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July 14, 2009 - 9:43am -- stevphen
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Economy

B'Eau-Pal Water Scares Dow Execs Into Hiding

A new, beautifully-designed line of bottled water - this time not from the melting Alps, nor from faraway, clean-water-deprived Fiji, but rather from the contaminated ground near the site of the 1984 Bhopal catastrophe - scared Dow Chemical's London management team into hiding today.

Twenty Bhopal activists, including Sathyu Sarangi of the Sambhavna Clinic in Bhopal, showed up at Dow headquarters near London to find that the entire building had been vacated.

April 20, 2009 - 11:52pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Economy

"Promissory Notes: From Crisis to Commons" Midnight Notes and Friends

After five hundred years of existence, capitalists are once again announcing to us that their system is in crisis. They are urging everyone to make sacrifices to save its life. We are told that if we do not make these sacrifices, we together face the prospect of a mutual shipwreck. Such threats should be taken seriously. Already in every part of the planet, workers are paying the price of the crisis in retrenchment, mass unemployment, lost pensions, foreclosures, and death.

April 20, 2009 - 11:19pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Economy

The Tower of Basel: Secretive Plans for the Issuing of a Global Currency Do We Really Want the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Issuing Our Global Currency By Ellen Brown, "Global Research"

April 18, 2009 -- In an April 7 article in The London Telegraph titled "The G20 Moves the World a Step Closer to a Global Currency," Ambrose Evans-Pritchard wrote:

"A single clause in Point 19 of the communiqué issued by the G20 leaders amounts to revolution in the global financial order.

February 20, 2009 - 1:23pm -- stevphen
Analysis & Polemic
Economy

The Financial Crisis and the Fourth World War Shawn Hattingh

February 3, 2009 - 10:07pm -- Anonymous Comrade (not verified)
Analysis & Polemic
Economy

Time for a 'March on Wall Street' to Nationalize the Banks Eric Sommer

The time has come for a nationwide U.S. "March on Wall Street'. This march should be organized on a nation-wide basis inside the U.S. by the broadest possible coalition of progressive political organizations, trade unions, anti-poverty, anti-racist, anti-foreclosure, and environmental groups.. It should bring people from throughout the U.S. to culminate in a gigantic rally in Wall Street in New York.

The march can be organized around seven or so simple and clear points, such as:

January 20, 2009 - 12:47am -- stevphen
Analysis & Polemic
Economy

Debt, Violence, and Impersonal Markets David Graeber

January 9, 2009 - 5:02pm -- stevphen
Analysis & Polemic
Economy

SPECULATING ON THE CRISISThe Free Association

'We are an image from the future' (graffiti at the occupied University of Economics and Business in Athens, December 2008)

November 30, 2008 - 5:46am -- stevphen
Analysis & Polemic
Economy

Finance and Social Production Adam ArvidssonP2P Foundation

November 2, 2008 - 12:43pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Economy

The Biggest ‘October Surprise’ Of All: A World Capitalist Crash Loren Goldner

“There will be periods of 30 years which will pass with the seeming importance of a single day, and single days with the importance of 30 years.” (old Marxist maxim)

(Note: To avoid reinventing the wheel, and under the pressure of recent epochal events, I have used fragments of other texts I have written in the past few years, making up no more than 15-20% of the following article. I ask the reader’s forbearance for any annoyance.)

October 13, 2008 - 12:25pm -- stevphen
Analysis & Polemic
Economy

Notes on the "Bailout" Financial Crisis George Caffentzis

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