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Znet Article Weisbrot: Debunking the Myths about "Cutting Funding" for the War

Znet Article, February, 20 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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The key talking point of supporters of indefinitely continuing the U.S. occupation of Iraq boils down to this: there is nothing Congress can do to compel the wi...

Znet Article Weisbrot: President Bush's New Gambles in the Middle East

Znet Article, February, 12 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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What is President George W. Bush's strategy in Iraq? This is a question that even many of the experts are puzzling over as the war has entered its fifth year, the violence in Iraq escalates, and there is no end in sight. Even the White House's dom...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Economy Looks Bad for 2007

Znet Article, January, 06 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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 The big ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Costa Rica

Znet Article, February, 15 2006 Mark Weisbrot
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Costa Rica is a small Central American country of four million people that - unlike its neighbors El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua during their bloody civil wars - has never attracted much attention in the United States, except as a destinati...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Latin America Shifts Left

Znet Article, January, 21 2006 Mark Weisbrot
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 Evo Morales' election in Bolivia, with an unprecedented (for that country) 54 percent of the vote, is seen and analyzed here mostly in political terms. He is a former head of the coca growers union and opposes the U.S.- sponsored attempts to erad...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Economy 2006

Znet Article, January, 01 2006 Mark Weisbrot
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Will the U.S. economy do as well in 2006 as it did in 2005? That may well depend on whether we can make it through another year without any of the current economy's big imbalances and unsustainable trends coming back to bite us. The median forecas...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Venezuelan Elections

Znet Article, December, 03 2005 Mark Weisbrot
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The decision of four opposition parties in Venezuela to withdraw from elections this weekend raises important questions for the media. It is clear to anyone familiar with the situation that this is an attempt to discredit the election, by parties ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Social Security: Another Media Failure

Znet Article, May, 31 2005 Mark Weisbrot
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After it was established that the Bush administration's stated reasons for invading Iraq were false -- Iraq's alleged nuclear program, weapons of mass destruction, links to Al-Qaeda -- many journalists, editors, and producers felt that the U.S. me...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Political Attacks Against Venezuela Continue

Znet Article, December, 24 2004 Mark Weisbrot
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The recent round of Venezuela-bashing from the U.S. State Department, Washington-based foreign policy organizations, and some newspaper editorial boards is symptomatic of a broader problem. And it's not Venezuela's problem: it's ours. Last week ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: CIA and Venezuela

Znet Article, December, 12 2004 Mark Weisbrot
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WASHINGTON, December 8. When it comes to Venezuela's rocky diplomatic relations with the United States, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is usually given the blame. His frequent denunciations of U.S. "intervention" in Venezuela are taken as indic...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Media Falls Short on Iraq, Venezuela

Znet Article, June, 04 2004 Mark Weisbrot
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Last week the New York Times published an 1100-word note "From the Editors" criticizing its own reporting on the build-up to the Iraq war and the early stages of the occupation. On Sunday the newspaper's Public Editor went further, citing "flawed ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Regime Change in Haiti: A Coup By Any Other Name

Znet Article, March, 03 2004 Mark Weisbrot
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We still don't know the exact circumstances of President Aristide's departure from Haiti last Sunday. Aristide, as well as some members of the U.S. Congress, call it a kidnapping. The Bush Administration denies these charges. But one thing seems ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Bush on the Ropes

Znet Article, February, 10 2004 Mark Weisbrot
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Two-hundred and sixty-seven days, he must have been thinking. >From now until the election, without any major disasters. George W. Bush did not have an easy time with Tim Russert on Meet the Press on Sunday. He couldn't really answer why he le...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Will there be Jobs on the Moon?

Znet Article, January, 25 2004 Mark Weisbrot
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Will there be jobs on the moon? Or will American workers have to wait until we get to Mars? These kinds of questions were inevitable as the White House announced a bold new initiative to establish a base on the moon, as a first step towards sendin...

