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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
September 23, 2018
“At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth is hidden in British jurisdictions and Britain and its dependencies are the largest global players in the world of international finance.”
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by Jim Kavanagh
The Polemicist, Sept. 18, 2018
September 20, 2018
Three assertions:
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Updated: Sept. 19, 2018
by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
September 18, 2018
Wall Street did not let the Lehman Brothers crisis go to waste. The banks that have paid the largest fines for financial fraud are now much bigger and more profitable. The victims of their junk mortgage loans are poorer, and the economy is facing debt deflation.
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Sep 15, 2018
In a conversation about his new book America: The Farewell Tour, Chris Hedges tells journalist, Hugh Hamilton, the country’s institutions and practices rooted in an economic system of capitalism, are unraveling while also making a call for action. Two-part interview.
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by Ellen Brown
Writer, Dandelion Salad
The Web of Debt Blog
September 15, 2018
Central bankers are now aggressively playing the stock market. To say they are buying up the planet may be an exaggeration, but they could. They can create money at will, and they have declared their “independence” from government. They have become rogue players in a game of their own.
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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
September 14, 2018
With Max Keiser on the history of debt from the Bronze Age onwards. Max poses the question, has a historical precedent been set with the bailing out of creditors, not debtors in 2008?
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by Walter Brasch
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Originally published September 7, 2009
September 3, 2018
It’s Labor Day, and that means millions of Americans are celebrating. Most Americans have no idea what Labor Day is, other than self-serving political speeches, hot dogs, burgers, a pool party, and the last day of a three-day holiday. Few even know that Labor Day exists to allow people to remember and honor the struggles for respect, dignity, and acceptable wages and working conditions for the rank-and-file employees.
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Updated: Aug. 20, 2018
with Chris Hedges
Originally on RT America on Aug 18, 2018
Conscious on Aug 19, 2018
Nomi Prins, journalist and author of Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World, talks to journalist Chris Hedges about how central bankers “overstepped their traditional mandates by directing the flow of epic sums of fabricated money without any checks and balances.”
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by Michael Hudson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
August 11, 2018
Global University for Sustainability on Jul 11, 2018
The interview with Professor Michael Hudson was conducted on 7 May 2018 in Beijing, by Professor Lau Kin Chi and Professor Sit Tsui Jade. Professor Hudson talked about his formative years, and his turn to economics from music as he found his mentor Terence McCarthy’s speech about economics beautiful and aesthetic. He recalled his experiences in research and teaching, and the background leading to his writing the many books on imperialism, balance of payment, history of debt, and fictitious capital. The interview was edited by George Lee, and produced by the Global University for Sustainability, July 2018.
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Dandelion Salad
Originally posted July 5, 2010
theRSAorg on May 6, 2010
Marxist geographer David Harvey asks: is it time to look beyond capitalism towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that really could be responsible, just, and humane?
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Obama Joins Club of the Super-Rich – Defends Global Capitalism in Lecture (1/2)
TheRealNews on Jul 29, 2018
Prof. Leo Panitch and Paul Jay discuss Obama’s Mandela lecture; Obama wants the impossible – a world where the super-rich give up “a little” and there is no massive inequality.
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by Ellen Brown
Writer, Dandelion Salad
The Web of Debt Blog
July 31, 2018
The president has criticized Federal Reserve policy for undermining his attempts to build the economy. To best make the central bank serve the needs of the economy, it needs to be transformed into a public utility.
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by Michael Parenti
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Originally published February 18, 2014
July 30, 2018
The world’s 85 richest individuals possess as much wealth as the 3.5 billion souls who compose the poorer half of the world’s population, or so it was announced in a report by Oxfam International. The assertion sounds implausible to me. I think the 85 richest individuals, who together are worth many hundreds of billions of dollars, must have far more wealth than the poorest half of our global population.
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Dandelion Salad
Originally posted Oct. 10, 2015
with Abby Martin
Empire Files on Oct 10, 2015
The Empire has a range of weapons to maintain its power: from its courts to its military. But it also has effective ideological weapons.
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by Caleb Maupin
Writer, Dandelion Salad
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New Eastern Outlook
July 26, 2018
Why does the US media have an anti-Russian fixation? It’s not what the American people want to hear. 71% of the Ronald Reagan-loving, military-obsessed Republican Party approve of Trump meeting with Putin. On the other side, top liberal CNN commentator and former President Obama’s adviser, Van Jones has admitted in a video recording that the “Russiagate” story is a “big nothing burger” which Democrats are not interested in. The Russia-fixated, Hillary Clinton-DNC liberal establishment now faces an upsurge of opposition from Democratic Socialists like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders, who emphasize the need for populist economics reforms.
