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Blood on the Palms
In the coastal lowlands of the Colombian department of Nariño, oil palm plantations are spreading through historically Afro-Colombian lands. The Colombian government, with the help of USAID, is promoting the expansion as a way of resettling members of right-wing paramilitary groups. Afro-Colombian activists who get in the way pay a price in blood. | Read more »
Education and Incarceration
People in prison tend to start with lower educational levels than the general population, and spending time behind bars generally makes matters worse. Because schooling is a major factor in earnings potential, the incarcerated are being left farther and farther behind. | Read more »
Globalized Resistance
The movement against corporate globalization is serious about clowning around. "The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army" led some of the incursions in the most recent globalization battle, which took place in June at the Group of Eight (G-8) summit meeting in northern Germany. | Read more »
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Bumpy Landing
- By John Miller
- July/August 2007
- Issue 271
Much of the economics profession seems to think thatFed chair Ben Bernanke will be able to pull offa "soft landing" for the U.S. economy. But the landing, no matter how soft it mayfeel to the passengers in first class, will be a bumpy onefor those in the economy seats. In February,Bernanke took the unusual step of callingupon policymakers to put in place "some limits on thedownside risks to individuals" to protect the dynamismessential for economic progress. But his monetarypolicy will likely do just the opposite. |
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The Social Costs of Neoliberalism in China
- Interview with Han Deqiang.
- July/August 2007
- Issue 271
Han Deqiang is a prolific economist at the Economics
and Management School, Beijing University
of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and one of a
growing number of Chinese scholars critical of
the country's neoliberal development strategy. Han, however,
did not just arrive at this stance. He has been critical
of neoliberal ideology in China for almost two decades
and has written many books and articles on the social crises
that rural and urban workers have faced under China's
new economic regime. It would not be wrong to characterize him as a Chinese Noam
Chomsky, albeit with his own oratorical flair. |
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