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Not TINA (There Is No Alternative) but TAPAS: THERE ARE PLENTY OF ALTERNATIVES
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What Mr. Sanders wants - Washington Post

What Mr. Sanders wants - Washington Post | real utopias | Scoop.it
The Oct. 18 front-page article “Sanders the socialist embraces his moment” said, “Twenty-four years after the end of the Cold War, many Americans no longer associate socialism with fear or missiles —...
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Joseph Stiglitz on TPP: "Peru is unambiguously worse off, TPP is a motivator of greater inequality"

The Nobel prize winner fired against the recently sealed agreement. He warns that political leaders are rambling on with a mixture of “lies and half-truths”.
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October 22, 2015 6:06 PM
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Joseph Stiglitz: "Structural reforms in the USA have been a total failure"

Nobel prize laureate states that the bottom 90% of Americans have seen their incomes stagnate for almost half a century. That -he affirms- is a failed economy.
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October 22, 2015 6:05 PM
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The State, the Market, and Development – Joseph Stiglitz - 30th Anniversary Conference

Keynote: The State, the Market, and Development – Joseph Stiglitz Chair: President Tarja Halonen More about the conference: ...
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October 21, 2015 4:29 PM
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history channel documentary - Noam Chomsky - Who control the US political and economic system? - 1/2

history channel documentary - Noam Chomsky - Who control the US political and economic system? - 1/2 https://youtu.be/chbecQO4NLY I created this video ...
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history channel documentary - Noam Chomsky - Who controls the US political and economic system? - 2

history channel documentary - Noam Chomsky - Who control the US political and economic system? - 2/2 https://youtu.be/chbecQO4NLY I created this video ...
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Noam Chomsky on Bahrain

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Noam Chomsky on the economic war on Latin America (2015)

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Rachel Maddow - Bill Maher Interview on Occupy Wall Street - Donald Trump

Bill Maher Interview on Occupy Wall Street - Donald Trump-Rachel Maddow-rachel maddow show-rachel maddow gets owned-rachel maddow gets owned on ...
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October 21, 2015 2:36 PM
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Analysis: Could Corbyn Become Prime Minister?

Analysis: Could Corbyn Become Prime Minister? | real utopias | Scoop.it
Some of Jeremy Corbyn’s policies are going down well with voters – but if he is to stand any chance of leading Labour to victory, he needs to sound and look like a Prime Minister. Despite the avalanche of criticism from much of the media, and the bleak despair of many Labour MPs, Jeremy Corbyn …
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October 20, 2015 3:27 PM
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Refugees And Responsibility In Central Europe

Refugees And Responsibility In Central Europe | real utopias | Scoop.it
Fifteen years ago, the Czech statesman and playwright Václav Havel noted that some Czech politicians “recognize two different kinds of violence, genocide, terror, and mafias: one that is better, and one that is worse. The better kind is pan-Slavic, and the worse kind is Islamic.” The response to the current influx of mostly non-European refugees and migrants …
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Economic Impossibilities For Our Grandchildren? Examining Secular Stagnation

Professor Kevin O’Rourke FBA delivers the Keynes Lecture in Economics at the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences in London on 7 October 2015. Prominent economists have recently revived the hypothesis that ‘secular stagnation’ – negligible or zero economic growth – could lead to permanently depressed economies, in the absence of appropriate policy counter-measures. …
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The Disintegration Of Europe

The Disintegration Of Europe | real utopias | Scoop.it
If a clear signal was needed that the European Union is falling apart at an alarming rate, Hungary’s construction of razor-wire fences along the border with its fellow EU member Croatia is it. The crisis in the eurozone has, of course, fragmented financial flows, caused economies to diverge, eroded political support for EU institutions, and …
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Canada: losing energy

Canada: losing energy | real utopias | Scoop.it
So Justin, the son of the former Liberal PM of the 1970s, Pierre Trudeau, has triumphed in Canada’s general election.  The Liberal party came from behind to sweep into an outright majority victory,...
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Noam Chomsky on the role of markets in an economic democracy

See the whole documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfaFriFAz1k.
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Bernie and Hillary: the Sheepdog and the She-Wolf in Vegas - CounterPunch

Bernie and Hillary: the Sheepdog and the She-Wolf in Vegas - CounterPunch | real utopias | Scoop.it
Left critics of Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign inside the dismal, dollar-drenched, corporate-neoliberal and imperialist Democratic Party were born out by the first Democratic presidential debate in Last Vegas last week.
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Noam chomsky :The real task of the intellectual

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Noam chomsky :Is capitalism has improved the lives of people?

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Noam Chomsky: that's why US is hated by arabs people

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Audio: Defend Corbyn, Fight for Socialism - In Defense of Marxism

Ben Peck speaks on the phenomenon of Jeremy Corbyn and the state of the class struggle in Britain.
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Bernie Sanders' Appeal To Millennials Shows Cultural Attitudes About Socialism ... - Bustle

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Why George Orwell Would Vote for Bernie Sanders, Not Hillary Clinton - Huffington Post

Why George Orwell Would Vote for Bernie Sanders, Not Hillary Clinton - Huffington Post | real utopias | Scoop.it
The legendary George Orwell would vote for Bernie Sanders, not Clinton or Trump, because Sanders doesn't use semantics as a weapon or shield.
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Jeremy Corbyn seeks to heal party rift over MP deselection rumours - The Guardian

Jeremy Corbyn seeks to heal party rift over MP deselection rumours - The Guardian | real utopias | Scoop.it
Labour leader makes clear that he does not support any changes to party rules to make it easier to deselect sitting MPs
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October 19, 2015 3:17 PM
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Slavoj Zizek on Academia and the Role of Universities

Slavoj Zizek speaking at Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, on the image of Academia and the current role of universities. Full video: ...
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The Black Panthers: Vanguard Of The Revolution - a flawed chronicle - The Guardian

The Black Panthers: Vanguard Of The Revolution - a flawed chronicle - The Guardian | real utopias | Scoop.it
A new documentary following the rise of the Black Panthers movement is a sympathetic primer that misses much of the brutal detail
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Economist, specialized in political economy and peer-to-peer dynamics; core member of the P2P Foundation