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Weisbrot: IMF and World Bank Face Declining Authority as Venezuela Announces Withdrawal
Znet Article, May, 03 2007
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Venezuela's decision this week to pull out of the IMF and the World Bank will be seen in ...
Weisbrot: ECONOMIC MISINFORMATION PLAYS A MAJOR ROLE IN FRENCH ELECTION
Znet Article, April, 27 2007
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ECONOMIC MISINFORMATION PLAYS A MAJOR ROLE IN FRENCH ELECTION
Weisbrot: BRINGING THE WORLD BANK INTO THE 21ST CENTURY
Znet Article, April, 26 2007
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Here in Washington, Word Bank employees agitating for the dismissal of their embattled chief execut...
Weisbrot: Is Hugo Chavez a Threat to Stability? No.
Znet Article, April, 04 2007
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I have been asked to comment on the question of "whether President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela poses a threat to regional stability and how his critics, in...
Weisbrot: Every Uninsured Child Should Have Access to Health Care
Znet Article, April, 03 2007
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Every Uninsured Child Should Have Access to Health Care
Weisbrot: Bolivia's Morales Deserves Applause
Znet Article, March, 27 2007
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"In our culture, there is a cosmic law. Don't steal. Don't lie. Don't be lazy ... in our culture, honesty is very ...
Weisbrot: Political and Economic Changes in Latin America Likely to Continue
Znet Article, March, 20 2007
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Sunday (March 18) -- President Bush has recently returned from a seven day, five country trip to Latin America, with which he had hoped to regain some of the influence that the Unite...
Weisbrot: President Bush's Trip to Latin America Is All About Denial
Znet Article, March, 17 2007
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"State of Denial" is the title of Bob Woodward's famous book on the Bush team's road to disaster in Iraq, but it would have served just as well for a description of their Latin America policy. This week President Bush heads Sou...
Weisbrot: Debunking the Myths about "Cutting Funding" for the War
Znet Article, February, 20 2007
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The key talking point of supporters of indefinitely continuing the U.S. occupation of Iraq boils down to this: there is nothing Congress can do to compel the wi...
Weisbrot: President Bush's New Gambles in the Middle East
Znet Article, February, 12 2007
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What is President George W. Bush's strategy in Iraq? This is a question that even many of the experts are puzzling over as the war has entered its fifth year, the violence in Iraq escalates, and there is no end in sight. Even the White House's dom...
Weisbrot: Economy Looks Bad for 2007
Znet Article, January, 06 2007
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The big ...
Weisbrot: The Failure of Hugo-Bashing
Commentary, April, 05 2006
Mark Weisbrot
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It was yet another public relations coup for Venezuela: Vila Isabel, the samba club sponsored mainly by the Venezuelan government, won the parade competition in Rio de Janeiro's Carnaval last week. A float with a giant likeness of Simon Bolivar, c...
Weisbrot: Costa Rica
Znet Article, February, 15 2006
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Costa Rica is a small Central American country of four million people that - unlike its neighbors El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua during their bloody civil wars - has never attracted much attention in the United States, except as a destinati...
Weisbrot: Latin America Shifts Left
Znet Article, January, 21 2006
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Evo Morales' election in Bolivia, with an unprecedented (for that country) 54 percent of the vote, is seen and analyzed here mostly in political terms. He is a former head of the coca growers union and opposes the U.S.- sponsored attempts to erad...
Weisbrot: Economy 2006
Znet Article, January, 01 2006
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Will the U.S. economy do as well in 2006 as it did in 2005? That may well depend on whether we can make it through another year without any of the current economy's big imbalances and unsustainable trends coming back to bite us. The median forecas...
Weisbrot: Venezuelan Elections
Znet Article, December, 03 2005
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The decision of four opposition parties in Venezuela to withdraw from elections this weekend raises important questions for the media. It is clear to anyone familiar with the situation that this is an attempt to discredit the election, by parties ...
Weisbrot: IMF Influence?
Commentary, October, 17 2005
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Sometimes historic changes take place quietly, while no one is looking. Great institutions lose power with a whimper rather than a bang. Such is the case of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which will hold its annual fall meetings with the W...
Weisbrot: Social Security: Another Media Failure
Znet Article, May, 31 2005
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After it was established that the Bush administration's stated reasons for invading Iraq were false -- Iraq's alleged nuclear program, weapons of mass destruction, links to Al-Qaeda -- many journalists, editors, and producers felt that the U.S. me...
Weisbrot: Political Attacks Against Venezuela Continue
Znet Article, December, 24 2004
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The recent round of Venezuela-bashing from the U.S. State Department, Washington-based foreign policy organizations, and some newspaper editorial boards is symptomatic of a broader problem. And it's not Venezuela's problem: it's ours. Last week ...
Weisbrot: Social Security: It's Not Broken, So Don't Fix It
Commentary, December, 21 2004
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Four years ago Dean Baker and I wrote a book entitled "Social Security: The Phony Crisis" (University of Chicago Press, 2000). We showed that there was no financial, economic, actuarial, or other reason to be worried about the future of Social Sec...
