Zcom_simple

Back Search Results - New Search

Znet Article Weisbrot: Seven Weeks After Honduran Coup, Washington Still Lagging the Region on Restoring Democracy

Znet Article, August, 21 2009 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

Seven weeks after the Honduran military overthrew the democratically elected president of Honduras, the divide between the United States and Latin America continues to grow - although you might not get that impression from most mainstream media re...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Myths About U.S. Economic Model May Not Survive the World Recession

Znet Article, August, 15 2009 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

The Great Recession is allowing some widely held beliefs about the U.S. economy - which were the source of much evangelism over the last few decades - to run up against a reality check. This is to be expected, since the United States has been the ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Obama Should Change Course and Support Democracy In Honduras

Znet Article, August, 14 2009 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

President Obama is making a big mistake in coddling the dictatorship in Honduras, and putting his administration at odds with the rest of the hemisphere. It also looks terrible to the world that his government so easily abandons its professed comm...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Obama's Continuance of Bush Policies in Latin America is a Serious Mistake

Znet Article, August, 13 2009 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

There were great hopes in Latin America when President Obama was elected. U.S. standing in the region had reached a low point under George W. Bush, and all of the hemisphere's left-leaning governments expressed optimism that Obama would go in a di...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Anti-Venezuela Spokespeople Misrepresent Reality of Press Freedom in Venezuela

Znet Article, August, 12 2009 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

Denis MacShane attacks the British left for defending Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez against an onslaught from the media, "New Cold Warriors," and right-wing demagogues throughout the world. His rhetorical trick is to tar the left with a new med...

Znet Article Weisbrot: U.S.- Brokered Mediation Has Failed - It's Time for Latin America to Take Charge

Znet Article, August, 01 2009 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

The mediation effort that US secretary of state Hillary Clinton arranged to try to resolve the crisis in Honduras, which began when a military coup removed Honduran President Mel Zelaya more than four weeks ago, has failed. It is now time – some...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Right Wing Media

Znet Article, July, 30 2009 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

The controversy over the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and President Obama's remark that the police "acted stupidly" has taken up a lot of newspaper and broadcast space in the past week, and brought some attention to the proble...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Trade Adjustments and Stimulus Packages in the Global Recession and Recovery

Znet Article, July, 25 2009 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

Global trade flows and the economic stimulus policies of individual national economies will play an important role in the recovery from the current global recession. This is especially true of the world's two largest economies, the United States a...

Znet Article Weisbrot: US and Honduras

Znet Article, July, 23 2009 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

The Obama administration's condemnation of the coup in Honduras has been lukewarm compared to the rest of the world

Znet Article Weisbrot: Who's in Charge Of Obama's Foreign Policy?

Znet Article, July, 17 2009 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

The current standoff in Honduras, in which the coup government headed by Roberto Micheletti is refusing to allow the return of elected president Manuel Zelaya, is raising questions about who is in charge of U.S. foreign policy for the hemisphere.

Znet Article Weisbrot: Hondurans Resist Coup, Will Need Help From Other Countries

Znet Article, July, 08 2009 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

The military coup that overthrew President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras took a new turn when Zelaya attempted to return home on Sunday. The military closed the airport and blocked runways to prevent his plane from landing. They also shot several prot...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Latin America Drags a Reluctant Washington Into Supporting Democracy in Honduras

Znet Article, July, 01 2009 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

The military coup that overthrew Honduras' elected president Manuel Zelaya brought unanimous international condemnation. But some country's responses have been more reluctant than others, and Washington's ambivalence has begun to raise suspicions ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: American Voters Want Congressional Investigations: Will Democrats Seize the Opportunity for 2010?

Znet Article, June, 21 2009 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

Plans are already being made for the 2010 elections for the U.S. Congress, and the Democrats would appear to have some advantages. They have a popular president, a 6-percentage-point lead in party identification and 9 points for a generic Congress...

Znet Article Weisbrot: The Next Big Taxpayer Bailout? IMF Could Get Hundreds of Billions for European Banks

Znet Article, June, 08 2009 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

The bailout of private banks and financial institutions has become a touchy political issue in the United States, ever since President Bush's Treasury Secretary and former Goldman Sachs CEO Hank Paulson asked Congress for a $700 billion dollar bla...

