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El mundo contemporáneo es, sin duda alguna, víctima de una expoliación global planificada, cuyos antecedentes se pueden rastrear en la última década del siglo pasado, teniendo como primer escenario las naciones endeudadas de nuestra América. Desde entonces, los grandes centros de poder -manejados por quienes integran las grandes corporaciones transnacionales, siendo el caso más representativo [...]

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Declaraciones de EEUU sobre el veto ruso y chino ante la Resolución de la ONU sobre Siria: “Repugnante”, vergonzoso”, “deplorable”, “farsa”…
¿De verdad?
Un listado rápido sobre el uso del veto por EEUU en las Naciones Unidas –1972 a 2011- (Incluidas las resoluciones contra las décadas de atrocidades/violaciones, a menudo apoyadas/financiadas por EEUU)

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“Corporations are people, my friend.” Mitt Romney at Iowa State Fair
Corporations are obviously not people.  But Romney is accurate in the sense that corporations have hijacked most of the rights of people while evading the responsibilities. An important part of the social justice agenda is democratizing corporations.  This means we must radically change the laws [...]

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Desde el comienzo de la actual crisis económica global, el centro del análisis crítico y del odio público ha sido el capital especulativo. En la narrativa populista, fueron las impresionantes trampas de los bancos en una atmósfera de desregulación las que condujeron al colapso económico. La “economía financiera”, caracterizada como parasítica y mala, fue contrapuesta [...]

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Why the AGs Must Not Settle
A foreclosure settlement between five major banks guilty of “robo-signing” and the attorneys general of the 50 states was pending for Monday, February 6th; but it is still not clear if all the AGs will sign. California was to get over half of the $25 billion in settlement money, and [...]

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Ever since the beginning of the current global economic crisis, the focus of both critical analysis and public odium has been speculative capital. In the populist narrative, it was the breathtaking shenanigans of the banks in an atmosphere of deregulation that led to the economic collapse. The “financial economy,” characterized as parasitic and bad, was [...]

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Joe Hill, Joe Pa, Tebow, Wee Brains
Most Americans won’t need a justification to watch Sunday’s game, but if you’re a TomDispatch.com reader you might think, even in passing, that celebrating the holiest day of violence, consumerism, and class warfare on your couch is a betrayal of your values or a waste of your time. You [...]

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This week’s Supreme Court hearing in the Julian Assange case has profound meaning for the preservation of basic freedoms in western democracies. This is Assange’s final appeal against his extradition to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct that were originally dismissed by the chief prosecutor in Stockholm and constitute no crime in Britain.
The consequences, [...]

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 It Can’t Happen Here
Exclusive: New Iranian Commando Team Operating Near U.S.
(Tehran, FNA) The Fars News Agency has confirmed with the Republican Guard’s North American Operations Command that a new elite Iranian commando team is operating in the U.S.-Mexican border region. The primary day-to-day mission of the team, known as the Joint Special Operations Gulf of [...]

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¿Cómo se convirtió Bill Gates en el hombre más rico de Estados Unidos? Su riqueza no tiene nada que ver con los costos de producción de lo que Microsoft vende: por ejemplo, no es un resultado de que su compañía elabore buenos productos a precios más bajos que la competencia, o que ‘explote’ a los [...]

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