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Book Review: “A Peoples’ History of the Vietnam War”, by Jonathan Neale, 2001 This book is part of a series of peoples’ histories, edited ...

“Garbage Land” By Elizabeth Royte, 2005 They don’t call it muckraking for nothing. The rebirth of muckraking has finally gotten around to th...

“In Praise of Barbarians” by Mike Davis, 2007 The recent past has seen a profusion of left-wing books, films and documentaries. This blog in...

Book Review: “Blue Covenant, the Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water” By Maude Barlow, 2007. This book is a han...

Good piece in Dissident Voice on what's happening in Guatemala. The Guatemalan president was in town (D.C.) a couple of days back to me...

There were riots and protests throughout Europe yesterday. Rather than duplicate the post in my personal blog, I'll simply refer interes...

There's a new essay by Robin Blackburn on subprime and financialisation which is in the current edition of New Left Review , which can b...

Related to my previous post, I've just found a couple of articles in the same vein. In the first one, Mike Whitney, at Dissident Voice ,...

Interesting piece in today's FT : QUOTE " The correct response is to give priority to dealing with hunger, with access to foodstuff...

I just got hold of Phillips' "Bad Money," which came out about a week ago. I've posted a couple of comments on my initial ...

For a quick and accurate explanation of the mechanics of subprime, there's a powerpoint presentation, put together by Michael Perelman, ...

Most of the readers of this blog are doubtless aware that a tectonic shift in global economic relations has been taking place, with the ine...

The paucity of theoretical (left-wing) analysis concerning the present financial crisis has been bothering me for the last several months. I...

Bertold Brecht’s “ Puntila and His Hired Man Matti,” Frank Theatre at City of Minneapolis Garage The Frank Theatre is probably one of the m...

"Global Capitalism and the Next Great Depression." The Campaign for a Working Democracy is hosting a discussion of the present eco...

Book Review: “The Secret History of the American Empire”, by John Perkins, 2007.  “Economic Hit Men, Jackals and the Truth about Global Corr...

“The Worst Hard Time”, by Timothy Egan, 2006 There’s a thunder of dust coming towards you. It is crawling down the walls of your house. Your...