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Gupta: Market Madness
Zmag Article, June, 02 2008
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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...
Gupta: How Bush Won Iraq and Lost the World
Znet Article, March, 17 2008
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Despite copious grumbling on the left, the Bush administration has secured one impressive victory in Iraq: it will leave a raging war there (and another in Afghanistan) for the next administration.
Gupta: The Apocalypse Will Be Televised
Znet Article, December, 12 2007
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The Revolution, Gil Scott-Heron prophesized, will not be televised, but at least the apocalypse will. It will be televised and googled, blogged, vlogged and 24-7 entertainment. It will be a CNN special; it will star fleeing celebrities and a cast ...
Gupta: The Theater of the Absurd
Znet Article, December, 09 2007
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The presidential race is about many things: money, branding, celebrity, the media and theatrics. The one thing it’s not about is politics.
Gupta: Is the United States Committing Genocide in Iraq?
Zmag Article, November, 01 2007
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There is a simple rule that defines the U.S. occupation of Iraq: no matter how bad a situation may seem the reality is far worse.
Gupta: Meet Gen. David Petraeus
Znet Article, September, 11 2007
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Meet Gen. David Petraeus
Gupta: Oil, Neo-Liberalism, and Sectarianism
Zmag Article, April, 01 2007
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F or almost four years, Western oil companies have waited to get their hands on Iraq’s proven reserves of 115 billion barrels. Iraq has the third most reserves in the world behind Canada and ...
Gupta: Bush's Iraq Strategy for 2007
Zmag Article, February, 01 2007
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A fter all the study groups and reports, an electoral repudiation of a failed war, months of deliberation, and hundreds of thousands dead, the Bush administration policy debate boils down to t...
Gupta: Wall Street and Big Oil Profit from Global Turmoil
Zmag Article, June, 01 2006
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W ith gas prices breaking the $3 barrier the notion of “peak oil”—that geological constraints will force a permanent decline in crude oil production—is the apocalyptic flavo...
Gupta: Iraq Civil War
Zmag Article, April, 01 2006
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T he explosion of outright civil war in Iraq has left the country traumatized, the Iraqi government crippled, and the U.S. occupation in ruins, but most ominously, it may be the beginning of the en...
Gupta: New Exit Strategy for Iraq: Civil War
Zmag Article, September, 01 2005
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I t’s state-sponsored civil war,” says journalist Dahr Jamail, describing the sectarian conflict engulfing Iraq. From the beginning of the U.S. occupation, most observers argued that while civil war was a d...
Gupta: Iraq's Elections
Zmag Article, March, 01 2005
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W hile the Bush administration and most Western media hailed Iraq’s January 30 elections as a democratic exercise, it’s becoming clear that it was anything but. For one, the elections were held in a country...
Gupta: The Great Iraq Heist
Zmag Article, January, 01 2004
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Forget for a moment about quagmire, the growing heaps of U.S. and Iraqi dead, and the rebellious population. George Bush, Paul Bremer, and gang have pulled off the biggest heist in history. They and ...
Gupta: Oil
Zmag Article, November, 01 2002
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Just five countries in the Middle East sit on top of nearly two- thirds of the proven oil reserves in the world. Of these five, only Iran and Iraq remain outside of the U.S. sphere of influence, ...
