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Brecher: Lessons from Hard Times Past

Znet Article, July, 22 2009 Jeremy Brecher
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Weâ€™re all struggling with how to think -- and what to do -- in the face of the â€œgreat recession.â€ An initial progressive response was to advocate better regulation; then Keynesian economic stimulus; now nationalization; perhaps in the future...

Brecher: The Trials of Ehren Watada

Znet Article, May, 21 2009 Jeremy Brecher
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As Americans are inundated with revelations about the lies, torture and other crimes that accompanied the US-led war in Iraq, many who resisted continue to be punished for refusing to participate in those crimes. First Lt. Ehren Watada, the first ...

Brecher: Global Laborâ€™s Forgotten Plan to Fight the Great Depression

Znet Article, March, 18 2009 Jeremy Brecher
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In the early 1930s, as global unemployment tripled in two years and the world plunged into the Great Depression, the worldâ€™s labor movements developed a program for fighting the global crisis through international public works. Itâ€™s a little-...

Costello: WSF: Is Another World Possible?

Znet Article, February, 14 2009 Tim Costello
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The recently concluded World Social Forum is a good gauge for assessing the state of the world's alternative social, economic and political movements.

Brecher: Will War Crimes Be Outed?

Znet Article, December, 17 2008 Jeremy Brecher
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As the officials of the Bush administration pack up in Washington and move into their posh suburban homes around the country, will they be able to rest easy, or will they be haunted by the fear that they will be held accountable for war crimes com...

Costello: How the American Healthcare System Got That Way

Znet Article, December, 15 2008 Tim Costello
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As Americans respond to President-elect Obama call for town hall meetings on reform the American health care system, an understanding of how that system came to be the way it is can be crucial for figuring out how to fix it.

Brecher: The Economic Crisis in Historical Perspective

Znet Article, November, 29 2008 Jeremy Brecher
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The superlatives of the global economic meltdown of 2008 are, well, superlative. Professor Noriel Roubini of New York University says the current crisis is "the largest leveraged asset bubble and credit bubble in history." The International Monet...

Brecher: The G-20 vs. The G-6 Billion

Znet Article, November, 19 2008 Jeremy Brecher
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The message from last weekend's G-20 summit meeting on the global economy must be a parody of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot: The game can't go on. The game must go on.

Brecher: Labor Goes to Bali

Znet Article, April, 24 2008 Jeremy Brecher
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This week trade unionists from around the world will travel to Bali for the December 3rd launch of negotiations for a successor to the Kyoto Protocol limiting greenhouse gasses. It will include delegates from such U.S unions as the Electrical Wor...

Brecher: How Green Is Your Collar?

Znet Article, March, 28 2008 Jeremy Brecher
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As cities and states from New York to California to Minnesota race to invent policies to address global warming, new mandates for investment in green energy will produce many billions of investment dollars...

Brecher: Watada's Double Jeopardy

Znet Article, October, 20 2007 Jeremy Brecher
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The double jeopardy clause of the US Constitution ensures that no American can be tried twice for the same offense. But at a time when our civil liberties are rapidly eroding, a drama is unfolding in Washington State over whether that constitution...