Last and First Men

http://www.newstatesman.com/economy/2011/10/world-growth-china-investment The boom was the illusion Robert Skidelsky The world economy is on the edge of a precipice. The best we can hope for now is a managed retreat from the wilder shores of globalisation. The alternative is the collapse of the euro, protectionism – and even war. Since its collapse in the autumn of [...]

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http://www.truth-out.org/12-most-absurd-laws-used-stifle-occupy-wall-st-movement-around-country/1318702318 alterNet | 12 Most Absurd Laws Used to Stifle the Occupy Wall St. Movement by Rania Khalek

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Here’s what some people are handing out at the protest by Michael Hudson Personal Communication (October 15 2011) What is at the Root of our Great Depression? Ultimately, it is the government’s shift of taxes off finance, insurance and real estate (FIRE) onto labor and industry. What is the Effect? An Enriched and Politically Empowered [...]

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Subject: [CubaNews] Immanuel Wallerstein: “The Fantastic Success of Occupy Wall Street” Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:39:53 -0000 From: Reply-To: CubaNews@yahoogroups.com To: CubaNews@yahoogroups.com

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Cruel America Jonathan Schell Presidential campaign debates are designed to give the candidates an opportunity to express themselves to voters. But the audiences, too, sometimes make their views known.

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http://www.davidsuzuki.org/blogs/science-matters/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-reflects-increasing-frustration/ October 13, 2011 Occupy Wall Street reflects increasing frustration [image: Photo: Occupy Wall Street reflects increasing frustration] It may seem like there’s no hope for change, but we have to remember that most of these developments are recent, and that humans are capable of innovation, creativity, and foresight (Credit : sarabeephotovia Flickr). By David [...]

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http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/foster131011p.html Understanding the Capitalist Economic Crisis by John Bellamy Foster Economic crises are functional to the system in that a crisis helps capital readjust its imbalances, disproportions, as Marxian theories often say, and it sets the basis for a renewed period of expansion. So, regular business-cycle crises . . . help the system. . . [...]

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http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/09/22/war_peace_and_the_world_economy Foreign Policy September 22, 2011 War, peace, and the world economy By Stephen M. Walt So today I’m watching stock markets around the world go into free fall, and the following set of thoughts struck me. For starters, what if the world economy hits a “perfect storm?” The United States is already well on [...]

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http://www.nationofchange.org/tahir-square-times-square-demonstrations-erupt-over-1500-cities-worldwide-1318715510::From Tahrir Square to Times Square: Demonstrations Erupt in Over 1,500 Cities

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204002304576633542169585716.html OCTOBER 16, 2011 Protesters ‘Occupy’ Times Square By MIKE VILENSKY, JESSICA FIRGERand ALISON FOX Hundreds of anti-corporate protesters marched Saturday from New York City’s Financial District to Times Square in one of the Occupy Wall Street movement’s largest demonstrations yet. Holding signs reading “debt is slavery,” “in a gentle way you can change the [...]

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