Znet Article Weisbrot: S&P Misses the Boat: UK and US Need More Stimulus, Not Deficit Reduction

Znet Article, May, 30 2009 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

In the last week the news that has roiled financial markets on both sides of the Atlantic was a warning from Standard and Poor's, the credit rating agency, that the UK could lose its AAA credit rating, the highest bond rating and one that is held...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Big Business Gearing Up to Defend Protectionism Against UN Climate Negotiators

Znet Article, May, 22 2009 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

The battle over "intellectual property rights" is likely to be one of the most important of this century. It has enormous economic, social, and political implications in a wide range of areas, from medicine to the arts and culture - anything where...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Stealth Move in Washington Aims to Get $100 Billion for IMF Without Congressional Debate

Znet Article, May, 14 2009 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

In almost all of its standby arrangements negotiated over the last year, the IMF has included conditions that will reduce output and employment in situations where economies are already shrinking.

Znet Article Weisbrot: Hillary Clinton Recognizes Multi-Polar World, Failures of U.S. Latin America Policy

Znet Article, May, 08 2009 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

It is remarkable that pressure for a reality-based view of the world has had to come from the South, and says a lot about the state of civil society in the United States...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Ecuador's Election Shows Why Left Continues Winning in Hard Times

Znet Article, May, 01 2009 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

A few months ago I ran into an economist who was formerly head of the Bolivian Central Bank in the La Paz airport. He had been reading Roubini, the New York University economist whom the media has nicknamed "Dr. Doom", and was predicting a very gl...

Znet Article Weisbrot: "Deeds, Not Words" Will Determine Future of U.S.-Latin American Relations

Znet Article, April, 23 2009 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

What is the opposite of "damage control?" Repair control? Obama's Latin America advisor and director for the Summit of the Americas Jeffrey Davidow did his best to undermine the president's efforts at diplomacy in Trinidad. Responding immediate...

Znet Article Weisbrot: More Fiscal Stimulus is Needed to Reverse Economic Decline

Znet Article, April, 21 2009 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

In February the Congress approved $787 billion of federal spending, in order keep the economy from sinking into a deeper recession. However it is increasingly clear that this is not enough, and a third stimulus (the first was a small stimulus pack...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Obama Team Could Use Some "Audacity of Hope" for Latin America Summit

Znet Article, April, 17 2009 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

Many people, including most of the presidents in South America, were hoping that President Obama would initiate a serious change in U.S.-Latin American relations, after the low point reached during the Bush years. Change will certainly come - it i...

Znet Article Weisbrot: It's the Global Economy (Stupid) - or Is It?

Znet Article, April, 08 2009 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

It should not be surprising that the United States economy has the potential to grow even while many other economies are contracting. Eighty-seven percent of what is produced in the United States is consumed here. To be sure, the other thirteen pe...

Znet Article Weisbrot: G-20: Welcome to the Multi-Polar World

Znet Article, April, 01 2009 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

Welcome to the multi-polar world. It's not here yet but the direction is clear. President Obama will discover this week that as much as he is loved and respected around the world, he can't reverse the declining influence of Washington that his pre...

Znet Article Weisbrot: G-20 Should Think Twice About Increasing IMF Funding Without Reforms

Znet Article, March, 25 2009 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

The G-20 summit meeting in London on April 2nd will have a lot on its plate and will certainly fall short of expectations. [The G-20 expands the G-8 countries of Canada -- France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United S...

Znet Article Weisbrot: El Salvador's Left Wins Historic Election

Znet Article, March, 19 2009 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

Last Sunday's election in El Salvador, in which the leftist FMLN (Farabundo Martí Front for National Liberation) won the presidency, didn't get a lot of attention in the international press. It's a relatively small country (7 million people on la...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Washington's Lost Credibility on Human Rights

Znet Article, March, 12 2009 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

The U.S. State Department's annual human rights report got an unusual amount of criticism this year. This time the center-left coalition government of Chile was notable in joining other countries such as Bolivia, Venezuela, and China - who have ha...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Health Care Reform Is Needed Now More than Ever

Znet Article, February, 28 2009 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

Obama wants spending that stimulates the economy in the short term, but he also wants to reduce the long-term deficit problem after the economy recovers. This is exactly what health care reform will do.

Znet Article Weisbrot: Can the US and Bolivia Get Along?

Znet Article, February, 27 2009 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

With the Obama administration's policy toward Venezuela pretty much decided, and the embargo on Cuba considered untouchable because no one is willing to risk losing support among Cuban-Americans in the swing state of Florida, that leaves Bolivia a...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Will Obama Change U.S. Policy Toward Latin America?

Znet Article, February, 19 2009 Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page

U.S.-Latin American relations fell to record lows during the Bush years, and there have been hopes - both North and South of the border - that President Obama would bring a fresh approach. So far, however, most signals are pointing to continuity r...

Loading_border