1. Beyond the triple crisis: a green new deal
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...l-south countries (Pakistan, Argentina) the difficulties are even more severe; and several of Asia's powerhouse economies (South Korea, China) have been forced into a rapid rethinking. A systemic...

2. Competition for Main Street
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...s acting. The scandal is that government is not acting forcefully enough -- using its ultimate emergency powers to take full control of the financial system and impose order on banks, firms and market...

3. Anti-Democratic Nature of US Capitalism is Being Exposed
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...ong been understood that it is a powerful weapon against democracy. ...

4. How corrupt is Democracy? Mr. Schneider Goes to Washington to find out.
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... sad that it portraits a crude reality that only a minority is able to see: the "price" of the power, and how democracy became more a commerce than the "government of the people". ...

5. America’s financial meltdown: lessons and prospects
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...rd: (only the) beginning of the end" (5 December 2007) Fred Halliday, "Sovereign Wealth Funds: power vs principle" (5 March 2008) Tony Curzon Price, "Lehman: technocrats' endga...

6. When Money Is Speech, Speech Is Not Free
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...ly-protected free speech. Since then, the Justices have struck down numerous laws designed to limit the power of money over election outcomes (and ballot initiatives). What's shocking about the ...

7. Climate Camp Besieges Power Station in UK
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As the UK Camp for Climate Action 2008 managed to breach the security fences at Kingsnorth Power Station, despite a huge police presence, activists across the world are setting up similar camps and

8. China and Tibet: the true path
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...splittism, cannot admit that the idea is mistaken without losing face and, they fear, losing their own power and position as well (see Isabel Hilton, "Ditch the tatty flag of nationalism", Guardian...

9. Afghanistan?s Vietnam portent
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...1950s, the Vietminh - faced with an imbalance between their own forces and conventional French military power - concentrated on attacking isolated garrisons in the northern part of Vietnam well awa...

10. Debtonation: how globalisation dies
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...tlemanly capitalism", 13 August 2007). It is the deregulated finance sector that has undermined the power and effectiveness of governments, and forced open capital and trade markets. It is deregu...

11. The politics of protection: Bush Strategy?
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...s 1% or less of the insurgent strength, how can it be depicted as the main foe, capable of seizing state power? The other Sunni insurgent groups increasingly view it as an impediment to their own ambi...

12. Venezuela: is Hugo Chávez in control?
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...ccused Chávez of "destroying his own country, economically, politically." The litany of power-concentration since the December 2006 elections has indeed proved indigestible: the congr...