Romney’s Campaign of Inanity by Ralph Nader

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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
June 14, 2012

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Mitt Romney’s daily dittohead assertions make one wonder what he got out of the law and business degrees he received from Harvard University. One of his regular blasts blames Barack Obama for the daily reports of bad economic indicators. Unemployment increases – blame Obama. Retail sales decline – blame Obama. Profits not rising – blame Obama. Housing crisis continues– blame Obama.

Hunger Is a ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’, says Jean Ziegler by Siv O’Neall

by Siv O’Neall
Featured Writer
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Axisoflogic.com
Lyon, France
Jan. 19, 2012

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“Every five seconds, a child under 10 dies of hunger.  – Thirty-five million people die each year from hunger or its immediate aftermath. – One billion people are permanently and severely malnourished and the situation is becoming increasingly catastrophic.” (Jean Ziegler)

In his latest book Mass Destruction – the Geopolitics of Hunger, Jean Ziegler[1] talks about the current state of the world and the neoliberal politics of starvation of the poor, which has led to a crisis situation amounting to calculated murder. What we are witnessing today is the worst hunger crisis in human history is. And it is all because of human greed, colossal mismanagement for profit.

Not Made in America by Ralph Nader

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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
Nov. 30, 2011

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“Here, look at this handsome L.L. Bean catalog and tell me what you want for Christmas,” said a relative over Thanksgiving weekend. I started leafing through the 88 page cornucopia with hundreds of clothing and household products, garnished by free gift cards and guaranteed free shipping. I wasn’t perusing it for any suggested gifts; instead, I was going through every offering to see whether they were made in the U.S.A. or in other countries.

Jean Ziegler: “The cannibal world order” Translated by Siv O’Neall

By Siv O’Neall
Featured Writer
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Axisoflogic.com
Lyon, France
Oct. 26, 2011

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Interview with Jean Ziegler by Gilles Toussaint

Introduction and translation by Siv O’Neall

Introduction

The victims are the poor, the former subsistence farmers in Africa who have been deprived of their land and whose countries now have to import food at exorbitant prices, due to the speculation in agricultural commodities resulting in the skyrocketing food prices today.

The People vs. The Machine by Cindy Sheehan + Gloria Steinem leads the fight to save Jeju Island

by Cindy Sheehan
Featured Writer
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Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox
August 6, 2011

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Since the summer of 2005, when I began a camp in front of the vacation “ranch” of George Bush, I have traveled to many countries and all over the U.S. meeting with people who have been in long struggles against neoliberalism. Most of us in the U.S. are familiar with the term “neoconservative,” but “neoliberal” is also a well-understood and often used term in other areas.

PROBLEMA – The Film

 

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Warning

This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence/human and animal suffering and should only be viewed by a mature audience.

Replaced video Apr. 28, 2012

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CosmicCine on Aug 13, 2011

Who are we in the 21st Century?

A cinematic interpretation of the world’s largest round table gathering, PROBLEMA is a visually imaginative, thought-provoking invitation to a world of global dilemmas. Spanning seventeen questions confronting who we are and where we’re going, the film follows the insights, perceptions, reflections and views of over 100 people from more than 50 nations sat together in one circle.

P. Sainath: Mass Media v. Mass Reality (must-see)

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zgraphix1 on Sep 11, 2011

Award-winning journalist P. Sainath will speak on the failure of mass media to report and analyze the widening economic inequality in India and around the world. For the past decade, Sainath has been reporting on the epidemic of farmers committing suicide in India as a result of the collapse of the rural economy.

The Year of Revolution: The “War on Tyranny” Replaces the “War on Terror” by Andy Worthington

by Andy Worthington
Featured Writer
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www.andyworthington.co.uk
23 February, 2011

Ten years ago, in July 2001, 200,000 protestors converged on Genova, Italy, to disrupt the 27th G8 Summit, at which the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the UK and the US — plus the President of the European Commission — were meeting to discuss issues of global significance, including the debt burden of poor countries, world health issues, the environment and food security.

The 1990s in the West: The rise of the anti-globalization movement

China’s Creative Accounting: How It Buried Its Debt and Forged Ahead with Stimulus by Ellen Brown

by Ellen Brown
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webofdebt.com
October 29, 2010

China may be as heavily in debt as we are. It just has a different way of keeping its books — which makes a high-profile political ad sponsored by Citizens Against Government Waste, a fiscally conservative think tank, particularly ironic. Set in a lecture hall in China in 2030, the controversial ad shows a Chinese professor lecturing on the fall of empires: Greece, Rome, Great Britain, the United States . . . . [See video below.]

“They all make the same mistakes,” he says. “Turning their backs on the principles that made them great. America tried to spend and tax itself out of a great recession. Enormous so-called stimulus spending, massive changes to health care, government takeover of private industries, and crushing debt.”

Gerald Dumenil: The crisis of neoliberalism

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The crisis of neoliberalism Part 1

Dumenil: Neoliberalism imposed a new discipline on worker, cutting the progress of purchasing power.

Dr. Duménil is one of the world’s foremost theorists of neoliberalism and economic crisis and is the author of numerous influential books, many of which have been translated into several languages. These include Capital Resurgent: Roots of the Neoliberal Revolution (2004) and his forthcoming The Crisis of Neoliberalism: from the subprime to the great contraction.

The Golf War (1999)

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February 02, 2010

“The Golf War” documentary tells the story of Filipino peasants being violently and illegally kicked off their ancestral land to make way for one of Asias largest golf resorts. Filmmakers Jen Schradie and Matt DeVries interviewed developers and politicians, as well as armed guerrillas and peasants fighting the development. They even caught Tiger Woods promoting golf in the Philippines.

This Is What Democracy Looks Like (2000)

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A lesson from Seattle for Copenhagen: Vigorous Activism Can Defeat the Denialists by Patrick Bond

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Crossposted with permission from www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/

by Patrick Bond
Socialist Project | The Bullet
December 4, 2009

Preparations for the December 7-18 Copenhagen climate summit are going as expected, including a rare sighting of the African elites’ stiffened spines. That’s a great development (maybe decisive), more about that below.

While activists help raise the temperature on the streets outside the Bella Centre on December 12, 13 and 16, inside we will see global North elites defensively armed with pathetic non-binding carbon emissions cuts (U.S. President Barack Obama’s promise is a mere 4% below 1990 levels) and carbon trading, but without offering the money to repay the North’s ecological debt to the global South.

The first and third of these are lamentable enough, the second is the most serious diversion from the crucial work of cutting greenhouse gas emissions. A nine-minute film launched on the internet on December 1, The Story of Cap and Trade [watch the film at the end of this article], gives all the ammunition climate activists need to understand and critique emissions trading, and to seek genuine solutions.

Seattle 1999 WTO Ministerial – Westlake Park Mass Arrest

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talkingsticktv
November 28, 2009

Video of the Seattle 1999 WTO Ministerial mass arrest at Westlake Park, December 1, 1999, Seattle, WA.

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Anti-WTO demonstration in Geneva

Greg Palast busts the WTO

The Battle in Seattle; 10 years after WTO By Mike Whitney

The Economy Sucks and or Collapse 2

Anti-WTO demonstration in Geneva

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nocommenttv
November 29, 2009

euronews.net A demonstration against WTO in Geneva, Switzerland, ends violently.

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Greg Palast busts the WTO

Seattle 1999 WTO Ministerial – Westlake Park Mass Arrest

The Battle in Seattle; 10 years after WTO By Mike Whitney

The Economy Sucks and or Collapse 2