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 Tuesday, November 19, 2019 The OAS Lied to the Public About the Bolivian Election and Coup What is the difference between an outright lie—stating something as a fact while knowing that it is false—and a deliberate material representation that accomplishes the same end? Here is an example that really pushes the boundary between the two, to the point where the distinction practically... Read more |
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Views Friday, June 07, 2019 Tariffs Are a Bad Response to an Imaginary Border Crisis Donald Trump won the presidency–despite losing the popular vote by 2.8 million—with a campaign that careened wildly from one distraction to another. He has clung to this as a Twitter and governing strategy ever since. As there are 190 countries in the world, and the United States trades with most... Read more |
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Views Saturday, June 01, 2019 Puerto Rico’s Botched Disaster Relief, Unsustainable Debt, and Economic Failure Linked to its Colonial Status Here is a scandal: Puerto Rico has a Financial Oversight and Management Board (FOMB), created by the US Congress and appointed by the president of the United States, in charge of its finances. Its budget, financed by Puerto Rico's taxpayers, is $1.5 billion over five years, or $300 million a year... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 06, 2019 The U.S. Helped Push Venezuela Into Chaos — and Trump’s Regime Change Policy Will Make Sure It Stays That Way Washington has been trying to topple Venezuela’s government for at least 17 years, but the Trump administration has taken a more openly aggressive tack than its predecessors. Last week, administration officials kicked their efforts into high gear by anointing their chosen successor to Venezuelan... Read more |
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Views Friday, December 21, 2018 “Fort Trump” in Poland Is Another Dangerous, Delusional Idea Should the United States build a permanent military base in Poland? Dangle a couple billion dollars in front of Donald Trump ― who seems to see himself as America’s premier arms merchant, when he’s not using the presidency to make money for himself and his family ― and you can see his eyes light up... Read more |
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Views Friday, November 16, 2018 When Will America Stop Participating in Yemen's Genocidal War? On Wednesday the Republican leadership briefly transformed the US House of Representatives into a theater of the absurd in order to block a debate and vote on US military participation in a genocidal war. In an odd spectacle, representatives went back and forth between speaking about wolves, who... Read more |
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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 |