Opinion

                
  • A new $87 billion tune to an old song

    A new $87 billion tune to an old song

    September 26, 2003

    Opinion It’s a blast from the past, an old folk hit brought back, newly relevant. The Pete Seeger song, “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy” – the one he sang on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour...

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  • More on the socialist market economy

    More on the socialist market economy

    September 19, 2003 By Bruce Parry And Lenny Brody

    We print another reply to Prof. Erwin Marquit’s People Before Profits columns on the “socialist market economy,” published in the PWW earlier this summer. The discussion will continue in subsequent issues. Socialism and commodity exchange

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  • Triumph of the media mill

    Triumph of the media mill

    September 19, 2003

    Opinion Without a hint of intended irony, the “NewsHour” on PBS concluded its Sept. 9 program with a warm interview of Henry Kissinger and then a segment about a renowned propagandist for the Nazi war machine....

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  • Vouchers and the hidden agenda

    Vouchers and the hidden agenda

    September 19, 2003

    Opinion Republican leaders in Congress are once again trying to foist a voucher experiment on the District of Columbia, despite opposition from D.C. delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, school superintendent Paul Vance, a majority of city council...

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  • Guns vs. butter

    Guns vs. butter

    September 19, 2003 By Susan Webb

    Opinion President Bush’s announcement that he wants another $87 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan ignited a storm that is expected to rage in Congress for months. It signals the intersection of the war and the economy...

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