Military-industrial complex — Economic aspects.
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Conversion from a war economy : Seymour Melman / produced by David Barsamian.
A talk by Seymour Melman, in which he traces how and why the United States’ ability to be competitive in the world market has been eroded by its concentration upon a military economy since World War II. He argues that conversion is the only solution, and that evolving US-USSR relations make it imperative that this…
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Looking on the bright side of life / Alexander Cockburn.
Talk which points out that leftiests are too pessimistic, for they only look for the bad news in the headlines. We do need to look at the brighter side of events. He examines developments in Poland and Africa to see how things have changed, both for good and bad, during the 1980’s. The realities of…