Left Business Observer

last updated: March 13, 2010

sorta NEW!

Now out: LBO #125:

a risky return to the familiar • college: best way to make a buck, especially if you’ve already got a few • contemplating exits; Obamas stingy budget • unemployment & GDP: U.S. more savage than usual

already emailed to electronic subscribers, at the printer for dead tree loyalists

teasy excerpts here

and the full college tuition piece is now here

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The limits of anti-racism: Adolph Reed Jr. on how being against racism isn’t really all that political

(the above, in German)

see Michael Yates’s piece on Chávez & the UFW, discussed in this interview, here

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