Mark Weisbrot
Mark Weisbrot is Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), in Washington, DC. He is also president of Just Foreign Policy. He is co-author, with Dean Baker, of Social Security: The Phony Crisis. E-mail Mark: weisbrot@cepr.net
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Views Saturday, November 10, 2018 Trump Was Handed a Major Defeat on Tuesday—And There Will Be More With the Democrats having won the House of Representatives, and forecast to gain 37 seats (there are currently 14 uncalled races), there is some confusion about what this means. And there is also some debate over what it might indicate for the future of Trump and his party. Many have pointed to the... Read more |
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Views Friday, October 26, 2018 Congress Should End US Military Participation in the Saudis’ War in Yemen Each day since Oct. 2, new evidence has emerged that the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a resident of Virginia, was a premeditated murder. At the same time, it is also increasingly clear that the murder was approved at the highest levels of the Saudi Arabian government, most... Read more |
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Views Saturday, October 06, 2018 Presidential Election Is About a Fight for Democracy in Brazil The original Portuguese version of this was published by the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo on Friday . What follows is the English translation. The world is watching Brazil’s elections, probably as never before. “Latin America’s latest menace: Bolsonaro Presidente,” screams the headline on... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 20, 2018 How Congress Can End the War in Yemen On July 3, PBS News Hour reporter Jane Ferguson was in Yemen covering the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe . She spoke with Dr. Ali Al Motaa, a Yemeni professor, who told her: “The missiles that kill us, American-made. The planes that kill us, American-made. The tanks, Abrams, American-made... Read more |
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Views Thursday, March 08, 2018 Congress Must Act Now to End America's Atrocities in Yemen Your taxpayer dollars and military forces are at work, on the other side of the world, in Yemen — one of the world’s poorest countries. Every 10 minutes another child dies of preventable disease. It’s not a natural disaster but a human made one: Saudi Arabia has cut off most supplies of food, fuel... Read more |
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Views Monday, October 02, 2017 If You Want Puerto Rico To Recover, Cancel Its Debt More than 40% of Puerto Rico is without clean water, and the vast majority has no electricity. Many hospitals and operating rooms are not functioning, and the threat of a public health crisis looms. On Wednesday, 145 members of Congress took the unusual step of writing to President Trump and asking... Read more |
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Views Friday, September 29, 2017 From North Korea to Yemen: The Cost of Empire As the war of words between the governments of Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un has spiraled into childlike name-calling and escalating military threats, the world shudders at the possible consequences. The Pentagon has reportedly estimated that a North Korean attack with conventional weapons against... Read more |
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Views Monday, August 28, 2017 Trump's New Venezuela Sanctions Will Do More Harm Than Good The Trump administration announced new, unprecedented sanctions against Venezuela on Friday that are designed to cut off financing to Venezuela. The Trump team pretends that the sanctions are only directed at the government. But as any economist knows, this is clearly false. By starving the economy... Read more |
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Views Friday, July 21, 2017 Venezuela Needs Negotiation to Avoid Civil War, Not Trump-Supported "Regime Change" What kind of role should Washington play in Venezuela's crisis? Well, what kind of role should Russia play in U.S. politics and elections? The answer to both questions is the same: None at all. Unfortunately, recent U.S. involvement in Venezuela's domestic affairs has dwarfed anything anyone has... Read more |
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Views Saturday, June 10, 2017 The Resurrection of Jeremy Corbyn: Truth Can Be an Effective Political Weapon Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the UK’s Labour Party, has made a remarkable comeback after his political obituary had been written and widely accepted as recently as seven weeks ago. Although the Tories, led by Theresa May, will still have the largest number of seats, they have lost their majority, after... Read more |