Dr. Paulson's Magic Potion
William Greider : Barack Obama
As Bush and Paulson throw money at the problem, Obama is moving rapidly to adapt to the crisis that awaits the next president.
Globalization
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2008
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Disaster Capitalism: State of Extortion
Naomi Klein : Disaster Capitalism
As the planet is rocked by multiple shocks, here's a look at how disaster capitalists are reaping the benefits--leveraging the Iraq War, the push for arctic drilling and the global food crisis.
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Haiti on the 'Death Plan'
Reed Lindsay : Haiti
Protesters decry high food prices--and the savage cost of "free trade" agreements.
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Manufacturing a Food Crisis
Walden Bello : Agriculture
How "free trade" is destroying Third World agriculture--and who's fighting back.
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The World Food Crisis
John Nichols
We must rein in the global food giants who reap profits at the expense of the planet and the poor.
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Democratizing Capital
Sherle R. Schwenninger : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
New Deal progressives believed the economy should exist to serve society, not the other way around.
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The Big Yam
John Feffer : China
Chinese hearts, minds and pocketbooks get a lot of attention from the Eastern and Western consumer markets.
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Toy Story
Daphne Eviatar : Health & Disease
An eviscerated Consumer Product Safety Commission means American children still face perils from their toys.
2007
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Civic Agriculture = Sane Housing
There is an alternative to unhealthy eating and irresponsible development schemes.
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Pakistan's Bomb: Have It Your Way
Catherine Collins & Douglas Frantz : Nuclear Arms & Proliferation
Thanks to globalization, the 'Islamic bomb' turns out to be a little bit American, Canadian, Swiss, German, Dutch, British, Japanese and even Russian.
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Confronting the Global Timber Barons
From a church in a rugged rural parish in Honduras, Father Andres Tamayo leads a grassroots movement to protect dwindling timberlands. Bills introduced in the US Congress might help save the forests.
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Toxic Toys
As safety scandals dampen the public's appetite for cheap imports, the European Union is raising doubts about standards and oversight in the US toy industry.
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The NAFTA Superhighway
Christopher Hayes : Transportation
The NAFTA Superhighway is a total myth. But the private Trans-Texas Corridor is all too real, foretelling a future America in which globalism and crony capitalism eclipse government as the provider of public services.
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The New Bipartisan Capitalism
A new study addressing the plight the American worker in a global economy tries to solve economic inequity through tax policy rather than systemic change. A much broader vision is required.
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Poison for Profit
David Goldstein : Conservatives & The American Right
We're sickened by tainted food because our government is unwilling to eat into the profits of the corporations our regulators serve.
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Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying
The American labor movement must guard the interests of those it represents--even if it makes people in power uncomfortable.
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The Third World Idea
The Third World was never imagined as a place but rather a project, one that was ultimately doomed by globalization--it awaits a resurrection.
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Dems Sell Out on Trade
The so-called bipartisan compromise on trade is a bad deal for all who seek to reform corporate-led globalization.
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The Establishment Rethinks Globalization
William Greider : Economic Policy
An unlikely dissident has proposed a new way to understand, and reform, the world economy.
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Out of Africa
The World Social Forum marched into Nairobi full of conflict, action and ideas.
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Dude! Where's My Debate?
Eric Alterman : Journalists & Journalism
The majority of Americans support fair-trade policies--so why do mainstream pundits treat the idea with so much contempt?
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Korea-US Trade Pact Headed for Trouble
South Korea is bristling over terms of the Bush Administration's proposed free-trade agreement, and so are progressives in Congress.
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A Globalization Offensive
William Greider : Economic Policy
In 2007 Congress may get real on the fallacies and contradictions of global trade.
2006
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Globalization with a Human Face
Mohammad Yunus : Ethical Economics
Globalization must not be allowed to become financial imperialism: Capitalism's strongest-takes-all rule must give way to one that ensures that the poor have a place and a piece of the action.
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Free-Trade Bondage in Jordan
Kristen Gillespie : World Economy
The Jordan-US free-trade agreement was supposed to be a labor-rights model. It's been a disaster.
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)
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