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Znet Article Weisbrot: "Net Neutrality" Is Vital to Free Speech in the Internet Age

Znet Article, September, 18 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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The mass media remains, in the 21st century, one of the most powerful forces blocking social and economic progress.

Znet Article Weisbrot: The Venezuelan Economy: Media Sources Get It Wrong, Again

Znet Article, September, 14 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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The bulk of the media often gets pulled along for the ride when the United States government has a serious political and public relations campaign around foreign policy. But almost nowhere is it so monolithic as with Venezuela. Even in the run-up ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: More Stimulus Badly Needed to Create Jobs

Znet Article, September, 05 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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This is the worst Labor Day for American labor in decades, maybe since the Great Depression. Unemployment is at 9.5 percent (as of July), and if we add in the people involuntarily working part time or who have given up looking for work, we get 16....

Znet Article Weisbrot: Who Will Allow Brazil to Reach Its Economic Potential?

Znet Article, August, 31 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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The biggest economic question facing Brazil, as for most developing countries, is when it will achieve its potential economic growth. For Brazil, there is a simple, most relevant comparison: its pre-1980 - or pre-neoliberal - past.

Znet Article Weisbrot: Who Will Allow Brazil to Reach Its Economic Potential?

Znet Article, August, 28 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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The biggest economic question facing Brazil, as for most developing countries, is when it will achieve its potential economic growth. For Brazil, there is a simple, most relevant comparison: its pre-1980 - or pre-neoliberal - past.

Znet Article Weisbrot: Does Washington Want Normal Diplomatic Relations With Venezuela?

Znet Article, August, 19 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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While President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and the new President of Colombia, Manuel Santos met in Santa Marta, Colombia last Tuesday and agreed to normalize relations after a fierce diplomatic fight, there are no indications that such détente is in...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Washington and International Donors Have Failed Haiti

Znet Article, August, 14 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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The "international community" is in charge of rebuilding Haiti, and one thing has become clear: they are not interested in any kind of democracy there, not even the low level of "democracy" that they have committed to in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Znet Article Weisbrot: Hungary's Defiance of IMF and European Authorities Scares the Guardians of Austerity in Europe

Znet Article, August, 11 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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The government of Hungary has taken on a lot of powerful interests in the last couple of months, and so far appears to be winning - despite provoking outrage from "everybody who's anybody."

Znet Article Weisbrot: Is José Serra Campaigning in Washington or in Brazil?

Znet Article, August, 10 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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What is José Serra trying to do? In his campaign for president of Brazil he has accused Bolivia of complicity in drug trafficking, and criticized Lula for trying to mediate in Washington's fight with Iran...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Colombia-Venezuela Dispute Will Be Better Resolved In South America

Znet Article, July, 29 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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In March I wrote about the Obama administration's contribution (March 18) to the election campaign under way in Venezuela, where voters will choose a new National Assembly in September. I predicted that certain things would happen before September...

Znet Article Weisbrot: No Convincing Economic Arguments Against Further Stimulus Spending

Znet Article, July, 27 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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In much of the world, including the United States and Europe, a debate is taking place about whether the government's first responsibility should be to reduce unemployment - which is at elevated levels -- or to reduce government deficits and debt.

Znet Article Weisbrot: Alternatives to Fiscal Austerity in Spain

Znet Article, July, 25 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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This paper looks at the planned austerity measures in Spain, the rationale for the spending cuts and tax increases, likely outcomes for future debt-to-GDP ratios, and the probable results of alternative policies.

Znet Article Weisbrot: Life Imitates Art

Znet Article, July, 18 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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It's nice when you make a documentary about how the major media outlets misrepresent reality, and the media response to the film proves your point. In fact, the media's response to Oliver Stone's "South of the Border," which I wrote with Tariq Ali...

Znet Article Weisbrot: European Authorities Taking Advantage of "Crisis"

Znet Article, July, 12 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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One thing should be made clear about the situation in the Eurozone economies that is not clear at all if we rely on most of the news reports. This is not a situation where countries face a "dilemma" because they have overspent and piled up too muc...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Washington Still Has Problems With Democracy in Latin America

Znet Article, July, 10 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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Imagine that Barack Obama, upon taking office in January 2009, had decided to deliver on his campaign promise to "to end business-as-usual in Washington so we can bring about real change."

