Category Archives: ECONOMY

Banking Blockade BABY!

WikiLeaks releases advertisement coinciding with the six month unlawful banking blockage against it Censorship, like everything else in the West, has been privatized. For six months now, five major US financial institutions, VISA, MasterCard, PayPal, Western Union and the Bank … Continue reading

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SOLUTIONS: Moody’s, S&P Could Be Charged With Fraud For Role In Crisis

REUTERS U.S. regulators could file civil fraud charges against some credit-rating agencies for their role in developing mortgage-bond deals that helped bring about the financial crisis, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The Journal said … Continue reading

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Greece: A Look At America’s Future

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SOLUTIONS: Progressives Demand Action From Senate Democrats

Will Democrats propose a major jobs investment bill, fight for it, rally the public around it, bring it to a vote, and dare Republicans to vote against it? Or will they pre-emptively capitulate before the fight even begins? Chuck Shumer … Continue reading

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The Truth About The Economy

Robert Reich:

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IMPACT OF WAR & CONFLICT SPENDING ON WOMEN & POVERTY

Panel on Women-Poverty-Crises-Human Rights United Nations Human Rights Council 17 3 June 2011 IMPACT OF WAR & CONFLICT SPENDING ON WOMEN & POVERTY Beatrice Fihn, Reaching Critical Will – WILPF www.reachingcriticalwill.org According to the new report released by Stockholm International … Continue reading

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The True Cost of Chevron: Teach-In & Protest

Teach-In 5/23, Protest at Chevron AGM 5/25! Teach-In on the True Cost of Chevron Monday, May 23 · 7:00pm – 10:00pm David Brower Center, Tamalpais Room 2150 Allston Way Berkeley, CA Join  JINN, Emem Okon from the Niger Delta and … Continue reading

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Big Oil: Ending Tax Breaks Would Be ‘Un-American’

REUTERS ASHINGTON (Timothy Gardner and Deborah Charles) – The world’s biggest oil companies on Wednesday launched broadsides against Democratic plans to pare back some of their cherished U.S. tax breaks, saying the measure was “un-American” and would only push up … Continue reading

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The Unwisdom of Elites

By Paul Krugman The New York Times What happened to the budget surplus the federal government had in 2000? The answer is, three main things. First, there were the Bush tax cuts, which added roughly $2 trillion to the national … Continue reading

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The Corporate State Wins Again

The Corporate State Wins Again, by Chris Hedges, Published on Monday, April 25, 2011 by TruthDig.com When did our democracy die? When did it irrevocably transform itself into a lifeless farce and absurd political theater? When did the press, labor, … Continue reading

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