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Monday, August 16th, 2010The Ecstasy of Empire By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
Guatemalan police death squad connect today’s organized
Sunday, August 15th, 2010More information: Annie Bird (annie@rightsaction.org) & Grahame Russell (info@rightsaction.org). www.rightsaction.org * * * * * * CRACKS IN THE WALL OF IMPUNITY & CORRUPTION: Arrests of Guatemalan police death squad connect today’s organized crime to 1980s death squads and the CIA By Annie Bird (annie@rightsaction.org), August 2010
Gibbs’ Attack on Progressives
Sunday, August 15th, 2010Published on Friday, August 13, 2010 by the Boston Globe Gibbs’ Attack on Progressives Misses the Point Entirely http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/13-4 by Robert Kuttner
Robert Gibbs attacks the fringe losers of the Left
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010Tuesday, Aug 10, 2010 08:11 ET By Glenn Greenwald -
Coming democratic wipeout?
Monday, August 9th, 2010Coming democratic wipeout It’s open season on Obama, whom so many hoped would lead us out of the neoliberal wilderness. He once was a community organizer and ought to know how working people have suffered through a generation of tax breaks for the rich, Wall Street deregulation and unfair competition. When the economy crashed, he [...]
Surviving Goldman Sachs
Friday, August 6th, 2010http://adgrok.com/why-founding-a-three-person-startup-with-zero-revenue-is-better-than-working-for-goldman-sachs Why founding a three-person startup with zero revenue is better than working for Goldman Sachs. by antonio on 23. Jul, 2010 in Grandiose Propositions The road to serfdom I joined Goldman Sachs in 2005, after five flailing years in a physics Ph.D. program at Berkeley. The average salary at Goldman Sachs in 2005 was [...]
Banking on hunger
Thursday, August 5th, 2010Comment: Alan Maass BANKING ON HUNGER Goldman Sachs gambled on food, and its bets paid off big–at the cost of an international food crisis that inflicted hunger on hundreds of millions. http://socialistworker.org/2010/08/05/banking-on-hunger
Industrial Revolution powered by child slaves
Monday, August 2nd, 2010Revealed: Industrial Revolution was powered by child slaves http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/revealed-industrial-revolution-was-powered-by-child-slaves-2041227.html Huge factory expansion would not have been possible without exploitation of the young By David Keys The Independent (UK) Monday, 2 August 2010 Child labour was the crucial ingredient which allowed Britain’s Industrial Revolution to succeed, new research by a leading economic historian has concluded. After [...]
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