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Weisbrot: Bush Unites the World
Znet Article, February, 18 2003
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"I'm a uniter, not a divider," said George W. Bush during his presidential campaign. He got that one right. He has managed to unite the whole world against him and the war he proposes to wage against Iraq. From New York to Johannesburg, millions ...
Weisbrot: War Games
Znet Article, February, 11 2003
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The ink was barely dry on the headline of USA Today -- "Bush: The Game Is Over" -- when the response came from French Prime Minister Jean- Pierre Raffarin: "It's not a game. It's not over." For the first time in decades, the "Old Europe" that Def...
Weisbrot: Another World Is Possible-- And Necessary
Znet Article, February, 01 2003
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PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL -- "I will tell the people at Davos that the world does not need war, the world needs peace and understanding," said President Lula da Silva to a cheering crowd of tens of thousands in this sunny port city in Southeastern Braz...
Weisbrot: Bush's New Tax Cut
Znet Article, January, 18 2003
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Here we go again, as Ronald Reagan used to say. The Bush administration has already taken advantage of our most recent recession to pass a $1.35 trillion tax cut, of which 36 percent went to the richest one percent of taxpayers. These are people w...
Weisbrot: A Split Screen In Strike Torn Venezuela
Znet Article, January, 13 2003
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Walking around Caracas late last month during Venezuela's ongoing protests, I was surprised by what I saw. My expectations had been shaped by persistent U.S. media coverage of the nationwide strike called by the opposition, which seeks President H...
Weisbrot: US is still intervening in Venezuela
Znet Article, December, 18 2002
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CARACAS (Dec. 18) "Where are they getting their money?" asks historian Samuel Moncada, as the television displays one opposition commercial after another. Moncada is chair of the history department at Central University of Venezuela in Caracas. We...
Weisbrot: Bush Administration Pushes
Znet Article, December, 03 2002
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It's 10 p.m. -- do...
Weisbrot: Getting The Most Out Of Homeland Security
Znet Article, November, 21 2002
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In a final burst of shameless opportunism for the legislative year 2002, the President and his party pushed their "homeland security" bill through Congress. The bill was laden with pork and gifts to special interests. Among the most ostentatious w...
Weisbrot: Getting The Most Out Of Homeland Security
Znet Article, November, 21 2002
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In a final burst of shameless opportunism for the legislative year 2002, the President and his party pushed their "homeland security" bill through Congress. The bill was laden with pork and gifts to special interests. Among the most ostentatious w...
Weisbrot: It's A New Day And Brazil Wants A New Deal
Znet Article, November, 02 2002
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Last Sunday's election in Brazil should send a message to Washington's economists and policymakers that their prescriptions for economic progress are no longer viable. But these people are slow learners. The conventional wisdom among economists ...
Weisbrot: Venezuelan Democracy Under Siege
Znet Article, October, 18 2002
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Twelve years ago a populist priest named Jean-Bertrand Aristide became President of Haiti, in the country's first democratic elections. A businessman summed up the attitude of Haiti's small but stubborn elite: "Everybody who is anybody is against ...
Weisbrot: The Post-Bubble Economy: A Better World
Znet Article, July, 24 2002
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Across the country, it is finally sinking in. There really was a bubble in the stock market, and it has now burst. This is not like Tiger Woods having a bad day at the British Open. He may rebound to his past glory, but the stock market will not.&...
Weisbrot: An Economist's View of the Stock Market
Znet Article, July, 22 2002
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Back in March 2000, when the stock market bubble was beginning to deflate, I talked to journalists from the nation's major newspapers about what it meant. Almost all of them held the view that there was nothing definitive that could be said about ...
Weisbrot: What are they doing to Argentina
Znet Article, June, 26 2002
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The head of the IMF's delegation to Argentina was recently cornered outside his hotel room by reporters from a popular, muck-raking television show. They handed him a set of large, plastic Halloween vampire teeth. "We found these lodged in Preside...
Weisbrot: Derailing Fast Track
Znet Article, June, 24 2002
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Derailing Fast Track
Weisbrot: Brazilian Democracy Faces Obstacles from the North
Znet Article, May, 07 2002
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Brazilian Democracy Faces Obstacles from the North
Weisbrot: When Surrender Isn't Good Enough
Znet Article, May, 06 2002
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Weisbrot: Venezuelan Democracy Survives, In Spite of Washington
Znet Article, April, 15 2002
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A joke that was once popular in Latin America has become relevant again: Why has there never been a military coup in the United States? Answer: because there's no U.S. embassy here. Latin Americans would not be surprised to read that the military...
Weisbrot: World Bank Opposes Changing Loans to Grants for Poor Countries
Znet Article, March, 19 2002
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J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" has captivated millions on the big screen because it is an archetypal tale of power and human nature. The corrupting influence of power, its overwhelming temptation even to those whose intentions are good, the ...
