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Austerity
Anti-Austerity Sentiments Spread Beyond Greece
The bigger question is what transpires a year or two after Grexit, when the real risk to the euro isn't that Greece fails, but that it succeeds.
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ALEC Wants to Educate High Schoolers on Balanced Budgets and Fiscal Austerity
The right-wing push to amend the Constitution to require a balanced federal budget is gaining momentum.
Mark Crispin Miller: Neoliberalism and Its Impacts on Free Speech, Education and Democracy
Mark Crispin Miller discusses neoliberal doctrine and his new series, “Forbidden Bookshelf.”
Economic Update: Austerity Resistance Rising
This episode provides updates on Seattle, and more.
Socialist Economist Dimitris Kazakis: Syriza Has No Plan B
Economist Dimitris Kazakis discusses his views on the Syriza government's failings and the need for Greece to leave the eurozone.
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Welcome to the Era of Stop-Go Austerity
The recovery of 2013-2015, which is falsely viewed as a vindication of austerity, is likely to prove self-defeating.
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Exclusive Dispatch: Private Water Industry Says Water Bills “Have to Go Up“
Water privatization advocates are using the logic of austerity to argue for raising water utility bills.
Christian Parenti on Climate Change, Militarism, Neoliberalism and the State
The author talks about environmental crises and neoliberal economic policies sparking violence in a landscape littered with guns.
Greece: Will a Default Lead to “Grexit”?
The eurozone's masters are bent on inflicting more pain on an already battered Greece.
Xenophobia, Poverty and the Lies That Link Them: Dissecting the UKIP Support Base
With an election in England on Thursday, the UK Independence Party is gaining steam in the poorest regions with its anti-immigrant rhetoric.