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Puncturing the myths of the New Economy
May 21, 2004Book review After the New Economy By Doug Henwood New Press, 2003, Hardcover 269 pp., $24.95 During the 1990s, conventional wisdom said that the old rules of capitalism no longer applied. The New Economy made recession...
Read moreSchoolhouse to jailhouse
May 21, 2004Opinion Fourteen-year-old Ricky was arrested by school police one Halloween and charged with a second-degree felony: “throwing a deadly missile.” While this sounds serious, Ricky’s “deadly missile” wasn’t made with dynamite or biotoxins, nor did it...
Read moreA brutal prison culture
May 21, 2004Opinion We have all seen the Abu Ghraib pictures, and steeled ourselves for worse to come. The brass are trying to fob this off as an aberration created by a few sadistic guards. Is this so?...
Read moreGood public policy would put jobs before profits
May 21, 2004Opinion Allan Greenspan, Federal Reserve Board chair, has been talking to the U.S. Congress. Once more he has been explaining what the best ways are for U.S. capitalists to raise profits to higher levels. Profits are...
Read moreOn the 50th anniversary of Dien Bien Phu Vietnam celebrates victory over colonialism
May 21, 2004On the 50th anniversary of Dien Bien Phu DIEN BIEN PHU, Vietnam (AP) – Smiling and waving flags, thousands of Vietnamese paraded May 7 on the 50th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu, celebrating...
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