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 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 |
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Views Tuesday, May 09, 2017 Curb Your Enthusiasm: Macron is Just the Beginning of a New Fight for France and Europe The media response to the French election reads like some people had too much cannabis. From the first paragraph of a front page news analysis of the New York Times : “It was globalization against nationalism. It was the future versus the past. Open versus closed.” Let’s not get carried away. It’s... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 12, 2017 Julian Assange is A Political Prisoner Who Has Exposed Government Crimes and Atrocities Julian Assange is a political prisoner. He has never been charged with a crime. Everyone who recognizes his name should know this, and if they don’t it is only because the largest media outlets have misreported or not reported the basic facts of his detention. This in itself is a searing indictment... Read more |
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Views Thursday, April 06, 2017 Public Pressure On White House Could Help Prevent Mass Starvation In Yemen “Shame on us,” wrote Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times last month. “The Saudis have managed to block coverage of the crimes against humanity they are perpetrating in Yemen, and the US backs the Saudis.” He was referring to a Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen, which now puts millions of... Read more |
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Views Saturday, April 01, 2017 Medicaid Saved Obamacare, and Single-Payer Universal Health Insurance May Be Back on the Agenda Sooner Than You Think A lot of the reporting on the GOP's attempted repeal of ObamaCare has focused on the Freedom Caucus, a group of libertarian-minded representatives for whom the administration's bill did not go far enough in obliterating the gains from Obama administration's expansion of healthcare coverage. But the... Read more |