by Michael T. Klare | Jan 29, 2003 | Papers
Deciphering the Bush administration’s motivesThe United States is about to go to war with Iraq. As of this writing, there are 60,000 US troops already deployed in the area around Iraq, and another 75,000 or so are on their way to the combat zone. Weapons...
by Michael Scott Doran | Jan 29, 2003 | Papers
Call it a city on four legsheading for murder …New York is a womanholding, according to history,a rag called liberty with one handand strangling the earth with the other.-Adonis [Ali Ahmed Said],”The Funeral of New York,” 1971In the weeks after the...
by Roy Green | Jan 29, 2003 | Papers
Investing in the knowledge-based economyWith their narrow accounting focus on the budget deficit, have the Irish government, opposition parties and media commentators lost sight of the bigger picture?Only three years ago, the government announced its commitment in the...
by Robert Manne | Jan 29, 2003 | Papers
How Tampa sailed into 2002 To understand Australian politics in 2002, one must begin with the Tampa incident of August, 2001. Tampa not only assured the government of victory in the November election. It also altered the balance of forces in Australia in a fundamental...
by Ron Jacobs | Jan 29, 2003 | Papers
You will not die, it’s not poisonI’m listening to Bob Dylan’s newest release, Live 1975. This CD/DVD collection is culled from his Rolling Thunder Tour of 1975. This tour consisted of Dylan, Joan Baez and a travelling troupe of musicians that...
by William Mitchell | Jan 29, 2003 | Papers
The recent Commonwealth Treasury Debt Management Review highlights the damaging divide among ‘progressive economists’ in Australia when it comes to macroeconomic analysis. This fracture is greater than the things that bind us and helps the neo-liberal...
