Category Archives: Economics for Dummies

How Mario Vargas Llosa fictionalized a massacre

Posted on February 11, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Bodies of the victims of the massacre of Uchuraccay, Peru. Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel prizewinner, failed presidential candidate, and all-around pompous twit, didn’t kill them, but he has a lot to answer for. After all, it is he who helped … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Olafur Ragnar Grimsson on banks

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Sabina Becker

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The truth about Attawapiskat

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Sabina Becker

The People of the Kattawapiskak River by Alanis Obomsawin, National Film Board of Canada A Cree filmmaker takes us inside the lives of her brothers and sisters in Attawapiskat, Ontario. If what you see here doesn’t leave you outraged at … Continue reading →

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Clip ‘n’ Save: Who’s sponging from whom?

Posted on January 8, 2013 by Sabina Becker

A handy graphic to shove under the nose of anyone who still doesn’t get what Idle No More is all about.

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Guess who’s joining MERCOSUR!

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Sabina Becker

W00t. The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, will ratify on Thursday during the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) Heads of State Summit that Bolivia wants to join the regional bloc. The Bolivian minister of communications, Amanda Dávila, informed that … Continue reading →

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Because there’s no such thing as too much Ecuadorable

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Sabina Becker

And because this is a nice shot, and I like it… …and there’s a nice bit of news behind it, too: The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, urged his counterparts at the 6th Summit of the Heads of State and … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Paul Krugman on wages

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Sabina Becker

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Prostitution in Germany: hard facts, hard debate, harder thoughts

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Sabina Becker

(Photo: EMMA.) German FEMEN demonstrators outside the largest brothel in the cathedral city of Köln. They consider prostitution a human rights abuse, and hold up human trafficking, rampant in Germany, as an example of how liberalization of laws governing the … Continue reading →

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Don’t back down, Justin!

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Sabina Becker

What’s wrong with what Justin Trudeau said here? I’ll give you a broad hint: ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. En effet, c’est tout correct: The remarks in question come from an interview Trudeau did in Nov. 2010, with French-language interviewer Patrick Lagace, on … Continue reading →

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Festive Left Friday Blogging Too: Rafael Correa visits Seville

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Sabina Becker

Rafael Correa meets with the Mayor of Seville, in Spain. And that’s not all he’s up to over there: Rafael Correa arrived yesterday afternoon at Pablo de Olavide University in Seville, accompanied by crowds. He came to tell how Ecuador … Continue reading →