September 2010


Putting the Breaks on Neoliberal Economics

Ismael Hossein-Zadeh Counterpunch 9/01/10

While the harrowing economic hardship that started in late 2007 and early 2008 rages on, and countless people in the United States, Europe and other parts of the world are losing their jobs, their homes and their sources of livelihood, policy-makers in the advanced capitalist countries of the West are standing idly by without lifting a finger to alleviate the onerous burden of the crushing recession. (more…)

Contracting Out the Occupation

Bill Quigley and Laura Raymond Counterpunch 9/01/10

Another false ending to the Iraq war is being declared.  Nearly seven years  after George Bush’s infamous “Mission Accomplished” speech on the USS Abraham  Lincoln, President Obama has just given a major address to mark the withdrawal  of all but 50,000 combat troops from Iraq. (more…)

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