Global Economic Justice

A Time Comes When Silence Is Betrayal

October 17, 2008

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Riverside Church, New York, April 4, 1967 A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. The truth of these words is beyond doubt, but the mission to which they call us is a most difficult one. Even when pressed by...
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The Shock Doctrine in Action in New Orleans

October 17, 2008

By Noami Klein Readers of “The Shock Doctrine” know that one of the most shameless examples of disaster capitalism has been the attempt to exploit the disastrous flooding of New Orleans to close down that city’s public housing projects, some of the only affordable units in the city. Most of the buildings sustained minimal...
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Going Bankrupt: Why the Debt Crisis is the Greatest Threat to the American Republic

October 17, 2008

By Chalmers Johnson In 2008, the United States finds itself in the anomalous position of being unable to pay for its own elevated living standards or its wasteful, overly large military establishment. Its government no longer even attempts to reduce the ruinous expenses of maintaining huge standing armies, replacing the equipment that seven years...
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Globalization and the Crucified Peoples

October 16, 2008

Jim Harney Posibilidad, Bangor, Maine In these exciting times there is a place from which to seize opportunity and possibility: to historicize knowledge in a praxis of liberation. How best do we find that place so that we´re able to look honestly at discourse, get behind it, and take on the social dimensions that...
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Civil Society Protests Water Privatization in El Salvador

October 16, 2008

SHARE Foundation Fall, 2007 As the US looks forward to Independence Day, Salvadorans are denied their rights to expression. Almost exactly one year ago today, the neighborhoods surrounding the University of San Salvador erupted into violence. As a result of hikes in bus and electricity fares, protests had begun peacefully enough on the morning...
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