Wise woman Ellen Brown has been suggesting for many years that we need a political-economic system that serves each citizen and every citizen. This is her newest essay. Today’s article is reposted […]
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Wealth of richest 1% ‘equal to other 99%’
BBC Business News – The richest 1% now has as much wealth as the rest of the world combined, according to Oxfam. It uses data from Credit Suisse from October […]
Continue readingInequality and Modernization
Foreign Affairs – Ronald Inglehart writes: During the past century, economic inequality in the developed world has traced a massive U-shaped curve—starting high, curving downward, then curving sharply back up […]
Continue readingAmerica: Home of the Wimps?
Reposted from AlJazerra America. David Cay Johnston Listening to Republican presidential candidates on Tuesday night, you would think that America has become a nation of wimps, cowering in fear for […]
Continue readingThe Public Bank Solution: San Francisco
Ellen Brown When the Occupiers took an interest in moving San Francisco’s money into a city-owned bank in 2011, it was chiefly on principle, in sympathy with the nationwide Move […]
Continue readingDecipline and Punish
The Automatic Earth—Michel Foucault’s seminal work Discipline and Punish explored the extreme institutionalization of “discipline” in modern Western society, as best exemplified by the evolution of the modern penal system. […]
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