1. Beyond the triple crisis: a green new deal
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...pitalism ransacked the past for reference-points to convey its scale. The "most wrenching [financial crisis] since the end of the second world war", said former chairman of the United States...

2. Competition for Main Street
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... think they have successfully stampeded Washington into accepting the Wall Street Journal solution to the crisis: Dump it all on the taxpayers. That is the meaning of the massive bailout Treasury Secr...

3. Anti-Democratic Nature of US Capitalism is Being Exposed
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...ry people who created the banking crisis writes Noam Chomsky ...

4. America’s financial meltdown: lessons and prospects
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by Ann Pettifor The international debt crisis symbolised by the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the forced sale of Merrill Lynch exposes the failure of the world's financial architecture. Ann P

5. Bolivian Political Crisis
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...ja, signed an agreement to begin a new round of talks aimed at resolving the country's deep political crisis. The agreement will launch talks starting on Thursday in Cochabamba, and will focus on ...

6. Climate Camp Besieges Power Station in UK
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...rs for their role in rainforest destruction and land-grabbing as well as for profiteering from the food crisis. Saturday 2nd August: Police continued to confiscate essential camp infrastru...

7. Debtonation: how globalisation dies
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...cted, most notably in an article for openDemocracy written in 2003 (see "The coming first world debt crisis" [1 September 2003], and my book of the same title [Palgrave, 2006]). The problem,...

8. Sudanese adrift in Israel
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...at have prevailed in Sudan for most of the last thirty years - civil war between north and south, and the crisis in Darfur since 2004 - enormous numbers (some say half a million or more) have fled nor...

9. Racism and Democracy: 50 years since Little Rock integration
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...dered the end of federal desegregation monitoring. The school now has a nearby museum for the Little Rock crisis, and statues of the nine brave students stand on the grounds of the state Capitol. But...