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Not TINA (There Is No Alternative) but TAPAS: THERE ARE PLENTY OF ALTERNATIVES
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Participatory politics - Democracy

Democracy - Types of democracies - Variants - Participatory politics Our mission is to help people learn according to their learning styles. Some people are ...

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13 year old Ben interviews Noam Chomsky on US politics

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Intellectual Noam Chomsky Endorses Bernie Sanders For President - Canadians For Bernie

Subscribe to Canadians For Bernie Sanders for more videos like this! In Canada, Bernie Sanders would be considered a moderate. US politics have moved so far ...

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"Noam Chomsky on Poverty & Inequality in America" - Concord University 2-23-2016

Organized by Dr. Lawrence Eppard, this event is sponsored by Concord’s Department of Sociology and the Division of Social Sciences. Noam Chomsky is an acclai...
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The Brexit debate offers a flimsy illusion of choice – we need some detail | Paul Mason

The Brexit debate offers a flimsy illusion of choice – we need some detail | Paul Mason | real utopias | Scoop.it

Every party must spell out what they would do if Britain votes to leave the EU

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The Inequality Puzzle

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Dambisa Moyo Over the past decade, income inequality has come to be ranked alongside terrorism, climate change, pandemics, and economic stagnation as one o
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Why The European Union Will Benefit From Brexit

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Paul DeGrauwe The discussions about Brexit have centered around the question of whether it is in the national interest of the United Kingdom to remain in t
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Poul Thomsen, Greece And IMF Cynicism

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Daniel Munevar For the casual reader, Poul Thomsen’s recent piece on the role of the IMF in the bailout review negotiations taking place between Greece and
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Austerity's Apologists On The Left

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Simon Wren-Lewis The rational case for imposing yet more austerity on the UK has all but disappeared. Economists are almost united in saying that now is th
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Investment, investment, investment

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This blog continually hammers home the view that it is investment not consumption that is the key to economic growth.  Fluctuations in business investment in a predominantly business, profit-making economy decide, in the first analysis, whether output expands or contracts; whether there is a boom or slump.  This view is contrary to that of Keynesian economics,…
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Is the US economy heading into recession?

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The debate within mainstream economists and between those economists working for financial institutions continues.  The stock and bond markets appear to be pricing in the real possibility of the US economy dropping into recession (as defined by two consecutive quarters of contraction in real GDP) in 2016. However, the majority view of mainstream economics is…
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Families in the economic crisis: Changes in policy measures in the EU | Eurofound

Families in the economic crisis: Changes in policy measures in the EU | Eurofound | real utopias | Scoop.it

Throughout Europe families have felt the effects of the economic crisis that began in 2008. This report describes their experience in the aftermath of the crisis, up to the present. It looks in detail at developments in 10 Member States that were selected to represent different types of family policy regime, ranging from those with the most ‘enabling’ policies (which help families move away from the traditional single ‘breadwinner’ model)

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Robert J Gordon and the rise and fall of American capitalism

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In the last few years, Robert J. Gordon, a professor of economics at Northwestern University, has persistently argued against the trendy view of the moment that robots, AI and other ‘disruptive technologies’ are about to launch the global economy into a productivity boost never seen before.  I have commented before on Gordon’s series of papers…
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Slavoj Zizek - In Support of DiEM

1/23/2016 recorded by Zorko Sirotic Yanis Varoufakis launches pan-European leftwing movement DiEM25: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/10/yanis-varou...

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99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film Florida College

99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film Florida College, A compelling portrait of the Occupy Wall Street movement. From personal stories to analysis o...

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Slavoj Zizek | Lacan’s Four Discourses | Full Lecture

Four discourses is a concept developed by French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. He argued that there were four fundamental types of discourse. He defined four ...

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David Graeber - Rojova - Syria

Why is the world ignoring the revolutionary Kurds in Syria?

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Noam Chomsky - Exposing Religious Lies

Noam Chomsky Exposing Religious Lies

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Noam Chomsky on Punk Rock

Noam Chomsky on Punk Rock

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Noam Chomsky speaks about the recent developments in Turkey

Professor Noam Chomsky speaks about the recent developments in Turkey.
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Slavoj Žižek: Masterclass on Jacques Lacan – A Lateral Introduction - 21. June 2006 - Day 9

It would be fair to say that there are few twentieth century thinkers who have had such a far-reaching influence on subsequent intellectual life in the human...

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Slavoj Zizek | The Right To Fight | Short Film

"Here, Marx’s key insight remains as pertinent today as it ever was: the question of freedom should not be located primarily in the political sphere – i.e. i...

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Ian MacKenzie: Lessons from Occupy

Ian MacKenzie is an award-winning filmmaker & media activist based in the Pacific Northwest of Turtle Island (aka Vancouver). His work has appeared in The Ne...

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Noam Chomsky: Distorted Morality (Documentary Film 2003)

The noted scholar, political and social analyst Noam Chomsky presents his critique of America's "War on Terror" with his support for the fact that such a "Wa...

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Noam Chomsky with David Barsimian, Conversation, 18 March 2015 YouTube

Avram Noam Chomsky (/ˈnoʊm ˈtʃɒmski/; born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, logician political commentator, socia...

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Economist, specialized in political economy and peer-to-peer dynamics; core member of the P2P Foundation