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Food And Markets: A Crisis Of Faith
By Adam W. Parsons
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Unlike the crisis of 1970s stagflation that signalled the end for the Keynesian social-democratic model, the food crisis of 2008 could be marked down in history for setting in motion an opposite trend
Congratulations, Corporate Crime Fighters! Coup Averted For Three Days!
By Michael Moore
www.countercurrents.org/moore011008.htm
Everyone said the bill would pass. The masters of the universe were already making celebratory dinner reservations at Manhattan’s finest restaurants. Personal shoppers in Dallas and Atlanta were dispatched to do the early Christmas gifting. Mad Men of Chicago and Miami were popping corks and toasting each other long before the morning latte run
The Free Market Preachers Have Long Practised State Welfare For The Rich
By George Monbiot
www.countercurrents.org/monbiot011008.htm
Bailing out banks seems unprecedented, but the US government’s form in subsidising big business is well established
World Financial Crisis Reveals Vulnerability Of Russia’s Economy
By Vladimir Volkov
www.countercurrents.org/volkov011008.htm
Shocks throughout the world financial system, centered in the financial meltdown in the US, led by mid-September to a sharp fall on the Russian stock markets. The country is facing its greatest banking crisis since the default of August 1998, demonstrating the enormous vulnerability of the Russian economy to fluctuations on the world markets
How Forgotten Iraq May Elect The Next President
By Ira Chernus
www.countercurrents.org/chernu011008.htm
Let’s just hope the next president is wise enough and open-minded enough to hear us when we point out: One presidency was wrecked in the jungles of Vietnam, another in the sands of Iraq. Don’t let a third presidency be destroyed in the mountains of Afghanistan or Pakistan, or over Iran. That danger alone should be more than enough reason to keep the Iraq War in the forefront of our minds as we decide on, and then usher in, a new presidency
Revising Jihad
By Q. Isa Daudpota
www.countercurrents.org/isa011008.htm
Muslim countries, which are being torn apart by jihadists from within and across their border, need to make this latest work by Fadl available widely in translation. Let it be studied in madrassas and discussed on the media. Who knows what reformation this could bring about?
Communalism, Centrestage
By Shabnam Hashmi
www.countercurrents.org/hashmi011008.htm
cc011008Communal forces have invaded all spaces, including the minds of secular politicians
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