How Ireland Could Fix Itself
from Irish Left Review, 9/2/10
Simon Johnson and Peter Boone are writing in the New York Times ...
Germany is No Model for Crisis-Ridden Euro States
from the Guardian [UK], 8/30/10
Germany's economic recovery has gathered steam lately and is being used – in both the European...
Infrastructure: The Sacred Cow
from MacroScan, 8/23/10
The early years of the Left Front government in West Bengal...
Unmarried Women: Recession's Ground Zero
from Working In These Times blog, 8/27/10
Just in time for Women's Equality Day, a new study has dampened the anniversary of women's...
Conflicting Visions for Latin America
from Toward Freedom, 8/26/10
Miners in Potosí, Bolivia set off sticks of dynamite as cold winter winds zipped through the city,...
EU Pensions Proposal: The Devil's in the Detail...
from Spectrezine.org, 8/28/10
The European Commission has a rather crude habit of publishing potentially controversial reports just as most Euro-MPs and members of national parliaments are packing their buckets and spades....
Iceland: One Year After Bankruptcy
from Spectrezine.org, 8/25/10
After Iceland’s three banks collapsed in October 2008 – a bankruptcy bigger than Lehmann Brothers’ in a republic of 300,000 inhabitants – the public overthrew a...
Economic Cost of the Flood in Pakistan
from Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières, 8/23/10
With monsoonal rains continuing, the worst flooding in Pakistan in 80 years is still spreading. Pakistani relief organizations and government agencies are stretched to the limit. Yet despite...
Fiddling While the US Economy Burns
from Consortium News, 8/23/10
We know we live in hard times that are on the verge of getting harder with 500,000 new claims for unemployment last week, a recent record.
The stock market may be over for...
Africa: The Looting Continues
from Links [Australia], 8/15/10
The continent’s own elites, together with the West and now China, are still making Africans progressively...
Housing Crisis, System Failure
8/20/10
This capitalist crisis resembles a certain kind of serious disease. Different symptoms keep flaring up at different locations. It began with sub-prime mortgages in residential...
Latin America Faces the Global Ecological Crisis
from Climate and Capitalism, 8/19/10
In this article, we will try to outline briefly some of the challenges facing Latin America in relation to the environment. To this end, we will begin by analysing the structural factors...
Bolivia, Summer 2010: Uneven Development, Neoliberal Continuities, and a Revolt Against Poverty
from Upside Down World, 8/16/10
The streets of the city of Potosí, 600 kilometres southeast of the capital of La Paz, are desolate, distended with...
The Attack on the Euro and the Dismantling of the European Union
from spectrezine.org, 8/17/10
The crisis of the euro results from a policy choice, that of the EU authorities pawning off the common currency, instead of restructuring the Greek sovereign debt. Such a restructuring could...
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