Notes from the Editors, April 2008
April 1, 2008
United States and the world economy are now experiencing a major economic setback that began in the financial sector with the bursting of the housing bubble, but which can ultimately… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Geography
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Finance, Imperialism, and the Hegemony of the Dollar
April 1, 2008
Ramaa Vasudevan teaches economics at Colorado State University. She is a member of the Union for Radical Political Economics and the Dollars and Sense Collective. The July–August 2007 crisis in… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, March 2008
March 1, 2008
This month marks the fifth year of the U.S. war and occupation in Iraq, which commenced on March 19, 2003. Despite setbacks for the U.S. empire, including unexpected losses in… READ MORE
The Guerrilla in Colombia An Interview with Rodrigo Granda, Member of the FARC-EP International Commission
March 1, 2008
Jean Batou directs the Institute of Economic and Social History at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and teaches international history there. He has published numerous books and articles on… READ MORE
We Will Keep Trying, Unrepentant, Forever
March 1, 2008
Ricardo Alarcón is president of the National Assembly of People’s Power, Cuba’s legislative parliament. He was ambassador to the United Nations (1966–78 and 1990–91) and Cuba’s foreign minister (1992–93). From… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 2008
February 1, 2008
Twenty years ago climatologist James Hansen of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies, widely considered to be the world’s leading authority on global warming, first brought the issue into the… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, January 2008
January 1, 2008
The victory of the No vote in the Venezuelan constitutional reform referendum in December is being treated by Washington as a major defeat for Chávez’s efforts to promote a socialism… READ MORE
Against the Market Economy: Advice to Venezuelan Friends
January 1, 2008
Robin Hahnel is professor of economics at American University in Washington DC and currently visiting professor at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. This article is adapted from a… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, December 2007
December 1, 2007
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Thorstein Veblen, the greatest critic of U.S. capitalism in the early twentieth century and one of the foremost social theorists… READ MORE
Abu Ghraib and Insaniyat
December 1, 2007
Arshin Adib-Moghaddam is the author of The International Politics of the Persian Gulf: A Cultural Genealogy (Routledge, 2006) and Iran in World Politics: The Question of the Islamic Republic (Hurst,… READ MORE