Tag: Spain

• Are you ready for some futbol? History and the World Cup

  During the recently concluded qualifying rounds for next summer’s 2014 World Cup, I was reminded of Paraguay’s run at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.  So much hope for a more equitable world seemed to mis/dis-placed onto the upsets Ghana and Paraguay scored to advance to the quarterfinals of that event. The tournament ultimately…

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  November 24, 2013

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Book excerpts, Book Reviews, History, Sports, Uncategorized

  a, Argentina, Bank of London, Barack Obama, Brazil, Eduardo Galeano, Football in Sun and Shadow, Futbol, Gaspar Rodriguez de Francia, Ghana, Huey Long, Hugo Chavez, Netherlands, Open Veins of Latin America, Paraguay, Spain, Standard Oil, War of the Triple Alliance, World Cup

• Corporate Welfare.2: Subsidizing Sallie Mae

  Continuing this series on the publicly funded nature of so called private enterprise in this country…. Sometimes subsidies know how to disguise themselves.  Blackwater’s defense contracts bring them direct cash payments for no-bid contracts.  But student lenders like Sallie Mae get their government cheese in the form of regulations on interest rates.  In a double…

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  July 3, 2013

  Debt, Economics, Politics, Series of posts

  Barack Obama, Capitalism, David Graeber, Doug Henwood, Economics, Elizabeth Warren, Left media, michael hudson, Neoliberalism, Politics, profit margins, Socialism, Spain, The Real News Network, Washington Consensus