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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...
Weisbrot: Protesters 2, Multinational Monsters 0
Commentary, April, 22 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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It's amazing what an organized group of people can accomplish when their cause is just and they are willing to be stubborn and creative about it. Last December they knocked the wind out of the WTO in Seattle. Now this diverse and expanding movemen...
Weisbrot: Spring Protests in Washington, D.C: Another Seattle?
Commentary, March, 24 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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The Clinton administration claims to have learned something from the outpouring of protest against the World Trade Organization (WTO) last December. "Those who heard a wake-up call in Seattle got the right message," said President Clinton. Maybe s...
Weisbrot: Anti-WTO Organizing
Zmag Article, March, 01 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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The demonstrations against the WTO in Seattle were probably among the most effective protests in modern American history. The sequel—on April 16 in Washington DC, at the IMF/World Bank spring meetings—may have an even great...
Weisbrot: Drug Companies Fight Prescription Benefits for Seniors
Commentary, February, 15 2000
Mark Weisbrot
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What are the limits to corporate greed in the year 2000? We may be about to find out. The pharmaceutical companies, whose rate of profit is more than three times the average of other corporations, have been using their enormous clout to block pres...
Weisbrot: Time to End Debt Slavery
Commentary, October, 31 1999
Mark Weisbrot
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It has become a truism that "there are no easy answers" to the world's most pressing economic and social problems. The phrase is often repeated by academics, policy wonks, and others whose occupation immerses them in the details of real or imagine...
Weisbrot: Budget Baloney
Commentary, October, 20 1999
Mark Weisbrot
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How much falsehood and stupidity should the media allow to go unchallenged in public debate? At what point do journalists and the press have an obligation to step in and supply the necessary facts and explanations, so that the public can have a ch...
Weisbrot: The Looting of Russia
Commentary, September, 29 1999
Mark Weisbrot
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What were they thinking? When executives at the Bank of New York saw billions of dollars floating in from the home computer of a Russian businessman with ties to organized crime there, did they really believe that these were just ordinary profits?
Weisbrot: Growing Concerns Over WTO
Commentary, September, 25 1999
Mark Weisbrot
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In just a couple of months thousands of environmentalists, steel workers, longshoremen, AIDS activists, farmers, and others will descend upon Seattle in a "mobilization against globalization." They will hold marches, protests, teach-ins, and confe...
Weisbrot: Washington Fiddles While East Timor Burns
Commentary, September, 15 1999
Mark Weisbrot
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The violence and crisis in East Timor has raised pointed questions about U.S. foreign policy and what we stand for in the world. It was only months ago that we bombed Serbia for 78 days, killing hundreds and perhaps thousands of innocent civilians...
Weisbrot: What Everyone Should Know About the Budget Debate
Commentary, September, 03 1999
Mark Weisbrot
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This commentary is for those who really want to understand the debate that has been raging over what to do with the projected Federal budget surpluses over the next 10 years. It's not as difficult as it seems.
Weisbrot: Trade Wars: Where's the Beef
Commentary, August, 16 1999
Mark Weisbrot
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Should countries have the right to set health and safety standards for the food that their citizens eat? Should they be allowed to exclude foreign-produced foods that don't meet national standards? Or should these questions be decided by the World...
Weisbrot: Fed Preemptive Strike
Commentary, July, 09 1999
Mark Weisbrot
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The Fed launched a "pre-emptive strike" this week against an unseen enemy -- inflation -- by raising interest rates one-quarter percentage point. With inflation at its lowest level in 30 years (2.1%), why would the Fed want to start down a path th...
Weisbrot: No Change at Treasury
Commentary, May, 17 1999
Mark Weisbrot
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Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin picked a good time to resign. As a senior White House official said, Rubin "made his fortune selling at the top of the market."
Weisbrot: Give Peace A Chance
Commentary, May, 05 1999
Mark Weisbrot
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How long can NATO continue bombing Yugoslavia? The Clinton administration's answer so far has been, "as long as it takes" for Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic to capitulate to its demands.
Weisbrot: The Debacle in Kosovo
Commentary, April, 08 1999
Mark Weisbrot
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The bombing of Yugoslavia is turning out to be a foreign policy debacle of disastrous proportions, yet most of the chattering class insists that we can turn things around if we only commit more troops. We have heard that before.
Weisbrot: Keep Hope Alive
Commentary, March, 02 1999
Mark Weisbrot
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Who says one person can't make a difference? Jesse Jackson, Jr. has shaken things up in Congress by taking on the establishment and offering a bold alternative to our shameful foreign economic policy in Africa.
Weisbrot: Neoliberalism Comes Unglued
Zmag Article, October, 01 1998
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Neoliberalism Comes Unglued
