Is the Bail Out Breeding a Bigger Crisis?

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...

WESPAC hosts environmental speaker

WESPAC will host the environmental educator and sustainability management consultant John L. Cusack, on Monday, 9 June, 2008, at 4:00 PM at the WESPAC office in Pleasantville, where he will give his presentation, “What We Can Do To Encourage Peace & Environmental Justice by Helping Stop Or Mitigate Global Warming and Climate Change”.

Murray Beaver responds to Obama

Murray Beaver's response to Obama’s speech May 19, 2011 on the Palestine-Israel Impasse   I have issues with his address:   1) Although it was refreshing to hear his suggestion for the return to the borders prior to the 1967 war, Obama makes the...

WESPAC Members meeting

The next WESPAC Members meeting will take place on Monday, June 6th at 7pm at the Mapleton Conference Center.  We will have a special presentation on Indian Point with Marilyn Elie, Jeanne and Gary Shaw.  All WESPAC Committees will have time to submit a...

The Crisis is not an Abnormality of Capitalism

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...

Challenging AIPAC

Challenging AIPAC and confronting "US interests"   Monadel Herzallah, Sara Kershnar, Max Ajl and Kristin Szremski The Electronic Intifada 23 May 2011   The roster of speakers at this year’s AIPAC policy conference includes USPresident Barack...

Wall Street Hysterics

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...

Majesty and Massacre at Maroun al Ras

Majesty and Massacre at Maroun al Ras     Franklin Lamb (at the Lebanon-Palestine border) May 16, 23011   Maroun al Ras is a beautiful hillside Lebanese village on the border with Palestine. 63 years ago today its villagers lifted their lights to...

Capitalism from the Standpoint of its Victims

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...

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