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Eamonn Fingleton's commentaries on the politics and economics of American decline

 
 
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Tag Archives: counterpunch

How the press stabbed Detroit in the back

Sandcastle Empire Posted on May 30, 2009 by Eamonn FingletonDecember 2, 2010

In a new article for CounterPunch, I show that, by failing to blow the whistle on protectionism in key foreign markets,  the American press shares  blame for Detroit’s implosion. For decades East Asian competition has played a controversial role in … Continue reading →

Posted in Global economy, Japan, Press, Trade | Tagged bill emmott, counterpunch, david sanger, detroit, japan, left-hand drive, mickey kantor, micklethwait, nicholas valery, pop-up tariffs, press, press corruption, the economist magazine, valery

The complaisant watchdog: how the press missed the Madoff scandal

Sandcastle Empire Posted on April 23, 2009 by Eamonn FingletonNovember 22, 2010

The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times slept while Bernie Madoff swindled. [Article first published in CounterPunch. To read the original click here.] An old maxim has it that newspa­per editors separate the wheat from the chaff, then … Continue reading →

Posted in Press, Service economy | Tagged chittum, counterpunch, deogun, front-running, garrity, gerald seib, gretchen morgenson, howard kurtz, madoff, markopolos, michael lewis, mort zuckerman, nexis, paul steiger, red flag, wilke

Iris Chang: Elegy for a brave writer

Sandcastle Empire Posted on December 13, 2008 by Eamonn FingletonNovember 22, 2010

Iris Chang was a Chinese-American author and historian who took her own life in 2004. As Paula Kamen recounts in a new biography, Chang had challenged the establishments of two of the world’s most powerful nations. [This review was first … Continue reading →

Posted in Book reviews, China, History, Press, Sino-Japanese relations | Tagged advertising pressure, bataan, charles burress, clustering, counterpunch, ian buruma, iris chang, nanking, newsweek, paula kamen, Sino-Japanese relations, the wages of guilt, urbana-champaign, war compensation

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Categories

  • American decline
  • Book reviews
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  • Global economy
  • Great East Japan Earthquake
  • History
  • International Trade
  • Japan
  • Manufacturing
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  • Service economy
  • Sino-Japanese relations
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