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Znet Article Weisbrot: Should Obama, If Elected, Make a Clean Break With Bush's Latin America Policy?

Znet Article, August, 19 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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In the last decade political change has swept across most of Latin America. Much of the region - including the majority of South America - is now run by left governments. These governments have also become much more independent of the United State...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Bolivia: Can The Majority of People Vote for Change and Actually Get It?

Znet Article, August, 15 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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Evo Morales changed the history of Bolivia when he was elected in December 2005 as the country's first indigenous president, and the first to get a majority of 54 percent. On Sunday he expanded his mandate considerably in a referendum, with 68 per...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Offshore Drilling Won't Help But "Green Stimulus" Can

Znet Article, July, 31 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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"Gas prices - $4, $5, no end in sight, because some in Washington are still saying no to drilling in America," says the narrator in the TV ad that Republican presidential candidate John McCain played last week...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Internet Purchases Shouldn't Be Subsidized

Znet Article, June, 16 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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Can our state and local governments afford to subsidize businesses that conduct their sales only on the internet, rather than through physical retail stores? And if we could, is there a good reason to do so?

Znet Article Weisbrot: U.S. Economy: The Worst is Yet to Come

Znet Article, May, 28 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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Since the U.S. economy showed positive growth for the last quarter, some commentators in the business press are saying that we are not necessarily going to have a recession, or that if there is one it will be mild. This is a bit like the proverbia...

Znet Article Weisbrot: The IMF’s Dwindling Fortunes

Znet Article, April, 27 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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“The IMF is back,” declared the International Monetary Fund’s managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, at its annual spring meeting earlier this month in Washington. And not a moment too soon either. To hear the organization’s economists tell it...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Who's Afraid of a Falling Dollar?

Znet Article, April, 27 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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What do policy-makers in China, Japan, Argentina, Malaysia, Indonesia, the European Union and many other countries understand that ours don't? It seems they know that if the value of their currencies rises too much, it can hurt their economy. But ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Bat Boy Lives - As Do Myths About Social Security

Znet Article, April, 27 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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Despite the defeat of President Bush's attempt to partially privatize Social Security, the mass misunderstanding of America's largest and most successful anti-poverty program persists. This was evident on Sunday's Meet the Press with Tim Russert, ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Holocaust Denial, American Style

Znet Article, April, 25 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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Iranian President Ahmedinejad's flirtation with those who deny the reality of the Nazi genocide has rightly been met with disgust. But another holocaust denial is taking place with little notice: the holocaust in Iraq. The average American believe...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Venezuela's Still a Democracy

Znet Article, April, 24 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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On 2 December Venezuelans will vote on a number of amendments to their constitution. Generally speaking the proposals have been portrayed in the media as the next step on the road to dictatorship.

Video Weisbrot: U.S. Policy Toward Latin America in the Post-Bush Era

Video, April, 14 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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Possible directions U.S. policy toward Latin America might take after the Bush Administration.

Znet Article Weisbrot: Bush Administration, More Isolated in Latin America, Cries "Terrorism"

Znet Article, April, 11 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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Of all the nonsense that we hear regularly about Venezuela, the idea that the country is a "security threat" is probably the most ridiculous. For six years now, since the Bush Administration supported a failed coup attempt against the democratical...

Znet Article Weisbrot: The Audacity of Populism: What Obama Needs to Do

Znet Article, April, 09 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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Eighty-one percent of Americans now agree that "things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track," the most since this question has been asked and a remarkable preponderance of pessimism by any comparison.

Znet Article Weisbrot: Media Needs to Take More Responsibility With Regard to False Information

Znet Article, March, 12 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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How the media treats repeated falsehoods is a key issue...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Is Washington Undermining Democracy in Bolivia?

Znet Article, February, 19 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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This week's news that the U.S. Embassy in Bolivia has repeatedly asked Peace Corps volunteers and then a Fulbright Scholar to spy on people there is much more serious that it has so far been treated. In fact, together with other activities funded ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Proposed Stimulus Package is Not Enough

Znet Article, February, 05 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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As the economy shifts into reverse gear and the Congress and President work out the details of a proposed fiscal stimulus, some are asking whether it will be enough to keep the economy out of a recession. The answer is very likely no.

Znet Article Weisbrot: Latin America News Coverage

Znet Article, February, 01 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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Barack Obama had a few choice words for Bill and Hillary Clinton after the South Carolina primary, about people who would "say anything and do anything to win an election."

Znet Article Weisbrot: Big Rate Cuts and Fiscal Stimulus: Are We "All Keynesians Now?"

Znet Article, January, 23 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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It was 1971 when Richard Nixon, a conservative, uttered the famous phrase "We are all Keynesians Now. " But there was a backlash soon to follow, with Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher changing the world as perhaps no two other people did in the ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Americans Need to Look Beyond the Media on Venezuela

Znet Article, January, 17 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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If we read the newspapers and watch TV in the United States, we are told that President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela is a "dictator," "authoritarian," "a threat to democracy" in his own country and the region, and "anti-U.S." But leaders who try to em...

Znet Article Weisbrot: "Suitcase Scandal" is Another U.S. Foreign Policy Blunder

Znet Article, January, 10 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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On December 20 the U.S. government indicted four Venezuelans and one Uruguayan for allegedly acting as foreign agents without notifying the U.S. government. The charges stem from an incident that occurred on August 4 when Guido Antonini Wilson, a ...

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