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The issue centers on debt and speculation, arguing that mature capitalism tends toward stagnation due to a shortage of profitable investment opportunities, leading to persistent underutilization and unemployment. It also reviews imperialism-related critiques, education and testing debates, and international perspectives such as Cuban medical work in Pakistan. 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DEPEN DEN T SOCI A LIS T MA G A Z I N E  \nThe U.S.Economy  \nDebt &Speculation ExplodeFRED MAGDOFF  \nPersonal Liberty:Casualty of ImperialismA Permanent State of Emergency  \nJEAN-CLAUDE PAYE,introduced by MICHAELE.TIGAR  \nAssault on EducationNo Corporation Left Behind  \nUsing Testing to Justify Internal ColonialismMARGOT PEPPER,with a poem by her second grade class  \nAfter the Earthquake:Cuban Doctors in PakistanWhy Cuba Still Inspires  \nAASIM SAJJAD AKHTARU5$5 /CAN$5/毛  \nMarygrove College Lr ary8425 West McNichols RodDetroit,MI 48221  \nJOHN BELAMY FoSTER,Editor+MICHAEL D.YATES,Associate Editor +CLAUDE MISUKIEWICZ,Assistant EditorYoSHIE FuRUHASHI,MRzine EditorMARTIN PADDIO,Circulation and Business Manager  \nELLEN MEIKSINS WooD(1997-2000)and RoBERT W.McCHESNEY(2000-2004),Former Editors  \nEditorial:mrmag@monthlyreview.org  \n146 West 29th St.,Suite 6W  \nCirculation:mrsub@monthlyreview.org  \nNew York,NY 10001  \ntel:212-691-255S;fax:212-727-3676  \nMRzine:yoshie@monthlyreview.org  \nReview of the Month  \nThe Explosion of Debt and SpeculationFRED MAGDOFF  \n1  \nThe Twilight of Personal Liberty:Introduction to A Permanent State ofEmergencyMICHAELE.TIGAR  \n24  \nA Permanent State of EmergencyJEAN-CLAUDE PAYE  \n29  \nNo Corporation Left Behind:How a Century of Illegitimate Testing Has Been Usedto Justify Internal ColonialismMARGOT PEPPER38  \nPoem  \nNo Child Ahead  \nMARGOT PEPPER AND HER 2005 SECOND GRADE CLASS AT RosA PARKS ELEMENTARYSCHOOL IN BERKELEY,CAL1FORNIA48  \nCuban Doctors in Pakistan:Why Cuba Still InspiresAASIM SAJJAD AKHTAR49  \nWho Is Threatening Our Dinner Table?:The Power of Transnational AgribusinessBYEONG-SEON YooN56  \nNotes from the Editors  \nVenezuelan president Hugo Chávez's extraordinary speech to the GeneralAssembly of the United Nations in September drew worldwide media attention notsimply because he referred to the current occupant of the White House as “thedevil\"for his nefarious actions as the leader of world imperialism,but also becauseof his scarcely less heretical praise of MR and MR Press author Noam Chomsky forhis book Hegemony or Survival:America's Quest for Global Dominance.As theforemost dissident intellectual in the United States,Chomsky is generally ostra-cized by the dominant U.S.media system,treated as a ghost-like or even non-exis-tent figure.The establishment was thus caught off guard when Chávez's commentssuddenly catapulted Hegemony or Survival into the bestseller list,along withanother recent Chomsky book,Media Control:The Spectacular Achievements ofPropaganda.The speed with which orders for Chomsky's books piled up in book-stores and Internet distributors across the nation demonstrated beyond any doubtthat people are hungry for serious radical critiques of U.S.imperialism but seldomknow where to look—since all such dissident views are deemed off limits by theruling media-propaganda system.(continued on inside back cover)  \n# The Explosion of Debt and Speculation\n\nFRED MAGDOFF  \nStagnation and Finance  \nIn a series of articles in Monthly Review and in Monthly ReviewPress books during the 1970s and 1980s,Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezyproposed that the general economic tendency of mature capitalism istoward stagnation.*A shortage of profitable investment opportunities isthe primary cause of this tendency.Less investment in the productiveeconomy(the“real economy”)means lower future growth.Marx wroteabout the possibility of this very phenomenon:  \nIf this new accumulation meets with difficulties in its employment,through a lack of spheres of investment,i.e.due to a surplus in thebranches of production and an oversupply of loan capital,this plethoraof loanable money capital merely shows the limitations of capitalist pro-duction.an obstacle is indeed immanent in its laws of expansion,i.e.,inthe limits in which capital can realize itself as capital.(Karl 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