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Robert Brenner
THE BOOM AND THE BUBBLE
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An analysis of the US economy for the quinquennium that illustrates the extent of the burden of debt among consumers and firms and the drainage of world capital, without undervaluing the boom that has taken place in the real economy. Now that the balloon
is going down, will we have sounder growth or be thrown into crisis? This is a question that must be dealt with for the immediate future of the USA and Europe.
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Luigi Pintor
LOW INTENSITY HIROSHIMA
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Massimo Serafini
URANIUM AND OTHER POISONS
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The delayed effects of the NATO war against Serbia are still not all known. For one thing, depleted uranium bullets that were used in much greater quantities than in the experiments in the Gulf war in 1991, are slowly emerging. For another, the extent of
the environmental catastrophe caused by the bombardments of chemical factories, refineries and oil depots are becoming increasingly and dramatically clear. Well-documented scientific evidence erases any doubts regarding the toxicity and carcinogenic natur
e of the large quantities of substances allowed to contaminate the air, earth and Danube. New wars, which propoganda describe as being less destructive as they are based on the "surgical" selection of objectives, turn out to be as - if not more - deadly t
han previous ones.
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Raniero La Valle
BIRTH OF THE EUROPEAN ARMY
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At the European Council in Nice, the governments of the fifteen EU countries decided to launch a new rapid reaction force. La Valle clarifies that this is not Europe's attempt at a concrete act of strategic and operative autonomy from NATO and the USA. In
stead, the idea of a common defence that relies on a democratically controlled military instrument to promote peace, protect borders, peoples and the civil values of the Community, is unconnected with this decision which only represents the projection of
power that becomes capitalism and its needs of hegemony.
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Maurizio Matteuzzi
ARGENTINIA, THE WEIGHT OF THE DOLLAR
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The heritage left by a decade of rule by the presidency of Menem has proved to be disastorous and Argentina is yet again in a serious economic crisis. President Fernando de la Rua has taken back all the promises that took him to the Casa Rosada and has yi
elded to the demands made by the IMF. Aid worth 40 million dollars has been provided by the international financial community in exchange for the adoption of a more free-market approach. As a result, Domingo Cavallo, the author of the miracolo during Mene
m's time, is called back by the Centre-left to govern the economy. Following Mexico and Brazil, Argentina is the third major Latin American country that has needed large-scale help from abroad since 1994. The question needs to be asked whether it would be
more appropriate to turn to other solutions.
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Giuseppe Chiarante
THE PPE CONFERENCE
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The Berlin conference of the European Popular Party marked a change of position in the European Catholic world, with the Church leaning more towards conservatism. Berlusconi and his party received an investiture as heir to the forces that governed Italy f
rom the post-war period to the nineties. All of this is in a scenario that has moved from Catholic-type solidarism and from the principles of the welfare state, towards a culture and policy that are more openly free market. Meanwhile, in the Vatican, the
repressive nature of Wojtiyla's papacy has become increasingly hard-line towards the council. As a result, the incapacity of the Catholic Democrats in the Italian Popular Party to contribute to the more livel
y and progressive parts of the Catholic world has become glaringly obvious. This attitude has spread to include an inability to reckon with the collapse of the old DC1, where the tendency towards maintaining old lines of action in an alliance with the Cen
tre-left has prevailed
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The Left and the Vote
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Emanuele Macaluso
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Edoardo Mentrasti
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Giacomo Schettini
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Paolo Cacciari
HAIDER AND CO.
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Franco Russo
LEX MERCATORIA
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Guglielmo Ragozzino
UNEVEN WORLD
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Angelo Rossi
DANTE, THE SECRET COURIER OF GRAMSCI
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Roberto Giusti
SCHOOL: A FEW KEY WORDS
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Enzo Collotti
WHEN HISTORY IS TRIVIALISED
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Giovanni De Luna
THE PRESENT AS ANTI-HISTORY
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The current historical revisionism is not only an expression of an instrumental political operation, nor is it only based on a rough changing of facts and documents. It is also a new way of making history. Each complex vision and general reference framewo
rk are eliminated and everything is reduced to an individual memory selected through today's eyes.
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Samir Amin
CHINA, WEIGHING UP THE BIG REFORM/2
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Rossana Rossanda
MORE 1956: MEMORIES TO COMPARE
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Rossana Rossanda compares Pietro Ingrao's memories of the Italian Communist Party's "fatal '56" with her Milanese recollections. A long-distance dialogue that is raw and painful and reflects on the period that followed - when for several years, political
change and the theoretical reflection that such an historical break led to, were suspended and left unfinished. The consequences were serious and provoked lost chances and more uncertain identities.
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