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Bello: Asia: The Coming Fury
Znet Article, February, 10 2009
Walden Bello
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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
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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.
Davidson: Blue-Green Insurgency Gets Fired Up at the DC Green Jobs Conference
Znet Article, February, 08 2009
Carl Davidson
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First-hand account of the 2009 Green Jobs in DC, drawing nearly 3000 trade union, environmental and youth activists.
Baker: Plunder and Blunder; How the 'Financial Experts' Keep Screwing You
Znet Article, February, 07 2009
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
An excerpt from Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy by Dean Baker, published by PoliPoint Press, 2009.
Baker: Employment Free Fall Continues, Unemployment Rate Jumps to 7.6 Percent
Znet Article, February, 06 2009
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
The January employment report showed the economy losing 598,000 jobs in the month...
Jones: Budget 27th January 09
Blog Post, February, 05 2009
John Jones
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How do we fix the meltdown? It is not by creating more debt for the working poor and unemployed.
Albert: Judging Economic Policy
Blog Post, February, 05 2009
Michael Albert
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Judging economic policies during a crisis - and other times too...
Early: Employee Free Choice at Work
Znet Article, February, 03 2009
Steve Early
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The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) wants its members to believe that their union is just like the alluring but ultimately nightmarish hostelry immortalized by The Eagles. It’s a place of permanent imprisonment only "programmed to ...
Baker: Time for Bank Rationalization
Znet Article, February, 03 2009
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
Leaks in the media indicate that the banks are about to inhale another helping of taxpayer dollars. This round is likely to be considerably larger than the $350 billion that they swallowed in the bailout last October.
Schechter: In The Week Of The Economic Circus: Which Way Recovery?
Commentary, February, 01 2009
Danny Schechter
Schechter's ZSpace page
In the old days, circuses were known for three rings and a side show. The economic debate that got underway this week feels a bit like that. It began in earnest just as police in Los Angeles announced the dramatic killing of five members of a fami...
Bello: 'It Is Time to Aim Beyond Capitalism'
Znet Article, January, 31 2009
Walden Bello
Bello's ZSpace page
The World Social Forum meeting this week in this city in Brazil's Amazon jungle region has an urgent and crucial task: coming up with alternative solutions for the global crisis of capitalism now under way, and pushing for democratic control of th...
Street: Authoritarian Capitalism and Economic Crisis in the Age of HOPE
Znet Article, January, 30 2009
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Beneath the drama over how to make the U.S. economy “work again,†we hear nothing in the dominant corporate-mediated political discourse about the state-capitalist authoritarianism that is on sharper-than-usual display (for those willing to lo...
Monbiot: A Better Way to Make Money
Commentary, January, 29 2009
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
Here's how we could solve the credit crunch without giving anything to the banks.
Chomsky: No Change Coming With Obama
Znet Article, January, 27 2009
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
A Press TV interview with respected American author, political analyst and world-renowned linguist, Professor Noam Chomsky.
Baker: The Anti-Stimulus Crowd Blows a Gasket
Znet Article, January, 26 2009
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
The anti-stimulus crowd is getting desperate. The possibility that a young charismatic new president will push through an ambitious package that begins to set the economy right is truly terrifying to this crew. After all, if the economy begins to ...
Hoodbhoy: World Bank Help For Pakistan's Higher Education - A Poisoned Chalice?
Commentary, January, 25 2009
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Hoodbhoy's ZSpace page
Rumor has it that the World Bank is on its way back to Pakistan with a bagful of loans, together with plans for how we must spend the money. A major focus of the Bank's efforts will be higher education reform. No one doubts the desperate need for ...
Baker: President Obama's Big Stimulus
Znet Article, January, 25 2009
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
There is much to celebrate this week. Topping the list of course is President Obama's inauguration. There is good reason to believe that we have seen power pass from one of the country's worst presidents to one of its best.
Monbiot: Flying Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Commentary, January, 21 2009
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
How did Marxist class warriors end up fighting for the bosses' right to fly?
Parenti: Capitalism's Self-inflicted Apocalypse
Commentary, January, 19 2009
Michael Parenti
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After the overthrow of communist governments in Eastern Europe, capitalism was paraded as the indomitable system that brings prosperity and democracy, the system that would prevail unto the end of history.
Dangl: Firing The Boss: An Interview with Chicago Factory Occupation Organizer
Znet Article, January, 15 2009
Ben Dangl
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On December 5, 2008 over 200 recently-fired workers at the Republic Window and Doors factory in Chicago occupied their plant, demanding that they be paid their vacation and severance checks. The occupation ended victoriously six days later when th...
