Posted on July 4, 2008
Ha-Joon Chang attends the Economy and the Open Society International Forum ‘Goodbye Globalization’ held in Milan, Italy, on May 12.
By David Sirota
Ha-Joon Chang is an award-winning Cambridge economist whose new book, Bad Samaritans, explodes what its subtitle calls “the myth of free trade.” At a time when Democrats are bashing NAFTA and Republicans are championing a NAFTA-style free trade deal with Colombia,
Chang shows how the entire debate over trade has divorced itself from history and economic reality. Phrases like “free trade,” in fact, are misnomers unto themselves, leading the world into a globalization… more
Combining irreverent humor and acerbic critique, a handful of new media outlets -- including The Onion -- are transforming American politics and culture, writes Theodoe Hamm, in his new book The New Blue Media. After 9/11, The Onion stopped its presses for one week. The hiatus allowed the paper to show its respect for the gravity of what had happened in lower Manhattan. But it also enabled its… more
Pick almost any metric -- fraction of workers in unions, lag of pay behind productivity increases, growing hours of work, rising economic insecurity -- and it's obvious that American workers and their unions are… more
P.O.V. is one of those occasional reminders that public broadcasting matters. Every year, like its complementary series Independent Lens, P.O.V. brings before national audiences the artists, perspectives and films that otherwise would find no… more
As we unfurl the patriotic bunting under the 2nd story windows and over-decorate the driveway with our miniature American flags this 4th of July, let us... more
First, the bad news: Brian Beutler, the Media Consortium's Washington Correspondent (and hence regular ITT contributor), was shot three times last night in a mugging in... more
A: Well, yes, I'm sure he too has admired the Hudson while he's dustin', but more to the point, he also knows what it's like to... more
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 By Joel Bleifuss
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