Analysis
Letters – October 18, 2008
October 18, 2008Crash of 2008 The news has been comparing this economic crisis to the Great Depression of 1929. Many neighbors and friends have been talking about the upcoming holidays and how we weren’t going to be able...
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Landslide: necessary and possible
October 18, 2008When tyrants tremble in their fear And hear their death knell ringing When friends rejoice both far and near How can I keep from singing! — from a Quaker hymn Yes, the neoconservatives are reading the...
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EDITORIAL: Marx was right
October 18, 2008It was only yesterday that “free market” ideologues were dancing on Karl Marx’s grave with scornful shouts that “greed is good” and “TINA” — “there is no alternative” to capitalism. These fat men guffawed contemptuously at...
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Nationalize banks, employ unemployed
October 17, 2008Last week the major economies of the world, including the United States, European Union, United Kingdom, China, Russia and Brazil carried out an unprecedented and coordinated reduction of interest rates. The effort itself was not immediately...
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Editorial: Talking about race
October 10, 2008Two conversations about race are taking place in our country. One is reviving the ugly past. The other is looking to a brighter future. Stirring a lynch-mob atmosphere reminiscent of the worst in our nation’s history,...
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