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Worker Ownership Cooperatives Are Our Way Out of This Mess

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By Michael Cheverie Dewey - Oct. 21 (Opinion) - I first heard of the Mondragon Cooprative of the Basque in Spain, back in 1994. My Mom had been telling m the Family History of the Cheveries who are Basque. The French had kicked the Cheverie's out of France. We ended up on Prince Edward Island. The English tried to kick us out of there. My Ancesters went andn hid in the woods for 15 yars and had lots of kids. I told my Mom, ''I want to know what they are doing now?'' 2 weeks latter she showed me an Article in the Catholic Digest, about Mondragon's Worker Ownership.

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"Every 30 Minutes": Crushed by Debt and Neo-Liberal Reforms, Indian Farmers Commit Suicide At Staggering Rate

Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Smita Narula, Amy Goodman - May. 11 (Interview) - A quarter of a million Indian farmers have committed suicide in the last 16 years—an average of one suicide every 30 minutes. The crisis has ballooned with economic liberalization that has removed agricultural subsidies and opened Indian agriculture to the global market. Small farmers are often trapped in a cycle of insurmountable debt, leading many to take their lives out of sheer desperation. We speak with Smita Narula of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University Law School, co-author of a new report on farmer suicides in India.

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Exporting Democracy Has Led to Shortages of it in U.S., Experts Say

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

borowitzreport.com - By Borowitz - Apr. 12 (Comedy News) - if the U.S. continues to export democracy at its current pace it may completely run out of it at home by the year 2015. “We have been exporting democracy to Afghanistan and Iraq while there are severe shortages of it in Wisconsin and Florida,” said Professor Davis Logsdon, who supervised the study. “This is madness.”

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Why Obama Wants to Cut Corporate Taxes

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Reason Magazine - By Steve Chapman - Feb. 10 (Opinion) - America doesn't feel much like the champion of the world these days. Everywhere we look, we see other countries outdoing us—in economic growth, educational performance, and men's soccer. But this year, we are expected to gain an impressive distinction: the highest corporate tax rate in the developed world.

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Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Pentagon's Planet of Bases

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Tomdispatch.com - By Nick Turse - Jan. 09 (Opinion) - There are more than 1,000 U.S. military bases dotting the globe. To be specific, the most accurate count is 1,077. Unless it’s 1,088. Or, if you count differently, 1,169. Or even 1,180. Actually, the number might even be higher. Nobody knows for sure.

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The Ethanol Rhetoric Ramps Up

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Oil Drum - By Robert Rapier - Nov. 23 (Opinion) - It has been interesting to watch the flurry of ethanol rhetoric since the recent elections. With the $0.45 per gallon subsidy (called the VEETC) and the ethanol tariffs both set to expire at the end of next month, both sides feel that there is a lot at stake, and they have really ramped up the rhetoric. One side will claim that ethanol is the greatest thing since sliced bread, then the other side claims it is an environmental disaster. Around and around the claims go. Misinformation abounds.

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Obama Warns ‘Groups That Receive Foreign Money’ Are A ‘Threat To Our Democracy’

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Alex Seitz-Wald - Oct. 07 (Opinion) - Pressure has been mounting on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce since a ThinkProgress investigation published Tuesday revealed that the right-wing business group may be using donations from foreign corporations to bankroll its general account — the same account that is being used to launch an unprecedented $75 million attack ad campaign against progressive candidates.

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United Kingdom: Iraqi LGBT group leader Ali Hili refused priority for ayslum application

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Global Voices - Apr. 11 (Opinion) - Ali Hili, leader of an Iraqi lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) group has been waiting for an asnwer to his application for asylum in the United Kingdom for three years. While his case is being reviewed, Hali cannot travel abroad to raise awareness about the plight of the LGBT community back home.

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A New Hope: Will Economics displace Politics?

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

theviewspaper.net - By Shivraj Negi - Mar. 14 (Opinion) - In the power balance between realm of politics and economics, Globalization has definitely shifted the balance in favor of economics. This process has gathered pace in last few decades. For nation states, questions and concerns of economics are prime drivers now. Nation states do not look for military or political superiority anymore; they value economic advantage, superiority and prosperity much more. Economics drives geopolitics. Nation states sign more and more free trade agreements and economic treaties, rather than pacts military alliances like in Cold War era.

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AIG is chump change -- let's find corporate America's hidden billions

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Joe Conason - Mar. 23 (Opinion) - From the jaded perspective of the financiers, the uproar over the AIG bonuses may provide a welcome distraction from far more important (and lucrative) abuses in the world's offshore tax havens. So rather than continue arguing over chump change, it is long past time for the United States, with its international friends and allies, to demand accountability from the long list of tiny countries and principalities, from Andorra and the Cayman Islands to Singapore and Switzerland, where corporations, wealthy clients and unrepentant evildoers hide their assets.

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David Harvey's "A Brief History of Neoliberalism"

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

BuzzFlash - By Thom Hartmann - Jan. 29 (Review) - Here's the bad news - most Americans don't know what "neoliberalism" is. But the good news is that David Harvey has written the most brilliant, concise, and clear history of neoliberalism I've ever found. It should be required reading in every civics class in high-school and college in America, and everybody who votes or considers themselves informed about politics and economics (and the intersection of the two) should have a dog-eared copy next to their bed or favorite chair for regular re-reading. Harvey begins with the imposition of neoliberalism - a radical economic/political theory that everything will work out optimally if only the power of democratic governments are reduced to virtually nothing and the power of economic elites (known as "the free market") hold most power in society - in Iraq and Chile. Iraq was going to be the Great Example for the neoliberals - they were so convinced of their theory that they didn't have a Plan B for any time after the invasion - and it utterly failed. Which is why you only read about the Iraq experiment in neoliberalism in books written by the few people, like Harvey and Naomi Klein, who have noticed it.

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Planet Obama

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The American Conservative - By Theodore Dalrymple - Nov. 26 (Opinion) - Global euphoria is better than the disrepute of the Bush years, but so far our new president’s appeal is entirely symbolic.

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