Archive for March, 2008
What's behind the assault on Basra
Naftana (‘Our Oil’ in Arabic) is an independent UK-based committee supporting democratic trade unionism in Iraq. It works in solidarity with the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions (IFOU). It strives to publicize the union’s struggle for Iraqi social and economic rights and its stand against the privatization of Iraqi oil demanded by the occupying powers. ...Read more.
The Job
This satirical short (The Job) was created by Screaming Frog Productions. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XGJq8wrw5I&hl=en]
New Report: Nation's Gentrified Neighborhoods Threatened By Aristocratization
This new report reminds us yet again why it is so important to follow the independent press. You never get ground truth like this in the mainstream media. WASHINGTON—According to a report released Tuesday by the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank, the recent influx of exceedingly affluent powder-wigged aristocrats into the nation’s gentrified urban ...Read more.
Clinton's Bigger Lies
“Don’t worry, it’s cost plus,” was a saying made famous in Baghdad’s Green Zone, but the deluxe war spending was pioneered in the Clinton era. (Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine, 292) While there is still some attention to Hillary Clinton’s role in the 1990s US foreign policy in the Balkans, I think we ought to ...Read more.
Cockburn on Spitzer, Wall Street, and UFE
Alexander Cockburn’s column in the March 31st issue of The Nation (alas, not the most recent issue—some magazines are much more timely than D&S) argues that former New York governor Eliot Spitzer’s downfall was due partly to the fact that he frightened Wall Street. “There were plenty of powerful financial institutions that craved his downfall ...Read more.
CEPR Paper Responds to Foreign Affairs on Venezuela
CEPR Paper Responds to Foreign Affairs on Venezuela by Mark Weisberg Center for Economic and Policy ResearchMarch 21, 2008 Washington, D.C. A new paper from the Center for Economic and PolicyResearch responds to a recent article by FranciscoRodriguez in the March/April 2008 issue of ForeignAffairs that argued that Venezuela’s poor have notbenefited from the government ...Read more.
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: It's a Recession
Our latest web-only article, this one by John Miller, D&S collective member and professor of economics at Wheaton College. It is posted here, accessible via the newly-delineated “Special to the Web” section of the home page (but it is short enough that we thought we’d post it on the blog also). Also check out the ...Read more.
D&S at the Left Forum
As we do every year, D&S will be sharing an exhibit table with the Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE) at the Left Forum, Friday March 14th through Sunday March 16th in New York City. If you’re going to the Left Forum, stop by our table! We’ll be selling D&S books and subscriptions at a ...Read more.
Conference: "Think BIG" to End Poverty and Hunger in the U.S.
This weekend (March 7-9) in Boston, the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network is holding a conference of economists and other experts in conjunction with the Eastern Economics Association annual meeting, whose purpose is to “urge the U.S. government to provide each American with a Basic Income Guarantee to meet fundamental human needs.” “We reject the ...Read more.