Znet Article Weisbrot: The Fed and the Bubble

Znet Article, January, 08 2004 Mark Weisbrot
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Alan Greenspan used the occasion of his speech to the American Economic Association to defend his legacy. His 16-year record as Chairman of the Federal Reserve is certainly mixed, but there is one mistake he shouldn't be allowed to brush off: the ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: America's Hidden Human Rights Problem

Znet Article, December, 09 2003 Mark Weisbrot
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"Unions -- the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend," reads a popular union T-shirt. It's true enough -- and we could add a sizeable list of other benefits that most people associate with social progress: employer-sponsored health insurance, pensions...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Signs of Economic Recovery Haven't Trickled Down

Znet Article, December, 03 2003 Mark Weisbrot
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How's the economy doing? This is shaping up to be the number one question affecting President George W. Bush's re- election bid. If you turn on the TV or pick up the newspaper, it looks like the economy is picking up steam, roaring out of a long s...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Anti-Sweatshop Movement

Znet Article, November, 06 2003 Mark Weisbrot
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Last week Sean "P. Diddy" Combs became the latest celebrity to feel the heat of the anti- sweatshop movement, as charges that his "Sean John" T-shirts were being manufactured under inhumane conditions burst onto to the TV news. Mr. Combs, whose la...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Bush Growing More Vulnerable on Credibility, War, and the Economy

Znet Article, September, 30 2003 Mark Weisbrot
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"Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them," the title of Al Franken's book on the American right, is starting to look less like a cartoon and more like a description that could filter into the mainstream. Last week Senator Edward M. Kennedy surprise...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Washington's Dangerous Policy in Venezuela

Znet Article, September, 26 2003 Mark Weisbrot
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In recent weeks U.S. officials have made a series of remarkably unfriendly statements against the government of Venezuela, and its President Hugo Chavez. This breach of diplomatic norms can only serve to worsen relations between the two countries....

Znet Article Weisbrot: Venezuela's Recall

Znet Article, September, 13 2003 Mark Weisbrot
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Venezuela appeared to take a couple of steps closer to a recall referendum on the presidency of Hugo Chávez in recent weeks, but there is little chance that he will be removed by electoral means. This is not because, as major US and Venezuelan me...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Venezuela's Recall Referendum

Znet Article, August, 30 2003 Mark Weisbrot
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WASHINGTON  All too often White House statements about Iraq's pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, and other dubious justifications for war, were taken at face value by the American press. Now there is another example of the triumph of mis...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Debt Stakes

Znet Article, August, 14 2003 Mark Weisbrot
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There is an old adage about borrowing: if you owe the bank $50,000 and can't pay it, you have a problem; but if you owe the bank $50 million, then the bank has a problem. This may well describe the situation facing Argentina and the IMF, as they t...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Bush in Africa

Znet Article, July, 11 2003 Mark Weisbrot
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The Two Faces of George By President Bush is doing a barnstorming tour of Africa to call attention to his administration's commitment to addressing the HIV/AIDS pandemic on the continent. One problem: He's simultaneously trying to impose on Afric...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Bush in Africa

Znet Article, July, 10 2003 Mark Weisbrot
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President Bush's five-day, five-country tour of Africa has had political observers wondering: is this just another photo-op, crafted to show that the President ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Threat of Deflation Is Exaggerated

Znet Article, July, 04 2003 Mark Weisbrot
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Threat of Deflation Is Exaggerated

Znet Article Weisbrot: States Should Tax Internet Sales

Znet Article, June, 07 2003 Mark Weisbrot
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"Only the little people pay taxes," said Leona Helmsley, the self-described queen of a luxury hotel empire in the 1980s. She turned out to be somewhat wrong, and went to jail for tax evasion. But the Helmsley principle has been the dream of "tax r...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Argentina's Cancelled Election

Znet Article, May, 20 2003 Mark Weisbrot
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If ever there was an election that could be summed up by "It's the economy, stupid" the Argentine election is it. In fact, the economic failure is so clear and the popular consensus so pronounced that last Sunday's election was cancelled. In a hig...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Us Economic Prescriptions Still Failing In Latin America

Znet Article, April, 25 2003 Mark Weisbrot
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With the war in Iraq receding from the media spotlight, the Bush Administration is now turning some attention to our traditional "back yard" of Latin America. U.S. Treasury Secretary John W. Snow has just completed a visit to Brazil, Ecuador, and ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Why He Can't Wait

Znet Article, March, 10 2003 Mark Weisbrot
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"These are the actions of a regime engaged in a willful charade. These are the actions of a regime that systematically and deliberately is defying the world." That was George W. Bush talking about Iraq last week, but it describes his own regime q...

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