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The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Is Homeland Security Preparing for the Next Wall Street Collapse?
The Department of Homeland Security recently purchased 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition and is acquiring heavily armored tanks which have been seen roaming the U.S. streets. It's clear this is meant for unrest at home, and not abroad.
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Launching A Postal Savings Bank: Infrastructure that Doesn’t Cost Taxpayers a Dime
A postal bank in the U.S. could appeal to savers generally who are concerned about the safety of their deposits.
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Armageddon On Wall Street: The Looming Mass Destruction from Derivatives
The shadow banking system is propped up by a hidden government guarantee known as safe harbor status, pushed through by Wall Street, which has created perverse incentives for the financial system to self-destruct.
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Making the World Safe for Banksters: Syria in the Cross-Hairs
Syria provides free education, free medical care and subsidized housing for everyone. But even more threateningly to Wall Street-style finance, it has state-owned central banks that issue national currency and are under government control.
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Ellen Brown: The Leveraged Buyout of America
Giant banks are buying up our country’s infrastructure, the power and supply chains that are vital to the economy. Aren’t there rules against that?
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Not Too Big To Jail: Why Eliot Spitzer Is Wall Street's Worst Nightmare
The former New York Governor, now running for New York City comptroller, has the sort of creative thinking needed if we the people are to take back our power from Wall Street and the corporatocracy.
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The Detroit Bail-In Template: Fleecing Pensioners to Save the Banks
The Detroit bankruptcy is looking suspiciously like the bail-in template originated by the G20’s Financial Stability Board in 2011.
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Green Light for City-Owned San Francisco Bank
Do taxpayers want to have their public money in a bank that has been proven to be defrauding them? San Francisco may be leading the way toward creating a municipal bank that is in the public's interest.
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Collateral Damage: QE3 and the Shadow Banking System
Rather than expanding the money supply, quantitative easing has actually caused it to shrink by sucking up the collateral needed by the shadow banking system to create credit.
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Depositors Beware: Bail-In Is Now Official E.U. Policy
E.U. ministers recently agreed on a plan that shifts the responsibility for bank losses from governments to bank investors, creditors and uninsured depositors. What might this mean if it happened in America as well?
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By infecting three of the world’s most right-wing leaders, the coronavirus underscored not only the incompetence and irresponsibility of their governments – but the truth that their brand of populism doesn't keep people safe.
Corporations are not "too big to fail" and, when they commit crimes, they are not "too big to jail." As David Whyte writes in his new book, "Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before It Kills Us," the moment is now to rein in out-of-control corporate power.
The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.
The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
By infecting three of the world’s most right-wing leaders, the coronavirus underscored not only the incompetence and irresponsibility of their governments – but the truth that their brand of populism doesn't keep people safe.
Corporations are not "too big to fail" and, when they commit crimes, they are not "too big to jail." As David Whyte writes in his new book, "Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before It Kills Us," the moment is now to rein in out-of-control corporate power.
The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.
