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George Monbiot – After urging land reform I now know the brute power of our billionaire press

After urging land reform I now know the brute power of our billionaire press This actually from Dump The Guardian. More outrigbtl lies in the media again. According to them, the Labour Red Army is coming!I went out with my girlfriend the other day and met her friends, and they were all complaining about their work: how their bosses were too hard, the long unpaid hours they put in, how their apraisals were severe to make sure they didn't get the full pay rise, how their company was getting...

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Robert Reich: Let’s Abolish Billionaires

Robert Reich disappointed me recently by peddling the Russia-gate myth. More than at any time in history, while most Americans are struggling to make ends meet. With such staggering inequality, it’s fair to ask: should we abolish billionaires? There are basically only four ways to accumulate a billion dollars – and none of them is a product of so-called free market capitalism. Billionaires themselves aren’t the problem. The real failure is in how our economy is organized. One way to make...

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Fred Weir: The tempest over Putin’s remarks on “liberalism”

While I agree with most of what Fred Weir writes here, I also think that Putin understands more about the Western liberal tradition that arose during the Enlightenment than Weir thinks. Nor was Russia a stranger to Enlightenment ideas then. Weir is also wrong in thinking that Russia has no liberal tradition. In fact, Russia adopted its own version of the Western liberalism in the period called "the Russian Enlightenment, which adapted Western thought to the situation prevailing at the time...

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Isreali News Live – Did US – Russian Submarines Have a Firefight

Israeli News Live are evangelist Christians who have had me on the edge of my seat loads of times now thinking WW3 was about to break out, but it has never happened yet.Although they are evangelical and look forward to the messiah returning, they are very anti-war and seem quite sensible. [embedded content] Sources close to the knowledge of events surrounding the Russian submarine incident have said that the story will be spun as an accident before the public. Hal Turner also has reported...

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The World of Monetary Policy, According to Christine Lagarde— Carolyn Look

While Lagarde said MMT is no panacea, she didn’t reject it outright.“While it is tempting, when you look at the sort of mathematical modeling of it, and it seems to stand, there are big caveats about it, such as if the country is in a liquidity trap, such as if there is deflation. Well then, in those circumstances, it could possibly work for a short period of time probably, because interest rates stay low until such time when they start going up. And then it is a bit of a trap.”-- April 11,...

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