Resources for understanding the current economic crisis.
I’d like to share some resources that have helped me understand the ongoing economic crisis.
This transcript of a program, jointly produced by Public Radio International and National Public Radio, The Giant Pool of Money is one of the clearest step-by-step explanations of the development of the sub-prime mortgage crisis. [...]
Protest Matters
A few weeks ago, 3 separate “waves” of feminist and anti-war student activists from the University of Iowa disrupted a campaign speech by John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin at the Cedar Rapids Airport.
A few days later at a peace fair in Des Moines I met several people from around the state who [...]
Karl Marx and Frederic Engels collaborated in writing the German Ideology in order “to settle accounts with our former philosophical conscience” Upon discovering the manuscript would not be published, as Marx put it, “We abandoned the manuscript to the gnawing criticism of the mice all the more willingly since we had achieved our main purpose [...]
