1. Beyond the triple crisis: a green new deal
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...ost wrenching [financial crisis] since the end of the second world war", said former chairman of the United States Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, in March 2008; the "largest financial shoc...

2. Competition for Main Street
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... leading nations work to put the global financial system back in business. The agenda is staggering. The United States is ill equipped to deal with it smartly, not to mention wisely. We have a brain-...

3. Anti-Democratic Nature of US Capitalism is Being Exposed
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...n Woods system established by the United States and Britain after the ...

4. Wall street government
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Black Tuesday may have plunged the United States into the Great Depression but it was a sense of hopelessness; the feeling that nothing one could personally do would improve things that kept us in

5. America’s financial meltdown: lessons and prospects
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...gulated global financial system of the 2000s, and why the predicted collapse of this system begins in the United States. The deregulated economy The former chairman of the Federal Reserve in the Uni...

6. Saakashvili?s Statement on Russia? Action
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...inue to be subject to widespread ethnic cleansing by Russia and its proxies — as confirmed by the United Nations and other international bodies. These are areas where the local popul...

7. Afghanistan?s Vietnam portent
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...ions among media and military analysts since 2003 of possible parallels between the war in Iraq and the United States imbroglio in Vietnam that ended so humiliatingly in 1975. The argument is most ...

8. Debtonation: how globalisation dies
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...at when the financial sector faced meltdown it had to rely on the state - in the form of central banks in United States, Europe and Japan alike - to intervene in order to restore a semblance of stabil...

9. The politics of protection: Bush Strategy?
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...d protection of Kurdish leader and current Iraqi president, Jalal Talabani), has come to thrive under the United States occupation? And since al-Qaida in Iraq represents perhaps 1% or less of the insu...

10. Venezuela: is Hugo Chávez in control?
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... congressional vote to hand eighteen-month "special powers" to the president; the creation of a united ruling party (the Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela / PSUV) that entails the effect...

11. Sudanese adrift in Israel
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...rough Sudan into Egypt, then crossed the Sinai into Israel. If they came from a country designated by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) as a "conflict-zone" - and there...

12. Racism and Democracy: 50 years since Little Rock integration
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...shocked at the outbreak of violence. "Cruel mob force had frustrated the execution of an order of a United States court, and the governor of the state was sitting by, refusing to lift a finger t...