World’s 100 richest earned enough in 2012 to end global poverty 4 times over
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A Reuters article on the recent report by Oxfam for 2012 concerning the status of wealth globally. Oxfam reports astonishing numbers in the increase of the gap between rich and poor as well as strongly pointing out the dangers of … |
The debt crisis, Africa and the new enclosures – Silvia Federici
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That the debt crisis is a productive crisis for capital is nowhere as visible as in Africa. For the policies the debt crisis has generated have served to “rationalize” class relations, and to tackle the most vexed question of capitalist … |
When public spaces became public enemies
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Amidst the troubled city of Athens, voices have been chanting for the recently lost squat of Villa Amalia. This historic squat wasn’t the first to be evicted in crisis-stricken Greece and as already confirmed not the last one too. On … |
Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis (Documentary)
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This is a nice Swedish documentary describing the capitalist crisis by following the course of recent financial bubbles with special focus of US government political decisions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ECi6WJpbzE
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Spanish city's locksmiths say they'll no longer assist with evictions
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In Spain, in 2012, more than 50,000 families were evicted from their homes when they failed to pay their rent or mortgage. As the year wound down, a handful of people committed suicide after learning they would be evicted. Now, … |
Europe's Grecian wall of shame is completed
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Europe’s wall of shame has been completed in Greece’s northeast ground border with Turkey. The wall is four-metre-high and is blocking a 10.365 meters-long strip of land from army guarding post of Kastanies down south to river Evros. The name … |
Death surge linked with mass privatisation
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The Oxford-led study measured the relationship between death rates and the pace and scale of privatisation in 25 countries in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, dating back to the early 1990s. They found that mass privatisation came at … |
The Story of Stuff
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Tides Foundation, Funders Group for Sustainable Production and Consumption and Free Range Studios present “The Story of Stuff”, a 20-minute long animated video on capitalist production. Using simple language this short video manages to answer complicated questions. Accumulation of capital … |
"New Normal"? On bankers' communication attempts to normalize misery
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The latest Danske Bank’s communication strategy is full of images of unrest; the Occupy movement, protestors with stones and Greek flags against the police, images of slave workers in the world’s production lines, pictures of despaired citizens from across the … |
