Will the Neoliberal Consensus Survive the Banking Crisis?
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09 May 2008
by
Ingo Schmidt
These are hard times for the neoliberal consensus whose message has been forced worldwide for three decades by the ruling classes on free capital flows. Business data is a fetish constructed for the goal of profit maximization, not an objective reflection of business reality.
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News :: Middle East
MGM MIRAGE and Dubai World Relationship raises Terrorism Questions
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08 May 2008
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MGM MIRAGE Dubai World Watch Group
Dubai Grand Central Station purchase raises terrorism questions
Dubai World buys 50% stake in Dubai World to invest $2.7 billion for a 50 percent interest in CityCenter in Las Vegas and will make a significant equity investment in MGM MIRAGE
Dubai Ports World controversy
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Announcement :: Media
Two New Publications From Infoshop
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08 May 2008
by
Chuck Munson
Infoshop.org and the Alternative Media Project are pleased to announce the availability of two new digital publications. The first issue of our
bi-monthly newsletter titled "Revolution" is available as a PDF file that can be read online or printed out.
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Hunger in Abundance
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08 May 2008
by
Klaus Fischer
The price explosion has nothng to do with a shortage in grain. After the quasi-collapse of the US financial markets, international investors have floated a considerable part of their funds in raw material- and food branches.
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LOCAL Announcement :: Activism
Meeting on the Stuggle for Justice 4 Sean Bell
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07 May 2008
by
S.Ceci
Discussion & Meeting on the struggle for Justice 4 Sean Bell
And all victims of police brutality.
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News :: Crime & Police
Pentagon Wants Cyberwar Range to 'Replicate Human Behavior and Frailties'
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07 May 2008
(Updated)
by
xcvb
maybe they will use the bush scum as a model of frailties and behavior...
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News :: Latin America
Fiestas Dionisíacas del FMI en Paraguay
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07 May 2008
by
Luis Agüero Wagner
Luego de proclamar una y mil veces como el obispo de los pobres a su líder, presentado como un teólogo de la liberación tercermundista, recibir el respaldo de toda la izquierda latinoamericana y sus agencias noticiosas, hablar hasta el hartazgo de socialismo, reforma agraria y agitar el puño izquierdo crispado, el movimiento que llevó a la presidencia del Paraguay al obispo Fernando Lugo ha decidido convocar para dirigir las finanzas de su gobierno desde el Ministerio de Hacienda a un conocido personero del Fondo Monetario Internacional, el economista Dionisio Borda.
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News :: Crime & Police
no lie too big
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07 May 2008
by
int
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Review :: Economy
Robert Reich's "Super-Capitalism: How the Economy Undermines Democracy"
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07 May 2008
by
Beat Mazenauer
When everyone talks about stocks and consumption, what happens to social responsibility and public welfare? We suffer in a schizophrenia. The consumer in us opposes the worker in us. In the age of super-capitalism, businesses cannot act socially responsibly because they serve profit.
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Farewell to Neoliberalism
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06 May 2008
by
Klaus Fischer
State interventions in the economy are unpopular and generally regarded as "against the system"-when the state interferes in profiteering. In the case of a crisis, the losses should be socialized.
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