Economy
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The Cobalt Gold Rush and the East Palestine Disaster | Ellen Brown
Ellen BrownEllen Brown -- Web of Debt April 13, 2023 Holidays in my childhood were spent at my grandparents’ farm in Plain Grove, Pennsylvania, 35 miles from East Palestine, Ohio. My grandfather’s ...
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The Post-Human Desert | Slavoj Žižek
Image portraying artificial intelligence. Public domain Unlike past technological innovations, artificial intelligence is not about humanity’s mastery over nature, but rather about relinquishing ...
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Lying about Lying: Why We Must Revisit the Definition of ‘Fake News’ | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust April 3, 2023 The phrase "fake news" continues to be deployed routinely in U.S. politics. In a polarized political atmosphere, both Republicans and ...
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Can Journalists Be Activists? | Jan-Werner Mueller
News icons created by Freepik - FlaticonAt a time when autocrats are consolidating power by attacking “the media,” old debates about journalism’s role in a democracy and how journalists should ...
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Tax the Rich to Save the Planet | Owen Gaffney
Full disk view of the Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft en route to the Moon at a distance of about 29,000 kilometres (18,000 mi). It shows Africa, Antarctica, ...
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The Coming Doom Loop | Nouriel Roubini
Nouriel RoubiniIn the face of high and persistent inflation, recession risks, and now a looming insolvency crisis in the financial sector, central banks like the U.S. Federal Reserve are facing a ...
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The Fed’s Role in the Bank Failures | Raghuram G. Rajan and Viral V. Acharya
There are four reasons to worry that the latest banking crisis could be systemic. For many years, periodic bouts of quantitative easing have expanded bank balance sheets and stuffed them with more ...
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Let the Banks Burn | Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis VaroufakisThe banking system we take for granted is unfixable. The good news is that we no longer need to rely on any private, rent-seeking, socially destabilizing network of banks, at least ...
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Banking Crisis 3.0: Time to Change the Rules of the Game | Ellen Brown
Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt March 24, 2023 On CNN March 14, Roger Altman, a former deputy Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, said that American banks were on the verge of being ...
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How Elon Musk's Tweets Unleashed A Wave Of Hate | Marianna Spring
Marianna Spring -- BBC Disinformation and social media correspondent March 20, 2023 (BBC) -- I had just finished my investigation into whether Twitter can protect users under Elon Musk's ownership, ...
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Will China Dump Its Dark Deal With America? | Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis VaroufakisA new cold war is upon us, but only China is in a position to push it beyond the point of no return. That moment will come when China’s policymakers cross the Rubicon and decide to ...
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