Date: Oct. 24, 2014 Platform: Valdai International Discussion Club's XI session Location: Sochi, Russia Q&A Putin was ask to confirm either his speech was directed to Obama, US Foreign Policy...
Truth & Transparency = A Stronger Democracy
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Date: Oct. 24, 2014 Platform: Valdai International Discussion Club's XI session Location: Sochi, Russia Q&A Putin was ask to confirm either his speech was directed to Obama, US Foreign Policy...
GoldSeek Radio's Chris Waltzek talks to John Williams of Shadowstats http://www.shadowstats.com/ and Peter G. Eliades, Editor and Publisher, Stockmarket Cycles http://www.stockmarketcycles.com/...
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Under Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Opens the Door to Privatizing Half its Public ...
December 1998 demolition of S. Lake Park Avenue & 39th Street (Photo: Christopher Morris/flickr CC 2.0/Edited from original). Chicago, long a pioneer of privatization, is poised to embark on a sweeping experiment with the city's public-housing stock.
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The Rise of the Working Poor and the Non-Working Rich
In addition, most recipients of public assistance must now work in order to qualify. Bill Clinton's welfare reform of 1996 pushed the poor off welfare and into work. Meanwhile, the Earned Income Tax Credit, a wage subsidy, has emerged as the nation's ...
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Plutocracy the First Time Around
What came to be known as the Great Upheaval, the movement for the eight-hour day, elicited what one historian has called “a strange enthusiasm.” The normal trade union strike is a finite event joining two parties contesting over limited, if sometimes ...
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Onward, Toward Plutocracy
At its national bargaining convention, now taking place in Detroit, UAW president Dennis Williams announced that he is opposed not only to a "three-tier" wage format (rumored to be on GM's and Ford's agendas and aimed at members engaged in the ...
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5 signs America is devolving into a plutocracy
Whatever this may add up to, it seems to be based, at least in part, on the increasing concentration of wealth and power in a new plutocratic class and in that ever-expanding national security state. Certainly, something out of the ordinary is underway ...
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