Znet Article Stone: Filmmakers Respond to Attack from the New York Times' Larry Rohter

Znet Article, July, 01 2010 Oliver Stone
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The following letter was sent to The New York Times...

Znet Article Weisbrot: One Year After the Coup

Znet Article, July, 01 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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At dawn one year ago, on June 28, soldiers invaded the home of Honduran President Mel Zelaya and flew him to Costa Rica. It was a frightening throwback to the days when military men, backed by a local oligarchy and often the United States, could o...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Washington Elite Still Don't Get Latin America - Will They Ever?

Znet Article, June, 30 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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In the film "Guantanamera," the last by renowned Cuban director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, the Yoruba creation myth is presented as a metaphor for the difficulties of bringing about change. In this myth, humans were at first immortal, but the result wa...

Znet Article Weisbrot: More Stimulus Needed to Reduce Unemployment

Znet Article, June, 26 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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It is sad to see that the U.S. Congress is having trouble even passing just $24 billion for unemployment insurance at a time when the economy is weak and unemployment is at nearly 10 percent. This shows the power of right-wing ideology in this cou...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Brazil's Presidential Election: Opposition Tries "Republican Strategy" On Foreign Policy

Znet Article, June, 18 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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Four years ago, when the government of Evo Morales re-nationalized its hydrocarbon industry, the Brazilian media was spoiling for a fight. After all, Petrobras, the Brazilian oil and gas company, had major interests there. But President Lula Da Si...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Bad Economic Policy Still Biggest Threat to Global Economic Recovery

Znet Article, June, 15 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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The U.S. and European Union together make up about half of the global economy, and recovery is quite uncertain in both of these big economies. Contrary to a lot of folk wisdom and political posturing, the problem is not irresponsible government sp...

Znet Article Weisbrot: A "New World Order" is Possible - And Needed

Znet Article, May, 26 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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The efforts of Brazil and Turkey to find a negotiated solution to the standoff over Iran's nuclear program, which generated a negotiated agreement with Iran last week, must be seen in the context of a growing challenge to the international politic...

Znet Article Weisbrot: The European Union's Dangerous Game

Znet Article, May, 13 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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Perhaps the wild swings in financial and stock markets over the last week will make people give closer scrutiny to what is going on in Europe, which would be a good thing for the world. According to most news reporting, markets are worried about a...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Venezuela Is Not Greece

Znet Article, May, 07 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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With Venezuela's economy having contracted last year (as did the vast majority of economies in the Western Hemisphere), the economy suffering from electricity shortages, and the value of domestic currency having recently fallen sharply in the para...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Baltic Countries Show What Greece May Look Forward To If It Follows EC/IMF Advice

Znet Article, May, 01 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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As I have noted previously, Latvia has experienced the worst two-year economic downturn on record, losing more than 25 percent of GDP. It is projected to shrink further during the first half of this year, before beginning a slow recovery, in which...

Znet Article Weisbrot: How Wars Are Ended: Rebellion in U.S. Congress Could Mark the Beginning of the End for Afghan War

Znet Article, April, 27 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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Imagine that the United States were spending an amount that exceeded 60 percent of its national income on the military and police. (For comparison, the U.S. Department of Defense budget - bloated as it is -- is about 5 percent of GDP; and spending...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Venezuela's Recovery Depends on Economic Policy

Znet Article, April, 17 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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Throughout Venezuela's record-breaking economic expansion, the government's opponents - which includes most of the international media as well as Washington - were "crying, waiting, hoping," as the rock and roll legend Buddy Holly once sang. The "...

Znet Article Weisbrot: U.S. and China Reach "Agreement" on Currency Dispute, Iran

Znet Article, April, 16 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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The United States and China seem to have reached an agreement with regard to the exchange rate between their two currencies. The agreement is that the U.S. government will stop yelling about it, and China will do whatever it wants to do, which wil...

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...

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