Capitalism
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Neoliberalism and the Dynamics of Capitalist Development in Latin America By Prof. James Petras and Prof. Henry Veltmeyer
An analysis of the dynamics of capitalist development over the last two decades has been overshadowed by an all too prevalent “globalization” discourse. It appears that much of the Left has bought into this discourse, tacitly accepting globalization as an irresistible fact and that in many ways it is progressive, needing only for the corporate… Continue reading
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Video: The Warning
FRONTLINE has produced a remarkable documentary titled “The Warning” which has aired on PBS Television across the nation and which will now force major changes in the Obama administration. It documents how Lawrence Summers, Greenspan and Ruben attacked and blocked Mrs. Brooksley Born, who was in charge of the CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission) when… Continue reading
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Anand Naidoo, "Interview with Arundhati Roy"
“It’s beginning to increasingly look as if this urge to the 10% growth rate and democracy are mutually incompatible . . . because this growth has been based on . . . the displacement of millions of people off their land. It’s based on extracting minerals and harnessing rivers in a way that is ecologically… Continue reading
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Colour-Coded Revolutions and the Origins of World War III Part 2 By Andrew Gavin Marshall
Part 2 of this essay on “The Origins of World War III” analyzes the colour revolutions as being a key stratagem in imposing the US-led New World Order. The “colour revolution” or “soft” revolution strategy is a covert political tactic of expanding NATO and US influence to the borders of Russia and even China; following… Continue reading
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How Much Longer Will You Remain Passive? By David DeGraw
I work for two news websites and spend 12 hours a day, six days a week analyzing the news. My eyes are strained and bloodshot, I fight through constant headaches, and the icing on the cake, I now work more hours while making less money then I ever have. Such is life in the online… Continue reading
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A MEDIA FAILURE COMPOUNDS THE FINANCIAL FAILURE: The Press Is Still Missing The Story Of Fraud and Economic Decline Ahead By Danny Schechter
We know that Wall Street has not learned much from the crash it helped instigate. We know that our government, whatever its stated desire to clean up the markets and reform the financial behemoths, lacks the willingness and perhaps the clout to rein in the real power centers. We are not sure if they have… Continue reading
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‘New’ Labour on the rocks? The last of the lackeys jump ship By Solomon Hughes
I got a sense of the complete exhaustion of the new Labour project when Will Hutton launched a crushing attack on 12 wasted years at a fringe meeting at the party’s conference. Hutton was speaking at a Policy Network fringe meeting…. Policy Network is an “international progressive think tank” founded by Blair in 2000 with… Continue reading
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Forced Vaccinations and Financial Chaos Selected Articles 1-4 September, 2009
Forced Vaccinations and Financial Chaos Selected Articles 1-4 September, 2009 Continue reading
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Corporations Are Now After Our Very Beings By Joe Bageant
Cognitive capitalism — just when we thought there were no new ways to get screwed. For all its pretense and manufactured consent, our government is just a corporate racket now, and probably will remain so from here on out. This is a white people’s thing, an Anglo-European tradition. Moreover, we no longer get real dictators… Continue reading
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Media Capitalism, the State, and 21st Century Media Democracy Struggles: An Interview with Robert McChesney by Tanner Mirrlees
Robert McChesney: The media is one of the key areas in society where power is exercised, reinforced, and contested. It is hard to imagine a successful left political project that does not have a media platform. The media was not a major political issue for earlier generations of the Left. In the 19th century, a… Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 72 Keeping track of the empire's crimes
If you catch the CIA with its hand in the cookie jar and the Agency admits the obvious — what your eyes can plainly see — that its hand is indeed in the cookie jar, it means one of two things: a) the CIA’s hand is in several other cookie jars at the same time… Continue reading
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Joe Bageant: A Yard Sale in Chernoybl
‘It’s only a system,’ she said, as we floated through the sprawling supermarket’s gleaming commodity lined indoor streets. ‘THE HELL IT IS! It’s a goddamned air conditioned zombie hell of waste and gluttony,’ I thought to myself, before the usual vertigo completely enveloped me. Just back from Central America’s simple, comprehensible mercados, bodegas and street… Continue reading
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Origins of the American Empire: Revolution, World Wars and World Order Global Power and Global Government: Part 2 By Andrew Gavin Marshall
By the 1870s, John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Empire had a virtual monopoly over the United States, and even many foreign countries. In 1890, the King of Holland gave his blessing for the creation of an international oil company called Royal Dutch Oil Company, which was mainly founded to refine and sell kerosene from Indonesia,… Continue reading
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PEAK OIL AGAIN…and Again and Again and Again…(Pt. 2 of 2) By Mark S. Tucker
Russian geophysicists had been building their abiotic thoughts after reading the brilliant German scientist Alfred Wegener, who, in 1915, published The Origin of Continents and Oceans, initiating the Pangaea concept as well as the idea of continental drift (we merely stole the concept here in America and tucked it away in the New Age realm… Continue reading
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Video: Renegade Economist US Special with Dr. Michael Hudson
The Renegade Economist goes to New York to hear Dr. Michael Hudson’s views on the state of the US Economy. Continue reading
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Government Gone Mad By Joel S. Hirschhorn
The whole Obama story and the Democratic control of Congress are a disgrace. Progressives who eagerly supported Obama should be ashamed of themselves. They should be leading a revolution, not make excuses for Obama and the Democrats. Continue reading
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Video: Dmitry Orlov – Seizing the Mid-Collapse Moment
A recording of the public lecture by Dmitry Orlov on 9 June 2009, at the Davenport Hotel, Dublin, Ireland. This was the opening talk to the 3 day conference ‘The New Emergency: Managing Risk and Building Resilience in a Resource Constrained World.’ Continue reading
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America’s White Underclass By Joe Bageant
‘White underclass’ is a term I’ve used often in my writing, and most American readers seem to know what I mean. They’ve got eyes and live in the same nation I do. But in a sudden burst of journalistic responsibility, I decided that if I am going to throw around the word underclass, then I… Continue reading
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Award Winning Movie: “SUPERPOWER” By Barbara-Anne Steegmuller
Superpower: Far from a conspiracy film about the dangers of government secrets and regime change, this well-balanced film straddles the philosophical divide and allows viewers to understand the US quest for global dominance through economic and military strategy that is exposed through review of historical events, personal interviews, and analysis of US foreign policy. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 