Michael Hudson: QE, Neofeudalism and Privatization — The End of Consumer Choice

capitalism is the crisis

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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
michael-hudson.com
October 20, 2013

In Extraenvironmentalist #67 we discuss the implications of the bursting global credit bubble with economist and historian Michael Hudson. Our conversation covers many of the themes in Hudson’s new book, The Bubble and Beyond which covers the process of quantitative easing, neofeudalism and more.

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Rick Rozoff: Time To Look At Human Dimension As Afghan War Enters Thirteenth Year

by Rick Rozoff
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Stop NATO
October 20, 2013

Chicago Anti-War Protest

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Press TV
October 19, 2013

Press TV has conducted an interview with Rick Rozoff, from Stop NATO International Network, from Chicago, over the United States calling for legal immunity for any US soldiers left in Afghanistan beyond the 2014 withdrawal.

What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview.

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Another Nobel Peace Prize – Another Farce? by Felicity Arbuthnot

by Felicity Arbuthnot
Writer, Dandelion Salad
London, England
October 20, 2013

The Nobel Peace Prize brings another surprise – or farce, depending on your view. In relatively recent history, there has been Henry Kissinger (1973) architect supreme of murderous assaults on sovereign nations; the United Nations (2001) whose active warmongering or passive, silent holocausts (think UN embargoes) make shameful mockery of the aspirational founding words.

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Noam Chomsky: Egypt – Revolution or Military Coup?

Egypt Violence

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Dandelion Salad

with Noam Chomsky

MIT ESA on Oct 8, 2013

This event took place on October 4th, 2013 in Kresge Auditorium, MIT, Cambridge.

Egypt has undergone many cycles of change since the revolution in January 2011, and making sense of these radical transformations in the heart of the Middle East has been challenging. We had the privilege of discussing the past, present and future of Egypt’s political landscape with Prof. Chomsky.

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