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Tag Archives: Margaret Thatcher
How the West eats its children
By Thierry Meyssan Source: VoltaireNet.org The cause of Western recession International relations experienced a profound change with the paralysis of the Soviet Union in 1986, when the State was unable to control the civilian nuclear incident in Tchernobyl [1], then with … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Neoliberalism, Recession, Social Control, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Africa, capitalism, Cold War, Corporate Globalisation, Desert Storm, European Union, financial crisis, financialisation, France, geopolitics, George Bush Sr., Global Financial System, iraq, Margaret Thatcher, NATO, Neolioberalism, New World Order, Obama, Office of Force Transformation, recession, Russia, Sovereignty, Soviet Union, Theresa May, Trump, United Kingdom, United States, US multinationals, Volcker rule
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Gaius Publius: Defining Neoliberalism
By Yves Smith Source: Naked Capitalism For years I’ve been using the term “neoliberalism” (or sometimes neo-liberalism*) and I’m always uncomfortable, since it sounds so academic. So I usually add one-phrase definitions and move on. For example, this from a … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Labor, Law, media, Neoliberalism, news, Philosophy, police state, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged 1%, Corporate Globalization, Democrats, Friedrich Hayek, George Monbiot, Global Elites, IMF, Margaret Thatcher, Milton Friedman, Neoliberalism, Republicans, Ronald Reagan, the World Bank, World Trade Organisation, WTO
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Right to Burn
Free-market economics gives the poor equal rights to substandard housing By Siddhartha Deb Source: The Baffler At the very end of the film High-Rise, Ben Wheatley’s 2015 adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s novel from the seventies, we hear a familiar authoritarian … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Dystopia, Economics, History, media, Neoliberalism, Social Control, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Ben Wheatley, Conservative Party, Economics, Grenfell Fire, Grenfell Tower, High-Rise, J.G. Ballard, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party, Margaret Thatcher, Neoliberalism
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