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Of Social Justice and Lack of It
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Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN By Julio Godoy IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint BERLIN (IDN) – Between the end of World War II and 1979 it was conventional wisdom in North America, Western Europe, and the industrialised countries of Asia and Oceania that taxes were the best way to make social justice dreams come true. In those decades, which in France are known as the Golden Thirty Years, in Germany as the economic wonder years, and elsewhere in the industrialized world as the Keynesian epoch, taxes were seen as the best way not only to allow government to correct the market’s shortcomings... [Read the full story]
Africa
SOMALIA: U.S. Should Accept Islamist Authority, Report Says
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Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Charles Fromm and Mohammed A. Salih WASHINGTON, Mar 11 (IPS) – The United States should accept an ”Islamist authority” in Somalia as part of a ”constructive disengagement” strategy for the war-torn country, according to a new report released here by the influential Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) on Wednesday. The 39-page report urges the U.S. to recognise that ”Islamist authority” even if it includes al-Shabaab, or ”the youth” in Arabic, an Islamist insurgent group that has declared loyalty to al Qaeda. It calls the current... [Read the full story]
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LIVE WEBCAST, 9:30 am ET Friday, March 12: What Can the U.S. Do About China’s Currency Manipulation?
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Economic Policy Institute Forum on Currency Manipulation For those of you outside of Washington, DC who are unable to attend tomorrow’s Economic Policy Institute (EPI) Forum, Currency Manipulation: How Should the U.S. Respond, please WATCH THE LIVE WEBCAST. MORE INFORMATION: WHAT: Economic Policy Institute Forum on Currency Manipulation WHEN: Friday, March 12, 2010, 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. ET WHERE: Mayflower Renaissance Hotel, East Room, 1127 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. WHO: Panel I: Impact of Chinese Currency Manipulation on U.S. Businesses and... [Read the full story]
Asia
CHINESE DEFENCE BUDGET: SUSPICIONS OF FUDGING PERSIST
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Global Geopolitics Net Sites B.RAMAN At a proposed total expenditure of 532.11 billion yuan ( US Dollars 78.25 billion), the Chinese defence budget presented to the National People’s Congress (NPC), the Parliament, in session in Beijing since March 5,2010, represents a 7.5 percent increase over last year’s spending. In 2009, the defence budget increased by 14.2 per cent.The defence spending during 2010 would be only 6.3 per cent of the total budgetary spending. This is the first time the annual increase has dropped below 10 per cent in almost a decade. 2.According to official spokesmen,... [Read the full story]
Europe
Greece, a crisis born of neo-liberal madness
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The Real News Network March 10, 2010 Gérard Duménil: Cutting wages and social spending will make the crisis worse. Dr. Duménil is one of the world’s foremost theorists of neoliberalism and economic crisis and is the author of numerous influential books, many of which have been translated into several languages. More at The Real News Read More →
Middle East
MIDEAST: Iran, Israel Spoiling for a Fight?
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Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Analysis by Mel Frykberg RAMALLAH, Mar 10 (IPS) – Iran and Israel appear to be spoiling for a fight, going by recent belligerent statements emanating from several regional capitals. Military movement on the ground is also lending credence to the idea that the mutual loathing and major ideological differences between the two countries could lead to a vortex of violence capable of sucking the entire region into a new war. ”Diplomacy and sanctions are not going to work with Iran. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad is a messianic ideologue.... [Read the full story]
LIVE WEBCAST, 9:30 am ET Friday, March 12: What Can the U.S. Do About China’s Currency Manipulation?
Economic Policy Institute Forum on Currency Manipulation For those of you outside of Washington, DC who are unable to attend tomorrow’s Economic Policy Institute (EPI) Forum, Currency Manipulation: How Should the U.S. Respond, please WATCH THE LIVE WEBCAST. MORE INFORMATION: WHAT: Economic Policy...
