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Mar 26, 2013
by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
As Washington lawmakers pushes new austerity measures, economist Richard Wolff calls for a radical restructuring of the U.S. economic and financial systems. We talk about the $85 billion budget cuts as part of the sequester, banks too big to fail, Congress’ failure to learn the lessons of …
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Feb 20, 2013
by Dan Bednarz, Health after Oil
A previous article discusses the future of health systems operating under neoliberal ideology as it comes a cropper in a world undergoing degrowth. Here I consider how this thrusts public health into in a “Which side are you on?” dilemma likely to separate its institutional …
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Feb 14, 2013
by Ellen Brown, Web of debt blog
As Congress struggles through one budget crisis after another, it is becoming increasingly evident that austerity doesn’t work. We cannot possibly pay off a $16 trillion debt by tightening our belts, slashing public services, and raising taxes. Historically, when the deficit has been …
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Feb 13, 2013
by Gemma Harris, Transition Network
Austerity? I want to eat well, with a clean conscience, on a low budget. But is that possible? Surely a cheap ethical diet condemns me to a grim regime of porridge and cabbage soup? Where will I source that essential nutrient pleasure?
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Oct 26, 2012
by Resilience.org Staff
-Narcissism, Consumerism and the End of Growth
-Spain's next threat: Losing 20% of its economy
-How Transition is starting to rebuild Ontario
-Amid the Echoes of an Economic Crash, the Sounds of Greek Society Being Torn
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Oct 25, 2012
by Walden Bello, Foreign Policy in Focus
The world will soon enter the sixth year of the Great Recession, and there is no end in sight. In the United States, where stagnation continues to reign, some 23 million Americans remain out of work, are underemployed, or have simply dropped out of the labor force owing to frustration--a …
