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Why Occupy? Here's why.OpEdNewsWith the growing rift between organized labor and business management, President Carter formed a Labor-Management Group from which United Auto Worker's President Douglas Fraser frustratingly resigned in 1978. 
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Kevin Kelly explains that technology enables us to enjoy more possibilities, choices, and opportunities and is important to all fields and careers. He assure...
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Any economic model that doesn’t properly address inequality will eventually face a crisis of legitimacy, as today's global protests are now demonstrating.
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Most rich countries face stagnation at best in 2012. The crisis has to do with too much debt. Is there a way out?
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It's been an extraordinary year in politics. In no particular order, here are ten books I enjoyed that can help make sense of what the hell is happening and what can be done.
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Pundits like to point to an overreliance on debt as a distinguishing feature of our modern age. Right before the crash of 2008, U.S. consumer debt equaled the country’s GDP, repeating the pattern of 1929. In 2010, Americans’ total credit card debt was surpassed for the first time by the debt held in student loans. This year, the total value of those loans will pass $1 trillion.
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With the Occupy movement continually growing and changing, it’s no surprise that films about the nationwide movement are starting to take shape – but it...
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Ross Ashcroft from Renegade Economist speaks with Steve Keen whilst he was in London to launch his new book ' Debunking Economics: The Emperor Dethroned?' Se...
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Steve Keen talks about the money creation process in the second half, and how the assumption of 99.9% of neoclassical economics that savings and debt cancel each other out in an economy is completely misguided as it is ignorant of the fact that nearly all new money is created as debt by private banks in modern economies.
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Cuba: Counter-revolution vs. Socialist UtopiaHavana TimesAre the true accomplices of the imperialist enemy those of us who want socializing and democratizing changes now, with less state and bureaucratic control over the economy and politics?
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The past 18 months have seen extraordinary outpourings of discontent. But what links them?
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“Spiritual Human” Interview with Noam Chomsky
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An open course consisting of a close reading of the text of Karl Marx's Capital Volume I in 13 video lectures by Professor David Harvey.
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http://www.ted.com Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our "experi...
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Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman offers this exercise in his new book, Thinking, Fast and Slow: A bat and ball cost $1.10.
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“The strange breed of unpeople can be found everywhere, including the U.S.: in the prisons that are an international scandal, the food kitchens, the decaying slums.
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In Scotland, in Britain and in most of the Western world we have a profoundly dysfunctional relationship with work and leisure.
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Utopian Society | Occupy Wall Street | Zeitgeist Movement | Future | Liberal Politics...
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RT @KathleenNdongmo: #Occupy Nigeria: Foremost Nigerian Novelist Chinua Achebe, Other Writers Declare Solidarity http://t.co/08M6kHml...
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Blog post at Africa on the Blog : [caption id= (The Social Media Threat: Myth or Revolution via @AfricaOnTheBlog http://t.co/1m7X9jRj via @ZimAndrew #Zimbabwe...)...
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A recent study finds that the top 10% of mobile users are using up a whopping 90% of wireless bandwidth.
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Ever asked your mum if she did anything more constructive in the Thatcher years than dressing up in ra-ra skirts and pixie boots and dancing to Duran...
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