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Baker: Land of the Fee: The $1.2 Trillion Health Care Tax
Znet Article, August, 22 2012
Dean Baker
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An inefficient health care system is costing $1.2 trillion, but many economists want to fix the budget by slashing it
Markoff: Skilled Work, Without the Worker
Znet Article, August, 22 2012
John Markoff
Markoff's ZSpace page
“As human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache”
Lasker: Behind the Profit: How the US Government Facilitates Outsourcing Jobs Overseas
Znet Article, August, 20 2012
John Lasker
Lasker's ZSpace page
The American government on all levels continues to facilitate job loss to other countries
Castañeda: Microcredit Bank “Incorporates Women in the Benefits of Development”
Znet Article, August, 20 2012
Nora Castañeda
Castañeda's ZSpace page
Banmujer, the only public bank of its kind in the world – which targets women, offering them services completely free of charge – has granted 150,000 small loans
Cooke: How President Obama Created Paul Ryan
Commentary, August, 18 2012
Shamus Cooke
Cooke's ZSpace page
No one deserves more credit for Ryan's rapid rise into stardom than President Obama
Navarro: The Euro is Not in Trouble; the People Are
Znet Article, August, 18 2012
Vincent Navarro
Navarro's ZSpace page
The major forces behind the Euro have done very well and continue to do so
Zirin: After the London Olympics: “The Gloves Come Off”
Commentary, August, 16 2012
Dave Zirin
Zirin's ZSpace page
"After the Olympics the gloves will come off." They all meant that the Olympics were a vacation from political reality
Wolff: Five Reasons Why Crisis Persists
Znet Article, August, 16 2012
Richard D. Wolff
Wolff's ZSpace page
a discussion of five major reasons for the economic crisis's persistence
Harrison: The Greek Grassroots Challenge to the Politics of Austerity
Znet Article, August, 16 2012
Thomas Harrison
Harrison's ZSpace page
Understanding the popular upsurge against the Greek government's austerity program
Hill: ‘Why Is Peru Naming New Gas Exploration After A Murderer?’
Znet Article, August, 16 2012
David Hill
Hill's ZSpace page
What hideous irony: naming a new gas project that could kill scores of indigenous people in the Amazon after someone who killed scores of indigenous people in the Amazon
Wolff: Choosing Ryan, Embracing Austerity
Commentary, August, 14 2012
Richard D. Wolff
Wolff's ZSpace page
Ryan's nomination is another milestone in dissolving what remains of the "American Dream"
Chomsky: On Politics, Occupy, the Tea Party and the Global Financial Crisis
Znet Article, August, 11 2012
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
In this interview, Chomsky talks about his understanding of the political system, Occupy, the Tea Party, the so-called Euro-crisis and President Obama’s first term
Doran: Iran and the Petrodollar Threat to U.S. Empire
Znet Article, August, 11 2012
Christopher Doran
Doran's ZSpace page
Iran has unleashed a weapon of mass destruction of a very different kind: the U.S. dollar as the exclusive global currency for all oil transactions.
Pearson: Chavez: Venezuela Will Have Some of the Largest Industrial Hubs in the Americas
Znet Article, August, 10 2012
Tamara Pearson
Pearson's ZSpace page
Venezuela developing industrial hubs over the next few years, saying they will be among the “largest” on the American continent
Williams: A New Dust Bowl?
Znet Article, August, 09 2012
Chris Williams
Williams's ZSpace page
The drought gripping the U.S. can't be separated from climate change
Robertson: Revolutionary Democracy in the Economy? Venezuela’s Worker Control Movement and the Plan Socialist Guayana
Znet Article, August, 07 2012
Ewan Robertson
Robertson's ZSpace page
Venezuela’s worker control movement demonstrates to the world that workers can indeed collectively self-manage their factories and workplaces
Monbiot: Putting A Price On The Rivers And Rain Diminishes Us All
Znet Article, August, 07 2012
George Monbiot
Monbiot's ZSpace page
Payments for 'ecosystem services' look like the prelude to the greatest privatization since enclosure
Scher: Greetings from the New Economy
Znet Article, August, 04 2012
Abby Scher
Scher's ZSpace page
In a race against climate change, a new movement seeks to build a just, sustainable world
Baker: For Greece There Is An Alternative To Austerity – As Argentina Proved
Znet Article, August, 03 2012
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
The IMF and Germany don't want Greece to know the truth – that a euro exit might lead to a stronger economy, not ruin
Chollet: Back To Being Mothers, Or Whores?
Znet Article, August, 02 2012
Mona Chollet
Chollet's ZSpace page
Jobs are scarce and neither well-paid nor satisfying. Is that why young women are being encouraged by the media to define themselves as domestic goddesses or paid tarts?


