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- Entrenched social inequality, as visible at Starbucks
- How the government will spend its discretionary monies in 2012
- Now that Mubarak is gone, Egypt is free and democratic!
- The forces of counter-revolution amass (reacting to Occupy)
- Interview of Francis Fox Piven (strategy and tactics of struggle, and Occupy Wall Street)
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Tag Archives: IMF
The obscene irony of the DSK rape case
Let’s review the of relevant facts: DSK is Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a major figure on the French center-left and, until last month, president of the IMF. He was accused of rape while in NYC a month ago. This forced him to … Continue reading
Posted in Mythologies of capitalism
Tagged DSK, IMF, maid, rape, sex, Strauss-Kahn, Strauss-Kohn
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Greece: revolt bailout default IMF austerity collapse…how the people respond to the crisis
It’s a cliff-hanger. Greece…will it go into default? Will it get EU bailout number 2 of over a hundred billion dollars? Will its current socialist administration fall putting the government into crisis? Will the people continue the daily revolution, now … Continue reading
Posted in Greece can really protest, Interesting and unlabelled, Police state, Revolution!, Strike!
Tagged eurozone, greece, IMF, pigs
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Rough notes on Venezuela
South of the Border Here are some rough notes on Oliver Stone’s documentary “South of the Border”, which documents the recent democratic resurgence of leftist, socialist oriented regimes within Latin America, along with their consistent misrepresentation as “dictators” within the … Continue reading
Posted in Interesting and unlabelled, Movie reviews
Tagged IMF, Oliver Stone, South of the Border
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