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leftymathprof on Feb 15, 2015
Inequality, externalities, and alienation are inherent in any market economy, but they are not inherent in human nature.
Transcript at http://LeftyMathProf.org/3evils includes embedded links to related materials.
with Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
michael-hudson.com
January 27, 2015
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CrossTalk: Wealth Abyss
RT on Jan 26, 2015
One percent already has half the world’s wealth under its thumb and at this rate is set to accumulate even more. As much of the world slowly recovers from severe recession, the rich are prospering and greatly so. Is the global system rigged to their advantage? CrossTalking with Max Lawson, Richard Wellings and Michael Hudson.
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with Chris Hedges
TheRealNews on Dec 24, 2014
Rev. Chris Hedges and Rev. David Bullock discuss the real meaning of Christmas with Paul Jay Continue reading
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Updated: Oct. 17, 2014
by David DeGraw
daviddegraw.org
Oct. 9, 2014 Continue reading
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Updated: added video interviews
by David DeGraw
daviddegraw.org
August 18, 2014
This is an adapted excerpt from my new book, The Economics of Revolution. Continue reading
by Michael Parenti
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Michael Parenti Blog
michaelparenti.org
February 18, 2014
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The world’s 85 richest individuals possess as much wealth as the 3.5 billion souls who compose the poorer half of the world’s population, or so it was announced in a report by Oxfam International. The assertion sounds implausible to me. I think the 85 richest individuals, who together are worth many hundreds of billions of dollars, must have far more wealth than the poorest half of our global population.
by Graham Peebles
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Rajasthan, India
February 16, 2014
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You can see it glistening in colours red, white and blue, smell its choking fumes through the fogs of ambition and greed and mac-taste its convenient food; fast and furious, no time to waste, to pause, to question and wonder. Market fundamentalism pervades all areas of contemporary civilization, has saturated every corner of the world, and created what Pope Francis recently described as the “Globalisation of Indifference”, a world in which “we have become used to the suffering of others. Continue reading
with Noam Chomsky
LeighaCohen on Feb 12, 2014
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Noam Chomsky spoke at Third Boston Symposium on Economics on February 10th 2014, sponsored by the Northeastern University Economics Society in Boston, MA.
Dr. Chomsky focuses on what economic actions that government, the super rich and corporations are taking that insures the US and other economies fail for the overwhelming majority of people. Continue reading
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Editorial
www.workers.org
February 8, 2014
An editorial in our last issue [see below] explained how a simple statistic arrived at in an Oxfam study on wealth illuminates the immense problem facing humanity. The combined wealth of the world’s richest 85 individuals now equals that of the poorest half of the human race — 3.5 billion people.
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with Howard Zinn
Writer, Dandelion Salad
February 5, 2014
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” — George Orwell, 1984
Noam Chomsky Videos on Feb 4, 2014
A people’s history, history from below, or folk history is a type of historical narrative which attempts to account for historical events from the perspective of common people rather than political and other leaders.
by Finian Cunningham
Writer, Dandelion Salad
East Africa
Crossposted from PressTV
January 22, 2014
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This week the world rewound more than a century – with the announcement that the European Union is to send troops to Central Africa.
This development has ominous resonance with how imperial rivalry historically played out in Africa and which eventually led to world war.
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TheRealNews on Jan 19, 2014
Glen Ford: The Civil Rights Movement ended official racial discrimination in the U.S., but many of its leaders broke with grassroots organizing and direct action and instead chose to become business leaders or members of the Democratic party. Continue reading
by Graham Peebles
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Rajasthan, India
January 13, 2014
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Where and to whom one is born is, it seems, arbitrary, chance, fate or karma being the divine decision maker. Wake from innocence to middle class parents in one of the developed wealthy nations of the world, and be blessed with comfort, opportunity, good health care and education and a life of profitable possibilities. Find yourself in a slum in Nairobi, Kenya or the daughter of tea pickers in Assam, India, and see before you: poverty, uncertainty, suffering and the threat of extreme exploitation.
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Tagged Congo, Graham Peebles, inequality
The Essays of The Man From the North by Rivera Sun
Writer, Dandelion Salad
December 29, 2013
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The Man From the North is a fictional writer in Rivera Sun’s novel, The Dandelion Insurrection. The novel takes place in the near future, in “a time that looms around the corner of today”, when a rising police state controlled by the corporate-political elite have plunged the nation into the grip of a hidden dictatorship. Continue reading
by Graham Peebles
Writer, Dandelion Salad
London
December 23, 2013
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They work as maids, housekeepers, cleaners; they take care of children, the elderly and infirmed for wealthy and middle class families in rich and upwardly mobile nations. They are found throughout the world: in the G20 countries and the Gulf States, Latin America (where they account for 60% of internal and international migrants), and developing countries in Africa and Asia where vast numbers of poor and vulnerable live alongside the privileged few. Continue reading
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