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State Plastic and Paper Bag Legislation: Justice or Manipulation?

The plastic and paper bag law is ostensibly environmental legislation in hopes that a small fee will diminish the environmental impact of single-use merchant bags. It was possible to have the fee go into an environmental fund to help with diminishing the impact, but that was voted down by CA Prop 65. The resulting declining of Prop 65 is essentially saying that we cannot force the…

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Added by Cromag on December 4, 2016 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Unsafe at any Dose? Diagnosing Chemical Safety Failures, from DDT to BPA

via Independent Science News | by Jonathan Latham, PhD

Piecemeal, and at long last, chemical manufacturers have begun removing the endocrine-disrupting plastic…

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Added by Cromag on May 22, 2016 at 9:55am — No Comments

Suffering? Well, You Deserve It

By Chris Hedges March 2nd, 2014

OXFORD, England—The morning after my Feb. 20 debate at the Oxford Union, I walked from my hotel along Oxford’s narrow cobblestone streets, past its storied colleges with resplendent lawns and…

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Added by Cromag on March 4, 2014 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Introducing the Global Power Project (Updated)

Mon, 3/25/2013 - by Andrew Gavin Marshall
originally posted on Occupy.com

We live in an interdependent world, where nations are increasingly…

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Added by Cromag on February 28, 2014 at 3:24pm — No Comments

The Ecuadorian Library or, The Blast Shack After Three Years

Back in distant, halcyon 2010, I was asked to write something about Wikileaks and its Cablegate scandal. So, I wrote a rather melancholy essay about how things seemed to me to be going — dreadfully, painfully, like some leaden and ancient Greek tragedy.

In that 2010 essay, I surmised that things were going to get worse before…

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Added by Cromag on August 7, 2013 at 1:55pm — No Comments

The Transnational Capitalist Class and the Discourse of Globalization

By Leslie Sklair

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

2000

1. Introduction

Remarkably for a sub-discipline in the social sciences, theory and research on globalization appears to have reached a mature phase, in terms of volume of publications if not their quality, in a relatively short period of time. Most attempts to survey the field, despite their differences, agree that…

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Added by Cromag on July 5, 2013 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Global Power Project, Part 4: Banking on Influence with JPMorgan Chase

Wed, 7/3/2013 - by Andrew Gavin Marshall
originally posted on occupy.com

In May, JPMorgan Chase was listed as the …

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Added by Cromag on July 4, 2013 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Global Power Project, Part 3: The Influence of Individuals and Family Dynasties

By: Andrew Gavin Marshall

The following is Part 3 of the Global Power Project, originally published at Occupy.com

The Global Power Project, an investigative series produced by Occupy.com, aims to identify and connect the worldwide institutions and individuals who comprise today’s global power oligarchy. In …

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Added by Cromag on July 3, 2013 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Global Power Project, Part 2: Identifying the Institutions of Control

 

Wed, 6/19/2013 - by Andrew Gavin Marshall

The Global Power Project, an investigative…

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Added by Cromag on July 3, 2013 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Global Power Project, Part 1: Exposing the Transnational Capitalist Class

 

Wed, 6/12/2013 - by Andrew Gavin Marshall

The Global Power Project, an investigative series produced by Occupy.com, aims to identify and connect the…

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Added by Cromag on July 2, 2013 at 9:00pm — No Comments

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

In 1919 Rothschild’s Business Roundtable launched the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) in London. The RIIA soon spawned sister organizations around the globe, including the US Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Asian Institute of Pacific Relations, the Canadian Institute of International Affairs, the Brussels-based Institute des Relations Internationales, the Danish Foreign Policy Society, the Indian Council of World Affairs and the Australian Institute of International…

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Added by Cromag on August 2, 2012 at 2:00pm — No Comments

The WEF Global Agenda Councils: Architects and PR for the Elite

Davos is a municipality of Switzerland and is host to the World Economic Forum (WEF), an annual meeting of global political and business elites (often referred to simply as Davos).



The World Economic Forum is "an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas." from the…

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Added by Cromag on August 2, 2012 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Wall Street Isn't Winning – It's Cheating (Matt Taibbi)

I was at an event on the Upper East Side last Friday night when I got to talking with a salesman in the media business. The subject turned to Zucotti Park and Occupy Wall Street, and he was chuckling about something he'd heard on the news.

"I hear [Occupy Wall Street] has a CFO," he said. "I think that's funny."

"Okay, I'll bite," I said.…

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Added by Cromag on October 28, 2011 at 11:18pm — No Comments

How the Legal System Was Deep-Sixed to Serve Elite America and Occupy Wall Street Became Inevitable

-By Glenn Greenwald

As intense protests spawned by Occupy Wall Street continue to grow, it is worth asking: Why now? The answer is not obvious. After all, severe income and wealth inequality have long plagued the United States. In fact, it could reasonably be claimed that this form of inequality is part of the design of the American founding -- indeed, an integral part of it.

Income inequality has worsened over the past…

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Added by Cromag on October 28, 2011 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Proof of Global Domination By a Few Corporations

 

A Few Companies Have Power Over Most of the Real Economy

The idea that the few dominate the many will not come as news to those gathered either to…

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Added by Cromag on October 28, 2011 at 10:50pm — No Comments

Shock Doctrine and the Debt Limit

By L. Randall Wray, senior scholar, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, Blithewood and Bartlett Naylor, financial policy counsel, Public Citizen - 08/05/11 11:46 AM ET


Washington's recently staged drama of dysfunction over the federal debt limit sadly distracted attention from real crises occurring outside the beltway. These include…

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Added by Cromag on August 5, 2011 at 4:18pm — No Comments

Revolution U

Early in 2008, workers at a government-owned textile factory in the Egyptian mill town of El-Mahalla el-Kubra announced that they were going on strike on the first Sunday in April to protest high food prices and low wages. They caught the attention of a group of tech-savvy young people an hour's drive to the south in the capital city of Cairo, who started a Facebook group to…

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Added by Cromag on February 20, 2011 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

Allentown

PIMCO Investment Outlook - December, 2010

  • The global economy is suffering from a lack of aggregate demand. With insufficient demand, nations compete furiously for their share of the diminishing growth pie.
  • In the U.S. and Euroland, many policies only temporarily bolster consumption while failing to address the fundamental problem of developed economies: Job growth is moving…
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Added by Cromag on December 7, 2010 at 12:28pm — No Comments

CHRIS HEDGES EXPOSES THE ELITIST LIBERAL CLASS (w/video)

The World Liberal Opportunists Made

By Chris Hedges - Oct 25, 2010 -…

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Added by Cromag on November 1, 2010 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Matt Yglesias is delusional



via Open Left

by:…

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Added by Cromag on September 6, 2010 at 1:41pm — No Comments

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