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Znet Article Weisbrot: The Great US Foreign Policy Flaw

Znet Article, April, 11 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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Of all the misunderstandings that guide US foreign policy – including foreign commercial policy – perhaps the most important and long-lasting is the failure to recognize or understand what national self-determination means to most people in the wo...

Znet Article Weisbrot: IMF Changing Slowly, But How Much?

Znet Article, April, 04 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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Over the past year or two the IMF has made some positive changes in policy and in their published work, some of which challenges the conventional wisdom among central banks and even the past practice of the IMF itself. The Fund, which prior to the...

Znet Article Weisbrot: PIIGS Countries Being Led to the Slaughter, Should Re-Think Euro

Znet Article, March, 28 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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As the EU summit meeting convenes, Greece is dominating the agenda much more than Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel had wanted. This week she has thrown cold water on the idea that Germany and other EU countries would take responsibility for help...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Thousands of Haitians will die unless U.S. beefs-up relief efforts

Znet Article, March, 26 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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President Clinton apologized on March 10 for the role that his government played in destroying a big part of Haitian agriculture: “It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not worked . . . I have to live every day with ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: International Campaign Around Venezuela's Elections Has Begun

Znet Article, March, 19 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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Venezuela has an election for its National Assembly in September, and the campaign has begun in earnest. I am referring to the international campaign. This is carried out largely through the international media, although some will spill over into ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Greenspan's Nightmare Is Much of the World's Dream

Znet Article, March, 14 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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Alan Greenspan had a dream, or rather a nightmare. Greenspan seems to have woken up in a cold sweat one morning in fear that the period of "disinflationary pressures" that had kept inflation low since the 1990s was about to end. This was 2007, whe...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Hillary Clinton's "Damage Control" Trip to Latin America

Znet Article, March, 09 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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Offensive remarks on Honduras, gratuitous insults in Brazil – Hillary Clinton's Latin American tour has not been a success

Znet Article Weisbrot: America's Public Debt

Znet Article, February, 28 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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Various political demagogues and Wall Street interests have mounted a campaign to convince Americans that despite persistent massive unemployment for the foreseeable future, more than 15 million people underwater on their home mortgages, and two u...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Independent Latin America Forms Its Own Organization

Znet Article, February, 26 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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Latin America took another historic step forward this week with the creation of a new regional organization of 32 Latin American and Caribbean countries. The United States and Canada were excluded.

Commentary Weisbrot: How Wars Are Made

Commentary, February, 20 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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In a visit to Qatar and Saudi Arabia this week, Hillary Clinton said that Iran "is moving toward a military dictatorship," and continued the Administration's campaign for tougher sanctions against that country.

Znet Article Weisbrot: Central Bank Independence: From Whom?

Znet Article, February, 18 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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The President of Argentina, Cristina Fernández, recently fired the head of the central bank, Martín Redrado, when he rejected the government's plan to use $6.6 billion of international reserves to pay off debt.

Znet Article Weisbrot: Haiti Needs Sunlight and Accountability on Relief and Reconstruction Effort

Znet Article, February, 10 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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Last week actors and human rights advocates Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte, along with the Reverend Jesse Jackson, sent a letter to Congress and the Obama Administration calling attention to "serious mistakes that have unnecessarily delayed the ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: The US game in Latin America

Znet Article, January, 31 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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US interference in the politics of Haiti and Honduras is only the latest example of its long-term manipulations in Latin America

Znet Article Weisbrot: U.S. "Security Concerns" Could Cost Many Lives in Haiti

Znet Article, January, 21 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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Yesterday, six days after the earthquake in Haiti, the U.S. Southern Command finally began to drop bottled water and food (MREs) from an Air Force C-17. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates had previously rejected such a method because of "security...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Latvia Shows the Damage That Far Right Economic Policy Can Do - With Support from the European Union and IMF

Znet Article, January, 15 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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The signs of recession are more noticeable to those who live here - restaurants and coffee shops have lost most of their customers, and construction has practically ground to a halt. Emigration has soared.

Znet Article Weisbrot: Media Battles in Latin America Not About "Free Speech"

Znet Article, January, 08 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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For at least a month now in Ecuador there has been a battle over regulation of the media. It has been in the front pages of the newspapers most of the time, and a leading daily, El Comercio, referred to the fight as one for "defense of human right...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Public Spending Still Key to Economic Recovery

Znet Article, January, 04 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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There are right-wing voices claiming that the government is an obstacle to economic recovery in the United States, irresponsibly piling up debt, burdening future generations, and ruining the investment climate. For them, we only need to rely on th...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Top Ten Ways You Can Tell Which Side The United States Government is On With Regard to the Military Coup in Honduras

Znet Article, December, 16 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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Top Ten Ways You Can Tell Which Side The United States Government is On With Regard to the Military Coup in Honduras

Znet Article Weisbrot: Brazil's Differences With Washington Are Unavoidable, And Positive

Znet Article, December, 04 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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Over the last decade an epoch-making political change has taken place in the Western Hemisphere: Latin America, a region that was once considered the United States' "back yard," is now more independent of Washington than Europe is.

Znet Article Weisbrot: Honduran Dictatorship Is A Threat to Democracy In the Hemisphere

Znet Article, November, 19 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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A small group of rich people who own most of Honduras and its politicians enlist the military to kidnap the elected president at gunpoint and take him into exile. They then arrest thousands of people opposed to the coup, shut down and intimidate i...

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