Saturday, July 31, 2010

Michael Hudson & Richard Wolff: Europe Under the Crunch [16:50m video]

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from Grit TV . A most fascinating discussion regarding the economic collapse in Europe and the US and what might be done about it. We'v...

Treasure Island: A Case Study in Shareable Journalism

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by Jeremy Adam Smith from Shareable .  As corporate sponsored journalism continues to degenerate, there may be a new model emerging to tel...

This Is What You Eat

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by Marc Perton from The Consumerist .  See a great graphic and what the US corporate food industry is doing to Americans to increase their...

Foreclosures Continue To Increase Dramatically In 2010

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by Michael Snyder from Business Insider . Back in 2007 and 2008, experts tell us that most foreclosures were due to toxic mortgages.  Peop...

WikiLeaks Obtains Copy of Tony Hayward’s Resignation Letter [humor]

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from The Daily Goat .   Enjoy

First as Tragedy, Then as Farce [10:57m video]

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by Slavoj Zizek from RSA and You Tube.  The renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek challenges your thinking about charity.

A Police State You'd Better Believe In

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by Jack Kenny from New American .  ...we should not let a smooth talking political leader like our current President talk us out of the civ...

This week in Change

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by Glenn Greenwald from Salon . So there's your Week in Change:  tens of billions more appropriated for war through supplemental spend...

A Great Quote from a Comtemporary Patron Saint of Capitalism

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from VoltaireNet and Current Concerns , an excerpt from the preface to the book, Free Fall, by Joseph Stiglitz:   The current crisis has un...

On Walkers, Extra Men, and Professional Houseguests

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by Jamie Johnson from Vanity Fair .  This week's offering about the lives and concerns of what are referred to as the 1% Americans. Af...
Friday, July 30, 2010

The End of Capitalism?: Interview of Alex Knight – Part 2B. Social Limits and the Crisis

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from The End of Capitalism . A must-read series if you are to be an aware citizen activist. In this 3rd segment of the interview Alex Knig...

Trends to Barbarism and Prospects for Socialism

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by James Petras from Dissident Voice .  The only problem I have with this essay is that the author barely mentions the impact on capitalis...

Mainstream Economists: "Mission Accomplished"

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from Washington's Blog . Numerous current stories show how disconnected mainstream policy-makers are from reality. For example, Ryan ...

US and Cambodia in controversial lockstep

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by Clifford McCoy from Asia Times Online .  Because items like this never make it into mainstream news coverage, few Americans have any id...

The Wages of Sin: Former Citi Execs Pay Token Fines for Lying to Investors

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by Yves Smith from Naked Capitalism .  She illustrates how the drivers of profit for the ruling class can and do lie with impunity. Well, ...

Everything You Need to Know About Global Warming in 5 Minutes

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by Barry Ritholtz from The Big Picture .  Even some key players in the capitalist system are getting the message that their system is in d...

Time out

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Putting society before shareholders: What work is really worth

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by Pierre Rimbert from Le Monde Diplomatique .  Some researchers in the UK studied the remuneration of workers from a social utility point...

Is WikiLeaks the antidote to the Washington K Street Kool-Aid?

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by Sibel Edmonds from Boiling Frogs . This former FBI worker and heroic whistle-blower looks at the significance of the recent WikiLeaks d...

Sudan: Oil Companies Alleged to be Complicit in War Crimes

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by Miles Ashdown from Toward Freedom .  International oil companies that support the government of Sudan wreck their havoc on the Sudanese...