[Continue reading: LIVE WEBCAST, 9:30 am ET Friday, March 12: What Can the U.S. Do About China’s Currency Manipulation?]CHINESE DEFENCE BUDGET: SUSPICIONS OF FUDGING PERSIST
Global Geopolitics Net Sites B.RAMAN At a proposed total expenditure of 532.11 billion yuan ( US Dollars 78.25 billion), the Chinese defence budget presented to the National People’s Congress (NPC), the Parliament, in session in Beijing since March 5,2010, represents a 7.5 percent increase over last year’s...
[Continue reading: CHINESE DEFENCE BUDGET: SUSPICIONS OF FUDGING PERSIST]Greece, a crisis born of neo-liberal madness
The Real News Network March 10, 2010 Gérard Duménil: Cutting wages and social spending will make the crisis worse. Dr. Duménil is one of the world’s foremost theorists of neoliberalism and economic crisis and is the author of numerous influential books, many of which have been translated into several languages. ...
[Continue reading: Greece, a crisis born of neo-liberal madness]2009 Trade Deficit Reduction Masks Serious US Competitiveness Deficiencies
Global Geopolitics Net Sites Originally Published on American Economic Alert Read the original article on Amercian Economic Alert. Alan Tonelson The details of the final 2009 trade figures hold two important lessons for both supporters and many opponents of current U.S. trade policies. The first: However critically...
[Continue reading: 2009 Trade Deficit Reduction Masks Serious US Competitiveness Deficiencies]THE MAOIST INSURGENCY IN INDIA
Global Geopolitics Net Sites B.RAMAN Given below are my replies to a set of questions on the Maoist insurgency in India e-mailed to me by a journalist of a Brazilian online journal: 1 Who are the Maoists in India nowadays? The Maoists are the cadres of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), who are fighting...
[Continue reading: THE MAOIST INSURGENCY IN INDIA]Single payer fight moves to states
The Real News Network Swanson: Obama pushes out Kucinich single payer amendment that enables states single payer health care. More at The Real News
[Continue reading: Single payer fight moves to states]POLITICS: Sri Lanka Garners Support Against U.N. Probe
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Mar 11 (IPS) – Sri Lanka, which won a grueling decades-long battle against one of the world’s most ferocious terrorist organisations last May, has scored a diplomatic victory in its ongoing war of words with the United Nations....
[Continue reading: POLITICS: Sri Lanka Garners Support Against U.N. Probe]CHILE: Aftershocks Rock Inaugural Ceremony
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Daniela Estrada SANTIAGO, Mar 11 (IPS) – While Chile’s new rightwing President Sebastián Piñera, who announced that he would lead ”a government of reconstruction,” was being sworn in Thursday, the earthquake-ravaged country was shaken by major aftershocks....
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Greece, a crisis born of neo-liberal madness
The Real News Network
March 10, 2010
Gérard Duménil: Cutting wages and social spending will make the crisis worse.
Dr. Duménil is one of the world’s foremost theorists of neoliberalism and economic crisis and is the author of numerous influential books, many of which have been translated into several languages.
Single payer fight moves to states
Swanson: Obama pushes out Kucinich single payer amendment that enables states single payer health care.
Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich joins us to discuss two House debates in which he’s played a central role this week. The Ohio Democrat is threatening to vote against his party’s healthcare reform package because it does not contain a robust public option.
Keiser Report No. 23: Markets! Finance! Scandal!
RussiaToday
March 09, 2010
This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, report on the fake shop fronts making a “revived” economy in Northern England; the Chile quake causing Goldman Sachs’s high frequency trading to los…
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Gabor Steingart: The New World Disorder
See the original broadcast on Fora.tv
This lecture delivered by Gabor Steingart at the Global Policy Institute in 2008 remains is as relevant today as when originally presented.
The 7 Fallacies of the Globalisation Debate: Is it destroying the West? The Flat World. Outsourcing. Free Trade.Each of these phrases is a flashpoint in one of the most heated debates of our lifetime: is it a force for good? – The Global Policy Institute
Excerpt from Gabor Steingart’s lecture on Fora.tv
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