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Grubacic: Stuffed and Starved
Zmag Article, October, 01 2008
Andrej Grubacic
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Andrej Grubacic interviews Raj Patel on the global food system.
Kuzmarov: Economists with Guns
Zmag Article, October, 01 2008
Jeremy Kuzmarov
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Jeremy Kuzmarov Reviews a new book on murderous technocrats in Indonesia by Bradley R. Simpson.
Levine: Psycho-Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex
Zmag Article, October, 01 2008
Bruce e. Levine
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Bruce E. Levine on big pharma's needless drugging of women and children.
Tabb: The Global Food Crisis
Zmag Article, September, 01 2008
William Tabb
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William Tabb on corporate-run agribusiness.
Dunne: The Lisbon Treaty
Zmag Article, September, 01 2008
Sean Dunne
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Sean Dunne on a historic Irish vote against EU neoliberalism.
Rasmus: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
Zmag Article, September, 01 2008
Jack Rasmus
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Jack Rasmus on the latest corporate bailout and future fallout.
Lipow: Cooling a Fevered Planet
Zmag Article, July, 01 2008
Gar Lipow
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Nobody, except for a small lunatic fringe, still disputes that human-caused climate chaos endangers all of us. Further, most serious scientific and technical groups who have looked at the question have concluded that we have the technological capa...
Rosen: Write On!
Zmag Article, July, 01 2008
David Rosen
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The Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike this winter against TV and movie producers was one of the longest successful white-collar worker strikes in U.S. history. It lasted 14 weeks less then the writers’ 1988 strike, which lasted almost 22 weeks...
Paskus: A (Desert) Rock By Any Other Name
Zmag Article, July, 01 2008
Laura Paskus
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The Desert Rock Energy Company, a subsidiary of Sithe Global Power, and the Navajo Nation’s Diné Power Authority hope to build a 1,500 megawatt coal-fired power plant on a Navajo reservation about 30 miles southwest of Shiprock. While the tribal g...
Abowd: North Carolina Sweatshop Activists Stage 16-Day Sit-In
Zmag Article, July, 01 2008
Paul Abowd
Abowd's ZSpace page
Finals week was fast approaching when 15 University of North Carolina students occupied the administration building in Chapel Hill on April 17. SAW activists transformed the administration building into a communications center, launching an online...
Bybee: Colombia "Free Trade" Deal
Zmag Article, June, 30 2008
Roger Bybee
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A proposed “free trade” deal with Colombia, where 2,100 unionists have been assassinated since 1991, sheds light on many unsavory facets of U.S. policy. Despite the evident failures of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to benefit ord...
Rasmus: Emerging Epic Recession?
Zmag Article, June, 02 2008
Jack Rasmus
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Is there something fundamentally different about the current economic downturn. Perhaps something more appropriately called an epic recession?
Tabb: Financial Appropriations
Zmag Article, June, 02 2008
William Tabb
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Mainstream finance theory of the sort taught to millions of undergraduates each year features the fairy tale of rational expectations, efficient capital markets, and smooth movement from one equilibrium position to another. But even the most compl...
Stonehill: World Water Crisis
Zmag Article, June, 02 2008
Alex Stonehill
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While western politicians and consumers fret over the declining economy and increasing oil prices, the news from East Africa is that with a growing majority of the world living on less than a dollar a day, the liquid that fuels bodies is becoming ...
Finamore: The Private World of Aircraft Maintenance
Zmag Article, June, 02 2008
Carl Finamore
Finamore's ZSpace page
On April 9 there were 1,100 cancellations by American Airlines and 900 more the following day. Over 250,000 passengers were stranded as the carrier rushed to make adjustments to “wiring bundles” on its fleet of 300 MD-80s. Similar maintenance prob...
Sargent: If the Left Debated the Campaign Issues
Zmag Article, June, 02 2008
Lydia Sargent
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Sargent interviews Albert on economic issues in this election campaign. Part of a series.
Brecher: Doctor Wall Street
Zmag Article, June, 02 2008
Jeremy Brecher
Brecher's ZSpace page
A special pamphlet on the history of health care coverage in the U.S.
Peters: War on Communities
Zmag Article, June, 02 2008
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
Thanks to the organizing efforts of City Life/Vida Urbana and the courage of community members willing to physically block the eviction and risk arrest, the Meyers family won a temporary reprieve from losing their home.
Gupta: Market Madness
Zmag Article, June, 02 2008
A.k. Gupta
Gupta's ZSpace page
As dramatic as the consumer price increases are, the frenzy on commodity exchanges, where traders negotiate “futures” prices (and related financial products known as “options”) is even more pronounced. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFT...
Shykles: A Dutch Letterbox Could Cost Bolivia a Fortune
Zmag Article, May, 01 2008
Oliver Shykles
Shykles's ZSpace page
The Netherlands has long been established as a place to do business and as more and more companies are finding out, all you need to do business there is little more than a letterbox. So what are the advantages of owning a letterbox in the Netherla...
