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The Real Economic Numbers: 21.5 Percent Unemployment, 10 Percent Inflation And Negative Economic Growth

Michael Snyder — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 19:34:52 +0000

As you are about to see, if honest numbers were being used all of our major economic numbers would be absolutely terrible. Of course we can hope for a major economic turnaround for America under Donald Trump, but we certainly are not there yet.

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‘Follow Your Bliss’ – The Tweet That Brought Corporate Journalism To The Brink Of A Nervous Breakthrough

David Edwards — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 04:28:20 +0000

Because the corporate press is about selling products and services to billions of consumers, it is loath to discuss the claim that an authentic, incomparable bliss is located within the human heart, and can be experienced by directing some attention away from external sources of 'happiness' to internal feelings in meditation. And yet this has been the assertion of every great spiritual master for thousands of years.

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The Disastrous Brexit Plan You Knew Nothing About

Graham Vanbergen — Sun, 24 Dec 2017 18:51:09 +0000

Imagine a Britain, with no NHS (US senators have already said they hope the health service in Britain will be up for grabs in any future deal), ever decreasing job security, ever rising inequality, failing education, transport, policing and other public services. All of this is a new market to be exploited. This is where the EU/US trade deal called TTIP failed. But a post-Brexit trade deal with the US will be as Jean Blaylock from the Independent says, it’s “TTIP on steroids.”

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How Billionaires Become Billionaires

Prof. James Petras — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 18:01:38 +0000

America has the greatest inequalities, highest mortality rate, most regressive taxes, and largest public subsidies for bankers and billionaires of any developed capitalist country.

In this essay we will discuss the socio-economic roots of inequalities and the relation between the concentration of wealth and the downward mobility of the working and salaried classes.

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May Day, May Day! The Tory ship is sinking

John Rees — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 19:04:37 +0000

John Rees on the reasons for the Tory debacle and what comes next

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The Facts Proving Corbyn’s Election Triumph

Jonathan Cook — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 13:14:02 +0000

With Corbyn, the election campaign proved that there is a huge appetite for his honesty, his passion, his commitment to social justice – at least when audiences got a chance to hear from him directly, rather than having his policies and personality mediated and distorted by a biased and self-serving corporate media.

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Why Corbyn Might Just Win

Michael Barker — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 12:17:32 +0000

On Friday morning the vast majority of the world may well have a lot to celebrate, a principled socialist may have defied the ruling-class in becoming the Prime Minister of the world’s fifth largest economy. If this happens the world will never be the same again.

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Britain’s Trade and Aid Policies After Brexit – Neo-liberalism Goes Mad

Mark Curtis — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 13:41:26 +0000

Unless there is a serious challenge, Britain is set to increasingly promote a failed model of international trade that will impoverish developing countries still further. It will also likely pursue an aid strategy that supports corporations, neo-liberal economic objectives and wider British foreign policy.

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The Euro Is Murdering Europe

F. William Engdahl — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 18:12:16 +0000

The Euro is murdering the nations and economies of the EU quite literally. Since the fixed currency regime came into effect, replacing national currencies in transactions in 2002, the fixed exchange rate regime has devastated industry in the periphery states of the 19 Euro members while giving disproportionate benefit to Germany. The consequence has been a little-noted industrial contraction and lack of possibility to deal with resulting banking crises. The Euro is a monetarist disaster and the EU dissolution is now pre-programmed as just one consequence.

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Why ‘I, Daniel Blake’ is a modern tale of Dickensian cruelty in Tory Britain

Daniel Margrain — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 17:25:41 +0000

The mismanagement of the UK economy by both the New Labour and Tory governments’ that followed the global crash of 2008 led to the poorest and weakest in society disproportionately picking up the pieces by way of savage cuts and austerity resulting from this incompetency.

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