Thursday, February 5, 2009

Good Articles - 2-5

New Kagan- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/02/AR2009020202618_pf.html

New AT: Kagan - http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/02/03/kagan/


Leftist Forum Ends in Amazon; Capitalism Seen Dying

BELEM, Brazil - The world's biggest gathering of leftist activists ended on Sunday, after six days of discussions and protests that participants said showed there was an alternative to a crumbling global capitalist system.


Arab analyst blames Opec for collapse in prices

A prominent Arab energy analyst has blamed Opec for the collapse in crude prices, saying the oil cartel has failed to fully comply with output cuts and kept sending contradicting messages to the already sceptic market.

Protectionism and stimulus (wonkish)

Should we be upset about the buy-American provisions in the stimulus bill? Is there an economic case for such

Greens Are Radioactive

In a good way:

“I think a number of other greens are slowly going to make the decision that nuclear power is better


Permanent vs. temporary increases in government spending, a Keynesian approach

Let's say government can spend $100 billion today or spend the present expected value of $100 billion, stretched


Generals Seek To Reverse Obama's Iraq Withdrawal Decision

WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (IPS) - CENTCOM commander Gen. David Petraeus, supported by Defence Secretary


Joseph Romm: Can Obama stop the nuclear bomb in the Senate stimulus plan?

A radioactive dirty bomb has been dropped on the Senate stimulus package.


Javier Sierra: Coal is Dirty. Period.

Just as a mother makes her child wash his mouth out after telling a lie, one of the worst ecological catastrophes in our country's history is making the coal industry wash off its face, which is full of soot.



3 comments:

gulakov said...

good links, here's a new Mead card


Slipping into depression now causes great power war
Mead 2/4 – Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (Walter Russell, Only Makes You Stronger, The New Republic, http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=571cbbb9-2887-4d81-8542-92e83915f5f8&p=2, AG)

Bad economic times can breed wars. Europe was a pretty peaceful place in 1928, but the Depression poisoned German public opinion and helped bring Adolf Hitler to power. If the current crisis turns into a depression, what rough beasts might start slouching toward Moscow, Karachi, Beijing, or New Delhi to be born? The United States may not, yet, decline, but, if we can't get the world economy back on track, we may still have to fight.

Bill Batterman said...

There are good global (especially China) economic collapse impacts in that article, too.

Scotty P said...

That new mead card is pretty useful-nice.

Now you gotta find some feb de-dev cards batterman.