If Trump indeed tanks your 401(k) to make himself and his friends even richer, the opposition party should make that the centerpiece of their attack heading into next year’s election.
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In Crowded Streets of Bilbao, A Silent Cry to Free Basque Political Prisoners
Some 80,000 people marched in the city last weekend to protest the "policy of dispersal" against Basque prisoners and to call for their repatriation.
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Occupy Romania: Shadowed By A Brutal Past, Protesters Reemerge In Southeastern Europe
"Occupy" has a negative connotation for Romanians, who've mostly been occupied during the ages by other countries or empires or strange regimes like communism, which they related to like it was a bad weather spell.
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The Road to Serfdom, Part V
In today's bailout economy, bad bank loans are shifted onto the public balance sheet as wealth is siphoned off to the top of the economic pyramid.
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Using Faircoins, A Worldwide Cooperative Stakes Out Ground for A New Economy
FairCoop aims to provide new, free, collaborative economic, social and technological tools for everyone, and will try to make sure they are used in a cooperative way for the creation and expansion of the commons worldwide.
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Greek Voters Look Left for Syriza to End Economic Catastrophe, Reverse Austerity
For close to a year, Syriza — a coalition of former socialists, ex-communists, Maoists, Trotskyists and Greens — has seen its popularity soar on the back of vehement opposition to the austerity policies Greece has been forced to implement.
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The Road to Serfdom, Part IV
For the first time in history, people imagined that the way to get rich was by running into debt, not by staying out of it.
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The U.S. Corporate State Has Become the Monarch Our Founders Despised
Just as King George extracted wealth and resources from the colonies for his own gain in the 18th century, the current U.S. corporate state is extracting wealth and resources from the American people – and at a much greater rate.
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Blood on Their Hands: Corporate Media's Respose to the CIA Torture Report and #BlackLivesMatter
Whether the subject is torture or the shooting of unarmed citizens, America’s mainstream news media offer the same basic points of view and rarely live up to their intended adversarial role – to hold government in check.
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A Message From the Dispossessed: What Charlie Hebdo Really Means
The terrorist attack in France isn't about free speech, or about justice, or about the war on terror, or about liberty or democracy. It is about the mad scramble by the privileged to survive at the expense of the poor, and the poor know it.
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Elizabeth Warren Forces White House Climbdown on Treasury Appointment
The Massachusetts senator has torpedoed a second economic nominee by the Obama administration for being too close to Wall Street, forcing banker Antonio Weiss to pull out of the running for Treasure undersecretary.