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Du boff: The Bush Budget: Deficits Aren't The Problem
Feb 12, 2003
President Bush has sent to Congress his Budget for fiscal 2004 (starting in October), calling for $2.23 trillion in expenditures and a deficit of $304 billion, compared to $159 billion of red ink last year and a surplus of $127 billion in 2001. For the Pr
Dominick: We Will March!
Feb 08, 2003
Today I called the office of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. I left a short message for him, stating that I will be marching on the streets of his town next Saturday, February 15, in protest of a renewed war on Iraq. I added that I will do so wheth
Dominick: Does Size Really Matter?
Jan 22, 2003
ItÕs been since the Million Man March in 1995 that I can recall such a stir
Dávalos: Indian Ocean: “Open Regionalism†or Naked Militarism?
Dec 28, 2002
A conference held in Chandigarh, India in November this year on the theme “The Indian Ocean in a Globalizing World: Critical Perspectives on the 21st Century†was significant for two things. First, for the reaffirmation of the need for yet another regional grouping of nations at a time when other regional organisations are wobbly and in a quandary; second for the acknowledgement of strategic defence interests as the rationale for regional trade groupings in a much more open and explicit way than in the other regional organisations.
Dominick: Attack Of The Liberals
Nov 13, 2002
The four high-horsemen of the Liberal Left have mounted and are riding
Du boff: France Between Elections: Beware Of Logos
May 17, 2002
France has finished two rounds of voting for President, with Jacques Chirac elected to another term (five years this time). In the second round on May 5, his opponent, neo-fascist candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen, garnered 18 percent of the vote--probably less
Du boff: Stopping Terrorism Vs. Promoting The Right
Apr 11, 2002
By high noon September 11, 2001 it should have been obvious what this generation of Republicans--and more than a few Democrats--would do with the attacks on New York and Washington: seize upon them as manna from heaven to promote a hard right-wing politic
Du boff: STOPPING TERRORISM VS. PROMOTING THE RIGHT: NO CONTEST
Mar 28, 2002
By high noon September 11, 2001 it should have been obvious what this generation of Republicans--and more than a few Democrats--would do with the attacks on New York and Washington: seize upon them as manna from heaven to promote a hard right-wing politic
Du boff: Who Is The Greatest Rogue Of All
Feb 28, 2002
Most people believe that their own country is virtuous and that only others misbehave enough to qualify as international outlaws. But the United States has elevated this popular sentiment to the level of national policy, by designating certain countries,
Dowd: From the Unthinkable to the Probable in Israel/Palestine
Jan 12, 2002
From the Unthinkable to the Probable in Israel/Palestine
Dominick: First We Must Help Ourselves
A Response to Brecher's 'Open Letter to the World'
Dec 30, 2001
Though an enormous admirer of Jeremy Brecher's work in the fields of labor issues and global economics, I was quite troubled by his recent ZNet Commentary, "Open Letter from an American to the World: HELP!" (12/28/01).
Dumble: Genocide in Afghanistan
Oct 31, 2001
Contrary to the dreams of US President George W. Bush and his allies, Operation Enduring Freedom is unlikely to be remembered by the world's women as a successful strategy to either eliminate terrorism or liberate the long-suffering people of Afghanistan.
Dominick: The Greatest Argument Against War
Sep 16, 2001
On Wednesday, September 12, I was witness to the greatest argument against war the North American Left has ever had
Dowd: DOWN WITH THE BAH HUMBUG OF TAXES
Jun 01, 2001
The flagrantly unjust and harmful policies for taxes, governmental spending and real and imagined surpluses in place or on their way had their beginnings in the last years of Carter's presidency -- prodded and facilitated by what Richard Du Boff termed "t
Dowd: Down with the Bah Humbug of Taxes, Surpluses, Spending, and Deficits, up with What We Need and Can Do
May 15, 2001
The flagrantly unjust and harmful policies for taxes, governmental spending and real and imagined surpluses in place or on their way had their beginnings in the last years of CarterÕs presidency Ñ prodded and facilitated by what Richard Du Boff termed Òth
Dowd: DEREGULATION BLUES
Feb 24, 2001
Just when we're about to blow our tops at the airlines for the delays and crowding and lousy service -- and rising prices -- we get blindsided by blackouts and for our electricity and rising prices (as also for gas, and water, and gasoline). How come?
Dowd: THE NEW ERA OF THE 1920s AND THE NEW ECONOMY OF TODAY: BIRDS OF A FEATHER?
Jan 31, 2001
By Doug DowdThe New Era began poorly, as did our New Economy (dating its take-off as the 1990s). In 1919 there was a short recession, then a sharp inflation and unsteady good times and a very sharp recession, 1921-22; then began the so-called "prosperity
Dowd: A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Dec 14, 2000
The two cities are Bologna and Venice. The environmental problems threatening both, despite well-publicized "remedies," have not improved but worsened in recent decades; the cities, their problems, and their failure to deal with them exemplify all too wel
Dowd: WHAT DO WE WANT? AND WHO ARE "WE"?
Nov 23, 2000
Alongside and arising from "Seattle" and subsequent protests are questions such as the above -- by those participating in and supporting, and those against the protests. Those and related questions have always deserved serious answers; now more than ever
Apr 14, 2003
George Bush's war on Iraq will provide very little stimulus for the U.S. economy. Direct outlays will fall somewhere between $60 and $80 billion for a "quick" war, possibly as much as $125 billion for one lasting three to four months. This means that, at