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Targeting Syria – The ‘Bad News’ For The Guardian

Posted on November 14, 2011 by

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…mainstream journalists are appalled that a double Russian and Chinese veto at the UN has thwarted Western efforts to do more good in Syria. Afghanistan and Iraq may still be in flames. A bloodbath may continue to flow from Nato’s ‘humanitarian intervention’ in Libya. No matter, mainstream journalists are appalled that a double Russian and Chinese veto at the UN has thwarted Western efforts to do more good in Syria. The two powers rejected the latest draft … Continue reading →

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Publicly-owned Banks as an Instrument of Economic Development: The German Model

Posted on October 27, 2011 by

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By Ellen Brown URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=27054 Global Research, October 13, 2011 Book: Web of Debt Publicly-owned banks were instrumental in funding Germany?s ?economic miracle? after the devastation of World War II.  Although the German public banks have been targeted in the last decade for takedown by their private competitors, the model remains a viable alternative to the private profiteering being protested on Wall Street today. One of the demands voiced by protesters in the Occupy … Continue reading →

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The Best Among Us

Posted on October 10, 2011 by

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There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or you stand on the wrong side of history. Either you obstruct, in the only form left to us, which is civil disobedience, the plundering by the criminal class on Wall Street and accelerated destruction of the ecosystem that sustains the human species, or become the passive enabler of a monstrous evil. Either you taste, feel and smell the intoxication of freedom and revolt or sink into the miasma of despair and apathy. Either you are a rebel or a slave. Continue reading →

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Global Economic Downturn – Europe and China

Posted on August 22, 2011 by

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The Crisis in Europe
The sovereign debt question also created both a financial crisis and then a political crisis in Europe. While the American financial crisis certainly affected Europe, the European political crisis was deepened by the resulting recession. There had long been a minority in Europe who felt that the European Union had been constructed either to support the financial elite at the expense of the broader population or to strengthen Northern Europe, particularly France and Germany, at the expense of the periphery — or both. What had been a minority view was strengthened by the recession. Continue reading →

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Global Economic Downturn: A Crisis of Political Economy

Posted on August 14, 2011 by

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by George Friedman. formerly economic advisor of Roland Reagan. Classical political economists like Adam Smith or David Ricardo never used the term “economy” by itself. They always used the term “political economy.” For classical economists, it was impossible to understand politics without economics or economics without politics. The two fields are certainly different but they are also intimately linked. The use of the term “economy” by itself did not begin until the late 19th century. … Continue reading →

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Structural Adjustment Programmes: Official Aims vs Actual Experience

Posted on August 8, 2011 by

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by Ac. Krtashivananda. The Structural Adjustment Programme(SAP) do vary from country to country, but the main policies demanded by IMF; WB and WTO are the same.An attempt has been made to find out why SAP do not work well, and contrary to official claims.                             It has been found out that most of the private industries are financed by the govt. financing agencies. … Continue reading →

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The Heresay of Greece Offers Hope

Posted on August 2, 2011 by

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  The economic collapse that happened in Greece in 2008 and whose effect is still continued, described by John Pilger, as a microcosm for the developed world, where class war are the words seldom used because they are the truth. John Pilger The crisis that has led to the “rescue” of Greece by the European banks and the International Monetary Fund is the product of a grotesque financial system which itself is in crisis. Greece … Continue reading →

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The Promoters of Neo Colonialism

Posted on August 1, 2011 by

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  WORLD BANK(WB),  INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (IMF) AND WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION (WTO) ARE THE PROMOTERS OF NEO COLONIALISM. by Ac. Krtashivananda IMF and WB were set up at the end of World War II at Bretton Woods USA in 1944. After the war, USA emerged as a successful victor in political and economic terms. The USA was looking for new growing markets and sources of raw material. Simultaneously freedom struggle against colonial countries were gaining … Continue reading →

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War against the poorest

Posted on May 25, 2011 by
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by Raktima Bose KOLKATA: Accusing the Centre of waging war against the “poorest people,” under the pretext of fighting Maoists in the mining belt, with the purpose of creating a “good investment climate,” author and social rights activist Arundhati Roy on Wednesday said creation of an atmosphere conductive to negotiations between the government and left-wing extremists was the only way out of the ongoing violence in the red corridor of India. Addressing a press conference here, … Continue reading →

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