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Engler: Health vs. Profits
Znet Article, September, 06 2003
Yves Engler
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Like milk and coke, healthcare and the profit motive just shouldn’t be mixed. The American health system demonstrates just how expensive, unjust and inefficient capitalist medicine is. Two weeks ago the New England Journ...
Engler: Capitalist Contradictions
Znet Article, August, 30 2003
Yves Engler
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As World Trade Organization meetings in Cancun draw nearer and the voices of capitalist globalization grow louder, now may be a good time to analyze their ideology with an eye to what modern capitalism is really all about. Advocates of ?globali...
Engler: WTO's Attack on Public Education
Znet Article, August, 10 2003
Yves Engler
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This week student organizations from around the world came together for a conference at the University of Montreal to discuss “globalization’s†negative effects on post-secondary education. As a result, organizers are ca...
Engler: Reports Of Our Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Znet Article, July, 26 2003
Yves Engler
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Only six weeks after Canadian Trade Minister Pierre Pettigrew pronounced ìI draw great satisfaction out of the fact that the phenomenon of anti-globalization has completely disappearedî (1) MontrealÃs Queen Elizabeth hotel canceled its booking ...
Engler: Capitalism Ruins Public Health
Znet Article, July, 18 2003
Yves Engler
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Last Thursday U.S. Medicare officials followed the lead of a number of U.S.corporations and announced a plan to pay bonuses for better care. A few months back a group of major corporations including General Electric, Ford and others launched a pil...
Engler: Profits Not Patients
Znet Article, July, 13 2003
Yves Engler
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Two weeks ago both the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times ran front page articles about accussations against Medco, a subsidiary of Merck & Co. over false statements and claims to the government. This is in addition to investigations of Medco...
Engler: Markets=Famine
Znet Article, July, 08 2003
Yves Engler
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If the western mainstream media told the truth about Africa, stories in our newspapers would be much different. "Market ideology causes Ethiopian Famine," the New York Times headline would blare. "130 years running and imperialists still mix wi...
Engler: G8 And Africa
Znet Article, June, 06 2003
Yves Engler
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Sickening is the best word to describe the hypocrisy between what G7 nations do and say with regards to Africa. Last summer, the Canadian media was abuzz with reports on how Canada and the rest of the G7 were going to help Africa. Before the G8 me...
Engler: Capital's Logic, People Resisting
Znet Article, May, 30 2003
Yves Engler
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Capital's Logic, People Resisting
Engler: Selling Drugs
Zmag Article, April, 01 2003
Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page
I support regime change. I support it around the world, including in Iraq, where a dictator holds sway. The question, however, is whether we should support regime change by the United States military ...
Engler: A Movement for Workplace Democracy?
Znet Article, March, 11 2003
Yves Engler
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Last week we learned about another hit to democracy. This time, however, it wasn't Bush coercing some government to join his war-drive against the will of that country's people. Instead, it was another drop in the U.S. unionization rate. Accordi...
Engler: The March 5 Student Actions Against War
Znet Article, March, 04 2003
Yves Engler
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On February 20th in Montreal the Student Society of McGill University had its first-ever successful general assembly. What was it that brought hundreds of McGill students together? A desire to hold a campus-wide strike against the pending war in I...
