1. Beyond the triple crisis: a green new deal
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It is a small measure of the dramatic financial meltdown of 2007-08 that leading representatives of western liberal capitalism ransacked the past for reference-points to convey its scale. The "mo

2. America’s financial meltdown: lessons and prospects
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...omists characterise Greenspan's own role in the global "debtonation" of the post-9 August 2007 era reveals how far they remain trapped in the rituals of evasion (see "Debtonation: h...

3. Bolivian Political Crisis
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...on these issues, but the fact that talks will happen at all indicates that, as in Cochabamba in January 2007, the country's fall into deep violence has created pressure to back up and try another ...

4. Afghanistan?s Vietnam portent
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...for details, click here Paul Rogers's most recent book is Why We're Losing the War on Terror (Polity, 2007) - an analysis of the strategic misjudgments of the post-9/11 and why a new security parad...

5. Debtonation: how globalisation dies
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by Ann Pettifor    A single day, 9 August 2007, will go down in history as "debtonation day" - the beginning of the end of the deregulation and privatisation of finance that marks

6. The politics of protection: Bush Strategy?
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...r against us in the war on terrorism." At the Charleston, South Carolina air force base on 24 July 2007, Bush resumed his repudiated habit of conflating threats, suggesting a connection between 9...

7. Venezuela: is Hugo Chávez in control?
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...months before the free-to-air license for Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV) was rescinded in April 2007, Condoleezza Rice had accused Chávez of "destroying his own country, economical...

8. Sudanese adrift in Israel
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... and taken to a prison in the desert. Two years of being shuttled between prisons ended suddenly in May 2007 when he was released and given a job in a hotel in Eilat. His position, however, remains pr...

9. Racism and Democracy: 50 years since Little Rock integration
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...nguage," said Trickey, who now works as a gender and social justice advocate. "Here we are in 2007 and we're still playing the same game."   ...