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Ganapathiraju: Study: Nukes cost $52 billion yearly
Blog Post, February, 01 2009
Aditya Ganapathiraju
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The US spends $52 on nuclear weapons a year. less than 10% is used for prevention or nonproliferation efforts. World publics favor "eliminating all nuclear weapons." Cold War planners like Robert McNamara, George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, William...
Street: Authoritarian Capitalism and Economic Crisis in the Age of HOPE
Znet Article, January, 30 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Beneath the drama over how to make the U.S. economy “work again,†we hear nothing in the dominant corporate-mediated political discourse about the state-capitalist authoritarianism that is on sharper-than-usual display (for those willing to lo...
Halling: *237 A Law Of No Gods, No Masters-Developing And Defending A Participatory Legal System [a1], [d1]
Znet Article, January, 28 2009
Matt Halling
Halling's ZSpace page
Developing And Defending A Participatory Legal System.
Baker: The Anti-Stimulus Crowd Blows a Gasket
Znet Article, January, 26 2009
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
The anti-stimulus crowd is getting desperate. The possibility that a young charismatic new president will push through an ambitious package that begins to set the economy right is truly terrifying to this crew. After all, if the economy begins to ...
Baker: President Obama's Big Stimulus
Znet Article, January, 25 2009
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
There is much to celebrate this week. Topping the list of course is President Obama's inauguration. There is good reason to believe that we have seen power pass from one of the country's worst presidents to one of its best.
Shapiro: “Strengthening the IDF's Hand After Operation Cast Leadâ€
Blog Post, January, 25 2009
Tali Shapiro
Shapiro's ZSpace page
My country will protect murdering war criminals. It won't, however, protect me from war, or overzealous cops.
Street: "We Will NOT Apologize for Our Way of Life"
Znet Article, January, 23 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
The Obama administration makes a very big point of claiming to be above and beyond "ideology." It's all about the "pragmatic" goal of "getting things done" with no particular "ideological" axe to grind.
Street: How Obama Happened: The Real Story
Znet Article, January, 20 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
With the historic inauguration of Barack Obama, the question of how Obama happened merits critical reflection. The explanation advanced by his campaign, the incoming White House public relations team, and, for the most part, dominant U.S. media h...
Parenti: Capitalism's Self-inflicted Apocalypse
Commentary, January, 19 2009
Michael Parenti
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After the overthrow of communist governments in Eastern Europe, capitalism was paraded as the indomitable system that brings prosperity and democracy, the system that would prevail unto the end of history.
Street: Two Very Different Pilots
Blog Post, January, 16 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
I wonder if anyone else has been as struck as I have been by the interesting conjuncture of events yesterday. On one hand we had the remarkable story of U.S. Airways Flight 1549. Americans and others the world over were inspired by the compet...
Baker: Redefining Chutzpah: Wall Street Goes After Social Security, Again
Znet Article, January, 14 2009
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
Many people, most notably investment banker and Concord Coalition founder Peter Peterson, have questioned the solvency of Social Security based on the fact that its trust fund is held in U.S. government bonds. Peterson and others derisively refer ...
Cook: Israel Bars Arab Parties from Election
Znet Article, January, 14 2009
Jonathan Cook
Cook's ZSpace page
The only three Arab parties represented in the Israeli parliament vowed yesterday to fight a decision by the Central Elections Committee to bar them from running in next month's general election.
Theodosis: Occupied Labor: A Brief History of Iraqi Unions under U.S. Rule
Znet Article, January, 08 2009
Nick Theodosis
A review of Iraqi labor unions under U.S. occupation.
Raina: Omar Abdullah
Znet Article, January, 07 2009
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
The people of Jammu & Kashmir have been justly lauded for the resoluteness with which they came out to vote in the recent elections to the state Assembly.
Street: The Janus-Faced* Obama Phenomenon
Znet Article, January, 07 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
As Barack Obama’s historic inauguration approaches, many progressives are reflecting on the possibilities and perils of the next American administration as viewed from the Left.
Baker: Free Market Myth
Znet Article, January, 06 2009
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
Regulation is everywhere. Let's choose who benefits.
Petersen: Can We Agree
Blog Post, December, 31 2008
Robert Petersen
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If the left can agree on anything, we should agree that we need a national discussion about alternatives.
Aronowitz: Facing the Economic Crisis
Znet Article, December, 26 2008
Stanley Aronowitz
Aronowitz's ZSpace page
The main news these days is the global economic crisis, an event ascribed by economists and most pundits alike to a "financial" meltdown caused by the irresponsibility of mainly, but not exclusively, U.S. lending institutions and consumers in offe...
Raina: India's 2009 Election
Znet Article, December, 26 2008
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
In India a general election to parliament is due early next year, and different Indians must desire to see different things happen.
Pilger: Wishful Thinking for 2009
Blog Post, December, 20 2008
John Pilger
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The good news for the new year is as follows...
