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Did Brexit Just Open the Floodgates for A New Era of Direct Democracy?
I must congratulate the U.K. citizens for voting to leave the undemocratic, unaccountable, bureaucratic and failed experiment that is the European Union. And no, I am not an anti-immigrant racist.
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Meet the Secretive Committees that Run the Global Economy
An overlapping and highly integrated network of institutions, committees and secret meetings of ad-hoc groups collectively make up the most powerful and informal political structure in the world.
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Farmers and Indigenous People Lead Worldwide Protests Against World Bank
Groups will stage creative resistance actions outside the Bank's annual meeting in Washington, D.C., and across nine other cities.
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World Bank Warns of Global Jobs Crisis
An extra 600 million jobs need to be created worldwide by 2030 just to cope with an expanding population.
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World of Resistance Report: IMF, World Bank, Giant Consultants Admit The Storm Is Coming
In the 80s and 90s they called them "IMF Riots" – but what the biggest international investment organizations and consultants now see happening looks a whole lot bigger.
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Austerity Revisited: How Global Financiers Rigged the Bank Bailouts of the 1980s
Top financiers at the International Monetary Conference engineered so-called "aid packages" for crisis-hit developing nations that were, much like today, nothing more than bailouts for the big banks.
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Campaign Launches to End World Bank's Involvement in Corporate Land Grabs
Right now, millions of people are being thrown off their land because large corporations are being given special rights.
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McKibben: Obama, Climate Change and the Real Story of this Presidency
When the world looks back at the Obama years half a century from now, one doubts they'll remember the health care website; one imagines they'll study how the most powerful government on Earth reacted to the sudden, clear onset of climate change.
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Public Banking in Costa Rica: A Remarkable Little-Known Model
Established in 1949, Costa Rica's four public banks have remained open and in public hands in spite of enormous pressure by the IMF and the U.S. to privatize them.
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Global Power Project: Central Bankers and the Institute of International Finance, Part 3
The relationship between the powerfully connected Institute of International Finance and global central bankers goes well beyond the timid attempts at “regulation” on the part of global banks, as this third segment in the IFF series reveals.
