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Brecher: What Can The World Do If The US Attacks Iraq?
Znet Article, March, 05 2003
Jeremy Brecher
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If the US attacks Iraq without support of the UN Security Council, will the world be powerless to stop it? ...
Brecher: A Nightmare to Love
Commentary, December, 11 2002
Jeremy Brecher
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A nightmare scenario is facing the Bush Administration.
Brecher: Let's Join, Not Fight The Global Coalition Against War
Znet Article, November, 21 2002
Jeremy Brecher
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Americans owe a debt of gratitude to the coalition of people and countries around the world that is trying to save us from a catastrophic war in Iraq. In the recent UN Security Council debate on Iraq, 60 nations spoke against U.S. policy, and no...
Brecher: The War That Can Be Stopped
Znet Article, October, 22 2002
Jeremy Brecher
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As I write, the US Congress has just passed by an overwhelming margin a resolution authorising President Bush to launch a unilateral pre-emptive attack on Iraq . The world needs to understand that there is no force in the US at present able to con...
Brecher: Collective Security Is Working
Commentary, October, 01 2002
Jeremy Brecher
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As an American, I would like to thank all those people and countries around the world who are helping to pull my country back from the brink of war. And I want to assure you that your efforts are having a big impact in the United States.
Brecher: The Trajectory of Change
Zmag Article, July, 01 2002
Jeremy Brecher
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Michael Albert Cambridge: South End Press, 2002 Review by Jeremy Brecher In the 1960s student activists used to say, “Don’t trust ...
Brecher: Global Self -Organization From Below
Znet Article, May, 10 2002
Jeremy Brecher
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As globalization from above has grown more destructive, the constructive achievements of globalization from below in the two years since the Battle of Seattle have been impressive. An incredible range of movements and concerns that once seemed unr...
Brecher: Global Self-Organization from Below
Commentary, May, 07 2002
Jeremy Brecher
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As globalization from above has grown more destructive, the constructive achievements of globalization from below in the two years since the Battle of Seattle have been impressive. An incredible range of movements and concerns that once seemed unr...
Brecher: Globalization Today
Commentary, March, 25 2002
Jeremy Brecher
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Since the beginning of the new millenium, the process of global economic integration we call globalization from above has sped from crisis to calamity. That has intensified both the need for and the strength of the convergence of social movements ...
Brecher: Two, Three, Many Argentinas?
Commentary, January, 26 2002
Jeremy Brecher
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International investors have imposed their will on the world by means of a "creditors cartel"Ñembodied in the IMF, the World Bank, the G-7/8, and their creatures and allies. They have imposed cruel and destructive policies on the people of debtor...
Brecher: Open Letter from an American to the World: HELP!
Commentary, December, 28 2001
Jeremy Brecher
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The Bush Administration is blundering into a global conflagration. There is currently no force within the U.S. likely to stop it. It is up to the rest of the world, and especially AmericaÕs friends and allies Ð both governments and their citizen...
Brecher: End of the Global Gilded Age
Commentary, November, 28 2001
Jeremy Brecher
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While AmericaÕs politicians and media focus on terrorism and counter-terrorism, the global gilded age is coming to an end. While advocates of globalization gloat that September 11 has silenced the critics of globalization, the emerging global rec...
Brecher: Collateral Damage: Neo-Liberalism
Commentary, October, 17 2001
Jeremy Brecher
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Even as they were planning military action in Afghanistan, US leaders were struggling with the contradictions of capitalism. One can almost hear them sighing, ah, if only we could bomb the recession!
Brecher: Now, More Than Ever: A Global Movement for Global Justice
Commentary, September, 27 2001
Jeremy Brecher
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In the months before September 11, the Bush Administration undermined one effort after another to address world problems on an international basis. It skipped out on the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, scuttled efforts to control biological weap...
Brecher: The Road From Genoa
Commentary, August, 18 2001
Jeremy Brecher
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The battle in Genoa was not only the key event in the summer of 2001, but also marked a watershed for the anti-corporate movement. From the outset, the Big Eight summit in Genoa was doomed to become nothing more than a pretext for widespread prote...
Brecher: The Road from Genoa
Commentary, August, 03 2001
Jeremy Brecher
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In the year-and-a-half from the Battle of Seattle to the Battle of Genoa, the WTO, World Bank, IMF, and G-8 have provided spectacular "targets of opportunity" for the transnational movement challenging top-down globalization. The movement has refr...
Brecher: Draft of an Alternative Program for the Global Economy
Commentary, December, 18 2000
Jeremy Brecher
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Commenting on the Battle of Seattle, Newsweek wrote, "One of the most important lessons of Seattle is that there are now two visions of globalization on offer, one led by commerce, one by social activism." Globalization from below's vision has bee...
Brecher: There's An Alternative
Commentary, November, 20 1999
Jeremy Brecher
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When world leaders meet in Seattle after Thanksgiving for the "pre-millennial" session of the World Trade Organization, many will sincerely believe that there is no alternative to the present direction of globalization. But all over the world, act...
Brecher: Review of Panic Rules
Commentary, August, 05 1999
Jeremy Brecher
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A funny thing happened on the way to the New Millenium: the Old Millenium crashed. According to economist Paul Krugman, "Never in the course of economic events -- not even in the early years of the Depression -- has so large a part of the world ec...
