Finance
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Replacing Economic Democracy with Financial Oligarchy (Michael Hudson)
June 3, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Soon after the Socialist Party won Greece’s national elections in autumn 2009, it became apparent that the government’s finances were in a shambles. In ...
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Hail Caesar (Paul Craig Roberts)
June 2, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Although the financial press speculates about a downgrade of the U.S. government’s credit rating and default if political impasse prevents the debt ...
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The Truth about the US Economy (Robert Reich)
May 31, 2011 (RobertReich.org) -- The U.S. economy continues to stagnate. It’s growing at the rate of 1.8 percent, which is barely growing at all. Consumer spending is down. Home prices are down. ...
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Offshoring has destroyed the economy (Paul Craig Roberts)
A Nobel Economist Says Globalism Is Costly For Americans May 31, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- These are discouraging times, but once in a blue moon a bit of hope appears. I am pleased to ...
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7 Ways to Stop Wall Street's Con Game (David Korten)
May 25, 2011 (YES! Magazine) -- Wikipedia defines a “confidence trick” as “an attempt to defraud a person or group by gaining their confidence. The victim is known as the mark, the trickster is ...
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VIDEO: War & Revolutions: Europe and the Arab World (Empire)
May 23, 2011 (Empire) -- Empire travels across the continent's centres of power to examine European hypocrisy. efpkLal92Gs
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10 Steps to Defeat the Corporatocracy (Bruce E. Levine)
May 23, 2011 (AlterNet) -- Many Americans know that the United States is not a democracy but a "corporatocracy," in which we are ruled by a partnership of giant corporations, the extremely wealthy ...
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Why Liberal Sellouts Attack Prophets Like Cornel West (Chris Hedges)
May 23, 2011 (TruthDig) -- The liberal class, which attempted last week to discredit the words my friend Cornel West spoke about Barack Obama and the Democratic Party, prefers comfort and privilege ...
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Global systemic crisis - Confirmation of a Major Alert for the second half of 2011 (LEAP/E2020)
Explosive fusion of world geopolitical dislocation and the global economic and financial crisis May 16, 2011 (LEAP/E2020) -- Public announcement GEAB N°55 -- Almost a year ago LEAP/E2020 identified ...
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Strauss-Kahn simply had to be eliminated (Paul Craig Roberts)
The Amerikan Police State Strides Forward May 18, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- The International Monetary Fund’s director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was arrested last Sunday in New York City ...
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Federal Audits Find 4 Biggest Banks Guilty of Fraud (Shahien Nasiripour)
Confidential Federal Audits Accuse Five Biggest Mortgage Firms Of Defrauding Taxpayers May 17, 2011 (Huffington Post) -- WASHINGTON -- A set of confidential federal audits accuse the nation’s five ...
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