Capitalism
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Gangsta Paradise By S. Artesian
It’s an ironic analogy, Syriza Greece to Weimar Germany, irony being what happens when ignorance meets history. After all, in this iteration, Greece is demanding war reparations from Germany, and Germany is adamant that Greece fulfill the terms of the 2012 Versailles agreement despite the toll the payments exact on the viability of the economy,… Continue reading
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The Importance of Being Grecian Earnest By S. Artesian
15 February 2015 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor The challenge to, and the predicament of struggle in Greece is not one of “good” or “bad;” nor of “electoralism” versus “anti-electoralism;” nor of parliamentary, or ministerial, cretinism vs. anti-parliamentary popular power (in this last case, not yet). The challenge is to identify… Continue reading
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Study Guide For those applying to the School of Anti-Economics By S. Artesian
Varoufakis is playing a part in the recuperation, the re-composition of capitalism by the loyal pretend-opposition. He flaunts his ignorance of Marx as “Marxist economics” when in fact Marx’s work is the end of “economics,” as it was the end of “philosophy.” He thinks he, the minister to finance, embodies the prospects for an “enlightened… Continue reading
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Greece: GameBoy at the PlayStation By S. Artesian
All dressed up in his Roy Batty best, the new finance minister of Greece, Yanis “GameBoy” Varoufakis was on the road. Laptop, Ipad, and PlayStation all synched, linked, and tethered, he was a man in full in that great digital daisy chain of bankers, academics, politicians. and entertainers. Continue reading
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And For Everything Else…
2 February 2015 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor …there’s Mastercard. The Telegraph is reporting that Greece’s Finance Ministry has hired the investment banking group Lazard to advise it on issues of debt and fiscal policy. Those of you who are old enough will remember Allende bringing into his cabinet three senior military… Continue reading
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Fascism and War: Elite Tools to Crush and Kill Dissent By Julie Lévesque
Every time Westerners’ approval for war is required, the myth of the good war surfaces: the Second World War was a good war, a necessity to quench Hitler’s blood thirst. Pauwels tears this myth apart, uncovering the vicious nature of the western elite. Continue reading
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UK: Stop Revenge Evictions
Damp, dodgy wiring, or a broken boiler. Imagine asking your landlord to fix a problem that isn’t your fault. But instead of fixing it, they hand you an eviction notice instead. Last year 200,000 people were forced out of their homes in this way. [1] It’s called revenge eviction. And right now, it’s completely legal. Continue reading
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Stop the government’s care.data sell-off
The government are planning to sneak through the plan that would allow private companies to buy our personal medical data. But together we could stop it. Continue reading
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The hidden crisis of BAME low-paid workers trapped in poverty with no way out By Colin Joseph
Research published last year by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) found that low-paid workers across the board hit a brick wall when it comes to work-place training, educational opportunities, promotion and pay rises. But even more concerning are BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) low-paid workers who are much more likely to find themselves trapped… Continue reading
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The Russia They Lost By Dmitry Sokolov-Mitrich
The first serious blow to our pro-Western orientation in life was Kosovo. It was a shock; our rose-colored glasses were shattered into pieces. The bombing of Belgrade was, for my generation, what the 9/11 attacks were for Americans. Worldviews turned 180 degrees together with the plane of the then Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, who was… Continue reading
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A Public Bank Option for Scotland By Ellen Brown
If Alex Salmond and the SNP [Scottish National Party] are serious about keeping the Pound Stirling as the Currency of Scotland, there will be no independence. Likewise if Scotland embraces the Euro, Scotland will rapidly become a vassel state of the Euro-Federalists, who will asset strip the nation in the same way that, Greece, Ireland,… Continue reading
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The Malaysian Airlines MH17 Crash: Financial Warfare against Russia, Multibillion Dollar Bonanza for Wall Street By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
While the mainstream media casually accuses Moscow without evidence of having orchestrated the shoot down of Malaysian Airlines MH17 in liaison with the Donesk rebels, the backlash of the crisis on international financial markets and on Russia’s financial system has passed virtually unnoticed. The conduct of speculative operations both prior and in the wake of… Continue reading
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On TTIP and the NHS, they are trying to bamboozle us By John Hilary
The TTIP trade treaty talks re-open in Brussels this week. We should not be reassured by the convenient ‘leak’ of a private letter between key TTIP advocates claiming the treaty poses no threat to the NHS. Continue reading
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Cameron government steps up drive to sell UK public assets By Allison Smith and Paul Bond
A proposed bill will make it even easier for the Conservative-Liberal Democrat government to sell off high-value public land. The National Health Service (NHS) is expected to be one of the social services hardest hit. Continue reading
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Immigration in the Time of Imperialism By Gaither Stewart
The lids between deck and dark airless hold are bolted shut. The 45 lifeless bodies are neatly stacked in the hold one atop the other. Silence reigns down in the torrid darkness. The lifeless bodies are all young males. From Central Africa. No signs of mass panic among them. No blood anywhere. Continue reading
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U.S. law imposes itself on European territory By Jean-Claude Paye
European governments most hypocritically claim that the mandate given to the European Commission to negotiate a transatlantic trade and investment partnership agreement with Washington falls within European law. Actually as with previous agreements such as Swift, data related to air passengers, and to tax evasion, the Commission has been told to suspend the application of… Continue reading
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Book Review: Middle Class Workers? By Gabriel Kuhn
There is something admirable about small radical publishing houses unabashedly releasing material that seems out of sync with a new generation of activists trained in postmodern thought and language, politicizing Miley Cyrus and the Simpsons, and discussing elusive multitudes of oppression and resistance. Who cares about the “labor aristocracy”, or similarly outdated Leninist concepts? Continue reading
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Fascism…are we there yet? Wall Street is making it happen By Margarida Fragoso
Want to hear the worst idea in the history of horrible ideas? How about we take the industry responsible for destroying the U.S. economy and wrecking the lives of tens of millions of people, and then allow it to create a “government-industry cyber war council.”It appears that trillions in taxpayer bailouts simply wasn’t enough for… Continue reading
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Global protest calls for canning SOPA-by-stealth treaty’s IP bits By Simon Sharwood
The TPP is a treaty being negotiated among Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam. Controversially, the treaty’s full text has not been released for public scrutiny: citizens of the negotiating nations have generally been told the treaty is in their best interests and they… Continue reading
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New disability payments system responsible for deaths in Britain By Dennis Moore
A new disability benefit, Personal Independence Payments (PIP), brought in by the UK government to replace Disability Living Allowance (DLA), has resulted in the deaths of thousands of people. In addition, many seriously ill people have been left without a payment months after applying. Continue reading
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