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Znet Article Weisbrot: PIIGS Countries Being Led to the Slaughter, Should Re-Think Euro

Znet Article, March, 28 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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As the EU summit meeting convenes, Greece is dominating the agenda much more than Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel had wanted. This week she has thrown cold water on the idea that Germany and other EU countries would take responsibility for help...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Thousands of Haitians will die unless U.S. beefs-up relief efforts

Znet Article, March, 26 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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President Clinton apologized on March 10 for the role that his government played in destroying a big part of Haitian agriculture: “It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not worked . . . I have to live every day with ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: International Campaign Around Venezuela's Elections Has Begun

Znet Article, March, 19 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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Venezuela has an election for its National Assembly in September, and the campaign has begun in earnest. I am referring to the international campaign. This is carried out largely through the international media, although some will spill over into ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Greenspan's Nightmare Is Much of the World's Dream

Znet Article, March, 14 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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Alan Greenspan had a dream, or rather a nightmare. Greenspan seems to have woken up in a cold sweat one morning in fear that the period of "disinflationary pressures" that had kept inflation low since the 1990s was about to end. This was 2007, whe...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Hillary Clinton's "Damage Control" Trip to Latin America

Znet Article, March, 09 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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Offensive remarks on Honduras, gratuitous insults in Brazil – Hillary Clinton's Latin American tour has not been a success

Znet Article Weisbrot: America's Public Debt

Znet Article, February, 28 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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Various political demagogues and Wall Street interests have mounted a campaign to convince Americans that despite persistent massive unemployment for the foreseeable future, more than 15 million people underwater on their home mortgages, and two u...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Independent Latin America Forms Its Own Organization

Znet Article, February, 26 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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Latin America took another historic step forward this week with the creation of a new regional organization of 32 Latin American and Caribbean countries. The United States and Canada were excluded.

Znet Article Weisbrot: Central Bank Independence: From Whom?

Znet Article, February, 18 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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The President of Argentina, Cristina Fernández, recently fired the head of the central bank, Martín Redrado, when he rejected the government's plan to use $6.6 billion of international reserves to pay off debt.

Znet Article Weisbrot: Haiti Needs Sunlight and Accountability on Relief and Reconstruction Effort

Znet Article, February, 10 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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Last week actors and human rights advocates Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte, along with the Reverend Jesse Jackson, sent a letter to Congress and the Obama Administration calling attention to "serious mistakes that have unnecessarily delayed the ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: The US game in Latin America

Znet Article, January, 31 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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US interference in the politics of Haiti and Honduras is only the latest example of its long-term manipulations in Latin America

Znet Article Weisbrot: U.S. "Security Concerns" Could Cost Many Lives in Haiti

Znet Article, January, 21 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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Yesterday, six days after the earthquake in Haiti, the U.S. Southern Command finally began to drop bottled water and food (MREs) from an Air Force C-17. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates had previously rejected such a method because of "security...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Latvia Shows the Damage That Far Right Economic Policy Can Do - With Support from the European Union and IMF

Znet Article, January, 15 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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The signs of recession are more noticeable to those who live here - restaurants and coffee shops have lost most of their customers, and construction has practically ground to a halt. Emigration has soared.

Znet Article Weisbrot: Media Battles in Latin America Not About "Free Speech"

Znet Article, January, 08 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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For at least a month now in Ecuador there has been a battle over regulation of the media. It has been in the front pages of the newspapers most of the time, and a leading daily, El Comercio, referred to the fight as one for "defense of human right...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Public Spending Still Key to Economic Recovery

Znet Article, January, 04 2010 Mark Weisbrot
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There are right-wing voices claiming that the government is an obstacle to economic recovery in the United States, irresponsibly piling up debt, burdening future generations, and ruining the investment climate. For them, we only need to rely on th...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Top Ten Ways You Can Tell Which Side The United States Government is On With Regard to the Military Coup in Honduras

Znet Article, December, 16 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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Top Ten Ways You Can Tell Which Side The United States Government is On With Regard to the Military Coup in Honduras

Znet Article Weisbrot: Brazil's Differences With Washington Are Unavoidable, And Positive

Znet Article, December, 04 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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Over the last decade an epoch-making political change has taken place in the Western Hemisphere: Latin America, a region that was once considered the United States' "back yard," is now more independent of Washington than Europe is.

Znet Article Weisbrot: Honduran Dictatorship Is A Threat to Democracy In the Hemisphere

Znet Article, November, 19 2009 Mark Weisbrot
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A small group of rich people who own most of Honduras and its politicians enlist the military to kidnap the elected president at gunpoint and take him into exile. They then arrest thousands of people opposed to the coup, shut down and intimidate i...

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...

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