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Brecher: Will War Crimes Be Outed?
Znet Article, December, 17 2008
Jeremy Brecher
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As the officials of the Bush administration pack up in Washington and move into their posh suburban homes around the country, will they be able to rest easy, or will they be haunted by the fear that they will be held accountable for war crimes com...
Costello: How the American Healthcare System Got That Way
Znet Article, December, 15 2008
Tim Costello
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As Americans respond to President-elect Obama call for town hall meetings on reform the American health care system, an understanding of how that system came to be the way it is can be crucial for figuring out how to fix it.
Brecher: The Economic Crisis in Historical Perspective
Znet Article, November, 29 2008
Jeremy Brecher
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The superlatives of the global economic meltdown of 2008 are, well, superlative. Professor Noriel Roubini of New York University says the current crisis is "the largest leveraged asset bubble and credit bubble in history." The International Monet...
Brecher: The Economic Crisis in Historical Perspective
Znet Article, November, 29 2008
Jeremy Brecher
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The superlatives of the global economic meltdown of 2008 are, well, superlative. Professor Noriel Roubini of New York University says the current crisis is "the largest leveraged asset bubble and credit bubble in history." The International Monet...
Brecher: The G-20 vs. The G-6 Billion
Znet Article, November, 19 2008
Jeremy Brecher
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The message from last weekend's G-20 summit meeting on the global economy must be a parody of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot: The game can't go on. The game must go on.
Brecher: The G-20 vs. The G-6 Billion
Znet Article, November, 19 2008
Jeremy Brecher
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The message from last weekend's G-20 summit meeting on the global economy must be a parody of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot: The game can't go on. The game must go on.
Brecher: New Tactics for Labor-Part II
Znet Article, November, 14 2008
Jeremy Brecher
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In the face of employer attack, the proportion of workers in unions fell from 27 percent in 1978 to 15 percent in 1996. Many changes contributed to declining union membership. The traditional industrial, cultural, and demographic base of the labor...
Brecher: Labor Goes to Bali
Znet Article, April, 24 2008
Jeremy Brecher
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This week trade unionists from around the world will travel to Bali for the December 3rd launch of negotiations for a successor to the Kyoto Protocol limiting greenhouse gasses. It will include delegates from such U.S unions as the Electrical Wor...
Brecher: Labor Goes to Bali
Znet Article, April, 24 2008
Jeremy Brecher
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This week trade unionists from around the world will travel to Bali for the December 3rd launch of negotiations for a successor to the Kyoto Protocol limiting greenhouse gasses. It will include delegates from such U.S unions as the Electrical Wor...
Brecher: How Green Is Your Collar?
Znet Article, March, 28 2008
Jeremy Brecher
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As cities and states from New York to California to Minnesota race to invent policies to address global warming, new mandates for investment in green energy will produce many billions of investment dollars...
Brecher: How Green Is Your Collar?
Znet Article, March, 28 2008
Jeremy Brecher
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As cities and states from New York to California to Minnesota race to invent policies to address global warming, new mandates for investment in green energy will produce many billions of investment dollars...
Brecher: Globalization: A Coalition to Contain Economic Aggression?
Znet Article, February, 25 2008
Jeremy Brecher
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Today I'd like to explore a very tentative idea: using that tacit coalition as a model for containing US and other assaults on economic well-being, human rights, and the environment. I present ideas that I hope will be somewhat controversial in t...
Brecher: Watada's Double Jeopardy
Znet Article, October, 20 2007
Jeremy Brecher
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The double jeopardy clause of the US Constitution ensures that no American can be tried twice for the same offense. But at a time when our civil liberties are rapidly eroding, a drama is unfolding in Washington State over whether that constitution...
Brecher: How the Military Can Stop an Iran Attack
Znet Article, October, 10 2007
Jeremy Brecher
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( October 9, 2007) Sometimes history-...
Brecher: An Army of None
Znet Article, July, 29 2007
Jeremy Brecher
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An Army of None
Brecher: The "Stab in the Back" Trap
Znet Article, April, 28 2007
Jeremy Brecher
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The Democrats and the ...
Brecher: Labor Confronts Global Warming
Znet Article, April, 14 2007
Jeremy Brecher
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The reality of global warming and its catastrophic consequences are today beyond debate. But American labor is caught in an intern...
Brecher: Labor Confronts Global Warming
Znet Article, April, 14 2007
Jeremy Brecher
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The reality of global warming and its catastrophic consequences are today beyond debate. But American labor is caught in an intern...
Brecher: A New Paradigm for Peace in Iraq
Znet Article, February, 21 2007
Jeremy Brecher
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A New Paradigm for Peace in Iraq
Brecher: Will the Watada Mistrial Spark an End to the War?
Znet Article, February, 10 2007
Jeremy Brecher
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A military judge in Fort Lewis, Washington, has declared a mistrial in the court-martial of Lieut. Ehren Watada, the first commissioned officer prosecuted for refusing to go to Iraq. A new trial is believed to be unlikely before summer, if at all....
Brecher: Start Preparing Now for the Coming "Cataclysmic Fight to the Death"
Znet Article, January, 07 2007
Jeremy Brecher
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While the November elections provided the Democratic Party a public mandate to end the war in Iraq, President Bush has signaled his intent to utilize his institution...
Brecher: 2006: A Year of Living Dangerously
Znet Article, December, 22 2006
Jeremy Brecher
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2006: A Year of Living Dangerously
Brecher: Ten Reasons Congress Must Investigate Bush Administration Crimes
Znet Article, November, 16 2006
Jeremy Brecher
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Few elections in history have provided so clear a mandate. As the New York Times put it, Democrats were “largely elected on the promise to act as a strong check on [Bush’s] administration.†[1] But the first response of the...
Brecher: War Criminals, Beware
Znet Article, November, 05 2006
Jeremy Brecher
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On November 14 a group of lawyers and other experts will come before the German federal prosecutor and ask him to open a criminal investigation targeting Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales and other key Bush Administration figures for war crimes. T...
Brecher: The Content of our Character
Znet Article, September, 17 2006
Jeremy Brecher
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In a significant rebuff to President Bush and his security-driven strategy for Republican victory in November, the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday rejected the President's military detainee bill and passed a radically different alterna...
Brecher: "Unite for Peace" in Lebanon?
Znet Article, July, 26 2006
Jeremy Brecher
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Israel, the U.S., and the yet-again submissive Britain are now totally isolated in their collusive attack on Lebanon.
Brecher: Pincer Strategy
Znet Article, June, 12 2006
Jeremy Brecher
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Pincer: A movement in which two columns are driven, one on each side of an enemy stronghold, so as to be able to converge like the jaws of pincers to isolate and crush the stronghold./ Echoing calls from the left, Senator Arlen Specter recently a...
Brecher: Global People's Law?
Znet Article, May, 04 2006
Jeremy Brecher
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{ This paper was prepared for the June 1 - 7 2006 first Z Sessions on Vision and Strategy, held in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. These sessions g...
Brecher: Alito and the Limits of Presidential Power
Znet Article, January, 07 2006
Jeremy Brecher
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The Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Samuel Alito represent the first major battle in an emerging constitutional war over the authority of the President. Revelations that President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to spy on US c...
Brecher: Fixing the Torture Fix
Znet Article, December, 24 2005
Jeremy Brecher
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Congress passed just before Christmas legislation allowing evidence obtained by torture to be used against Guantánamo captives and denying them the right to habeas corpus--the right to make the government justify their captivity before a court. C...
