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From a pro-democratic perspective, civil society and new media organisations are surging in the aftermath of the Orban regime.
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The Crime of Alleviating Poverty: A Community Currency Battles the Central Bank of Kenya
A new community currency called Bangla-Pesa, which was started in one of Kenya's poorest slums to help reduce poverty, has run up against fierce government resistance.
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Game-Changer: Could Elizabeth Warren’s "Bank on Students" Bill Be An Economic Breakthrough?
The Massachusetts senator's bill has been dismissed as “shameless populist demagoguery” and “a cheap political gimmick,” but could Warren’s outside-the-box bill be a game-changer that actually turns the economy around?
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Bail-out Is Out, Bail-in Is In: Another Argument for Publicly-Owned Banks
The deposits of U.S. pension funds are well over the insured limit of $250,000. They will get raided just as the pension funds did in Cyprus, and so will the insurance companies. Who else?
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Winner Takes All: The Super-Priority Status of Derivatives
Derivatives have “super-priority” status in bankruptcy, and Dodd Frank precludes further taxpayer bailouts. In a big derivatives bust, there may be no collateral left for the creditors who are next in line.
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The Battle of Cyprus: A Safe and a Shotgun, or Publicly-owned Banks?
The push to confiscate the savings of hard-working Cypriot citizens is a shot across the bow for every working person in the world.
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The Financial Instrument That Could Save the Economy - and Why It Hasn't
Quantitative easing doesn't actually increase the circulating money supply, it merely cleans up the toxic balance sheets of banks.
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It’s the Interest, Stupid! Why Bankers Rule the World
A stunning 35% to 40% of everything we buy goes toward interest.
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QE3: The Fed's Latest Gift to Wall Street
The Fed's third round of quantitative easing, QE3, won't likely reduce unemployment - the banks will make out like bandits as they have before. Only if the banking system is under the control of the people can it be expected to serve the people.
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LIBOR: When Finance Usurps Democracy
Titanic banks have hit the LIBOR iceberg. The charges of racketeering, antitrust violations, wire fraud, bid-rigging and price-fixing are adding up. Will lawsuits sink the ship?
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Banking on the People
There is another way to do banking: rather than feeding off the community, banking can feed the community and the local economy. These George Bailey-style banks, now on the rise, base their decisions first and foremost on the needs of people and the environment.
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The country’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has promised a break from the politics of the last 40 years—realizing more broadly that Labour must stand up for the 99% against big business, or the party will become irrelevant.
The tragic shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is just the latest example of ICE having a fundamental disrespect for human life — further proving why the agency should be stripped of funding and shut down, and its rank-and-file agents and leadership prosecuted.
While the U.S., EU and their allies are enabling Rojava—the strongest force against Islamic State— to fall, it is vital for internationalists to continue to support this beacon of democracy and liberation.
June 23, 2026 may be remembered as the beginning of the end of the Democratic Party establishment.
From a pro-democratic perspective, civil society and new media organisations are surging in the aftermath of the Orban regime.
We can still celebrate success while simultaneously putting a cap on net worth.
The country’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has promised a break from the politics of the last 40 years—realizing more broadly that Labour must stand up for the 99% against big business, or the party will become irrelevant.
Much like the resistance to AI data centers, the opposition to Flock surveillance cameras has brought the left and the right together against billionaires who are trying to force America into becoming even more of a police state.
The tragic shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is just the latest example of ICE having a fundamental disrespect for human life — further proving why the agency should be stripped of funding and shut down, and its rank-and-file agents and leadership prosecuted.
June 23, 2026 may be remembered as the beginning of the end of the Democratic Party establishment.
Posted 2 months 19 hours ago
Much like the resistance to AI data centers, the opposition to Flock surveillance cameras has brought the left and the right together against billionaires who are trying to force America into becoming even more of a police state.
Posted 1 month 1 week ago
The tragic shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is just the latest example of ICE having a fundamental disrespect for human life — further proving why the agency should be stripped of funding and shut down, and its rank-and-file agents and leadership prosecuted.
Posted 1 month 2 weeks ago
While the U.S., EU and their allies are enabling Rojava—the strongest force against Islamic State— to fall, it is vital for internationalists to continue to support this beacon of democracy and liberation.
Posted 2 months 18 hours ago
The country’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has promised a break from the politics of the last 40 years—realizing more broadly that Labour must stand up for the 99% against big business, or the party will become irrelevant.
Posted 1 month 1 week ago
We can still celebrate success while simultaneously putting a cap on net worth.
