beyond their means. The E... -
- Friday, Feb 26, 2010
ZNet Article Robin Hahnel is Professor of Economics at American University. His most recent book is Economic Justice and Democracy. He is co-author with Michael Albert of The Political Economy of Participatory Economics. He was interviewed about the global eco... - All Featured ZNet Economy
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- Monday, Feb 01, 2010
ZMag Article A report from December's historic UN climate talks (COP15) ZMag Article Alternative vision articles on the economy, ecology, education, and mental health ZMag Article Militant education activism over budget cuts & tuition hikes ZMag Article Remembering a labor organizer/strategist, author & ecologist ZMag Article Is a new movement fertile ground for white supremacists? -
- Friday, Jan 01, 2010
ZMag Article November 11 direct actions in support of fired workers ZMag Article Predictions about the ongoing financial meltdown -
- Saturday, Dec 05, 2009
ZMag Article Orin Kramer defines Obama's duty to America -
- Friday, Dec 04, 2009
ZMag Article An interview with Hong Kong labor leader Cheung Lai-Ha -
- Sunday, Nov 01, 2009
ZMag Article Enriched insurers main outcome of Obama health plan - All ZMag Economy
Economy CommentsForum Post "... what better way to encourage passivity in the Left than to describe the hegemonic behemoth that everyone knows is there, only then to declare the whole thing off limits to any further inquiry?" How is Chomsky, et.... Forum Post I think you are right that an "enduring" presence is what the generals and the administration want but I do have a question. Will they be able to afford it in the current debt riddled economy? How long can this baroque ... Forum Post I was reading my Denver mainstream newspaper at breakfast this morning because I frequently get some significant news after which I can apply a deserved skepticism (my crap detectors) to figure out what's really going on. There it was:... Forum Post This part of the interview, and the ensuing comments, are interesting to read in conjunction with recent articles by Dean Baker that have been circulated on this site, the Counterpunch site, and the Guardian of London newspaper. Ba... Forum Post Mr. Gindin, the Canadian labour Movement is alive but has absoloutley no idea of it's roots or the relationship between the ballot box and the bread box(V.Ruether) That is the crux of the problem in my humble opinion.Here in Canada a han... Forum Post In the fiifties, my dad taught at a small college in Canada. He got flushed out from this post for refusing to rig the grades of football players in his class (yes, they do play football in Canada), which was supposed to be a notoriou... Forum Post Why is it that CommonDreams, CounterPunch and Znet did not advertise the March 20th anniversary protests? When I recently asked Znet this question, I received a reply stating, "No one sent us anything that I can recall. If ther... - All Economy Comments
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Blog Post Capitalism's utter failure even to provide employment cannot be explicitly mentioned in the corporate media but here (pasted in below) are some ugly facts -- including a real U.S. unemployment rate of 17 percent: See the Associated Press report pa... -
- Thursday, Dec 17, 2009
Blog Post Berlin court order is a threat to autonomous or alternative grassroots unionism in Germany. Court, German national union ver.di, collaborate with management of New Babylon Cinema to break worker struggle for union self-organization. -
- Tuesday, Sep 29, 2009
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- Monday, Sep 14, 2009
Blog Post Officially, the recession is probably over. The lack of meaningful structural reforms means conditions for continued collapse continue. So will massive economic hardships. However,I'm hopeful about growing social movements. -
- Sunday, Sep 13, 2009
Blog Post The Abstract for My Rethinking Marxism 2009 Panel Presentation -
- Thursday, Sep 10, 2009
Blog Post A draft discussion of anarchist vision and strategy...possibilities... -
- Tuesday, Sep 08, 2009
Blog Post The United States' "Labor Day" (yesterday) must have seemed ironic to the nation's expanding army of unemployed, ther vital human labor power deemed un-profitable and therefore unworthy of even minimal ransom-payment by the masters of capital. - All Economy Blogs
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- Sunday, Mar 07, 2010
Video The current crisis has exacerbated the effects of neoliberalism and hugely increased inequality, with money going from labor to capital. -
- Tuesday, Feb 09, 2010
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- Thursday, Oct 08, 2009
Video SleptOn.com sits down with Professor Noam Chomsky. In this segment we discuss what he feels to be one of the most overlooked issues in the world today. -
- Wednesday, Sep 16, 2009
Video Senior Research Scholar at Yale University Immanuel Wallerstein believes that the real economic crisis is still up ahead. According to Wallerstein, last years collapse was its minor version. -
- Monday, Mar 30, 2009
Video Noam Chomsky speaks to Paul Jay on the Obama - Geithner plan. Chomsky says that "they're simply recycling, the Bush-Paulson measures and changing them a little, but essentially the same idea: keep the institutional structure the same, try to kind ... -
- Saturday, Mar 07, 2009
Video Talk of the dangers of trade protectionism is used by European politicians to obscure the need for protection from transnational corporations whose control of European trade policy continues to cause negative social and environment impacts. -
- Saturday, Jan 24, 2009
Video Bill Fletcher - Author of "Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and A New Path Toward Social Justice" speaks at United Healthcare Workers 2008 Leadership Conference. (Part 1 of 2) - All Economy Video
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