How the World Works

and a breakdown of the kind of public spending that benefits the less privileged. Needless to say, the kind of public spending t ...

that Mexico would lose about 25% of its manufacturing capacity in the first few years and about 15% of its manufacturing labor f ...

discussion. There was virtually no media coverage. Who was going to know about a complex trade agreement? That didn’t work, and ...

was saying there’d be nothing wrong with a North American Free Trade Agreement, but not this one. It should be different, and he ...

there’s no meaningful sense in which they’re exports to Mexico. Still, that’s called “trade.” The corporations that do this are ...

and others who think that NAFTA is going to harm American workers for the benefit of Mexican workers. In other words, the fact t ...

Washington Post to submit an article on the New Year’s Day uprising in Chiapas [a state at the southern tip of Mexico, next to G ...

they are different societies, of course, but there are points of similarity to the Chiapas rebellion. South Central LA is a plac ...

The US was willing to support a democratic election, figuring that its candidate, a former World Bank official named Marc Bazin, ...

Aristide government. Refugees started fleeing again, because the situation was deteriorating so rapidly. The Bush administration ...

them hang together properly. The ads don’t mention that the chemical the women hand-dip the balls into is toxic and that, as a r ...

Some of the closest observation of this has been done by Americas Watch. They gave an answer to that question that I thought was ...

radio station in Berkeley, California], he described in detail how they weren’t even making the most perfunctory efforts to chec ...

What’s happening to the Miskitos now? When I was in Nicaragua in October 1993, church sources—the Christian Evangelical Church, ...

executive branch decided to “reinterpret” the ban, so we could send China nuclear generators, sophisticated satellites and super ...

West. Yeltsin is leading the pack on pushing the “reforms.” Therefore he’s a “democrat.” That’s what we call a democrat anywhere ...

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND How the Nazis won the war In his book Blowback, Chris Simpson described Operation Paper Clip, which involv ...

German experience in Europe, written with the cooperation of Nazi officers. Everything is described from the point of view of th ...

workers.” In other words, the resistance was trying to democratize the workplace and to take care of the population. That was un ...

Chile in a democratic election. What were his politics? He was basically a social democrat, very much of the European type. He w ...