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• Noam Chomsky: On The Economy, Democracy and the American Presidential Elections

  Assaf Kfoury: The economic crisis is felt acutely in the US, but has now spread to the entire world, even to countries (in South America, for example) that initially thought they would be spared. And the American presidential campaign and elections cannot but concern people everywhere, given the dominant role of the US globally. The [...]

  Posted on Dec 04.08 to Bretton Woods, China, Chomsky, Noam, Clinton, Bill, Corporate Malfeasance, Democracy, Economic Regulation, Economics, Germany, Imperialism, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Japan, Keynes, John Maynard, Marxism, McCain, John, Media, Mexico, Militarism, NAFTA, NATO, Neoliberal Economics, New Deal, Nuremberg Trials, Obama, Barack, Reagan, Ronald, Roosevelt, Franklin D., The Great Depression, United States, WWII, Washington Consensus, World Bank   

• Jeremy Scahill: This Is Change? 20 Hawks, Clintonites & Neocons to Watch for in Obama’s White House

  U.S. policy is not about one individual, and no matter how much faith people place in President-elect Barack Obama, the policies he enacts will be fruit of a tree with many roots. Among them: his personal politics and views, the disastrous realities his administration will inherit, and, of course, unpredictable future crises. But the best [...]

  Posted on Nov 21.08 to 9/11, AIPAC, Afghanistan, Albright, Madeleine, Biden, Joe, Bush, George W., CIA, Cheney, Dick, Chomsky, Noam, Christopher, Warren, Clinton, Bill, Clinton, Hillary, Darfur, East Timor, Emanuel, Rahm, Extraordinary Rendition, Fox News, G-20, Gates, Robert, Genocide, Goodman, Amy, Great Britain, Gulf War I, Gulf War II, Haiti, Holbrooke, Richard, Hussein, Saddam, Imperialism, Indonesia, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Iran, Iran-Contra Scandal, Iraq, Israel, Israel Lobby, Jerusalem, Kissinger, Henry, Kosovo, Kurdistan, MI5, Military Occupation, NAFTA, NATO, Neoconservatism, Neoliberal Economics, North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, Obama, Barack, Pakistan, Palestine, Pentagon, Powell, Colin, Private Security, Ross, Dennis, Rumsfeld, Donald, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Serbia, Sudan, Torture, US Congress, US Foreign Policy, United Nations, United States, Vietnam, War on Drugs, Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), Wolfowitz, Paul, World Bank, Yugoslavia, al-Qaeda   

• The White Man’s Burden

  Arguably, the strong aid pessimism that persisted during the 1980s and 1990s had faded a little at the turn of this century. In 2000, at the Millennium Summit at the UN Headquarters (the only UN gathering in which all heads of state were present) all governments agreed upon the Millennium Development Goals as a grand [...]

  Posted on Nov 27.07 to Development, Easterly, William, Ecke, Jonas, History, Imperialism, Reviews, United Nations, World Bank   

• Disengagement, Two Years On

  Two years ago, Israel completed a unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. We all remember the intense media campaign shamelessly portraying the settlers as dispossessed victims of a bold move for peace. Among others, Harvard economist Sara Roy argued that Israel’s version of disengagement would bring disaster to an already desperate Gaza. Today, we are [...]

  Posted on Nov 11.07 to Development, Economics, Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Israel, Jewish Settlers, Military Occupation, Palestine, Sharon, Ariel, World Bank   

• Comment: Has Gaza Not Suffered Enough?

  Since the 2005 unilateral disengagement: Dozens of development projects have been quashed by the total closure of Gaza’s borders, Palestinian industries are now unable to access foreign markets, Israeli banks have cut business ties with Gaza’s banks, Palestinian students are unable to continue their studies outside of Gaza, human rights workers are refused permission to [...]

  Posted on Oct 23.07 to Development, Gaza, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, World Bank