Archive | December, 2008

  • Employment in Free Fall, Economy Loses 533,000 Jobs

    Dean Baker

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  • Swimming Up Stream

    Fidel Castro

    Following Obama’s speech, on May 23 this year, to the Cuban American National Foundation established by Ronald Reagan, I wrote a reflection entitled “The Empire’s Hypocritical Policy”. It was dated on the 25th of the same month.

  • Terrorism, Mass Hysteria, and Hegemony in India

    Pratyush Chandra

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  • Join the Auto Worker Caravan to Washington, D.C.

    Technical Support

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  • No Tax-collection without Representation! The Fight for Trade Union Independence in Egypt

    Ahmad Shokr

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  • Out, Proud, and Fighting

    Sherry Wolf

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  • Lies of the Lashkar

    Yoginder Sikand

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  • Reflections on the Global Economic Crisis and Its Likely Impact on South Africa

    Jeremy Cronin and Blade Nzimande

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  • Bernanke and “The Great Moderation” Four Years Later

    John Bellamy Foster

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  • Transforming “the Nursery of Rebellion”

    Joanna Cruickshank

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  • Everyday Life in Central Asia

    Irene Hilgers

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  • Lost in the Desert

    Yoshie Furuhashi

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  • Struggling for Peace on New Terrain

    Max Elbaum

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  • Feel the Real Cost of Prisons

    Paul Buhle

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  • Bailout — an End Run around Bankruptcy

    Gregg Shotwell

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  • Neocons, Republicans, and War Criminals Rave about Obama’s “Team of Rivals”

    Jeremy Scahill

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  • One Hundred and Fifty Years of Marx’s Grundrisse: Incomplete, Complex and Prophetic

    Marcello Musto

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  • The Great Crisis of the 1930s

    Fidel Castro

    Although it may sound simple, it is a very difficult subject to explain. The U.S. Federal Reserve system, resulting from a fully developing capitalism, was established in 1913. Salvador Allende, a man we remember as someone of our times, was already 15 years old.

  • The Financial Crisis Hits the Immigration Debate

    David L. Wilson

    Part of the right wing routinely blames undocumented immigrants for just about everything.  On September 24, nine days after the financial meltdown started in earnest, the National Review Web site carried an article by columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin blaming “illegals” for the crisis and the subsequent bailout of the banks.  “The Mother of All […]

  • Ode to Black Friday

    Jon Flanders

    God rest ye merry Walmart Shoppers Let nothing you dismay Remember Sales our Saviour Was born on Black Friday To save us all from inflation’s power When we were gone astray O tidings of TVs and Toys, Consumption and Toys O tidings of Consumption and Toys In Nassau, in New York State, Thus tragedy was […]