August 29, 2010
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Doug Henwood: Austerity in the face of weakness Pt.3 – Wages and the Crisis
28 August, 2010 — The Real News Network Henwood: Aside from a period of four or five years in the late 1990s, real wages have been either flat or down for most of the last 3, 3.5 decades. That’s not good http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Video.4326056 WAGES AND THE CRISIS, posted with vodpod Bio Doug Henwood is the founder Continue reading
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Bernanke’s “Nuclear Option”: “Monetary Shock and Awe”: The Fed Prepared to Launch Most Radical Intervention in History By Mike Whitney
This week, the markets were blindsided by two days of dismal housing news, grim durable goods orders, a slowdown in manufacturing, and modest gains in employment. 4 years later, and housing is still mired in a depression. When does it end? Households and consumers are buried under a mountain of debt; personal bankruptcies, delinquencies, defaults… Continue reading
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Israelis Risk Jail to Smuggle Palestinians – 600 sign up for campaign of disobedience By Jonathan Cook
Nearly 600 Israelis have signed up for a campaign of civil disobedience, vowing to risk jail to smuggle Palestinian women and children into Israel for a brief taste of life outside the occupied West Bank. Continue reading
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Checkpoint: A Video Documentary By Yoav Shamir
An ambulance is stopped, and the sick people inside brought out to explain their ailments. A mother is separated from her very young children. Young Palestinians laugh and throw snowballs at Israeli soldiers, who jovially respond in kind. One Israeli soldier harasses a pretty Palestinian girl. Another refers to the Arabs as “animals,” and suggests… Continue reading
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Paul Hanmer – Window to Elsewhere – ‘Oxtinato’
A track from ‘Window to Elsewhere’, a later release demonstrating Paul’s imaginative use of different instrumental settings. Continue reading
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SOUTH AFRICA – McCoy Mrubata – Abukho
McCoy is virtually unknown outside South Africa and well worth checking out. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Video.4297051 SOUTH AFRICA – McCoy Mrubata – Abukho, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Jazz South Africa – Paul Hamner
Paul Hamner is, in my opinion one of the best, the most imaginative musicians working in South Africa today. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Video.4296994 SA Classic Jazz – Paul Hamner, posted with vodpod Continue reading
The New Dark Age 