Global Power Project, Part 1: Exposing the Transnational Capitalist Class by Andrew Gavin Marshall

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by Andrew Gavin Marshall
Writer, Dandelion Salad
http://andrewgavinmarshall.com
June 12, 2013

An exclusive series for Occupy.com

The Global Power Project, an investigative series produced by Occupy.com, aims to identify and connect the worldwide institutions and individuals who comprise today’s global power oligarchy. By studying the relationships and varying levels of leadership that govern our planet’s most influential institutions — from banks, corporations and financial institutions to think tanks, foundations and universities —

Meet Canada’s Ruling Oligarchy: Parasites-a-Plenty! by Andrew Gavin Marshall

by Andrew Gavin Marshall
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
http://andrewgavinmarshall.com
May 10, 2012

The following is Part 7 of the series, “Class War and the College Crisis.”

Part 1: The “Crisis of Democracy” and the Attack on Education

Part 2: The Purpose of Education: Social Uplift or Social Control?

Part 3: Of Prophets, Power, and the Purpose of Intellectuals

Part 4: Student Strikes, Debt Domination, and Class War in Canada

Keiser Report: Michael Hudson: Austerity, Debt and Fraudulent Conveyance

with Michael Hudson
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
http://michael-hudson.com
April 24, 2012

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Apr 24, 2012 by RussiaToday

In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert discuss debt piles and thin dimes. They also discuss Christine Lagarde begging for money outside Penn Station while insider trading bankers ‘charitably’ talk to beggars at Grand Central. In the second half of the show Max talks to economist Michael Hudson about the austerity, debt and fraudulent conveyance.

Michael Hudson: Economic collapse in the Western nations + Crime has been Decriminalized

with Michael Hudson
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
http://michael-hudson.com
January 28, 2012

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See Dr. Hudson with Max Keiser in On the Edge as they sift through the latest issues including the EU, Ron Paul, Austrian economics, Iran and the role of the US dollar.

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In this edition of the show Max interviews the author Michael Hudson from Michael-Hudson.com

In this episode Max talks to Michael about the economic collapse in the Western nations and how this collapse gap thesis applies to the European economies currently experiencing a huge crisis.

Europe’s Transition From Social Democracy to Oligarchy By Michael Hudson

with Michael Hudson
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
http://michael-hudson.com
Dec. 7, 2011

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Eurozone leaders scramble for a solution to the European debt crisis, with Timothy Geithner joining the party now, and as Obama makes his rounds to small towns in the US asphyxiated with debt. S&P issues downgrade warnings for Europe, as the technocratic governments of Greece and Italy hope that unelected unity governments can help ward off the attack of bondholders unwilling to continue funding their nation’s debt at sustainable prices. Could this be why the CEO of Deutsche bank received a parcel bomb in the mail today from none other than the European Central Bank?

Democracy and Debt: Has the Link been Broken? By Michael Hudson

by Michael Hudson
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
http://michael-hudson.com
Dec. 2, 2011

*This article appeared in the Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung on December 2, 2011.

Book V of Aristotle’s Politics describes the eternal transition of oligarchies making themselves into hereditary aristocracies – which end up being overthrown by tyrants or develop internal rivalries as some families decide to “take the multitude into their camp” and usher in democracy, within which an oligarchy emerges once again, followed by aristocracy, democracy, and so on throughout history.

The US Dictatorship and its White House Servant ‘President’ by Finian Cunningham

by Finian Cunningham
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
1 August, 2011

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If there is one thing that the office of President Barack Obama demonstrates it is that democracy does not exist in the United States. This may seem a rather outlandish statement. For many people, the fact that the 44th president is the first black man to preside over the White House – with its American colonial-style architecture – is a tribute to the triumph of US democracy.

Noam Chomsky: Democracy & the Public University (must-see)

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Ottawa — 8 April 2011.

Rebecca Schein in Conversation with Noam Chomsky.

Noam Chomsky received his Phd in linguistics in 1955 from the University of Pennsylvania. The major theoretical viewpoints of his doctoral dissertation appeared in the monograph Syntactic Structure, 1957.

