World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/17

War: The Wrong Jobs Program
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/17-5

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'Nuclear Option' Against Iran s Economy Paves Way for War

By Kate Gould

Once sanctions fail-as they almost always do-proponents for war use the failure of sanctions to justify military confrontation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29742.htm



Why the West is Demonizing Iran

By Stuart Littlewood

Iran nationalised its oil to achieve economic and political independence and combat poverty.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29750.htm

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The economics of war

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Robert P. Murphy

11/16/11

The market economy involves peaceful cooperation. The division of labor cannot function effectively amidst a war. Warfare among primitive tribes did not suffer this drawback because the warring parties had not been engaged in trade before the hostilities. Thus they engaged in total war. Things were different in Europe (before the French Revolution) when military, financial, and political circumstances produced limited warfare...

http://mises.org/daily/5664/The-Economics-of-War


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/topics/Iran/
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=warfare
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=sanctions
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+C.+Koehler
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mark+Engler
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Kate+Gould
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Stuart+Littlewood
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Robert+P.+Murphy
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