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Ravi Batra, Truthout: 'The Iraq invasion turned out to be a colossal mistake in terms of lost lives and heavy expenditures that sharply raised the federal budget deficit. However, few realize that the Bush administration made a far bigger mistake in using what may be called Weapons of Mass Exploitation or WMEs, which have all but decimated the US economy and continue to do so. A WME is a short-term financial palliative that makes the rich richer but postpones economic troubles, while seeming to cure the problems of unemployment and dwindling family incomes.'

http://www.truthout.org/weapons-mass-exploitation/1304696645



Is Growth Incomplete Without Social Progress?

Ejaz Ghani, Project Syndicate: 'The geography of poverty and social deprivation has changed dramatically over the last two decades. More than 70% of the world's poor now live in middle-income countries. This pattern, likely to continue into the next decade, raises important questions. Have poverty reduction and human development kept up with income growth? Is growth incomplete without social progress and gender-inclusiveness?... Deeper social disparities should never be viewed as the inevitable price of rapid growth, and more egalitarian outcomes in education, health, and gender should not be considered 'second-stage' reforms.'

http://www.truthout.org/growth-incomplete-without-social-progress/1304830306



Streets of Latin America Offer US a Roadmap for Social Change

Michael Fox, Truthout: 'As the signs read in Wisconsin, the 'sleeping giant has awoken.' We realized that Obama can t do it for us. We awoke to the fact that even with a 'leftist' in power, we must stay in the streets and continue to organize. We awoke to the essential thing that movements across Latin America learned years ago when faced with progressive governments who were supposed to represent their interests and didn t always follow through... 'Dancing with Dynamite' is a roadmap, a call to action to break the simplistic dualities imposed by society and place our destinies into our own hands.'

http://www.truthout.org/streets-latin-america-offer-us-roadmap-social-change/1304535744



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