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 Meltdown Strategies: Financial Disaster and Climate Change
October 14, 2008
The environment is not an afterthought: it’s the ground of economy, security and survival. Environmental protection, environmental justice and regeneration must be our top priorities, because they are the only sound foundation for every other endeavor. more >>
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 October 2008 Financial Meltdown Newsletter
October 13, 2008
While the middle class has declined under President Bush's reckless economic policies, the people on top have never had it so good. For the first seven years of Bush's tenure, the wealthiest 400 individuals in our country saw a $670 billion increase in their wealth, and at the end of 2007 owned over $1.5 trillion in wealth. That is just 400 families, a $670 billion increase in wealth since Bush has been in office. more >>
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 2/08 Global NewsLetter: The Coming Collapse of Globalization
February 8, 2008
We are witnessing the slow motion collapse of “globalization”, which is shorthand for a set of political, economic and social policies, including Reaganomics, free trade and the leveling down of global wages, human rights and environmental protection, financial deregulation and corporate oligarchy. more >>
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 Global Food Trade & The New Slave Labour
February 24, 2006
South African farmers pay labourers in part or in full with alcohol. A steady stream of alcohol is given to the workers throughout the day. Not too much to make them drunk, but enough to make them dependent. more >>
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 Drug Cartels, Managed Violence and the Russian 9/11, Part 1
January 11, 2006
Drug trafficking from Afghanistan is the main source of support for international terrorism today. Did an international drug cartel affiliated with a Saudi billionaire, Russian banks, and US and Russian intelligence services conspire in the Moscow bombings of 1999? more >>
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 Against Selfishness
February 10, 2005
Bush's ownership society melds a me-first 80s ethos with the crude Darwinism of Reality TV, celebrating the creation of a two-class society founded on power and privilege for the few. more >>
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 Follow the Money
February 10, 2005
Eliot Spitzer’s insurance probe promises to shake up business as usual in the $1 trillion industry -- and in Albany, where campaign finance reform may be the only solution to the problem. more >>
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 Microsoft.Net: Is it time yet?
July 11, 2001
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Oracle chieftain Larry Ellison should be delighted with Microsoft’s new .NET initiative, unveiled last month. more >>
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 The Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2001
March 1, 2001
The coalition of unions, consumer and women's groups who have been fighting the bankruptcy law are just about out of ammo. Both houses of Congress are expected to pass the measure this week, and President Bush has said he's ready to sign it into law. more >>
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Irrational Exuberance: Deja-vu All Over Again?
February 21, 2001
"Slump? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hittin," explained famous philosopher, Hall of Fame ballplayer, and pennant-winning Manager (for the both the Yankees and Mets), Lawrence "Yogi" Berra, when asked about a long dry spell at the plate.
He could have been speaking for the equity markets' hivemind this week. The Nasdaq composite is off more than 53% from its high reached less than one year ago. After a big January pop, the COMP ended the month 46% off its March 2000 peak, and then proceeded to lose another 16% from its January 31 level.
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The New Year's Market Outlook
January 8, 2001
Those of us over 30 can only watch in horror and recall the spirit of the 1920s when Broadway musicals were high art, illegal booze was the King-Hell High, jazz was searing and markets were soaring until…well, you know, man, the correction happened -- and happened and happened.
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Is Bad News Good for the Net?
November 12, 2000
The dot-com bubble has burst. The Nasdaq bear refuses to go into hibernation for the winter. “Geek chic” suddenly looks as tired and dated as those Priceline PCLN ads with William Shatner that looked so cool only a few months ago, when Priceline’s stock was soaring.
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 A New Meaning for Car Wash
June 1, 1993
Forget "Miami Vice" and high-speed chases on cigar boats and shootouts with South American thugs armed with semiautomatic weapons.The really heavy federal drug enforcement artillery is now being trained on suburban car salesmen." more >>
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 Shady Customers: How S&L Suspects Profit From the Crisis
July 30, 1990
The same unscrupulous real estate developers and high‑flying financiers who built low‑quality, see‑through office buildings and unneeded condos across the country are now poised to buy foreclosed properties from the government at fire‑sale prices.
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