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Austerity
Spanish Austerity Savage to the Point of Sadism
If you are Josef Ackermann heading up the Deutsche Bank, you earned an 8 million Euro bonus in 2012, because you successfully manipulated the past four years of economic …
Greece and the Euro: Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover
Rules that can be bent for banks can be bent for the people - not just the Greeks, but the Irish, Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese and others lined up behind …
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Trickle-Down Cruelty and the Politics of Austerity
In Philadelphia, budget cuts have led to fire departments closing on a daily rotating basis, delaying response time. (Photo: Sam Blackman)
Gutting Public Education: Neoliberalism and the Politics of Opportunism
America's political and economic elites have declared a war on working, middle-class and poor Americans. Now that war is coming to a head with the draconian cuts in education, …
Teachers Without Jobs and Education Without Hope
The United States' choice to deal with its financial crisis by further weakening public and higher education is devastating.
Europe in the Iron Grip of Neoliberal Fiscal Discipline and Anti-Labor Measures
Global capitalism has plunged much of the world in a crisis of unprecedented proportions and is causing misery and suffering for millions of people.