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The Good, the Bad, and the Benevolent Interventionist: U.S. Press and Intellectual Distortions of the Latin American Left

April 20, 2013   ·   0 Comments

By Kevin Young: U.S. journalists and commentators have helped popularize the image of two distinct Latin American lefts...

What’s up with the New York Times

By Workers World: When a New York Times lead editorial is titled “More Jobs, Higher Pay” (Feb. 5) you have to wonder. The editorial called for ...

Latvia’s Economic Disaster as a Neoliberal Success Story: A Model for Europe and the US?

By Jeffrey Sommers and Michael Hudson: A generation ago the Chicago Boys and their financial supporters applauded General Pinochet’s anti-labor Chile as a success story...

Don’t Cry for the Republicans, Paul Krugman!

By Costas Panayotakis: In a column entitled “The G.O.P.’s Existential Crisis,” Paul Krugman claims that the Republican Party’s long-standing effort to eliminate “the welfare state – ...

Paul Krugman Discovers Marx (and Misses the Point)

By Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer: In his recent New York Times op-ed piece, Princeton professor and regular columnist for The New York Times, Paul Krugman observed...

The Times They May be Changing

By Marty Hart-Landsberg: One of the biggest obstacles to improving economic conditions has been majority belief that our current economic system is capable of delivering steady improvements in living and working conditions. Because of that belief...

Hot Air Capitalism

By Costas Panayotakis: In a column published in the November 1, 2012 edition of The New York Times Nicholas Kristof describes Hurricane Sandy as a wake-up call that underlines the urgency of dealing with climate change.

NYT on ‘Class Imbalance’ in Politics

By Michael McGehee: The New York Times recently published an opinion by Nicholas Carnes, an assistant professor of public policy at Duke University and author of the forthcoming ...

Their Economic Health and Ours

By Costas Panayotakis: In a piece comparing the current health of the U.S. economy to that of other capitalist countries, Eduardo Porter concludes that “[r]elative to many, U.S. economy thrives.” “Relative” is, of course, the key word here because Porter’s optimistic pronouncement...

Great Paper. Great Propaganda Organ

By Edward Herman: On October 11, 2011, Paul Krugman asserted on his blog that he had the privilege of writing two columns a week for “the ...

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