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Znet Article Weisbrot: Obama, China and the Dollar

Znet Article, November, 16 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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President Obama is in Asia this week and has promised to say something about the exchange rate between the Chinese yuan and the U.S. dollar. It would be good if some enterprising journalist asked him why the United States is worried about the Chin...

Znet Article Weisbrot: U.S. Must Solve Its Own Economic Problems

Znet Article, November, 13 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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President Obama will go to Asia next week and has promised to say something about the exchange rate between the Chinese yuan and the U.S. dollar. It would be good if some enterprising journalist asked him why the United States is worried about the...

Znet Article Weisbrot: President Obama's Credibility on the Line in Honduras

Znet Article, November, 06 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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Last Friday an agreement was reached between the de facto regime in Honduras, which took power in a military coup on 28 June, and the elected president Manuel Zelaya, for the restoration of democracy there.

Znet Article Weisbrot: Ecuador, Bolivia Show that Even Small Developing Countries Can Pursue Independent Economic Policies, Stand Up for Their Rights, and Win

Znet Article, October, 28 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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Among the conventional wisdom that we hear everyday in the business press is that developing countries should bend over backwards to create a friendly climate for foreign corporations, follow orthodox (neoliberal) macroeconomic policy advice, and ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: When the Media Is a Big Part of the Problem

Znet Article, October, 23 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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What kind of a public debate can we have on the most vital issues of the day in the United States? A lot depends on the media, which determines how these issues are framed for most people.

Znet Article Weisbrot: Occupying Afghanistan Is Making Things Worse

Znet Article, October, 12 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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President Obama is coming under attack from the Right for his reluctance to grant the request of General Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, for more U.S. troops. On the other side of the equation sits the majority ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: A New Role For the IMF?

Znet Article, October, 08 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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Rescued from a state of near-irrelevance by the world recession and an infusion of hundreds of billions of dollars (mostly from the U.S., Europe, and Japan), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is now thinking of expanding its role into previous...

Znet Article Weisbrot: The G20 Fantasy

Znet Article, September, 27 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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The G20 is not a system of international economic co-operation, or a board of directors, or a governing council for the global economy, to pick some of the terms that have appeared in the media. It is a forum where the heads of state of 20 economi...

Znet Article Weisbrot: How Much Repression Will Hillary Clinton Support in Honduras?

Znet Article, September, 23 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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Now that President Zelaya has returned to Honduras, the coup government - after first denying that he was there - has unleashed a wave of repression to prevent people from gathering support for their elected president.

Znet Article Weisbrot: What Reforms Will The United States Have as a Result of This Recession?

Znet Article, September, 17 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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Corruption takes many forms in different countries and locations. Here in the United States it may not be as common to pay off a judge or a customs official as it is in most low and middle income countries, but we do have quite a bit of legalized ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" Will Find a Ready Audience

Znet Article, September, 10 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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When I first met Michael Moore more than 20 years ago he was showing a half-finished documentary to a few dozen people in a classroom in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was funny and poignant and had a powerful message. He had taken a second mortgage on h...

Znet Article Weisbrot: IMF Gives $164 million to Coup Government in Honduras, Following Familiar Pattern

Znet Article, September, 03 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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The IMF is undergoing an unprecedented expansion of its access to resources, possibly reaching a trillion dollars. This week the European Union committed $175 billion, $67 billion more than even the $108 billion that Washington agreed to fork over...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Public Still Ahead Of Its Leaders on Foreign Policy

Znet Article, August, 27 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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Americans are famous for not paying much attention to the rest of the world, and it is often said that foreign wars are the way that we learn geography. But most often it is not the people who have little direct experience outside their own countr...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Seven Weeks After Honduran Coup, Washington Still Lagging the Region on Restoring Democracy

Znet Article, August, 21 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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Seven weeks after the Honduran military overthrew the democratically elected president of Honduras, the divide between the United States and Latin America continues to grow - although you might not get that impression from most mainstream media re...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Myths About U.S. Economic Model May Not Survive the World Recession

Znet Article, August, 15 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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The Great Recession is allowing some widely held beliefs about the U.S. economy - which were the source of much evangelism over the last few decades - to run up against a reality check. This is to be expected, since the United States has been the ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Obama Should Change Course and Support Democracy In Honduras

Znet Article, August, 14 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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President Obama is making a big mistake in coddling the dictatorship in Honduras, and putting his administration at odds with the rest of the hemisphere. It also looks terrible to the world that his government so easily abandons its professed comm...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Obama's Continuance of Bush Policies in Latin America is a Serious Mistake

Znet Article, August, 13 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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There were great hopes in Latin America when President Obama was elected. U.S. standing in the region had reached a low point under George W. Bush, and all of the hemisphere's left-leaning governments expressed optimism that Obama would go in a di...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Anti-Venezuela Spokespeople Misrepresent Reality of Press Freedom in Venezuela

Znet Article, August, 12 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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Denis MacShane attacks the British left for defending Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez against an onslaught from the media, "New Cold Warriors," and right-wing demagogues throughout the world. His rhetorical trick is to tar the left with a new med...

Znet Article Weisbrot: U.S.- Brokered Mediation Has Failed - It's Time for Latin America to Take Charge

Znet Article, August, 01 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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The mediation effort that US secretary of state Hillary Clinton arranged to try to resolve the crisis in Honduras, which began when a military coup removed Honduran President Mel Zelaya more than four weeks ago, has failed. It is now time – some...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Right Wing Media

Znet Article, July, 30 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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The controversy over the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and President Obama's remark that the police "acted stupidly" has taken up a lot of newspaper and broadcast space in the past week, and brought some attention to the proble...

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