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The film features original interviews with Chris Hedges, Derrick Jensen, Michael Hardt, Peter Gelderloos, Leo Panitch, David McNally, Richard J.F. Day, Imre Szeman, Wayne Price, and many more! The 2008 financial crisis in ... 
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In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global ‘overshoot,’ or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now, preeminent environmental scientists Donnella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows have teamed up again to update and expand their original findings in The Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Global Update.
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On the question of how profits taxation plays into tax burdens, the CBO has already done those calculations. In particular, it did a special version of its usual tax shares analysis that looked inside the top 0.01 percent, taking the data up through 2005 (pdf). According to this analysis, in 2005 the top .01 percent paid only 17 percent of income in income taxes — but they faced an overall federal tax rate of 31.5 percent, with almost all the difference being imputed corporate taxes.
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As Occupy Wall Street protesters deliberate over a policy agenda that would combat economic inequality and political favoritism, they will find no target better suited to their mission than the tax break for capital gains.
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"Noam Chomsky - Institutions vs People: Will the Species Self", a playlist created by TheForestaPPB (#FreeYourMIND Noam Chomsky - Institutions vs People: Will the Species Self http://t.co/HRHp80zl...
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The facilities are basic, but the guest lecturers are impressive and the students are engaged and ferociously well informed (RT @guardiannews: Tent City University – one of the most remarkable aspects of Occupy London
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After analyzing over 3 million tweets, gigabytes of YouTube content and thousands of blog posts, a new study finds that social media played a central role in shaping political debates in the Arab Spring.
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Ben Manski, Democracy Advocate & Ben Zucker, participant-Occupy DC tenter join Thom Hartmann. The "Occupy" movement is mutating - it's no longer just parks a...
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The dichotomy of private property and the state, on which the current constitutional tradition is grounded, has proven itself incapable of resisting the distortions produced by more than 20 years of neoliberal order. The outcome has been a global and severe constitutional imbalance, favoring the private sector and specifically corporate interests at the expense of the people.
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In a memorable “face off” with Antonio Negri that took place in February 2011 at the International University College of Turin, Gunther Teubner presented an interesting paper in which he provided several interesting suggestions for thinking about the phenomenon of societal constitutionalism.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney came under intense questioning at a campaign event in New Hampshire on Wednesday over his past comment that "corporations are people." Mark Provost, an audience member who identified himself as a member...
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In money all that is solid melts into air. Be it sex, potatoes or weapons, the alchemical substance called money can transform anything into anything else. H...
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Occupy 2012: Battle for our Freedoms - with Michael Moore and Chris Hedges: A RevolutionTruth Panel Discussion - January 19, 2012 - 5PM EST, 22:00 UTC...
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There are a lot of factors to weigh when picking your college major. Like, for example, will this major land me in the top 1% of earners?
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The Guardian (blog)Should the trade unions distance themselves from Labour?The Guardian (blog)There are already some minor unions doing this, for instance the PCS and POA have some left-wing socialist affiliations.
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"When you participate in a real revolution - and that was the case with me - you really become a different person, your experiences and feelings. You see attitudes you never imagined you would. I wrote about 'the people' many times before the revolution but it was only in Tahrir Square that I felt what the meaning of the word 'people' is. You live with two million people on the square for three weeks and they feel they are members of one family."
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Lists of the best books of the year are an exercise in hubris. Even if I was to narrow things down to the relevant books for this site — most of the works published by independent left publishing houses like South End Press and AK, a sizable number of titles from academic publishers like Temple and University of California, as well as the occasional book from a major publishing house or an independent not associated with the left — the amount of printed matter far exceeds what one person, or even a small committee, could reasonably absorb in a year.
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All of this austerity and reform would have to happen under the assumption that these economies can grow and increase their competitiveness at the same time, a controversial notion that makes economists like Paul Krugman scream with indignation. The truth is doubtless more nuanced. The best route to improved competitiveness is to streamline the public sector and overhaul the markets for labor and services, but doing so entails rewriting Europe’s social contract. Remember what happened last time Europe had to endure an extended age of austerity in the 1930s? Not a comforting thought.
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It is time to mention the elephant in the room, China. Perhaps the alternative to capitalism is already here, or rather, there. Perhaps their version of capitalism is working at the moment because China is a totalitarian state, not despite it being one.
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For the latest Paul Krugman, go to http://PaulKrugmanBlog.com - This talk discusses quite a bit of the content that was contained in the book Conscience of a...
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The Failure of Capitalist Production is the title of Andrew Kliman's new book - with the subtitle, The underlying causes of the Great Recession (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Failure-Capitalist-Productio...
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Bill Weinberg interviews Andrew Kliman of the Marxist-Humanist Initiative, author of The Failure of Capitalist Production: Underlying Causes of the Great Recession...
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Peter Schiff, CEO and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc. went to Zuccotti Park and took on Occupy Wall Street protesters and MRCTV caught some of the action.
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Curated by jean lievens
Economist, specialized in political economy and peer-to-peer dynamics; core member of the P2P Foundation
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Anders en beter
Met P2P voorbij markt en staat: voor een progressieve coalitie rond de commons. Met nieuws over op p2p gebaseerde praktijken en hoe de overheid, de politiek en de zakenwereld ermee (kunnen) omgaan...
money money money
on money and what it is
music-all
From the Great White Way to the West-End and beyond
Peer2Politics
on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
real utopias
Not TINA (There Is No Alternative) but TAPAS: THERE ARE PLENTY OF ALTERNATIVES
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