U.S.: A Credit Union to Bail Out People, Not Big Banks

January 22, 2012 By

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Judith Scherr SAN FRANCISCO, California, Jan 21, 2012 (IPS) – Occupy activists from Wall Street to San Francisco’s financial district have dramatised their anger with big financial institutions by blocking JP Morgan Chase Bank doorways, dancing atop Wells Fargo counters, pitching a tent in a Bank of [...]

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U.S.: "Money Isn’t Speech, Corporations Aren’t People"

January 22, 2012 By

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Kanya D’Almeida NEW YORK, Jan 21, 2012 (IPS) – In most mainstream media the words "corruption" and "election fraud" accompany images of makeshift polling stations manned by armed guards in Burma or burning tires beside tattered ballot boxes in South Sudan – the insidiousness of stolen elections [...]

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Banks Holding 1.4 Trillion, Could Create 19 Million Jobs

December 22, 2011 By

The Real News Network December 21, 2011 Bob Pollin: Study looks at impact of 1.4 trillion in excess liquid asset holdings if put in productive investments More at The Real News

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Eurozone Crisis Enters New Phase as ECB Fights Europe for Austerity

December 12, 2011 By

Repubished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Folha de São Paulo (Brazil), December 7, 2011 Read the article on the original site. By Mark Weisbrot The house is on fire and the owners are arguing about what kind of safety regulations should be implemented in the future so as to prevent these types of fires. [...]

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U.S.: Occupy Targets Foreclosures

December 7, 2011 By

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Judith Scherr   People march through West Oakland to the foreclosed home now owned by Fannie Mae that will be occupied as a community centre. Credit:Judith Scherr/IPS Buy this picture OAKLAND, California, Dec 7, 2011 (IPS) – Five months ago, Gayla Newsome was at work when she [...]

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OP-ED: Occupy Foreign Affairs

December 5, 2011 By

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By John Feffer* WASHINGTON, Dec 5, 2011 (IPS) – It’s not the topic of George Packer’s latest essay that’s particularly surprising. Inequality, he writes, is undermining democracy. Progressives have been hammering home this message for years if not decades. Nor is the choice of publication necessarily a shocker. [...]

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$7.7 Trillion to Wall Street – Anything to Keep the Banksters Happy!

December 5, 2011 By

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Originally Published on Truthout Saturday 3 December 2011 Read the article in its original form on Truthout By: Thom Hartmann, Truthout | News Analysis Do you know who Elizabeth Duke is? How about Donald Kohn or Kevin Warsh? No? Well – you should. Because while Congress was debating back in [...]

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From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Nation in just two months

November 23, 2011 By

This is a real populist movement–against our financial and political plutocracy Aricans who flew bombing missions in World War II had a saying: "You know you’re on target when you start getting a lot of flak." The protesters in today’s nascent "Occupy Wall Street" movement must really be on target, then, because–boy!–they’re enduring an unrelenting [...]

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“Occupy” Actions Across the Country

November 18, 2011 By

The Real News Network November 18, 2011 In DC and other cities, demonstrators rally at bridges More at The Real News

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Featured Articles and Reports on the Project on Defense Alternatives, PDA

November 16, 2011 By

Below is a Listing of Recent Articles and Reports on the Project for Defense Alternatives Site Going for Broke: The Budgetary Consequences of Current US Defense Strategy. (printable .pdf version) by Carl Conetta, PDA Briefing Memo #52, 25 October 2011. Shows how the Pentagaon’s adoption of more ambitious goals, strategy, and missions after the Cold [...]

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