Capitalism
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Microanalysis of Venezuela (Designed to Fit on a Post-It) By S. Artesian
As in Greece with its “new socialists,” the Bolivarian “revolutonaries” in Venezuela have decided it’s better to starve the people than to repudiate the international debt. Continue reading
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Video: Hollande Capitulates to EU Pressure on Labor Laws Risking His Own Presidency
Renaud Lambert of Le Monde Diplomatique says Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, came to France to endorse Hollande and his decree on restrictive labor reforms Continue reading
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Video: Christopher Wright on ‘Facing the Anthropocene’
“In the opening pages, I immediately recognized that here was an author who actually gets what the ‘Anthropocene’ entails both in terms of the physical science and the political economy of our times and conveys this in such a readable and accessible style.” Continue reading
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Protecting Pollinators Around the World
Without pollinators, most plants could not produce fruits and seeds, and agricultural biodiversity would suffer–according to FAO, bees, bats, birds, and other pollinators, increase global food production by 87 percent. Unfortunately, the world is seeing a decline in pollinator populations. From land-use change and pesticide use to monoculture agriculture and climate change, there are numerous… Continue reading
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‘Pharmaceutical Companies Have Pressured Doctors, Suppressed Evidence’
Pharmaceutical companies say they lament the addiction and fatality problems tied to their products, but they also seem determined to resist efforts to address them, suggesting to do so would have to mean taking away relief from people in pain. It’s a medical story, certainly, but it’s also one that calls for following the money,… Continue reading
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Drug Companies are Still Ripping Off the NHS
The scale of the scandal’s only just come to light. An investigation by the Times found that the NHS is paying £85 for a basic skin-care treatment that used to cost just 70p. Price hikes like this one are costing our NHS the equivalent of 7,000 new doctors a year. Continue reading
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Last Chance to Save the Link!
There’s only 48 hours left to tell the European Commission not to make link tax laws! These proposals suggest making copyright laws apply to hyperlinks – going as far as suggesting all publishers should have the ability to charge fees to website owners for all the links shared.This is is our best chance to make… Continue reading
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Another Tamriel is Possible: Brexit Proposals vs Solutions by Elliot Murphy
The mainstream Vote Leave and Britain Stronger in Europe campaigns effectively reduce to a battle internal to the Tory party, and not much else can be gleaned from them with respect to the shortcomings and benefits of the EU, and so a broader perspective is needed at a time when recent Guardian/ICM polls are suggesting… Continue reading
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Lobbyists trying, for the second time to have ban on bee killing pesticides lifted!
BREAKING: last night powerful lobbyists put in yet another application to bring back bee-killing pesticides to our fields. [1] And government advisers will be approving or blocking the application this Tuesday. Continue reading
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NHS medicines costs ripoff: Email your MP!
Greedy companies are exploiting a loophole that lets them buy the rights to everyday medicines, hike up the price and rip-off our NHS. They’re pocketing millions every year that should be going on patient care. Our people-powered petition hit front page news at the weekend and health minister, Jeremy Hunt, has already been forced to… Continue reading
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‘GMO Crops Are Tools of a Chemical Agriculture System’
Janine Jackson: Anti-Monsanto rallies in 400 cities in 48 countries around the world failed to draw much US media attention, despite hundreds of thousands of people, from Dhaka to Paris to Cape Town, literally yelling out their opposition to the biotech giant’s products and practices, and the disturbing impact of their increasing control over the… Continue reading
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EXPOSED: A small number of rogue drugs companies are fleecing the NHS out of millions of pounds a year
They’re exploiting a loophole that allows them to buy up the rights to everyday medicines, hike up the price, and hold our NHS to ransom. It means our cash-strapped health service is forced to spend millions on overpriced drugs rather than spending it on nurses to care for our families or cancer services to help… Continue reading
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Little Ado About Something By S. Artesian
The big worry, apparently, for some socialists in the United Kingdom is that a majority of people in Great Britain might actually vote to leave this confederation of capitalists; this union of exploiters; this common market designed to flatten every particular impediment to the accumulation of capital. Continue reading
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EU Link Tax Update
On Wednesday the European Commission announced the results of their consultation on platforms where thousands of you gave your views on the link tax and proposed new copyright laws. We’ve been sifting through all of this for what it means for our campaign to save the link. Turns out there’s good news and there’s some… Continue reading
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The Criminalization of Politics: Hillary Accused of Racketeering by the FBI, Will She be Dumped from the Presidential Race? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
30 May 2016 — Global Research In a recent release, the FBI has indicated that it will be presenting a recommendation to Loretta Lynch, Attorney General of the Department of Justice: “James Comey and The FBI will present a recommendation to Loretta Lynch, Attorney General of the Department of Justice, that includes a cogent argument that… Continue reading
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TTIP: ‘A Corporate Agenda Is Really What’s Driving the Process’
The leak of a draft of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP, by Greenpeace Netherlands may have thrown a wrench in that deal’s inevitability, though media’s interpretation of the document’s meaning will play a role there. So what’s in and what’s not in the TTIP, according to these revelations? We’re joined now by… Continue reading
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Climate Change: Exxon 'Knew Earlier, They Knew With Certainty and They Knew Globally'
Brendan DeMelle: “They knew that they could evade accountability, or at least delay regulatory and public scrutiny, by suggesting that there was doubt about the science.” Continue reading
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‘A Global Industry Is Raiding Treasuries All Over the Planet’
Janine Jackson interviewed James Henry about the Panama Papers for the April 15, 2016, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. “We estimate at least $21 to $32 trillion of offshore financial wealth, most of which is untaxed, and that’s as of 2010, and it’s grown since then. And there’s another $5 trillion,… Continue reading
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Best Reasons Ever For Brexit! By S. Artesian
19 April 2016 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor The Financial Times April 18, 2016 Fears over British EU referendum hold back hiring and investment -Uncertainty chills business -Top London Property hit -European groups delay plans Continue reading
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In the Panama Capers we Trust By Clive Hambidge
Make no mistake it has been a U.S Political chess move, which has led to the leak of the Panama Papers. “11.5 million Documents-or 2.6 terabytes of data” are in the teeth chattering public domain. As we know, relatively few Americans have been named. This is unsurprising as according to a recent article by Liam… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 