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Austerity
Let Them Eat 1.6 Percent
Media gasps over New York City workers' retroactive pay is one episode in the longer game of the rich contributing less in personal and corporate taxes.
Ukraine Government Says It Has “Lost Control” in Eastern Ukraine as Pro-Autonomy Upsurge Deepens
Greater regional autonomy may be the only way to keep what's left of “Ukraine” together.
Levy Economics Institute President Dissects the Myth of the Greek “Success Story“
In this interview, Bard College's Levy Economics Institute President Dimitri B. Papadimitriou evaluates the impact of the Troika's austerity policies in Greece since their imposition in 2010.
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The Economic Plans of the Kiev Government Will Spell Ruin for a Great Many in Ukraine
Ukraine's “turn to the West,” together with the effects of austerity, will deindustrialize Ukraine and turn it into an agricultural appendage of the EU.
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The Pain of Austerity, Remedied by Keynesian Policy
There's now a full-court press of the usual suspects claiming that the recovery in Britain proves that fiscal austerity isn't contractionary after all, that the International Monetary Fund had …
Greek Politics Four Years After the Financial Crisis
Leo Panitch on the left Coalition: Syriza and the struggle against austerity.
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Why No Sustained Protests (Yet)?
Lingering effects of the organized post-1945 destruction of the New Deal coalition helps explain continuing austerity and other anti-democratic policies pursued by US governments, says economist Richard Wolff
Truthout Interviews Featuring Panayota Gounari on Greece, Neoliberalism, and the Crisis of Capitalism
In a sort of orgy of social necrophilia, the Greek government trumpets the “success” of austerity as the people of Greece suffer high unemployment, a shrinking of social services, …
Austerity Is Crap
Since the peak of the Great Society, on the first official Earth Day, captains of industry have engaged in a conspiracy to destroy the gains made for working people …
Of Budgets, Values and Visions
In America today, three visions rooted in different views about human nature and society offer distinct slants on budget priorities: the conservative, the liberal and the progressive.