EU: Class War Declared By Michael Hudson

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By Michael Hudson
Information Clearing House
http://michael-hudson.com
June 03, 2011

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Replacing Economic Democracy with Financial Oligarchy

“But if a country is still not delivering, I think all would agree that the second stage has to be different. Would it go too far if we envisaged, at this second stage, giving euro area authorities a much deeper and authoritative say in the formation of the country’s economic policies if these go harmfully astray? A direct influence, well over and above the reinforced surveillance that is presently envisaged? Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the ECB on receiving the Charlemagne prize for European unity (Aachen, 2 June 2011)

Paul Craig Roberts: Blackout on legitimate investigations regarding 9/11, interviewed by Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds

by Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post
June 2, 2011

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Paul Craig Roberts joins us to discuss the September 11 terrorist attacks as the defining event of our time, which has launched our nation on interminable wars of aggression, a domestic police state where the American President is a Caesar and completely above the law. He describes the US corporate media’s role today, which is to serve the government and the interest groups that empower the government,

Who’s the boss? by Ed Dunphy

by Ed Dunphy
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
August 12, 2010

When we hire out to any company it’s always clear who the boss is.  If you are a parent of a young child, there’s little question as to who the boss is.  But when it comes to government most people don’t have the foggiest as to who the boss might be.  We know the term “we the people” but we are just not sure how to apply it to our daily lives.  As a political and peace activist I hear things like “our hands are tied” or “what am I supposed to do about it”?  In this writer’s lifetime there as never been a more important moment to take charge and declare “I’m the boss”.  Therefore I often attend Town Hall meetings and charge my Senator and Congressman as scoundrels and liars.  I enjoy asking them questions that I know they will not answer.  They both squirm with a flare.

New Pledge of Allegiance: Rendezvous with Colonial “Join or Die” By Robert S. Becker

by Robert S. Becker
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
rbecker@cal.net
July 13, 2010

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“We shall all hang together,” quipped the savviest of our founders, Benjamin Franklin, “or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”  Unlike us, Franklin found unity against a single, outside, mortal danger to Founders – British retaliation. We aren’t so fortunate, as a myriad of ill-defined threats loom.  That merits a new, updated Pledge of Allegiance that redefines a national commitment for a 21st Century super-power.

“Allegiance” to government is harder to find than death panels – and not by chance.  Can we sustain prosperity when unhinged Americans sabotage consensus at every crisis – denying we’re in the same boat, the same (polluted) gulf or planet?  Sustained disarray produces the stagnation of ungovernability, fed by mass denials, leadership bereft of vision, and structural quagmires (read: the Senate).

The Financial Oligarchy Reigns: Democracy’s Death Spiral From Greece to the United States

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By David DeGraw
Amped Status
10 May, 2010

As the Economic Elite continue their plunder, the people in Greece riot and the big banks score yet another big blow against the people of the United States.

I: Democracy Vs. Oligarchy: Lessons from History

Empire, Oligarchy and Democracy by Ralph Nader

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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
March 1, 2010

The twin swelling heads of Empire and Oligarchy are driving our country into an ever-deepening corporate state, wholly incompatible with democracy and the rule of law.

Once again the New York Times offers its readers the evidence. In its February 25, 2010 issue, two page-one stories confirm this relentless deterioration at the expense of so many innocent people.

The lead story illustrates that the type of massive speculation—casino capitalism, Business Week once called it—in complex derivatives is still going strong and exploiting the weak and powerless who pay the ultimate bill.

Titled “Banks Bet Greece Defaults on Debt They Helped Hide,” the article shocks even readers hardened to tales of greed and abuse of power. Here are the opening paragraphs:

Addicted to Nonsense by Chris Hedges

by Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Truthdig
Nov. 30, 2009

Will Tiger Woods finally talk to the police? Who will replace Oprah? (Not that Oprah can ever be replaced, of course.) And will Michaele and Tareq Salahi, the couple who crashed President Barack Obama’s first state dinner, command the hundreds of thousands of dollars they want for an exclusive television interview? Can Levi Johnston, father of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s grandson, get his wish to be a contestant on “Dancing With the Stars”?

The chatter that passes for news, the gossip that is peddled by the windbags on the airwaves, the noise that drowns out rational discourse, and the timidity and cowardice of what is left of the newspaper industry reflect our flight into collective insanity. We stand on the cusp of one of the most seismic and disturbing dislocations in human history, one that is radically reconfiguring our economy as it is the environment, and our obsessions revolve around the trivial and the absurd.