Marge wakes up at 3:15 am. We got in late the night before after a four hour bus ride from Mexico City, where it had been pouring. So, exhausted, and my internal organs still trying to hold off the forces…
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Canoeing Life’s River
by jeff.faux •
I grew up in an urban world of concrete and asphalt. Nature was a few weeds sprouting from sidewalk cracks in August. Summer camp was for rich kids. So I spent a lot of time dreaming of living in the…
FELLAHEEN
by jeff.faux •
“Back,” snaps the Bedouin, The day sparkling over his black and sandy hood. A rough beast heaves laughing Daisy into the air. Take my picture, she shrieks at our sly guide He clicks the cell phone on which he’d been…
El Impacto del TLCAN en Los Trabajadores de los Estados Unidos
by jeff.faux •
El Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (TLCAN) fue la puerta por la cual los trabajadores estadounidenses fueron empujados para entrar al mercado laboral neoliberal global. Al establecer el principio de que las empresas estadounidenses podrían trasladar su…
CIA Torture? Washington Is ‘Shocked! Shocked!’
by jeff.faux •
The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the CIA’s torture of its detainees reminded Americans about some ugly things done in their name. But little will change because the our governing class has no intention of ending the senseless War…
Whack-A-Mole: Our Strategy for Permanent War
by jeff.faux •
After Barack Obama announced his high-risk military campaign in the Middle East, some commentators raised the question of why — given the decade of quagmire in Afghanistan and Iraq — was there no exit strategy? The answer by now is…
The Neoliberal Mind at Work: Brad DeLong’s Muddled Defense of NAFTA
by jeff.faux •
Brad DeLong recently criticized an op-ed I wrote about the negative impact of the twenty-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement on American workers. The stakes here are higher and more immediate than the rehash of an old ideological dispute. This…
How US Aid to Central America’s Rich Drives Its Poor to Our Borders
by jeff.faux •
Over the last several months, tens of thousands of children have crossed our southern border in a desperate attempt to escape the violence, hunger and chaos that now engulf a large part of Central America. The children – traveling alone…
How the Great Society Democratized our Economy
by jeff.faux •
The media buzz surrounding the 50th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s May 1964 speech announcing his Great Society has focused on the question, did it “work?” In other words, did the 200-odd pieces of legislation passed over the following two years…
In Defense of a “Default” Foreign Policy
by jeff.faux •
I am an advocate of what Michael Walzer calls the “default” left position on foreign policy: minimal engagement, at least until we get democracy right here at home. Still, self-interest and moral obligation require some attention to the world beyond…