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Journalists have a responsibility to plainly tell the truth about how truly different the Democrats and the Republicans are today, especially with both democracy and the rule of law at stake this November.
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If war and hostilities between the great powers are to be avoided, the future of global capitalism may well rely on a combination of Western markets and institutions backed up by totalitarian institutions like the regime in Beijing.
China and other emerging economies, frustrated by their lack of representation in global financial decision-making, could potentially create their own parallel institutions and, in the long term, construct a parallel or opposing economic system altogether.
“Hide your brightness; bide your time,” cautioned Deng Xiaoping, the chief architect of modern China, who oversaw the country's "opening" into a modern state-capitalist society.
Integration into the existing power structures of global economic governance requires, first and foremost, ideological capitulation: to accept the market system as the ideal form of the global economic order.
Introducing Agustin Carstens and Raghuram Rajan: one is Mexican, described by the Financial Times for his “Wall Street-sized reputation for financial wizardry,” and the other is Indian hailed by India’s Economic Times as “the Poster Boy of Banking.”
Blackrock is the single largest investor on Earth, and has a CEO poised to take over the Treasury if Hillary Clinton becomes president.
The world's big, most law-breaking banks don't simply act as a cartel in terms of the criminal activities they engage in – but form a network of global corporate control that reaches into every corner of our lives.
If the objective is to oppose or prevent terrorism, the most logical strategy is not to dismantle civil liberties at home and send militaries and weapons abroad, but to stop participating in terrorism itself.
In an age-old example of national hubris, America's drive to maintain its centrality – and uncontested power – in the global economy may lead to its eventual replacement.
At closed-door events on the sidelines of the conference, a select group of government and monetary officials from the G7 and G20 nations wined and dined with bankers and the global financial elite at decadent dinners and lavish parties.
Journalists have a responsibility to plainly tell the truth about how truly different the Democrats and the Republicans are today, especially with both democracy and the rule of law at stake this November.
From Hungary and Poland to Italy and Spain, today's anti-abortionist movements are feeding one another—while also driving a growing counter-movement.
Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.
Thanks to the Electoral College, leftists have perhaps the final say this November over whether democracy can hold on for at least another four years, or if fascism will take root and infect all facets of the federal government for decades to come.
What remains unknown is whether post-truth Republicans will succeed in 2024 as the Nazis did in 1933.
Journalists have a responsibility to plainly tell the truth about how truly different the Democrats and the Republicans are today, especially with both democracy and the rule of law at stake this November.
From Hungary and Poland to Italy and Spain, today's anti-abortionist movements are feeding one another—while also driving a growing counter-movement.
Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.
Thanks to the Electoral College, leftists have perhaps the final say this November over whether democracy can hold on for at least another four years, or if fascism will take root and infect all facets of the federal government for decades to come.
History shows there are no “one-day” dictatorships. When democracies fall, they typically fall completely.
Thanks to the Electoral College, leftists have perhaps the final say this November over whether democracy can hold on for at least another four years, or if fascism will take root and infect all facets of the federal government for decades to come.
What remains unknown is whether post-truth Republicans will succeed in 2024 as the Nazis did in 1933.
Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.
History shows there are no “one-day” dictatorships. When democracies fall, they typically fall completely.
Journalists have a responsibility to plainly tell the truth about how truly different the Democrats and the Republicans are today, especially with both democracy and the rule of law at stake this November.
Thanks to the Electoral College, leftists have perhaps the final say this November over whether democracy can hold on for at least another four years, or if fascism will take root and infect all facets of the federal government for decades to come.
Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.
History shows there are no “one-day” dictatorships. When democracies fall, they typically fall completely.