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G20: Washington Consensus is Over
02 April 2009 NEW FUNDING PLEDGES $500bn for the IMF to lend to struggling economies $250bn to boost world trade $250bn for a new IMF "overdraft facility" countries can draw on $100bn that international development banks can lend to poorest countries IMF will raise $6bn from selling gold reserves to increase lending for the poorest countries Source: BBC
The Bases Are Loaded: US Permanent Military Presence in Iraq
Will the U.S. ever leave Iraq? Official policy promises an eventual departure, while warning of the dire consequences of a "premature" withdrawal. But while Washington equivocates, facts on the ground tell another story. Independent journalist Dahr Jamail, and author Chalmers Johnson, are discovering that military bases in Iraq are being consolidated from over a hundred to a handful of "megabases" with lavish amenities. Much of what is taking place is obscured by denials and quibbles over the definition of
Taleb and Mandelbrot on the Economic Crisis
10/21/08: PBS NEWS HOUR Interview with Nassim Nicholas Taleb, famous economist and author of "The Black Swan" and Dr. Mandelbrot, professor of Mathematics. Both say that the present economy more serious than the Great Depression, and the economy during the American Revolution.
Wallace Shawn Reads Howard Zinn's Speech on Civil Disobedience
Actor Wallace Shawn reads the speech of historian Howard Zinn given at Johns Hopkins University on Civil Disobedience, November 1970. Part of a reading from Voices of a People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove,) May 2, 2007 in New York, NY
Mike Klare - Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet
Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost, on Michael T. Klare's new book, Rising Powers/Shrinking Planet, The New Geopolitics of Oil: "Four centuries ago, as the conquistadors roamed through South America, it was the search for gold that drove the clash of empires. A hundred years later, as the great powers fought over the West Indies, it was the quest for land that could grow sugar cane. Today, the key commodity is oil. No one knows this subject better than Michael Klare, and his book is a trenchant
