The Brexit vote showed how out of touch the elites are with the lives of the people in England. They are unaware how austerity, unfair incomes and lack of wealth makes life unbearable for many. The same is true throughout the globalized economy, which is rigged for the 1% around the world.
U.S. political economists Michael Hudson and Bill Black tell The Real News Network that western financial institutions are keen to bail out Greece because if they didn’t, Greece’s existing creditors—other western financial institutions—would fail to recover money they previously lent to Greece. ◊ truthdig.com realnewsnetwork.com July 1, 2015 ◊ https://youtu.be/U_AnI5dutGk?list=PLhvPB4lyc4dTIaS6FyeiQDHaYn4sN7pP3 The experts say the More
The corporate powers, from Seattle’s mayor to the Chamber of Commerce and the area’s Democratic Party, are determined she be defeated, and these local corporate elites have the national elites behind them. This will be one of the most important elections in the country this year. By Chris Hedges truthdig.com March 15, 2015 Kshama More
"The target of this continent-wide discontent is neoliberalism’s self-serving paternalistic policies of privatization, reduced government, and dependence upon the “free market” as the arbiter of socio-economic justice but it’s turning sour because so few attain millions at the direst expense of way too many."
By Greg Palast for Truthout GregPalast.com Monday, 7 October 2013 On September 18, hip-hop artist Pavlos Fyssas, a.k.a. Killah P, was stabbed outside a bar in Keratsini, Greece. Larry Summers has an air-tight alibi. But I don't believe it. Larry didn’t hold the knife: The confessed killer is some twisted member of Golden Dawn, a political party More
“They cling to guns or religion” by Ed Felien In the 2008 Presidential Campaign, Obama committed what was thought to be a gaffe that the Republicans were quick to jump on. He said, in April, viewing the poverty in rural Pennsylvania: “You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns More
“They cling to guns or religion” by Ed Felien In the 2008 Presidential Campaign, Obama committed what was thought to be a gaffe that the Republicans were quick to jump on. He said, in April, viewing the poverty in rural Pennsylvania: “You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns More
