Asia Times January 24, 2008

The military adventurers of the George W Bush administration have much in common with the corporate leaders of the defunct energy company Enron. Both groups of men thought that they were the “smartest guys in the room”, the title of Alex Gibney’s prize-winning film on what went wrong at Enron. The neo-conservatives in the White House and the Pentagon outsmarted themselves. They failed even to address the problem of how to finance their schemes of imperialist wars and global domination. (Keep reading…)

New Left Review 48, November-December 2007

A reckoning of global shifts in political and economic relations, with China emerging as new workshop of the world and US power, rationally applied elsewhere, skewed by Israeli interests in the Middle East. Oppositions to it gauged, along with theoretical visions that offer exits from the perpetual free-market present. (Keep reading…)

Winnipeg Free Press Jan 9 2008

AFTER a quarter-century of Gordon Gekko-style “Greed is good,” the times may be a-changing. Public concern is rising about growing inequality. Also rising is awareness of its causes. (Keep reading…)

Globe and Mail January 5, 2008

It’s not so much the rich getting richer; it’s the very, very rich (Keep reading…)

The Canadian Press January 2, 2008

OTTAWA — It’s 10:33 a.m. on the first day of work after New Year’s Day. Do you know how much your boss has earned so far this year? (Keep reading…)

Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance By John Berger Verso 2007 142 pages, hardback £12.99 (Keep reading…)

Harper’s Magazine October 2007

Only a crisis — actual or perceived — produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. (Keep reading…)

http://www.everybodylovesyourmoney.com September 12, 2007

In recognition of the just-completed Labor Day weekend, I’d like to offer a salute to American workers, who the United Nations just reported are second only to Norway’s laborers when it comes to productivity. (Keep reading…)

Globe and Mail September 1, 2007

By John Allemang

Naomi Klein isn’t talking shopping now. The author-activist behind the 2000 hit No Logo has returned with a scathing attack on government and corporate exploitation of disaster, conflict and terror, from 9/11 to New Orleans, and Russia to Guantanamo Bay and Iraq. While critics scoff, she holds out hope that she can inspire the political left the movement she was born, raised and married into, to reclaim its courage and confidence. Before it’s too late. (Keep reading…)

Special to Canadian Dimension, September 6, 2007

Today’s two most conspicuous global flashpoints – the Middle East and Latin America – have widely exposed the fact of US imperialism and highlighted some of its limitations. Adding the apparent cracks in US economic hegemony seems to indicate an empire in decline. Yet a more cautious assessment would recall that the earlier defeat in Vietnam did not derail US global expansion, while the new Vietnam has become a model member of the WTO. It is equally sobering to note that the four largest Latin America economies - Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and Columbia which collectively account for some 80% of the continent’s GDP - are, in spite of significant jolts along the way, hardly considering any radical break with capitalism but in fact deepening their integration into global capitalism. As for the US trade deficit and falling dollar this is, as I’ll argue below, simply too economistic a measure of imperial strength. (Keep reading…)