economics
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‘Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal’
Source: Global Research A Review of Danny Schechter’s book ‘Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal’ by Stephen Lendman Global Research, September 18, 2008 Danny Schechter is a media activist, critic, independent filmmaker, TV producer as well as an author of 10 books and lecturer on media issues. Some call him ‘The News Continue reading
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The end of (capitalist) history? By William Bowles
In a world of over-the-top production, with the world’s markets glutted with a never-stream of products, most of which sit unsold in shops and warehouses around the planet, a return to the ‘good old days’ of the Robber Barons was the only option left. Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report, March 29, 2008
Anti-Empire Report, March 29, 2008, Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life William Blum www.killinghope.org Propaganda as an Olympic competition The latest protests in Tibet and crackdown by Chinese authorities have brought up the usual sermonizing in the West about Chinese government oppression and illegitimate control of the Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: ‘CREATIVE DESTRUCTION’ – THE MADNESS OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media February 5, 2008 Watching the corporate media report the ‘financial crisis’ is instructive. From the perspective of power, it is important that a steadying hand is applied to the tiller of news and commentary on the crisis, and the global economy itself. And so Continue reading
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Trying to Square the Climate Circle By William Bowles
16 December 2007 Sink or Swim – The ‘choice’ apparently, is yours, according to Hilary Benn, but only if you can breath under water and swim Here, in the UK we have a minister for the environment, Hilary Benn is his name, son of doyen of the ‘left’ of the Labour Party, Anthony Wedgwood-Benn, whose Continue reading
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Failing to make the right connections By William Bowles
7 August 2007 I’m torn, really torn between trying to keep up with the deceptions the corporate press keep feeding us and wanting to ignore the entire sorry mess completely, but well you know how it is, almost without exception, everyday there’s a story that grabs my attention because it represents all that’s wrong with Continue reading
The New Dark Age 