Published on Thursday, April 16, 2009 by CommonDreams.org Top Ten Enemies of Single Payer by Russell Mokhiber Most people, when they arrive in Washington, D.C., see it for what it is - a cesspool of corruption. Two reasonable reactions to the cesspool. One, run away...

Call for Papers URPE Summer Conference August 15 – 18, 2009   Greetings! Papers and workshops proposals are being accepted for the URPE 2009 Annual Summer Conference held August 15 - 18, 2009.  The theme of this year’s conference is “Economic Crises: Opportunities for...

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Globalization: Suicide Capitalism William Pfaff Truthdig March 24, 2009 The globalization of the international economy launched by the United States as an accidental policy of the Clinton administration has since been much lauded as benefiting (some of) the poor of...

Is the Bail Out Breeding a Bigger Crisis? A Future of Inflation, High Interest Rates and a Hollow Dollar? Paul Craig Roberts CounterPunch March 26, 2009 At his March 24 press conference President Obama demonstrated that he is capable of understanding issues as...

Osvaldo Martínez: "The Crisis Is Not an Abnormality of Capitalism" Interview by Luisa Maria Gonzalez Garcia 2009 started off badly.  The international economic crisis is the top priority of governments, companies, international organizations, and individuals...

Wall Street hysterics over the AIG bonus bill 23 March 2009 If there is a positive element to be found in the bonuses recently handed out to American International Group (AIG) executives, it is in further lifting the veil on the character of American society and the...

Capitalism From the Standpoint of Its Victims The Fall of the Towers of Wall Street M. Shahid Alam CounterPunch March 23, 2009 It has never been easy offering a critique of capitalism or markets to my undergraduate students. Most have never heard an unkind word about...

It’s Not Going to Be OK Chris Hedges Truthdig January 26, 2009 The daily bleeding of thousands of jobs will soon turn our economic crisis into a political crisis. The street protests, strikes and riots that have rattled France, Turkey, Greece, Ukraine, Russia, Latvia,...

The Looming Crisis at the Pentagon How Taxpayers Finance Fantasy Wars Chalmers Johnson TomDispatch.com February 2, 2009 Like much of the rest of the world, Americans know that the U.S. automotive industry is in the grips of what may be a fatal decline. Unless it...