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Payments can happen cheaply and easily without banks or credit card companies. This has now been demonstrated – not in […]
Read MoreThis article is excerpted from my new book Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in the Digital Age, available in paperback […]
Read MoreAbandoned by their country, residents refuse to accept the idea that they will never recover. Nearly a year and […]
Read MoreGiant Chinese tech companies have bypassed credit cards and banks to create their own low-cost digital payment systems. The […]
Read MoreIntroduction Conservative economist Milton Friedman once said, “The [only] social responsibility of business is to increase its profits.” Noam Chomsky […]
Read MoreStudent Debt Slavery II: Time to Level the Playing Field Ellen Brown http://EllenBrown.com January 5, 2018 This is […]
Read MoreEllen Brown http://EllenBrown.com December 26, 2017 Higher education has been financialized, transformed from a public service into […]
Read MoreSerious problems in the nation’s flood insurance program have received heavy media coverage over the past three months. But flood […]
Read MoreEarlier this year, a collection of papers was published under the title of Building Global Labor Solidarity in a Time […]
Read MoreRichard Nixon's agriculture secretary in the early to mid-1970s was Earl Butz, a man best known for advising the nation's […]
Read MoreThe left that’s emerged since 2008 is, in reality, an alliance of two projects: a rearguard action by the old […]
Read MoreWithin hours of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó calling for street mobilisations to back his attempted military coup against President […]
Read MoreThe fact that the living standard of wage labourers has been delinked from GDP growth has an important implication: their […]
Read MoreToday’s economics, especially Economics 101, is a major source of humankind’s denial of the possibility of the calamity of all […]
Read MoreVenezuela has become a popular argument against socialism amongst conservatives because of the deep economic crisis it is currently traversing. […]
Read MoreEconomists pride themselves on being the serious social science, the one most deserving of status as an actual science. I […]
Read MoreDozens of Coca-Cola workers are camping out at a major bottling plant until they get a raise. More than 8,000 […]
Read MoreThe streets of Matamoros’s Ciudad Industrial were alive with activity. The northeastern border city sits on the banks of the […]
Read MoreThe US Neocon-led strategy is increasingly clear: establish a ‘beach-head’ on the Colombian-Venezuelan (and Venezuelan-Brazilian) border under the guise of […]
Read MoreAt 10 am, February 6, 1919, Seattle’s workers struck, all of them. In doing so they literally took control of […]
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