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Street: Invisible: On Left Non-Existence and Corporate-Managed Democracy
Commentary, March, 01 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
One of the many ways in which the United States' incipiently totalitarian corporate-managed democracy (see Sheldon Wolin, Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism [Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Pr...
Fitz: The Best Way to Protect Jobs in Auto Is To Stop Making Cars
Znet Article, March, 01 2009
Don Fitz
Fitz's ZSpace page
Social unionism is most needed in times of crisis. Auto is truly in crisis. According to the February 14, 2009 Wall Street Journal, car sales have dropped to a 30 year low.
Weisbrot: Health Care Reform Is Needed Now More than Ever
Znet Article, February, 28 2009
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
Obama wants spending that stimulates the economy in the short term, but he also wants to reduce the long-term deficit problem after the economy recovers. This is exactly what health care reform will do.
Raina: The High-Minded Illiteracy Of the Indian Elite
Znet Article, February, 27 2009
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
The atavistic blood-lust of India's corporate-media elite has again come to the fore.
Baker: Housing Price Decline Accelerates
Znet Article, February, 27 2009
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
Housing aid should be focused on nonbubble markets.
Street: Obama’s Violin: Calibrating Hope Since the Election
Znet Article, February, 26 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
This article reviews Barack Obama’s record since the day of his election. That record, we shall see, is deeply consistent with his record-setting corporate election funding, including more than $900,000 from Goldman Sachs and $37.5 million from...
Panitch: From Global Finance to the Nationalization of the Banks
Znet Article, February, 25 2009
Leo Panitch
Panitch's ZSpace page
Eight Theses on the Economic Crisis...
Wilson: Farm "Shock Doctrine?"
Blog Post, February, 24 2009
Brad Wilson
Wilson's ZSpace page
One example of Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine may be found in the implementation of a 1962 plan to quickly eliminate "excess resources," in U.S. agriculture, one third of U.S. farmers and farm workers.
Bybee: Miss. madness, La. lunacy: Showboat move damages jobless: GOP targets jobless benefits
Blog Post, February, 24 2009
Roger Bybee
Bybee's ZSpace page
Southern governors are turning away extended unemployment benefits for their jobless citizens despite enormous economic suffering and longstanding misery in their historically impoverished states.
Tarwater: Balanced Jobs in a Housing Cooperative - Part 2
Blog Post, February, 24 2009
Tyler Tarwater
Tarwater's ZSpace page
Notes from our housing community's effort to implement a form of balanced job complexes.
Bello: The Global Collapse: a Non-orthodox View
Znet Article, February, 21 2009
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
Week after week, we see the global economy contracting at a pace worse than predicted by the gloomiest analysts. We are now, it is clear, in no ordinary recession but are headed for a global depression that could last for many years.
Bacon: Labor Needs a Radical Vision
Znet Article, February, 20 2009
David Bacon
Bacon's ZSpace page
During the Cold War, many people with a radical vision of the world were driven out of our labor movement. Today, as unions search for answers about how to begin growing again and regain the power workers need to defend themselves, the question of...
Kagarlitsky: Devaluation Race
Commentary, February, 18 2009
Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page
I must confess the term used by me in the title of the article is not mine. It is young economist Vasily Koltashov who invented it. But we work together at the same Institute and have similar ideas.
Panitch: Interview with Leo Panitch conducted by Workers' Liberty
Znet Article, February, 17 2009
Leo Panitch
Panitch's ZSpace page
In my view, the better term for the U.S. role in the world is Empire. That captures in my mind the way in which the American state plays a role of coordination and oversight and crisis-managing for global capitalism, in the absence of a global state.
Chomsky: Understanding the Crisis — Markets, the State and Hypocrisy
Znet Article, February, 17 2009
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Noam Chomsky is a noted linguist, author, and foreign policy expert. Sameer Dossani interviewed him about the global economic crisis and its roots.
Hansen: Middle Aged Men
Blog Post, February, 16 2009
Sven Hansen
Hansen's ZSpace page
Reflections on the trajectory of a Nicaraguan farmers' movement and its leaders, how far they have come, how they are still struggling.
Sklar: Corporate executives overpaid, undertaxed
Commentary, February, 15 2009
Holly Sklar
Sklar's ZSpace page
In today's mad world, underpaid workers are bailing out banks and corporations run by overpaid, undertaxed bosses who milked their companies and our country like cash cows.
Street: Wall Street Welfare
Znet Article, February, 11 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
According to the New York Times, Obama's corporate-Democratic Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner' bailout plan reflected a triumph for unfettered capitalist prerogatives inside the new White House.
Bello: Asia: The Coming Fury
Znet Article, February, 10 2009
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
As goods pile up in wharves from Bangkok to Shanghai, and workers are laid off in record numbers, people in East Asia are beginning to realize they aren't only experiencing an economic downturn but living through the end of an era.
Schechter: Will The Recovery Plan Lead To The Stimulation We Need?
Commentary, February, 08 2009
Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page
It is time for a euphoria check or maybe a check on euphoria, a time to start raising our own questions about government plans rather than reflexively rallying behind the Democrats just because the Republicans are so obstinate and revolting.
