Capitalism
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Video: Mass rally in Lisbon over bailout and austerity cuts
EuroNews: A lack of jobs and the bite of austerity measures prompted thousands of people to take to the streets of Lisbon on Thursday Continue reading
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Regime Change at the IMF: The Frame-Up of Dominique Strauss-Kahn? By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
The arrest of IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn has all the appearances of a frame-up ordered by powerful members of the financial establishment, in liaison with France’s Nicolas Sarkozy, whose presidency has served the interests of the US at the expense of those of France and the European Union. While there is for the moment… Continue reading
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn Was Trying to Torpedo the Dollar By Mike Whitney
Whoever wants to nail IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has really pulled out all the stops. Their agents have been rummaging through diaries, hotel registries, phone records, yearbooks, yada, yada, yada. The UK Telegraph even paid a visit to a high-priced DC knocking shop to get a little dirt from Madame Botox; whatever it takes to… Continue reading
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An Empire of Terror – Selected Articles
17 May, 2011 — Global Research The “International Criminal Court”: Prosecuting Gaddafi With Questionable Evidence While Ignoring NATO-Israeli Atrocities – by Andy Dilks – 2011-05-17 Continue reading
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Key Articles on The US-NATO Never-Ending War Machine
5 May 2011 — Global Research SYRIA: Who is Behind The Protest Movement? Fabricating a Pretext for a US-NATO “Humanitarian Intervention” – by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky – 2011-05-03 Continue reading
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Keynes, Crisis and Monopoly Capitalism
Robert Skidelsky and Paul Jay discuss Keynes, the IMF, concentration of ownership, political power and rebellion Continue reading
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Fukushima and Capitalist Inhumanity By Pierre Rousset
The Fukushima disaster shows once again that for capitalism, the health and life of workers, neighbouring populations, and the victims of the pollution is just an adjustable variable, like wages Continue reading
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Deconstructing the US Military: America’s Global War against Planet Earth By Dana Visalli
In the mid-1960s, political scientist Hannah Arendt published a book-length study of how some of the great evils of history, such as slavery and the Holocaust, managed to occur. Her book, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, concluded that generally such crimes are not carried out by fanatics or sociopaths, but… Continue reading
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Opposition to Paying for Capitalism’s Crime: A Global Movement (Video) By Richard D. Wolff
16 April 2011 — Truthout Objective economic analysis is difficult to come by in this heated political moment, with deep budget cuts that disproportionately affect the poor and working class while the top one percent of Americans continues to amass wealth at a record pace. Professor Richard D. Wolff’s academic work and public lectures warning… Continue reading
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Opposition to Paying for Capitalism’s Crisis
Professor Richard D. Wolff’s academic work and public lectures warning of a crisis of capitalism preceded the current disaster. In this event, Wolff discussed the fallout of the economic collapse and the ongoing struggle over who will bear the massive costs. Continue reading
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Inflation Hits Money and Lies By Joel S. Hirschhorn
How do the powerful keep the US population dumb and distracted? A key tactic has been using methodologies that produce totally misleading underestimates of key economic factors. First we learned that official unemployment figures are too low by a factor of two. Now, understand that the official rate of inflation hitting consumers is even more… Continue reading
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Why Iceland Voted ‘No” to the Diktats of the Creditor Banks
About 75% of Iceland’s voters turned out on Saturday to reject the Social Democratic-Green government’s proposal to pay $5.2 billion to the British and Dutch bank insurance agencies for the Landsbanki-Icesave collapse. Every one of Iceland’s six electoral districts voted in the ‘No’ column – by a national margin of 60% (down from 93% in… Continue reading
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Mel Rothenberg, “Mid-East Upheaval: What the Empire Sees”
However, despite the valiant and necessary efforts of the anti-war forces to mobilize against the increasing military intervention by the US and its imperial allies, our effect will be limited until we have an adequate understanding of the fundamental forces now in play in the Mid-East. Much of our current slogans and agitation are recycled… Continue reading
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The Economic Crisis in Iceland: “IMF Medicine” is not the Solution By Prof. Michael Hudson
The dream was the neoliberal promise that running to debt was the way to get rich. Nobody at the time anticipated that taking private (and indeed, fraudulent) bank losses onto the public balance sheet would become the theme dividing Europe over the coming year, dividing European politics and even threaten to break up the Eurozone. Continue reading
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Part 4: 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism
Ha-Joon Chang: We do not live in a post-industrial age Continue reading
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Part 4: 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism
Part 4: 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Cap…Follow my videos on vodpod Ha-Joon Chang: We do not live in a post-industrial age Continue reading
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Part 3: 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism
Ha-Joon Chang: Most people in rich countries are paid more than they should be Continue reading
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Part 2: 23 Things They Don’t Tell you About Capitalism
Ha-Joon Chang: Companies should not be run in the interest of their owners Continue reading
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Part 1: 23 Things They Don’t Tell you About Capitalism
Ha-Joon Chang: There is no such thing as a free market Continue reading
The New Dark Age 