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Commentary Weisbrot: Protecting Pharmaceutical Companies from the Threat of Bio-Terrorism

Commentary, October, 29 2001 Mark Weisbrot
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Some principles are so important that they cannot be violated even in a time of national emergency. One of those, it now appears, is the principle of patent rights for multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical companies.

Commentary Weisbrot: Trading on Tragedy

Commentary, October, 12 2001 Mark Weisbrot
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Every crisis and tragedy is an opportunity for some, as any ambulance-chasing lawyer can tell you. We expect the Pentagon to lard its already bloated budget, and Attorney General John Ashcroft to chip away at the Bill of Rights, all in the name of...

Commentary Weisbrot: IMF "Rescue" Won't Help Latin America

Commentary, September, 07 2001 Mark Weisbrot
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When I was a child growing up in Chicago, we heard stories of lifeguards who saved panicked, drowning beach-goers by first knocking them out with a punch to the face, then hauling them to shore. This seemed like a risky strategy to me, and I never...

Commentary Weisbrot: Return of the Lockbox

Commentary, August, 30 2001 Mark Weisbrot
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Just when you thought the debate over national budget and economic policy couldn't get any more confusing or silly, the "lockbox" is back. Big time. The Democratic National Committee is running TV ads asserting that "the Bush budget raids the Medi...

Commentary Weisbrot: Has Globalization Helped the Poor?

Commentary, August, 06 2001 Mark Weisbrot
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It has become increasingly fashionable for our government officials and their friends to promote Washington's global agenda as a helping hand to the world's poor. "If one is concerned about the developing countries, both history and recent studies...

Commentary Weisbrot: Don't Cry for the IMF, Argentina

Commentary, May, 29 2001 Mark Weisbrot
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How many times can the most powerful financial institution in the world -- the International Monetary Fund -- make the same mistake? The answer seems to be: as many times as it wants to. As Argentina teeters on the brink of defaulting on its $150 ...

Commentary Weisbrot: Bob Kerrey's Nightmare Tells the Story of Vietnam

Commentary, May, 07 2001 Mark Weisbrot
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Some people are wondering why the New York Times and CBS' 60 minutes II would spend two and a half years investigating war crimes allegedly committed by former Senator Bob Kerrey 32 years ago in Vietnam. But this is journalism at its best: it is f...

Commentary Weisbrot: Why We Need Free Trade for Life-Saving Medicines

Commentary, April, 22 2001 Mark Weisbrot
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The story of the decade, and perhaps the century, has finally made it to the front pages: millions of people who could be saved are dying from AIDS. The reason for their unnecessary, premature, and often agonizing deaths is now becoming clear: it ...

Commentary Weisbrot: Beyond Tax Relief for the Prosperous Few

Commentary, February, 27 2001 Mark Weisbrot
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The political success of the Bush Administration's tax cut strategy will depend on how much they can deceive people as to who gets what. Most Americans, no matter how much they hate paying taxes, do not believe that the richest people should be fi...

Commentary Weisbrot: Can Haitian Democracy Survive?

Commentary, February, 17 2001 Mark Weisbrot
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As President Jean-Bertrand Aristide takes the reins of power in Haiti for the third time in ten years, a debate over his presidency is taking place in US foreign policy circles and the press. The discussion centers around whether Aristide is "full...

Commentary Weisbrot: Still Hasn't Found What He's Looking For

Commentary, November, 06 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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Star power had boosted the movement to cancel the debt of the world's poorest countries, even if there is still little to show for its efforts. At the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings in Prague last month, the most interesting s...

Commentary Weisbrot: Clinton in Colombia: The Ugly American

Commentary, October, 04 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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When President Clinton announced his trip to Colombia, he said his purpose was "to seek peace, to fight illicit drugs, to build its economy, and to deepen democracy."

Commentary Weisbrot: Protests Keep Spotlight on IMF and World Bank Failures

Commentary, September, 26 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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PRAGUE, September 25-- With thousands of people converging from throughout Europe to demonstrate against the IMF and World Bank at their annual meetings, many people here in Prague are wondering what all the fuss is about. Security is tight, and r...

Commentary Weisbrot: World Bank Can't Seem to "Think Different"

Commentary, September, 07 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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The World Bank spends millions of dollars each year on public relations, promoting the idea that the organization is well-run, accountable, transparent, and working for "a world free of poverty" (the slogan on their web site). This effort has grow...

Commentary Weisbrot: Verizon Workers Defend the Right to Organize

Commentary, August, 19 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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Workers at Verizon Communications had a lot of reasons to go out on strike against the nation's largest provider of local telephone and wireless services: loss of jobs to non- union sub-contractors, forced overtime, overbearing management. And a...

Commentary Weisbrot: Police Abuses Won't Stifle Protests

Commentary, August, 13 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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"When protest becomes effective, governments become repressive." Tom Hayden summed it up in an axiom three decades ago, while describing his own trial on conspiracy charges for organizing protests against the Vietnam War.

Commentary Weisbrot: Venezuelan Elections Offer Hope of Real Reform

Commentary, August, 02 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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The electoral victory of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday, greeted with celebration by the country's poor majority, may have implications beyond Venezuela's borders.

Commentary Weisbrot: Trade Trumps Human Rights in Supreme Court Decision

Commentary, July, 18 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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The Supreme Court's unanimous decision yesterday to strike down the Massachusetts Burma law says more about the pro- business bias of the present Court than it does about the legal principles involved in the case.

Commentary Weisbrot: Labor in 2000: No Place to Go?

Commentary, June, 07 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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In the movie version of Steven King's classic, "The Dead Zone," Christopher Walken reads the mind of the mother of a demonic serial killer. His psychic powers discern that she had long been aware of her son's vicious murders. His eyes widen with s...

Commentary Weisbrot: Four Dead in Ohio: Thirty Years Later

Commentary, May, 05 2000 Mark Weisbrot
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May 4 will mark thirty years since four students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University were murdered by Ohio National Guardsmen. It is no exaggeration to call it murder, since the students were unarmed and-- given how far they were f...

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