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Austerity Discredited, Not Defeated – Time to Fight for Jobs and Growth
Austerity has been intellectually discredited in recent months. But conservative spending cuts still dominate policy.
An Autogestión Alternative to Austerity: Occupy, Resist, Produce!
Austerity policies continue to deliver pain to populations the world over, but shifts toward democratic self-direction deliver much-needed hope.
Austerity Blitz: Eurozone Notes From Beyond the Grave
Tough austerity measures imposed by the EU without any consideration for the damage such policies inflict on human lives and the social fabric of societies in general have generated …
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Sadism as Politics: Rick Perry, Paul Ryan, Anti-Abortion Politics and Kicking the Poor
The common denominator in redistricting, austerity policies, voter restriction policies, criminal justice and anti-abortion policies is the privileged (pathological) need to maintain power and control.
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The British Media, Cheerleaders for Austerity
The mainstream media play an important public relations role in presenting a positive picture of austerity.
Speed, Power and the Physics of Finance Capitalism
High frequency trading utilizes new technologies to create an economy of speed that employs mathematics and physics to generate global markets that are neither transparent nor able to be …
Indefinite Surveillance: Say Hello to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014
The NDAA for 2014 will effectively authorize indefinite surveillance of everyone.
Celebrate the Defeat of the Granny Bashers!
Dean Baker: Medicare and Social Security are safe from austerity hawks - for now. Time to raise a toast, then switch from defense to offense.
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Against This Authoritarian Euro-Liberal Regime, What We Need Is a Complete Re-Foundation of Our Republic
The vast majority of our fellow citizens demand a deep change while the majority of their political ‘representatives’ are apparently dead set on pursuing the same course: the self-defeating …
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Five Reasons Why Austerity Hurts Today and Will Even More Tomorrow
Austerity can inflict long-term damage on people's pockets, psyches, livelihoods and lives.