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Dowd: 2013: Number One
Znet Article, February, 02 2013
Douglas Dowd
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Since the 1970s capitalism has marched steadily back toward its normal ways and means of labor exploitation, imperialism, militarism, and the destruction of nature
Dowd: Consumerism As A Social Disease
Znet Article, September, 28 2005
Douglas Dowd
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Not for nothing was the opening chapter of Marx's Capital entitled "Commodities," for commodification is among the defining characteristics of capitalism. First was land and labor; now, everything is a commodity; everything is for sale. Adam Smit...
Dowd: The United States Becomes Its Own Worst Enemy
Znet Article, September, 14 2005
Douglas Dowd
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Introduction. Since the 1970s the United States has become increasingly captive to consumeristic frenzy and religious zeal at home and to an arrogant and bloody militarism abroad. As we do so, has not the following description come to fit us as ...
Dowd: The United States Becomes Its Own Worst Enemy
Znet Article, September, 08 2005
Douglas Dowd
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Introduction. Since the 1970s the United States has become increasingly captive to consumeristic frenzy and religious zeal at home and to an arrogant and bloody militarism abroad. As we do so, has not the following description come to fit us a...
Dowd: Tighten Your Seat Belts; Worse Is On Its Way
Commentary, April, 05 2005
Douglas Dowd
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Unless you were very rich and a rightist, the last ten years have been very hard to take. The Clintons' hypocrisies and corruption were bad enough; but they were our guardian angels compared to the scurvy brutes now ruling over us: arrogant, cocky...
Dowd: What Must We Do? What Can We Do?
Commentary, December, 01 2004
Douglas Dowd
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Millions of us are asking such questions today, with at least dozens of answers -- only some of them compatible with each other. Here is mine.
Dowd: Greed
Commentary, August, 08 2004
Douglas Dowd
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The unholy family of the seven deadly sins is usually seen as composed of anger, avarice, envy, gluttony, lust, pride, and sloth. Four of those are greed's parents: avarice, envy, gluttony, and lust -- with pride and anger serving as aunt and uncl...
Dowd: On The Election
Commentary, June, 17 2004
Douglas Dowd
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It is now clear that the presidential election will be very close. Much can happen for better and for worse between now and then at home and, especially, in Iraq; so much that no firm prediction can be made. But this can be said: If the election w...
Dowd: Torture and Abuse
Commentary, May, 24 2004
Douglas Dowd
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The outrage and horror that spread and deepened after the revelations concerning Abu Ghraid prison in the spring of 2004 were fully justified, as was the revulsion at Nicholas Berg's beheading and, earlier, the killings and mutilation of Fallujah.
Dowd: Globalization Outlook
Znet Article, September, 21 2003
Douglas Dowd
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If you are reading this you don't need to be told of globalization's always greater harm to U.S. industrial workers, nor about the sweating of workers in the poorer countries or the environmental damage to their countries. Etc. Such matters are no...
Dowd: Deficits And Surpluses
Commentary, September, 14 2003
Douglas Dowd
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My previous ZCom was on possibilities/probabilities of deflation/depression. This is meant to supplement that argument.
Dowd: Deflation And The "d" Word. Here We Go Again?
Znet Article, June, 17 2003
Douglas Dowd
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Dowd: Deflation And The "d" Word. Here We Go Again?
Commentary, June, 15 2003
Douglas Dowd
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In U.S. economic history, there have been only two periods of sustained deflation: from 1873 to 1897 and the 1930s. Their length and severity led both to be called "depressions." There had been many downturns before 1873, but none had lasted s...
Dowd: From the Unthinkable to the Probable in Israel/Palestine
Commentary, January, 12 2002
Douglas Dowd
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From the Unthinkable to the Probable in Israel/Palestine
Dowd: From The Unthinkable To The Probable In Israel/Palestine
Znet Article, January, 06 2002
Douglas Dowd
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Since our birth in 1776 and Israel"s rebirth in 1948, the two nations have had some important thngs in common. Most important for present purposes is that in both countries most of their peoples -- if never all -- have seen their nation's birth as...
Dowd: DOWN WITH THE BAH HUMBUG OF TAXES
Commentary, June, 01 2001
Douglas Dowd
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The flagrantly unjust and harmful policies for taxes, governmental spending and real and imagined surpluses in place or on their way had their beginnings in the last years of Carter's presidency -- prodded and facilitated by what Richard Du Boff t...
Dowd: Down with the Bah Humbug of Taxes, Surpluses, Spending, and Deficits, up with What We Need and Can Do
Commentary, May, 15 2001
Douglas Dowd
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The flagrantly unjust and harmful policies for taxes, governmental spending and real and imagined surpluses in place or on their way had their beginnings in the last years of CarterÕs presidency Ñ prodded and facilitated by what Richard Du Boff te...
Dowd: DEREGULATION BLUES
Commentary, February, 24 2001
Douglas Dowd
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Just when we're about to blow our tops at the airlines for the delays and crowding and lousy service -- and rising prices -- we get blindsided by blackouts and for our electricity and rising prices (as also for gas, and water, and gasoline). How c...
