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Neoliberalism
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Defining What We Stand For
This week, we re-launched It's Our Economy, a project dedicated to reporting on and assisting the growing movement for economic democracy.
Assassinations and Constitutions
What is happening in America today is actually worse than what happened in Brazil in the '70s.
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The 2014 Elections Have Already Happened
When all the memories that hold are about possession and not sharing, no one attacks the fundamental principles of market rule because everyone is too deeply tied to the …
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Bob Dylan and the Ethics of Market Fascism
Bob Dylan's SuperBowl commercial for Chrysler opens, ‘Is there anything more American than America?’ Answer: Maybe this commercial - and not necessarily in a good way.
Danger of Global Recession After 30 Years of Neoliberal Counterrevolution
Heiner Flassbeck, former director of UNCTAD, says the pressure for even lower wages, the crisis in emerging markets and deflation in Europe means a slide into global recession is …
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Obama’s Aversion to Income Inequality Doesn’t Extend to TPP
President Obama touted his fight against income inequality, but his administration is fast-tracking a trade agreement predicted to cut pay for 90 percent of American workers.
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Problems of Eurozone, European Integration Stem From Deeply Unpopular Elite Economic, Social Policy
The imposition of deeply anti-democratic neoliberal austerity policies - not the Eurozone per se - undermines the political legitimacy of the European Union.
Costas Lapavitsas Discusses the Financialization of Capitalism
Author Costas Lapavitsas discusses how the neoliberal capture of the state has laid the ground for the financialization of capitalism.
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Dark Affinities: Liberal and Neoliberal
We cannot right our upside-down ship of state as long as oppressed and oppressors share the same dark dreams and values.
GroKo Politics: No Change of Key in Germany
A term used constantly during three months of wrangling between Germany's two biggest parties, once seen as “irreconcilable foes,” to form a nice joint government.